Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-24
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ODlulOuS ludkC VI CnOLu.
p9r "An honest man is the noblest
work of God," and this is true irrespec'
tive of politics and creeds.
pI Web to the length of two and
one-fourth miles has been drawn from
the body of single spider.
sg One hundred roses are required
to make one drop of the famous altar
of roses, the perfume of the east.
HH Western roads are handling an
unusual traffic in hogs, 10000 to So
900 day arriving in Chicago.
H9- Great Britain has over 10000
postoffice savings banks, the deposits
in which amount to $500, 100000.
p9- "Mamma, what is football ?'
"Well, it's a kind of baseball in which
the players pitch with their legs"
s6 Mickey-I wears clean shirt
every day. Mugsey-Well, yer needn't
brag cos yer mudder takes in washin'."
p6- The Bible is the book of the law.
That is why it is so dull to the man
who is determined to have his own
way.
p9n The irreverence of modern en-
terprise seems to have reached It's
height in the planning of railway up
Mount Sinai.
p6- The little principality of Wal
deck, in Germany, has forbidden the
granting of marriage licenses to habit
ual druakards.
p@- Nothing pays smaller dividends
in spiritual results than making a spe-
cialty of discovering the shortcomings
of other people.
p9 Self-restraint cannot be attained
by a few spasmodic efforts. 1t can
come only as result of constant watch
fulness and self.curbing.
@r There is fywheel in Germany
made of steel wire. The wheel is 20
feet in diameter, and $50 miles of wire
was used in it's construction.
BH~ 1t has been ascertained that a
reliable reason for calling chilly day
raw, is because the sun does not give
heat enough to cook it.
R6 The raven was a success as a ra-
ven; but when he stuck d peacock's s
feather in his tail, he was failure
both as raven and as peacock.
s9~ Eagles do not have different
mates each season, as do birds gener-
ally; they pair for life, and sometimes
occupy the same nest for many years.
sHr There are men who, the farther
they get away from their enemies, the
louder they talk. And tbs not because
they want their enemies to hear them,
either.
s6 The highest building in New
York city, up to the present, is the
Manhattan Life Insurance company s
building; it is 94S feet to the top OF
the tower.
skF A suggestion from Tennessee
that the body of General Sam Hous'
ton be removed thither for renterment.
has aroused indignant and vehement
protests in Texas.
B9~ Editing a newspaper is very
much like raking a 6re-eyery one
thinks he can perform the operation
better than the man who has hold of
the poker.
nag. Skinned milk is now turned in
to champagne by an electric process,
and the beverage is stated to be clear,
beady and delicious in flavor, although
non. alcoholic.
p9 A girl sent 25 cent to a New
York advertiser to find how to whiten
hands. She got this answer in few
days, "Soak 'em in dish water" 1t
tickled her mother nearly to death.
B9~ In Alaska the natives use fat
fish, like a smelt, for candle. They
light them at the tail, and they burn
Is minutes. There are millions OF
them. The crabs measure six feet from
tip to tip of the claws.
p9~ In Victoria colony, Australia,
the question pertaining to the Bible in
the public schools is burning one,
and about everything pertaining to
Christianity has beer expurgated from
the schoolbooks.
R9 ~ want you to take couple O.
chances on a poor widows cookstove
fifty cents a ticket" "But what's
the poor widow going to do without
her cookstove ?" "Oh, she's moved
into house where they have gas
range"
a4 Personal work tells. If every
protesting Christian should lead one
soul to Christ annually, in three years
Everybody would be converted, or at
least be brought face to face with the
question "Shall I accept or reject,
Jesus ?"
p@ "Does she return your love, my
son ?" asked the father. "Um-yes,' VI
was the answer. "Well, you're in luck
for once. Her father is worth a mil
lion at least" "Yes, that is the worst
of it," sighed the young man. "She
returns my love, saying she has no
use for it,"
B~ A Georgia colored minister
preached this good doctrine to his peo.
Iple: "But faint no use ter trabble
along dat narrer path less yer can
carry, folded up in yer creed, a good
RECOMMENDATION from yer creditors.
Hebben amt no place fur men who
has to dodge roun' conner fur fear Of
meetin' someone who'll ask for dat lit
tie bill dat nebber was paid"
H9" A medical journal inveighs
against rocking, warning its adherents
that the soothing feeling which it
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