Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22
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over 100000 persons drawing pensions
as result of the Civil war.
s@ There is something wrong with
the child, depend upon, who would not
rather eat between meals than at meals
RaT IF a man will reduce his faults,
he will find that at the same time ne is
also reducing his expenses.
p~ A Japanese farmer is reckoned
to be monopolist if he occupy more
than 10 acres of land.
s@- There is no way of making q
permanent success in this world with
out giving an honest equivalent for it.
nag Fruit tastes better that medi-
cine, and usually does quite as much
good. Fruit and vegetables are the
best half of good living.
s9 The maximum age assigned to
the pine is said to be 700 years; to the
red beech 245; to the oak 410; and to
the ash 145 years.
R6 Observation-Disclosures means
love among the Choctaws-al lmost any:
where else word of that size would
mean business.
sp9 If you should 60 to Greenland
you would be surprised at the size
of the potatoes there, for they grow
no larger than marble.
p@ A Georgia young man went to
see his girl few days ago, and the oid
gentleman put him to cleaning out bis
we'll. The old man bossed the job.
p9- "They even preach about bicy,
cling at Bridget's church, mamma" B."
"Why, how do you know?" IL heard
Bridget say the text was, BLESSED are
the pacemakers.'"
par The feathery pampas plumes
that. either of their natural hue or
gaudily colored with dyes, are used in
SO many ways for decorations, come
largely from Southern California.
bda Only about two minutes are re-
ouired for the blood to course through
the heart, thence to the lungs, back
to the heart, and then through the
entire body, and return to the heart.
p@ Twenty years ago Chinese belle
could be bought for $25. The price
has gradually risen to 5000, and the
custom of numbering girl babies has
diminished correspondingly in public
practice.
r@ They were talking politics in q
Maine town. "No, sir" shouted the
man of considerable reading, "there
will be no real prosperity in this coun-
try until each person is his own pro-
ducer and his own consumer"
nag When the doctor told the dying
editor that his "circulation was very
low" the editor whispered with his
last breath: "Don't let my cotempora-
ry know it; I've always sworn to the
largest circulation in the county"
p8 The Texas man who has invented
a machine for filling bottles, should
Join the temperance people now, and
invent some machine that will keep
people from emptying the bottles after
they are filled.
p1 "It is hard to understand why
one should feel bad in society when he
appears in shabby garb, when he
we'll knows that ones shabbiness gives
more pleasure to others than does
ones richest raiment.
s9r The sultan of Morocco keeps a
large number of live lions about his
premises, and in the evening these an
imals are let loose in the courtyards OF
the palace to act as guards to the roy
al harem.
s@- The largest gold brick ever cast
in the Black Hills was recently de-
posted in Deadwood bank. 1t
weighed trife less than 125 pounds,
and was worth about $4,000. 1t was
the result of a Is days. output.
bT The farmer who wants to con-
duct his business proftably must take
a hint from other business men, and
provide against the loss which his ma
chinery is sure to sustain fleft exposed
to the elements.
Ha- Between the year 1885 and 1895
England's increase of naval strength
was 81 per cent; that of France AZ
per cent. Russia's II per cent. +; and
Germany doubled the number of its
warships.
s@- When a lie once gets into the
world, it is astonishing how hard it
is to get it out. You may beat it
about the head until it seems to have
given up the ghost, and then, the
next day, meet it on the street as
healthy as ever.
B6s" An improved snake story comes
from Calcutta. Two tame pythons
were kept together, when one swal-
lowed the other. The inside snake
feeling uncomfortable in the others
midst, proceeded to eat its way out
at the other end.
H9 Two Chinese girls have been
graduated from the Medical School OF
the University of Michigan. So many
Japanese have been graduated from
the university that three years ago
they were able to form an alumni asso-
citation in Toxic.
n8 "I want to pay this BILL" he said
to the hotel clerk. "But I think you
have made slight error here in my
favor. I've been looking over the ex-
tras, and / cannot find that you have
charged me anything for telling me you
thought it might rain"
B9~ A company has been organized
in New York city for the manufacture
of on-illuminating fuel gas, and has
in application for permission to lay the
mains in the streets. The company
says it can supply non-illuminating