Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-05-15
atjausiae Gatherings.

nag The mercantile and armed navie'
of the world have 1908, 900 seamen.
R@ A man obtains his maximum
weight at 40 years of age, a woman
at so years.
S@ Let no one despair. Gray hairs
are now said to be a sign of grea
brain activity.
t@ Take care not to 60 to the brink
of vice, lest you should fall down the
precipice.
r6c One of the objects of cultivation
is to keep the surface broken so as te
let in light, heart and air.
t@ A good motto to put over the en-
trance to graveyard would be: "Here
lie the dead and here the living lie."
s8 The United States, Great Britain
and Germany, send the greatest num-
ber of letters through the mails.
p8 The longest bridge in America
is a trestle-work over a portion oi
Lake Ponchartrain. 1t is nearly 25
miles long.
S@ The more the Bible is read the
more is it believed and accepted as
the word of God. Sceptical people
rarely read the Bible.
p@ After long period of wet wealth
er, when they have prayed vainly for
relief, the Chinese put their gods in
the rain, to see how they like it.
p@ Philadelphia has greater mile
age of electric railways than the whole
of Germany, according to The Elec-
trical World.
a6- On a fine day it is reckoned that
the cycle riders of the world cover the
grand total of 1O0,0O0,0OO miles, OF
1000 times round the world.
pH Demagogue is an old Greek word
which today has modern Greek ap-
plication. 1t means one who leads the
people on the way they want to 60.
p9- care Spratt and his wife hap
py coupler" "Oh, yes, they are hap
py enough, except now and then when
they can't find anything to quarrel
about"
p@- So light is a spiders web that q
pound weight of it will reach around
the world, and then leave enough tn
reach from New York to San Fran.
cisco.
p6- Stability is the great secret OF
success. No man can prosper who is
a mechanic one day, a professional
man the next, and nothing the next
day.
nag An educated Indian who recent
Ily spent half an hour reading the
epitaphs in a cemetery, remarked, 81
guess the only good white man is a
dead white man."
nag Most of the troubles of life orig
Innate from the habit of talking toe
much. The tongue is useful in its
way, but it should be handled with as
much care as gunpowder.
Hdy Labrador, country which We
always associate with Arctic snow
drifts, icebergs, etc., has 900 species oi
Towering plants, SO ferns, and over
$50 species of MOSES and lichens.
s6 A lady stood hanging on the
strap of street car, when a workman
in the far corner arose and offered her
a seat. 81 thank you," she said in q
very sweet tone, "but I dislike to de-
prive the only gentleman in the car Of
seat"
s@ Guest-I'm glad there is rope
in case of fire; but what's the idea Of
putting a Bible in the room in such q
prominent position /? Bell Boy-Dat
T am intended for use, sab, in case the
fire am too far advanced fob you to
make your 'scape, sab.
s6r The oldest love letter in the
world is in the British Museum. 1t is
proposal of marriage for the hand oI
an Egyptian princess, and it was made
$500 years ago. 1t is in the form Of
an inscribed brick.
s@ The cost of running a 25,0O(
spindle cotton mill in New England
for coal alone is sS5 per day. There
are many points in the south where
the coal bill would be only s25 pei
day.
n@ J. J. Chambers, at Glenmue, Ga.
is experimenting with banana culture
in Ware county. He has 80 large
plants, with leaves 10 feet long and 2t
inches broad. The trees are 80 inche;
in circumference.
pG- A lady cyclist in knickerbockers
was riding in the neighborhood o.
Wareham, England. She lost hel
way, and seeing a countryman in front
rode up to him, alighted, and said
"Can you tell me if this is the right
way to Wareham ?" The man looked
her up and down with great attention
and then slowly replied, ayes, miss;
yes. You seem to have got 'em on al
right"
BE "Look here, do you know be-
lieve Parson Downycouch gambles?'
remarked one gentleman to another
"Good gracious I hope not" 81
hope not, too, but a suspicious circum
stance occurred last Sunday when be
was reading out the service" "Wha'
was it ?" "Well, instead of 'Oh