Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-22
at'auside Gatherings.

R6. "Jack Frost's pudding" is wha
Edith Thomas calls ice cream.
s6- There are 40 officers of th'
army and navy stationed in Washing
ton.
adF The man who believes in moth
ing is as big a fool as he who believes
in everything
p4- 1t is said by anatomists to be
fact that people hear better with thei
mouths open.
p9- The II cables now in operation
across the Atlantic have cost upward
of $40, 100000.
H@~ Set a small box of lime in the
pantry and it will help keep it dry
and the air pure.
e8- That which is of God, gathers tt
God, and that which is of the world i:
owned by the world.
p9 Let your wit be your friend
your mind your companion, and youI
tongue your servant.
s6- AS to that diary-write nothing
in it that you would be unwilling te
have all the world read.
p@ They have fined two young wo
men So for holding man up on the
street in New York and kissing him.
p@ 1t is better to lock the stable
door after the horse is stolen than moi
to lock it at all. 1t may save the cow
p8- One joint of beef out of every
three consumed in London and imme
diate districts is American refrigerator
beef.
w A New York electrician has sue
ceeded in sending messages over a tel
egraph wire at the rate of LIZA words
q minute.
R6- The enormous crop ofsugar beets
in Nebraska has led some farmers to
20 into the business of making whisky
out of them.
t6r New York's State capitol has
cost over s20,O0O,00O, but how much
over it is what the legislature proposes
to find out if it can.
B9 The largest room in the world is
said to be the hall of the imperial pal
ace in St. Petersburg. 1t is 16O feet
long by $50 feet wide.
e6r The State board of health OF
Pennsylvania has passed a resolution
graves to be at least six feet
deep in populous and four in rural dis
tricts.
B@ The United States now controls
the worlds iron trade, producing
about II 100000 tons annually. Eng
land, the former mistress of the trade,
produces less than 100000 tons.
s6- "We have no use for bear
stories," said the editor. "Our read
ers demand something spicy" "Well,"
said the man with the manuscript,
''this story is about cinnamon bear"
B9 A number of citizens lost their
votes in New York at the last election
because their religious prejudices pre-
vented them from making crosses be-
fore the names Of candidates, as re.
quired by law.
HT In Nebraska farms average 100
acres, in Massachusetts sc. But in
proverbially thrifty Holland the aver
age is 80 acres. Seventeen-twentieths
of all the farms in Holland are less than
so acres in extent.
s9 One of the buildings at the Ten
nessee Centennial exposition will be
erected entirely with money provided
by children of the State. Everything
in it and around it will be arranged
for the pleasure and profit of children.
In the tower will swing fine set of
silver chimes.
s8 "Mamma," said a wicked young
ster, lam I canoe? ?" "No, child why
do you ask ?" "Oh, because you say
you like to see people paddle their
own canoe, and I didn't know but what
maybe I was yours" The boy went
out of the door with reference to more
speed than grace.
nag Among the botanical curiosities
which have been found in the Isthmus
of Tehauntepec, lately much explored
by naturalists, is a botanical clock. In
the morning it is white, at noon it is red
and at night blue, and the alterations
of color are so regular that the time of
day can be told from the tint of the
flower.
a6 A balloon fitted with automatic
was sent up recently in
Paris, and came down safely. The
instruments showed that it had risen
to the height of 1900 metres-56, 900
feet-or over ten miles and half. At
that height the temperature outside
the balloon was 102 degrees below
zero, while inside it was 10 degrees
above.
B9" There is no building material so
durable as we'll made bricks. In the
British Museum are bricks taken from
the buildings in Nineveh and Babylon,
which show no signs of decay or disin-
although the ancients did not
burn or bake them, but dried them in
the sun. The baths of Caracalla and
of Titus, in Rome, and the Therma of
Diocletian, have endured the ravages
Of time far better than the stone of the
Coliseum.
s1r The supreme court of Massachu-
,etts SAWS that dress maker ought to