Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-04-29
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Hk9 II oOy udoS 10 O ehinS 'he-S ASNS-
comes amiss.
H6F Satan as a master is bad; his
work much worse his wages worst
of all.
s@ Why is prosy preacher like the
middle of q wheel? Because the fel-
lows round him are tired.
s@ What language we have A
man "sits down" during the daytime,
but "sits up" at night.
b@ If a woman is rich and has
coarse features, they are referred to as
being "strongly marked"
p@ A dealer says there is more steel
used in the manufacture of pens than
in all the sword and gun factories in
the world.
saE The smaller the drink, the clear
er the head and the cooler the blood |;
which are great benefits in temper and
business.
p@ From January, 1865 to January,
1866, the highest rate for gold was
2343, and the lowest 1881, during
the year.
s@ The death rate was lower last
year in Great Britain than in any
other year since its mortality statistics
have bee recorded.
s@ Of course it is expected of US; ;
but nevertheless it is mighty hard
thing to be true to the dictates OF
other peoples consciences.
nS When fishing for fortune, attach
1the hook of hard work to the line OF
patience and bait it with Yankee
common-sense.
sH- Russian scientists report that the
white poplar tree acts as natural
lightning-rod, as the discharge seeks it
in preference to other trees.
s@ A metal workers magazine says
that platinum wires have been drawn
SO fine that two of them twisted to-
gether could be inserted in the hollow
of human hair.
p6r "Hit am er great pity" said
Uncle Eben, "dat some men thinks dey
| is too good ter jine in politics, but
nobody ebber thinks he amt good
enough"
p6r A little more than million
veterans of the Union, and considera-
bly less than half a million veterans Of
the Confederate armies, were found
living in the United States by the
census taker, of 1890.
p@- Robert Farris, who died in Yea
zie recently, was one of the Oldest
men in Maine, if not the oldest. His
age was given to the undertaken as 95
years, but it is said that he was really
LOG years old.
b@" A man was advertised to fly
from a certain place, and someone
asked Doctor Byles, the old Boston
divine. if he were going to see the
attempt made. "Pooh, no !" said he !;
~ have seen horse fly"
p6 The longest night in Norway
lasts three months and, when a young
man goes to see his girl, her mother,
before retiring, tells her not to ruin
her health by sitting up more than
two months.
b@ A cow has been known to recog-
nize the picture of a calf, and the tiger
| is said 20 be drawn to trap by the
picture of a companion. The timid
horse, however, takes no notice of a
picture, and the cat will not spring at
a painted bird.
s9 No steamers other than Ameri-
can arrived at Maracaibo, Venezuela,
in 1895, and the arrivals of American
steamers increased from AZ in 1894 to
60, besides which four American
schooners put into the port.
s@- The world is always ready to
receive talent with open arms. Very
often it does not know what to do
with genius. Talent is a docile Great
uer. It bows it's head meekly while the
world slips the collar over it. 1t
backs into the shafts like lamb.
s@ Another use of the Rontgen rays
is to examine suspected parcel to see
if it is an internal machine. Such an
application of the new discovery was
tried in Paris recently, and revealed
nails, screws, revolver cartridge,
and even grains of powder.
a@ The diameter of the sun is $780,
900 miles. If the earth were at the
centre of the sun, with the moon re-
volving about the earth at its present
distance of 10000 miles, there would
still be shell outside the moon 200,-
900 miles thick.
p6r Country roads in China are
never bounded by fences, but are
entirely underlined. While the farmer
has the right to plow up any road
passing through his land, drivers of
vehicles have an equal right-and
they exercise ito traverse any part
of the country at large.
s6- A pedagogue told one of his
scholars, a son of the Emerald Isle,
to spell hostility. "H-o-r-s-e, horse"
commenced Pat. "Not horse-tility,"
said the teacher, "but hostility"
"Sure," replied Pat, "an' didn't ye
tell me, the other day, not to say hoss !!
Be jabers, it's wan thing wild ye one
day and another the MKT"
adr 1t is currently whispered that
Mrs. -, while cleaning house, asked
her husband to nail up some J.. He
refused. She looked # at him, told
him his conduct was without then
beat him with her B6S- until he saw
**. He now lies in a tose state, and
may soon be a fit subject for disS. A
man must be an his life in that WaY.