Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-04-03
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comotives running on the earth.
s@ Diligence is fair fortune, ano
industry good estate.
RgThere are said to be $4,000 diff
ferent kinds of postage stamps in the
world.
neg A meteor which fell in Australia
recently had a large mass of pure
copper imbedded in one side.
R6r At Great Falls, Mich, electrical
power is so cheap that all domestic and
public work is done with its aid.
baT A man in Harlem, N. Y, who
keeps diary, books his cigar expen.
ses under the head of "losses by fire. "
s6F There is no way of making q
permanent success in this world with
out giving an honest equivalent for it.
rar Have the courage to be ignor'
ant ofa great number of things, in or
der to avoid being ignorant of every
thing.
nag "I shore does hope," said Uncle
Nose, "dat dey will git dis heah new
photograph trick so fine by summer
dat man kin tell wedder melon is ripe
s9- The area of Chicago, including
all the suburban towns and outlying
country that have been gathered into
the city limits, is 1S9 square miles.
s6 "Perkins, why does Lent last
40 days?" because it takes most
women that long to decide what kind
of Easter bonnets they want"
s@ The cheapest place in Missouri
to live is at the penitentiary. The
daily cost of maintaining convicts at
that institution is only n cents pei
capita.
s@ The following is said to be pop
ular song in a Western city, "Beef'
steak when I'm hungry, whisky when
I'm dry, greenbacks when I'm hard up,
heaven when die"
s@ A woman arrested in a Paris
suburb for illegally setting of fire.
works, said in court that she was
merely celebrating the anniversary Of
her husbands death.
H6> Six thousand dozen eggs were
cooked hard at one baking in Ovid,
Mich, one day last week. They were
stored in a warehouse, which was
burned.
p6 A great fight of locusts, calcu.
lated to have covered about 1900
square miles, lately passed across the
Red sea from the African to the Ara
bian shore.
pSr Difficulty in working telegraph
wires between Weber and Peterson,
Utah, is ascritcd to spray from Salt
Lake, forty miles away, settling on the
wires and leaving heavy deposit OF
salt.
pdr A Mississippi girl had two lovers.
1t was hard to decide between them,
so she suggested foot race-the win
ner to take the prize. The first race
was "tie," but there was marriage
after the second one.
R@ One of the heaviest things on
earth is sheet of paper after it has
been transformed into farm mortgage.
1t often takes strong man and bis
family several years to liftit, and often
it can't be lifted at all.
s9- They treat Mississippi gamblers
in an unusually drastic manner. Keep
ers of all kinds of gaming contrivances
within the confines of that State are
now favored with a five years job in
the penitentiary.
nag An Atchison man recently caught
three different men kissing his wife
wbereupon he went to lawyer. "Iou
have very good grounds for divorce" !"
the lawyer said. ~ don't want a di-
vorce," the citizen replied. 81 want to
get out an injunction to make them
quit it ~
nag The three reasons which good
woman is reported by a contemporary
as having presented for objecting to a
preacher, were striking ones. She
said that in the first place he read his
sermon, and in the second place he did
not read it we'll and in the third it was
not worth reading.
sg The Publishers Circular esti-
mates that in Great Britain the output
ofbooks is a follows "Sermon, one vol
ume day; novels, five a day; educa-
tional books, two day; art and science,
two each every week; histories or
biographies, six week and law, one
every two weeks.
tag Travelling churches are to be es-
tablished on the Trans-Siberian rail-
way, which passes through many
desert tracts, where neither village nor
church can be met with for miles.
Cars fitted up for divine service will
be attacded to the trains for the bene-
fit of the officials.
B4- A young woman from out OF
town went to tea among the literary
set last week, says the Washington
Post. She was introduced to whole
roomful of people, and afterward she
went about trying to call everybody
by his right name. She remembered
an amazing number of names, but
when she came to one distinguished.
looking man, she paused in despair.
81 know everybody else's name," she