Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-08-29
atjausiae Gatherings.
p@ There are too many people who
have more religion than love.


s@ Never give way to melancholy !;
resist it steadily, for the habit will
encroach.
p@- No matter how many mistakes
you've made. The point is, what have
you learned by them ?
p0r In Russia the principals in a
duel partake of breakfast together
before going out to fight.
"a A discontented and grumbling
woman is as fatal to the peace and
happiness of family as a drunken
man.
p6- The big figure of William Penn
on the Philadelphia City Hall weighs
$4,000 pounds. How William has
grown!
S% One solitary philosopher may be
great, virtuous and happy in the
depths of poverty, but not whole
people.
"a The best seasoned wood con-
tains, by actual experiment, at com.
mon temperature, about one-tenth OF
water.
~ The human brain, according to
'Cuvier, ls the one twenty-eighth part
of the body; that of the horse but one.
four hundredth part.
S% A wealthy man, living in Du.
buque, Ia., adopted nine little girls as
his daughters. They are his nieces.
He already has II sons.
"a Coming in the course of his can
vass to a tailor's shop, facetious can
didate said, "Whst we look for here
are measures, not men,"
"a Of GIL paupers in the Edinburgh
poorhouse, not one was an abstainer |;
and 4O7 admitted that thir poverty
was due entirely to intemperance.
D% A patent medicine dealer says
in his advertisement that "the blood
is the centre of vitality" Yes, and
the nose is the scenter of the system.
"a "Fleming won't allow his wife to-
get trusted. He says she hasn't any
Judgment" "That's so. She showed
her want of it when she married him."
"Why do you laugh at his stale
Jokes ?" eff did not laugh he would
think that I did not understand the
jokes and would try to explain them"
p@ Vesuvius has started up again
after keeping quite for IS months.
Two streams of lava are making their
way slowly toward the observatory.
p8 An old bachelor explains the
courage of the Turks by saying that a
man with more than one wife ought
to be willing to face death at any time.
S6 According to a recent report,
made by the New York state railroad
commission, "a per cent. Of the street
railways Of the state are operated by
electricity.
M Colonel J. NJ. Wilson, commits.
sioner of public buildings at Washing
ton, says that 1,244,227 persons have
ascended the Washington monument
without an accident since 1888.
va A gentlemen on bicycle was
observed displaying very thin pair
of legs in knickerbockers, when one
friend remarked to another that "those
calves must have been taken away too
soon from their mother"
p@ The latest invention to facilitate
field operations is the typewriter bicy-
Gle. This consists of typewriter
mounted on a serviceable wheel, which
can follow the movements of an army
through an ordinary stretch of ofcountry.
pT Seventeen cents is the price paid
per dozen coats for making five but
ton holes, and sewing on four buttons
to each coat, by some London tailors.
The work has to be done by hand, and
it takes a competent woman twelve
hours to earn the II cents.
S@ The Church Times says that on
recent Sunday in a church in Dublin
the choir was startled during the sing
ing of the psalm by the appearance of
the organ blowers head, who shouted
out, "Sing like blazes; the bellows is
busted !'
B@ The Elmira Advertiser says
that the apple crop will be immense
in central New York. Many trees are
80 overloaded with fruit that the
branches are breaking, and to prevent
such mishaps farmers are propping up
the limbs.
p@ Country roads in China are new
er bounded by fences, but are entirely
underlined. While the farmer has a
right to plough up any road passing
through his land, drivers of vehicles
have an equal right-and they exer-
else ito traverse any part of the
country at large.
s6s- A species of frog in Borneo has
very long toes, and these are webbed
to the tip. 1t can leap from a high
tree, spread its toes, and is thus sup
piled with four little parachutes,
which enable it to easily descend. For
this reason it is called "the flying
frog"
B~ A French chemist has discovered
that the eggs of certain species of fish
are enveloped in veritable silken CO.
coons. Since the learned Frenchman
began his experiments in this line Tin
1894), he has found seven different
enec;es of f;sh that nroduce eggs from