Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-22
5fjausiae Gatherings.

B9 There are four mllllonalres III
England to one in France.
p9 The essence of selfishness con.
sists in the determination to have your
own way.
p@ The German navy will have 81
more vessels in active service this yeal
than last.
R6 The letters of the word "Presby
terian" can. be so transposed as to spell
'best in prayer"
p6 Much time is badly spent in en-
vying others happiness of which they
are not possessed.
pd Josh Billings says he don't care
how much man talks if he'll only
say it in few words.
sd Don't express a positive opinion
unless you perfectly understand wha'
you are talking about.
R@ We often waste more energy ir
the effort to avoid our duties than il
would take to discharge them.
p~ The woman who marries a mar
for the purpose of reforming him never
wants for occupation afterward.
p@ John Neal says some person:
read mankind as they do proof sheet
merely to find the errors and omissions
s@ There is no one so innocent a:
not to be evil spoken of there is NJ
one so wicked as to merit all condem
nation.
pV Three things come not back, say:
an Arab proverb: the spoken word
the discharged arrow, and the lost op
portunity.
Bd 1t is more from carelessnes:
about the truth than from intentional
lying, that there is so much falsehoot
in the world.
p@ If vegetables are boiled in sof
water it is said that the freshness ant
greenness of their color will be thu:
best preserved.
sd The postal business of the coun
try affords an index of slight i'm
provement in general trade as com
pared with year ago.
p6 The 100000 immigrants who
arrived in New York last year brought
with them an average of less than foul
dollars each in money.
n% Every young couple who desire
to make a good start in life must keeI
two bears in the house, and feed them
well-namely, bear and forbear.
a6 In the warm countries in Europe
milk is now sold in bricks in summer
like so much ice cream. 1t is frozen
solid, and broken off in pieces as re.
quired.
p6 The shortest marriage service in
the world is daily performed by Mil
waukee justices "Have him ?" "Yes. y
"Have her? "Yes." "Married. Two
dollars"
b1r The winter of 1872 and 1918
was one of the most severe ever known
in Russia, fact which partially ex-
plains the terrors Of the retreat from
Moscow.
n| A clergyman at Mt. Clements
Mich, helped his wife clean house re-
Gently, ard the next Sunday his back
was so sore that he had to deliver bis
sermon sitting down.
E8 The diamond is not among the
earliest gems known to man. 1t has
not been found in the ruins of Nine.
veh, in the Etruscan sepulchres, mol
in the tombs of the Phenicians.
ng If you would relish your food
labor for it; if you would enjoy your
raiment, pay for it before you weal
it; if you would sleep soundly, take {
clean conscience to bed with you.
s@- How many people know tha
"By jingo" is profane? lingo in the
Basque language means God, and is {
common form of adjuration. The Eng
lish took it from the Basque sailors.
R4" The value of the churches anc
the land on which they are erected in
this country, up to July l, 1897, i:
estimated at s6sO,oOo, 900. Of thi.
sum sl1S, 100000 belongs to the Cath
olic church.
p9" A 81, 200 farm in Tennessee, ha!
been paid for wholly in hens eggs
the installments being remitted daily
sometimes at the rate of three cents {
dozen for the eggs delivered in fou
dozen lots.
sdr The oldest medical recipe is sale
by a French medical journal to b,
that of hair tonic for an Egyptian
queen. 1t is dated 400 B. c., and di
rects that dogs paws and asses hoof
be boiled with dates in oil.
p9 The cheapest freight carriage il
the world is on the Great Lakes, where
a ton of ore is carried q Thousand
miles for less than a dollar. One coult
not in reason expect a dollar to "gt
farther"
p1r Five women have just been en-
rolled for a three years course 0
study III a New York college for vete
rinary surgeons. Their speciality vii
be the treatment of dogs, cats, ant
other household pets.
B9@ A cheerful wife makes happy
home, because the emotion is contagi
Gus, and almost unconciously the
household is happy in response, be
cause eYery member of the family /;
cheerful by the general influence O
the wife and mother.
p~ England, Germany, France, Aus
tralia, Africa, Canada and less impor
tant countries, purchased over 81 1000,
OnO worth of bicycles from this coun
try during the year ended July l, 1897