Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-20
atjausiae Gathftings.
a There are At Chinese temples in

of the Salvation Army travelled $4,000
miles.
a@ IF a woman is rich and has
coarse features, they are referred to as
being "strongly marked"
p8r To Danish the smell of stale TO-
bacco smoke, burn a little coffee on 9
shovel and carry it through the room
p@r The cities which stood the long
est sieges during the Civil war were
Vicksburg, Miss, and Petersburg, Va
p6 If we delay until tomorrow what
should be done today. we charge to-
morrow with burden that belongs
not to it.
p6 Experiments have shown thai
soft wood under pressure becomes
considerably harder than hard wooo
under pressure.
~ All the chickens in the western
part of French Guiana are perfectly
white. 1t is impossible to find one
with colored feather.
p@ The deepest gold mine in the
world is at Eureka, Cal. depth 2,29(
feet. The deepest silver mine is al
Carson City, New; depth $500 feet.
p@ Education begins at the mothers
knee, and every word spoken within
the heariBg of little children tends
toward the formation of their charac
ter.
"You carved your own way tc
success, didn't you, Paddington p
"No; I didn't have much of anything
to carve until after I achieved sue
ces."
p@A North Missouri paper has
adopted the plan of running the names
of delinquent subscribers upside dowr
in the paper whenever it has occasion
to refer to them.
s@ Emily, if William today asks
you to marry him, you must tell him
to speak to me-" eyes, mamma. But
if he does not?" "Then tell him ]
want to speak to him."
p6- The 10000 operatives at Fal
River, Mass, live on Al square miles
The city is very rich for its size, being
valued at $50, ,534, ,OO5, while the pub
lie debt is only s2,65O,494.
"Jorkins, have you everything
now that you will need for your fish
ing trip ?" asked Mrs. j., solicitously
"Not by jugfull," said Jorkins, tc
.ae good woman's astonishment.
p4 The weakest living creature, BY
concentrating his powers on a single
object, can accomplish something; the
strongest, by dispensing his over many
may fail to accomplish anything.
p8 If the entire population of the
world is considered to be l, 400, 900, 900
the brains of this number of human
beings would weigh 1922 ,712 tons, OF
as much as 96 ironclads of the ordina
ry size.
s@ A little more than l, 100000 vet
Grams of the Union, and considerably
less than 100000 veterans of the Con
federate armies were found living ir
the United States by the census-takel
of 1890.
s9- The Broad river, in South Caro-
lima, was so called by the whites. The
Indian name was Eswan Huppeday
or "Diviving Line river" because il
was the boundary between the Chero
KEGS and the Catawbas.
p@ Size for size, thread of spiders
silk is decidedly tougher than a bar o.
steel. An ordinary thread will bear 6
weight of three grains. This is abou,
SO per cent. stronger than a stee
thread of the same thickness.
n8 To be always intending to live 8
new life but never to find time to sci
about it. This is as if man should
put off eating and drinking and sleep
ing from one day and night to another
till he is starved and destroyed.
s@ Paternal Visitor-Do you like to
90 to school little boy? Little Boy
Yes, like goin' to school we'll enough
and comm home all right. What
don't like is havin' to stay cooped up
in there between times.
p6 In 1888 the cold was so great in
Europe that wild fowl sought refuge
in the cities. The wild deer came
down to the villages in search of food
and packs of wolves made travel un-
safe in many parts of the continent.
w sIt may be all right to joke y
said the small boy, crawling through
hole in the fence as his mother, with o
stick in her hand, came running down
the street in his direction, "but dis
comm woman business is serious
matter to me.
p@ A Georgia man tells story Of
his cucumbers that is hard to believe
He says that in three hours after the
seeds were planted the vines were up
and producing pickles, ready barreled
so rapidly that they had to be shipped
at the rate of six carloads day.
B6 A Chinese doctor is employed by
families by the year at rate, accord
ing to their means and his reputation,
of to 5 cents day, as long as every
member of the family is well. When
one falls i'll, the DOCTORS pay stops
until their health is fully restored.
H@ Christianity, if it means any
thing, means 16 ounces to the pound,
three feet to the yard, just weight
and just measure. 1t means honesty
in all dealings, purity in all converse
ton, a charity as broad as the race,
integrity, sympathy, hu-
manity to man, loyalty to God.
H@ A woman in Western Ontario
purchased newfangled kettle from a
peddler. In the evening she showed