Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-08-08
ataasiae Gatherings.
r6 The British aristocracy includes

p6 It is said 81 bicycle factories
failed up in June.
p@ No one is useless in this world
who lightens the burden of it fol
another.
p~ Taking it year in and year out
the coldest hour Of each "a is 5 O'Clock
in the morning.
p6 The average walking pace of
healthy man or woman is said to b
rs steps minute.
s6- "De wus ting bout er bilious
man." said Uncle Eben, "is dat he't
rather make somebody else mis'blt
dan ter git cured hisse'f."
"a Education is not to fit man OF
woman to fill certain position in life
but is the making of the boy or girl tt
be what he or she ought to be in life.
I~ Soil was brought up from deptf
of 1926 feet, from coal mine In Bel
gium, and from it sprouted weeds of
species unknown to the botanists.
"a Chinese writer's claim that the
cultivation of wheat was introduced
into the Celestial Empire by the EN-
peror Shinnung 2,70O years before
Christ. - ~
"a The value of the mineral pro
ducts of the United States for the las,
year was near by $612, 900, 900, or $45,.
OOO. 900 more than the farm value ol
the last corn crop. 8 - - @>E
s6 Nothing more powerful argues q
life beyond this than the failure Of
ideals here. Each gives US only frag'
ments of humanity, of heart, of mind,
of charity, of love andsof virtue.
va A German physician says that
thirst arises from the loss siof liquid In
food which is cooked. He advises
fresh fruit and oysters for medicine
in gout and indigestion.
~ On the eastern coast of ireland
it rains on an average of 208 days in
the year; in England about $50 days ;
at Kazan about 80 days, and in Sibe.
ria only 60 days. "
p@ If those who are the enemies of
innocent amusements had the direc-
ton of the world, they would take
away the spring and youth the form
er from the year, and the latter from
human life. s..... ...
p@ In Harbor Springs, Mich, there
is a large and hourishing wood tooth
pick industry. White birch is ex-
clusively used in the manufacture of
the toothpicks, and about 100000
are turned out daily.
S@ Men spend their lives in anticipa-
tions in determining to be vastly hap.
py at some period or other, when they
have time. But the present time has
one advantage over every other, it is
our own.
p@ Only 20 years have elapsed since
the first railway in the world was fin
ished. During that comparatively
brief period 100000 miles have been
constructed, the British empire &C
counting for about one-sixth.
S6 The children of the blacklist At
ricans are born whitish. In a month
they become pale yellow, in year
brown, at four dirty black, at six or
seven glossy black. The change is in
the mucus membrane below the Gu
ticie.
S~ Mr.. Ferguson (who has been
ready to start to the theatre an hour or
more Laura, if you had to take the
train for heaven, you would get left.
Mrs. Ferguson (buttoning her gloves =
don't know whether would or not
but if I did catch it I know 1 would
have to travel without any escort.
p@ Nearly $4,000 barrels of Cali
forni -four were sent to England this
year, and for the two years preceding
there had been no shipment of this
-four. The shipment of -four from
Pacific ports in the United States to
Japan, Siberia and Australia is also
in much larger ratio.
s6 1t costs money to hunt on the
Emperor Williams African game pre-
serves. First there is retaining fee
or license of $3.50 dollars, with which
the hunter must provide himself be-
fore he sets foot in the jungle. Then
if he shoots an elephant the privilege
costs him $50, and each succeeding
one S125 more.
p8 1t is said that there are nearly
10000 barmaids in England, and
many of these young women stand
high in the social scale. More than
900 in London are daughters of gen.
tlemen, 400 have fathers, brothers or
uncles in the church; 400 are daugh-
ters of physicians and surgeons and
army officers; while 100 are daughters
of naval officers.
H9 A trip between London and Paris
has just been made in six hours and
80 minutes. From London to Dover
(7S.34 miles) took one hour and %
the passage of the Channel
(25 niles took one hour and Is min
utes, and the run from Calais to Paris
ls5 1-2 niles was made in three hours
and "a minutes, an average of 56.5
miles, excluding stops.
H9- The finest wire in the country is
made at Taunton, Mass. This metal
cobwed of minute diameter is exactly
.500th mart of an inch in thickness