Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-10-21
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horse.
s9 In keeping the accounts of the
Bank of England, over so ledgers are
filled daily.
nay Tobacco seeds are so small that
a thimbleful will furnish plants for an
acre of ground.
s@ Typewriting machines sound like
woodpeckers when several are clicking
industriously at the same time.
s@ As city, Minneapolis is only 81
years old, but her mills grind out g.
OOO, 900 barrels of -four every year.
sD- A needle, be it ever so diminu'
tive in size, has to pass through b about
12O operations before it is ready for
J sale.
p8 Camels enjoy thistles, and men
agerie camels when on tour will eat
every one they can pick by the road
side.
R@ Some one says that liquor
strengthens the voice. That is mis-
i take. 1t only makes the breath
strong
s4 The word mile comes from the
Latin "mille," a thousand. A thou
sand PAGES of marching soldier made
q Roman mile.
s9 The man who is ever lamenting,
never rejoicing, is playing part; for
life is neither constantly painful nor
constantly gay.
n3 Health is 50 necessary to all the
duties as we'll as the pleasures of life
that the crime of squandering it is
equal to the folly.
eB Many of the so-called "vegeta-
BILE ivory' buttons used on dresses,
cloaks, etc., are made of potatoes
treated with sulphuric acid.
p4 Flour costs SIS barrel in Lii
IBERIA, and whisky eight cents pint,
It is bad sign for country when
bread is dear and hooze is cheap.
p4 A Kansas man has planted 40
acres of sassafras, to be used by fac
tory nearby in the manufacture of the
LEAVES into a substitute for tobacco for
cigarettes.
care you willing to make very
great sacrifice for me, George ?"
"Test me, dearest" "Well, the next
time you talk free silver with papa,
let him knock you out"
~ "I believe all men are thieves"
said the man who had just delivered q
TRADE against plutocracy. 81 never
suspected you BEFORE" "quietly remark
ed one of the bystanders.
p8- So rapid has been the change in
the English language, that the En-
glish of today bears no more resem-
blance to the English of 1000 years
ago than it does to German.
p@ "What station do you call this ?"
asked man as he crawled out of the
ruins of a carriage after railway ac-
cident. "Devastation, sir" replied
his llow-passengers, in chorus.
s@ "This is the final, agonizing stage
of the campaign, when the political
managers, like the hotel table waiter,
is carrying everything before them" "
says the Springfield Republican.
p@ One of the candidates for the
degree of doctor of philosophy at
Jena was II years Of age. 1t is inter-
esting to learn that he passed his ex-
animation in satisfactory manner.
p9- A London clergyman asserts that
the overdressing of most church-goers
has been a curse to Christianity, by in
fuencing those who cannot buy good
clothes, to stay away from church.
s9- Although the salary of the king
of Greece is four times greater than
that of the president of the United
States, it is said to be smaller than
that of any other European monarch.
s9 Any woman, according to Mrs
Jenness Miller, can get along on two
dresses a year. This seems like
economy; but there was Mrs. Eve,
who got along, to begin with, on no
dress at all.
R6 The president Of France receives
$24O,O 900 year-a large salary, when
it is remembered that the government
is struggling under debt of $6,OO0,-
900 900, which is the largest debt ever
Incurred by any nation.
s~ A 4-year-old occupied an upper
berth in the sleeping-car. Awaking
once in the middle of the night, his
mother asked him if he knew where
he was. "Tourse 1 do," he replied.
"I'm in the top drawer"
s@ "Well, Johnnie, you went to
church this morning? ?" eyes, papa" "
"How did you like the sermon 2''
"The beginning was good, and the
end was good; but there was too
much middle to it, papa"
p6- Calico print works use forty mil
lion dozen eggs per year, wine clari-
iers use ten million dozen, the photo
graphers and other industries use
many millions, and these trade orders
increase more rapidly than table de-
mands.
B8 1t is certain that the elephant,
the rhinoceros, the bear, the hyena,
and other wild animals, were at one
time, common in England. Several
bones of these animals have been found
in Kent's cavern, about mile from
Torquay.
H9~ Cigarette smoking in England
dates back to 1874. The great impetus
to the increased use was caused by
the Crimean war of 1886, when
numbers of military and naval officers
adopted this method of smoking from
the inhabitants of Russia, Turkey,
Malta, Levant and other parts OF