Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-03
atausiae Gatherimgs.

n6r Easter this year will be on the
18th of April.
sd- The dog is mentioned 33 times
in the Bible.
toS- Postal cards came into use in
this country July, 1873.
s@ A man has been discovered in
Texas who has 16 wives.
r6r Silence is the best weapon to use
against a vulgar and spiteful tongue.
B@ Improve your time, and you can
depend upon it that time will improve
you.
s@ There is such thing as having
religion in the head and not in the
heart.
s6 Five years. penal servitude was
the sentence imposed on bicycle thief
in England.
p@ The common silver dollar is al
most exactly one and one-half inches
in diameter.
R@ Rumors are like swarm Of bees.
The more you fight them the less you
get rid of them.
s@ Phoenix, Arizona, has passed an
ordinance imposing fine Of $40 upon
any one splitting on the sidewalks.
s6 The more serious the difficulty
that confronts you the more is the rea-
son why you should show yourself a
man.
p9- One of the mistakes in the con-
duct of human life is to suppose that
other mems opinions are to make US
happy.
p8- The fact that you are coarse and
rude in your speech does not prove
that you are sincere, but it does prove
that you are ill-bred.
s@ North Carolina has 40, 900 square
miles of almost unbroken forest, COM
prising pine, chestnut, oak, maple,
beech and hickory.
p@ Two COWS, two pigs, 18 hens, a
greyhound pup and bull were given
to an agent by a Abilene (Kan.0 far
mer for a cabinet organ.
r6- It is the law of heaven that you
shall not be able to judge what is wise
or easy, unless you are first resolved to
judge what is just, and do it.
r6- One.twelfth of the population OF
England suffers from gout. A Berlin
physician says that this malady is Of
ten due to excessive use Of meat.
s8r Seven hundred people took part
in a wolf drive near Atchison, Kan,
and, after covering five square miles,
rounded up 200 jack rabbits, but not
a single wolf.
p6- We miss the best chances for
doing good by fixing dates. The com:
monest days may be made immortal
to us and others by fidelity to every
passing moment.
s@- Since the beginning of this CEN
tury So volcanic islands have risen out
of the sea. Nineteen of that number
have since disappeared, and 10 are
now inhabited.
p6- The elephant is commonly sup
posed to be slow, clumsy fellow, but
when excited or frightened can attain
a speed of 20 miles an hour, and can
Keep it up for half day.
p@- Over 1000 ships of all kinds and
sizes pass up and down the English
channel every "a hours, and there are
scarcely ever less than 200 near Lands
End, leaving or bearing up for the
channel.
E9- The smoke of burning tobacco
contains nicotia, nicotianine, salts oi
ammonia, hydrocyanic acid, sulphuret'
ed hydrogen, three or four volatile
acids, phenol, creosote and several
other substances.
s@ Department figures in Washing
ton gives nine hundred million dollars
as the amount of the actual liquor
traffic, and that sum is easily doubled
by the cost of trials and similar ex'
penses growing out of it.
S6- Anything black will produce
more disturbance in your baby's mind
than anything white. A child refus'
ing to 20 to relative in dark clothes,
would not hesitate if the suit were
changed to light color.
p6- II wish I could think of some.
thing to keep my husband at home at
night" "Get him a bicycle" "That
would take him out more than ever.
"Oh, no, it wouldn't! My husband
got one the day before yesterday, and
the doctor says he won't be out for a
month"
s9- The police department of Taun-
ton, Mass, is trying novel expert,
ment to decrease drunkenness in that
place. The name of every person ar
rested and convicted of the offense is
to be sent to each licensed liquor deal.
er in the city, with warning that if
liquor is sold to any of them within
six months after the receipt of their
names the person so doing will be liza
BILE to fine.
s6r One of the most novel excavat'
ing machines of recent date has been
patented by a North Dakota man, and
consists of two immense earth augers
attached to portable upright frame
and operated by power, the augers
bringing the earth to the surface, where
it can be shoveled to one side. When