Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-09-30
aNausiae Gatherings.

BT LII T FdLCC, "uOh q 1oiA' oe@N oAesA
is more than ten minutes late, the
company is fined.
p9~ Lottie was invited, with hel
mamma, to a dinner-party. A gen
tlemen gravely asked her, "And are
you a vegetarian ?" "No," promptly
said Lottie, ~ am Presbyterian"
s@ ~ understand you stood for a
whole hour in the doorway, last night
talking to the policeman, Biddy."
"Shure, you wouldn't have me shtand
for a hour and say nothin', ma'am ?"
p4 "Mr. Boatman," said a timid
woman to ferryman who was rowing
her across the river, "are people Otter
lost in this river ?" "No, madam .
he replied, "we always find 'em in 6
day or So"
nag When some visitors were pres
ent we were talking about it being
hard work to be good. A little four
year-old who was listening, saiG, "l1
is hard work for my mamma to be
good to me-"
p9 The ancient proverb says: "Yor
cannot get more out of a bottle thar
YOU put in" That's en- error. Be-
sides what he put in, he can get
headache sick stomach, and perhap:
10 days in the lookup.
s6" "The older you grow the more
you know" says the old proverb
This is another of those fallacious say
ings that time exposes. Just think
how little the old men of to-day know
compared with the young ones.
s6- After all, the Bible must be its
own argument and defense. The pow
er of it can never be proved unless il
| is felt. The authority of it can never
be supported unless it is manifest
The light of it can never be demon
strated unless it shines.
s@ The Hottentots are said to re
joice at the appearance of swarm Of
locusts, although the destructive in
sects destroy all the verdure in the
district. The natives eat them in such
quantities that they soon become per
ceptibly fatter.
s9- Principal Ito commercial travel
er, returning from his travels)-HoW
came you to charge such low prices te
K, who is we'll known to be shaky
customer? ~ thought to myself, il
the man happens to fail, we shall moi
lose so much by him."
B@ A railroad engineer is authority
for the advice to rub the we'll eye per
sistently until the offending cinder is
out of the other. Unless the flying
speck is hot or sharpedged and ha'
sunk into the ball, this treatment, he
says, will certainly be efficacious.
s9- That extreme partiality which
gives horses warm stables and gooc
bedding, while cows are turned ou
in the rains to lie on wet ground
and take all the exposure of the in
clement season. is a discrimination
most hurtful to the farmer who per
mits it.
Bdr To remove ink from paper, i
not of too long standing, wet a tea
spoonful of chloride of lime with jus
sufficient water to cover it. Pat (no
ruby the spot gently for few mo
ments, using a soft wet cloth and th'
ink will slowly disappear. If one ap
plication is not sufficient, try a second
b9~ Among the Turks bath money
forms an item in every marriage con
tract, the husband engaging to allow
his wife certain sum for bathing pur
poses. Should it be withheld she ha'
only to 60 before the cadi and turf
her slippers upside down, and if thu
complaint be not then redressed it is
ground for divorce.
bag A farmer at a fair sold horst
to an army contractor. Meeting hin
the following year, the army buye
walked up to the farmer and said, in
dignantly, "The horse I bought of yol
was fraud. 1t was of no use for th'
army" The dealer was in nowis'
abashed, but replied, "Well, try lin
for t. navy!"
BG The horse has been doomed be
fore today, without the noble creature
suffering dextinction. When the rail
road age had its commencement, ane
coaches were taken off the roads
everybody thought there would be NJ
longer any demand for carriage hor
ses, but it was soon found that they
were needed more than ever.
n9- A little two-year-old boy wen
to the grocery store with his mother
While there the proprietor gave th'
little fellow an apple. "What do yol
say to the gentleman when he give
you an apple ?" asked the grateful
m other. The little fellow hesitated (
moment, then reaching the apple VI
to the giver, said, "Peel it."
R0r During a recent thunderstorm,
Negro was severely kicked by a vi
cious mule, and, just as he was pick
ing himself up, stroke Of lightning
hit the mule and killed him dead OF
the spot. "Well, dar!" exclaimed th'
Negro, "ef dis chile hain't got power
full friends to 'venge his insults, del
dere's no use tryin' to hab faith. il
anything"
BG According to French physiolo
gist, the wing of the ordinary househ!
makes $50 strokes in one second th'
wing of the bumblebee, "a the wing
of the honeybee, 100; the wing of tn
wasp, 10; the wing of the dragonfiy
2S; the wing of the sparrow, 13; thu
wing of the wild duck, 8; the wing
of the house pigeon, 8; the wing o
the osprey, 6.
a6r The prisoners in the Maryvill'