Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-03-25
atJauside Gatherimgs.

BS Wisdom is knowledge harnesse(
up and put to plowing.
|. sag He is thy friend who speaks wei
of thee behind thy back.
s@ Photographs have been taken o
the sea 500 feet below the surface.
p~ We can help one another to live
but no man can help another to die.
p6- The Bank of France is fou
times as large as the Bank of Eng
land.
p9 There are dull times on the farm
when the boy has to turn the grind
stone.
s6. If some men were as big as they
think they are, the world would have
to be enlarged.
n@- While you are meditating re
venge, the devil is meditating a re
cruit.
p8 Of all counterfeits there is none
more contemplate than counterfeit
humility.
p@- The different countries of the
world now use 1S,4OO different kinds
of postage stamps.
nag We cannot control the evil
tongues of others; but good life
enables US to despise them.
p@- Women are most sensible wher
among women, and men are most sen
sible when among men.
s6~ About the only man who ever
makes anything by attending to Other
peoples business is the lawyer.
p@r The only eclipse visible in NORTH
America is 1896 will occur August q
and 23-a partial eclipse of the moon
S6S There is only one thing harder
to do than to say a good thing, and
that is to keep from saying bad one
pdr Edison prophesies that in II
years horseless carriages will be the
rule, and horse-propelled vehicles the
exception.
p@ Of 1000 men who marry, 3Sz
marry younger women, 579 marry
women of the same age, and 89 marry
older women.
s@ There is more real religion in
paying 100 on the 81, than in some o1
the most eloquent prayers that were
ever delivered.
t@- An American tourist recently
sent his bicycle from London to Paris
by parcels post. The cost was only q
few pence and he received it in perfect
order.
b~ More eyes must be damaged OF
lost than most people suppose. Two
million glass eyes are manufactured
every year in Germany and switzer'
land.
s9 Colonel Ingersoll says: 81 had
rather live with the woman love in
world full of trouble, than to live in
heaven with nobody but men,"
s| The fact that you find it so easy
to be at outs with your friends and
neighbors, is a proof that there is
something wrong in your own moral
condition.
p@ According to La Nature, angle
worms can be obtained anywhere by
wetting the ground with solution OF
blue vitriol or with soap suds-which
will bring them out in surprising
numbers.
sd One cold day an old woman
entered the shop, and sat down in
front of an iron safe to warm her feet.
After sitting for some 20 minutes, she
remarked that she "never did like
them kind of stoves they don't throw
out scarcely any heat"
B6 Three-quarters of second is the
time occupied by the fall of the knife
in the guillotine. The knife is weight
ed by 12O pounds of lead, falls feet,
and cuts through flesh and bones as
easily as through bar of soap.
B6- A man released from Jail in
Winchester, Ind, after serving long
term, went straight to the railroad
station to take train for his home,
and, in attempting to board 1t, fell
under the wheels and was killed.
s@ In three rabbit drives in Cassia
county, Idaho, 5000 rabbits have been
killed. The animals are astonishingly
numerous, and a very serious nuisance
Roundup hunts are frequently made
in the hope of exterminating the pest
BH- A Pennsylvania man wants a
divorce because his wife "danced for
Joy when he chopped his finger of. "
1t is believed that woman would die OF
exultation if her husband was to chop
his head off. He should try her.
s9- Plenty of whitewash should be
used. not only for the brighter appear
ance, but also as a disinfectant. Hot
whitewash on the inside of barns,
stables, poultry houses and pig quar-:
ters will aid in preventing vermin and
insects.
s@ care you a doctor?" asked a
man of a we'll known physician. 81
am still practising" replied the doc
tor. II don't think you'll do. My
wife is very sick, and I want doctor
that's learned the business"
p1- The ground on which Trinity
church in New York stands is worth
sl4, 100000; that where St. PauPs is,
L. H.. Ic l.