Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-29
dt'ausiae Gathtrinas.

milk punch.
raS A watch has been invented that
runs As days.
pH You cannot fool God with a
pinch Of cloves.
p@ Every drunkard's wife knows
that there is devil.
s@~ The Kansas wheat crop is the
largest in the history of the state.
sa- A Topeka woman advertises to
trade her bicycle for baby carriage.
s9 Helena, Mont, with population
of only $4,000, contains 80 millionaires.
s9' Waiting to be whipped is the
most uninte esting period in boyhood.
a6r Stone rrow points and hatchets
have been ft Ind in every country in
the world.
p6- The total population of this
country is now estimated at seventy
five million.
s@r Many people do know not the de-
rivation of the word "fad." F A d
means for day.
s6S Philosophers tell us that nature
never errs. They certainly cannot
mean human nature.
Ha. When a man parts company
with his self-respect, he loses the best
friend that he ever had.
B9 Unhappy marriages occur be.
cause the wrong man everlastlngly pro-
poses at the right time.
s6- The man who gets up in this
world by putting another man down
loses more than he gains.
sS An industrious and virtuous edu'
cation of children is better inheri'
tance for them than great estate.
R@ His choice "What, in your opin-
ion, is the most pleasing decoration for
wheel ?" "a pretty woman"
s@ Deer have increased so in Yer
mont woods as to become troublesome
to farmers in the mountain sections.
a65. When a man refuses to indorse q
note for friend, he loses the friend.
When he consents, he loses his money.
s9r 1t is stated by insurance COM
panies that cycling is more dangerous
than travelling either by railway or by
ship.
B6- "Borgess has untold wealth"
"How do you know ?" 81 just saw
the tax assessor coming from his
house.
s6r The hardest people on earth for
an editor to please are those who Dor.
row the paper from some of his sub
scribers.
s9 The most extensive cemetery in
Europe is that at Rome, in which over
100000 human beings have been in
TERED.
p8- The heat in some gold mines is
50 intense that if ice be dropped into
them it would melt before reaching the
bottom.
s9r You can always tell a bachelor
by noticing whether he carries a baby
most like a lighted lamp or an old
overcoat.
ad- "My lord" said the foreman OF
an Irish jury, when giving in his ver-
dict, "we find the man who stole the
mare not guilty."
sg To a gathering of learned friends,
Adam Smith said, as he was dying, 81
believe we must adjourn this meeting
to another place."
pdr "Sometimes," says Uncle Eben,
"a man puts on long face and says
he is discouraged, when he's simply
too lazy to try again."
Gag One of the severest penalties ito
which criminals in Holland were in
ancient times condemned was to be
deprived of the use of salt.
Bd' IL is estimated that about $4,000
gold seekers are now on their way to
Alaska. It's hard road to travel, ,
with a rainbow end for many.
sas- "Tommy, don't you know it is
wicked to ride your bicycle on Sun
day ?" eyes, sir; that's the reason
I'm riding my sisters Wheel"
pd" Sincerity is speaking as we think,
believing as we pretend, acting as we
profess, performing as we promise,
and being as we appear to be.
B6% The University Of Calcutta is
said to be the largest educational cor
poration in the world. Every year it
examines over 10000 students.
BG Sectarianism is miserable, short
sighted prejudice. 1t makes you hate
your neighbor because he eats his oys-
ters roasted when you prefer them in
the shell.
n9~ The origin of the bicycle is now
traced back to the year 1871 in France,
when the Sieur Maillard presented to
the academy two rolling chairs propel'
led by pedals.
@ Queen Victoria reigns over one
continent, one hundred peninsulas,
FIVE hundred promontories, one thous-
and lakes, two thousand rivers, and
ten thousand islands.
p9" A patient who remained abso-
lutely unconscious for four and half
months in Germany, furnishes the
longest continued cataleptic sleep
known to science.
b4 Some one says that "a Christian
life cannot be inherited from good
parents, like a farm; you cannot hire
it in a minister, you cannot buy it
with charity, nor court it with per-
functory service"
B6- The talent Of success is nothing
more than doing what you can do
we'll. and doing we'll whatsoever YOU do