Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-05-22
atjausiae Gatherings.


p8 No foreigner is allowed to be
4S hours on Turkish territory without
pass.
t@ He that knows how to made
much of little generally has something
to spare.
p8 One of the most uncommon
things is the ability to do common
things we'll.
I@ When ignorance happens to
make good guess, some folks called
| it prophesy.
p6 If the man who writes anony.
nous letters has never stolen sheep, it
is probably the fault of the sheep.
p8r 1t is known that there were men
practicing the. profession of dentistry
in Egypt at least five thousand years
ago.
p6 Calcutta is one of the education
al centres of the world. 1t has 20 COL
leges, with 5000 students, and 40 high
schools, with 10000 students.
p@ The power which moves the
world is hope. An anxious, doubtful,
timid man can accomplish little. Fear
unnerves US; hope inspires us.
p@ Weyler seems to be pursuing the
same course in Cuba that Artemus
Ward did in his menagerie. When he
conciliates, he does it with club.
H8- There are two classes of disap-
pointed lovers: Those who are disap-
pointed before marriage, and the more
unhappy who are disappointed after it.
16 Large fire losses are coming on
to the insurance companies with dis
couraging frequency, and there seems
no hope that this year will see a de-
structive total as low as 1896.
R6- Said friend to a bookseller,
"The book trade is affected, suppose,
by the general depression. What kind
of books feel it most?" "Pocket-
books" was the laconic reply.
I@ One fitting way suggested for
celebrating Queen Victoria's sixtieth
anniversary is the emancipation of the
2OO,OOO slaves kept in bondage in the
British protectorate of Zanzibar.
t@ Teacher-Which animal is satis-
fed with the least amount of nourish-
ment? Charlie-The moth. Teach
er-The moth Oh, no, the moth is a
most voracious animal. Charlie-But
it only eats holes.
p8- Of all the paupers in public in
stitutions of Massachusetts, three out
of every four, according to the bureau
of statistics, were addicted to the use
of liquor, and nearly one-half had
intemperate parents.
B6- A Dutchess county, N. Y, man
has brought suit for damages against
a clergyman for baptizing his infant
son and giving him name that he
couldn't like. This should settle the
question of "what in a name ?"
s@H An English paper claims that
by use of the Roentgen rays it has
been discovered that, in cases of asth-
ma, the right half of the diaphragm
stops work during the attack, leaving
the left half to bear all the'exertion.
s@r One of our city pastors, not
Universalist, in alluding to the future
state, recently said: "Christ cannot be
defeated. He came to redeem and
save the world, and he will save it,.
Satan may be defeated, but Christ
never"
p@- What is claimed to be the most
powerful locomotive in the world has
just been completed at Liege. At a
trial trip speed of forty-six miles an
hour was attained with load of
eighty trucks, each containing dead
weight of twelve tons.
s6. The eight-montbs-old leopard
cub in the Central Park menagerie,
New York, caught big rat that ven-
tured into it's cage, and, after playing
with it for an hour and half, just
like a cat, gave it pat with its paw
that finished it.
pdg A Maine country cat which for
years had lived in Portland, when ta-
ken back to its old rural home, went,
as it had been used to do, at milking
time to the cow shed and sat upon its
launches to await a stream OF milk
fresh from the cow, as its master had
fol merly taught it to do.
s6. The New York Times announces
its discovery that the two longest
words in English are disproportion-
ableness and Observation-Disclosures.
But Shakespeare has "honorifcabilitu-
dinity," which has one letter more,
though not likely to come into general
use.
H6r The island on which the Eddy
stone lighthouse stands lies nine miles
off the Cornish coast, and is supposed
to be the smallest inhabited island on
the globe. At low water it is 30 feet
in diameter; at highwater the light
house, whose diameter at the base is
2Sa feet, completely covers it. 1t is
Inhabited by three persons.
b8~ According to the figures prepar-
ed by Colonel Ainsworth of the war
department, there are now 1,095,62
survivors of the. war of the Rebellion,
who fought for greater or less length