Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-13
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RS London's population increases
about 10000 every year.
p4r Birmingham Ala, is shipping pig
iron to Birmingham, Eng.
s9H 1t robs the world for a man of
ability to live in idleness.
a9 People who deserve criticism
generally look on it as abuse.
H9 A good habit is faithful SER
want; bad habit is hard master.
pY- St.. Louis is the largest tobacco
manufacturing center in the world.
pS- The popular idea of reform
"You 90 out and let me come in"
E9 Only about one in a thousand
married couples live to celebrate their
golden wedding.
e9 There is a clerk in Marne, France
who has made II unsuccessful attempts
to commit suicide.
a@ Every man knows of position
superior to his own that he could tlil
much better than the incumbent.
s@r A Cincinnati genius advertises
for situation, saying that "Work is
not so much an object as good wages. !"
s4- To have family properly bal
anced the man should know how to
accumulate and the woman how to
save.
Gag One of the public schools of
Germany has made it obligatory for
all its pupils to learn to ride the bicy-
Gle.
aS There are more wrecks in the
Baltic sea than in any other place in
the world. The average is one wreck
a day throughout the year.
sdr Alfred Nelson, a Swedish mil
lionaire, gave the most magnificent
Christmas gift on record. He gave
the University of Stockholm $l,0OO,-
900.
s9 At the recent election in Wyo-
ming the women cast 1922 of the 2l,-
797 votes polled, or less than 33 per
cent. Only about 40 per cent. of the
eligible women voted.
B9- St. Petersburg is probably the
only city in the world where, from
year to year, the death rate exceeds
the birth rate. In the 125 years end.
ing in 1883 there were 1883, 900 births
and 1,772, 900 deaths.
s9~ When a graduate of Cambridge
university, England, commits a crime
the authorities of the university take
his degree from him and strike his
name from the rolls of the alumni.
E6T Mexico produces anything that
can be raised in any other country. So
varied is the climate that in the same
state can he raised any product of the
tropics and of the polar regions.
n6~ A caterpillar in the course of one
month will devour 5000 times its
weight in food. 1t takes man nearly
three months to eat quantity of food
equal to his own weight.
sS A paper bicycle has invaded the
field. Paper fibre, similar to that
railway carriage wheels, is employed
for tubing, and is as strong as any in
use.
E@ The period of a "generation" has
been heightened. 1t used to be 80
years, and later increased to 81. Now
scientist says the average term Of
human life has increased in the last
so years from 80 to 42 years.
R9 The superintendent of public
grounds at the national Capitol reports
that 1854 persons have assembled
the Washington monument since it
was opened to the public eight years
ago, in October, 1888.
a@ Not a mile of railroad track was
laid last year in Nebraska, Wyoming,
South Dakota, Nevada, Idaho, Rhode
Island, Arizona, New Hampshire, New
Mexico, Massachusetts,, Connecticut,
and only one mile:in Kansas.
BS When the Breton mariner puts
to sea, his prayer is, "Keep me, my
God ! my boat is so small, and Thy
ocean so wide !" Does not this beau
tiful prayer truly express the condi
ton of each of us?
ia Such help as we can give each
other in this world is debt to each
other; and the man who perceives
superiority or capacity in a subordi-
nate, and neither confesses nor assists
it, is not merely the withholder of
kindness, but the committer Of injury.
R1r "You make a great mistake in
calling this a tonsorial parlor," said
Fosdick, as he stood before the mirror
staunching his wounds. "Why, sab ?"
asked the barber. at would be more
accurate to describe it as butchers
shop, slaughter-house, or vivisec-
ton laboratory"
ga" A Milwaukee man who left an
estate of $4,000, willed $4,000 to a
secret order to which he belonged, one
of the conditions, being that the men,
bers meet once a year and drink two
kegs of beer. The testator is believed
to be the only person who ever coDsid-
cred it necessary to make the absorp-
ton of malt liquor obligatory in Mil
waukee.
W Figures compiled last week show
that the total vote cast for president,
November 8, was 13,SSS,762. Of this
number, Mckinley received 7, ,101 ,4Ol ;
Bryan, 6,47O,656; Palmer, 1896;
Levering, Prohibtionist, 130, $50; Mat
chette, Socialist, 33,53S; Bentley, Ma
tionalist, 4,392. McKinley's plurality
is 63O,75O, and his majority over all,
316,399.