Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-10-23
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church goers.
p@ Without friend, the world is a
wilderness.
sS5> Nothlag except the mint can
make money without advertising.
p@ There are II Protestant denomi-
nations, it is said, which ordain women
preachers.
p9r Rifle bullets of paper enclosed
in an aluminium envelope are the latest
things in cunning fads.
H9~ In Palestine there are now three
railways running, all of them in the
hands of French companies.
p9 Spain has population of IT,
100000, of which number IL 900, O,OOO
cannot read or write.
s9r If we have good in us it is sure
to come to the surface whenever it has
an opportunity.
s9 DO not tell what you are going
to do; if you do not do it, the people
will laugh at you.
nag The record of failures for the
third quarter of 1897 shows the small
est average liabilities in % years.
s6 People are often advised to put
the best foot forward. What disposl-
ton is to be made of the other?
s6 Photographers in Russia hang
the pictures of delinquent patrons up
side down at the entrance OF their
studios.
peS- The telephone which extends
over the longest route is that between
Boston and St. Louis, distance OF
400 miles.
p9~ 1t is computed that there are
enough paupers in Great Britain to
form, four abreast, a procession over
$50 miles in length.
paE A very good grade of button is
now made from potatoes. The tubers
are treated with chemicals which make
them hard as horn or bone.
p6r A terse writer says that nature
likes to let the best of US find out, from
time to time, that, after all, we do not
know much.
Ra With balance on the right side
of the books assured and record OF
!, 100000 visitors, Nashville has good
reason for being satisfied with its ex-
hibition.
Rdr The fact that violinists command
ten dollars an hour in the Klondike is
evidence ii at the miners have their
merry nom ,nts and enough money to
pay the fidt er.
aI A western lover says of his part
ing from his adored one, "Her last
words fell, like great rocks, into the
sea of sorrows, and splashed the briny
water into my eyes,"
R9 A reading-room for the exclu-
sive use of the blind, and a complete
collection of raised letter books, will
be added t, the conveniences of the
Congressional library.
pd The vote in the Connecticut
towns on the amendment requiring
that reading, as suffrage qualification,
shall be in the English language, was
about ten to one in favor.
gS Switzerland, though she spends
only half million dollars yearly on
her army, can turn out 100000 trained
men in two days in case of need, and
has reserve of 100000 more.
s1 Were dentists fashionable in
snaildom, what a harvest there might
be for the tooth operators. A scientist
who has been studying the subject as
serts that each snail has 10000 teeth.
B4e A Frenchman says that love is
disease that closely resembles alcohol
ism. "There may be some truth in
that. 1 have noticed that the gold
cure is frequently efficacious in both
diseases"
H@ An enterprising western man is
now boring where the Missouri river
used to run, hoping to strike a cargo
of whisky that was sunk there SO
years ago. He can doubtless get all
the help he wants.
sD The Toronto World says that
one of the hymns in the hymnbook of
the Canadian Presbyterian church is
sung in Toronto to tune identical with
that of the song "Put Me Off at Buff
falo."
Ba" The Women's Rescue League is
opposed to single men as candidates
for public flee, and gravely declaras
that "bacht lors have always been fail
ures as chief magistrates and legisla-
tors, in this and every other country"
s6- A new way of "loading" bale
of cotton was discovered in Georgia
compress last week. A Negro lad fell
into a cotton press, and had the life
squeezed out of him while the bale was
being made up. Only when ties were
being put on the bale was the accident
discovered, in time to save the dead
body being sent to market.
B9~ Nearly half the Sunday-school
scholars in the world are, it seems, in
the United States. America claims
9,71S,432 out of the total of 20, $685.
933; Great Britain has 6,979,913 !;
Australia, 6,O29 Germany, 749, ,7S6; !;
Sweden, 242,150; Canada, 576,O64 !;
Italy, 10,969; Spain, $3.50; Mexico
and Central America, $4,000. Adding
the officers and teachers, the total for
the world is %, 2,50S,661.
D9 A southern man says that the