Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-10
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most people would rather De excused
from attending it.
ssF There is one kind of canned
goods that goes off quicker than any
other-gunpowder.
R6Se When a man considers himself
as zone in a thousand" he naturally
regards others as ciphers.
sa- With a single blow of his insig-
nificant tail an elephant can knock
down the strongest man.
R6- The inhabitants of the United
States consume more than half the
quinine produced in the world.
s6- A tender heart hurts occasion
ally; but nobody who has tried one
will exchange it for the other kind.
s6r Let us remember that peace as
well as charity begins at home, and
try to keep back the unkind word and
the angry look.
sar China imported $4,000, 900 square
feet of American lumber last year,
most of it from the states of Oregon
and Washington.
p6y The bill establishing the gold
currency standard in Japan only
awaits the signature of the emperor in
order to become law.
B65e The people of the United States
smoke one hundred and fifteen thou
sand tons of tobacco year, to say
nothing of cigarettes.
p9- Not a single ship bearing the
United States flag passed through the
Suez canal last year, according to the
report of the consul at Cairo.
pa5- A man living in Herman, Mo-,
ordered a either from Europe, and
when it arrived he found that the in
strunent had been made in his own
state.
ga 1t is calculated that the Missis-
sippi annually deposits into the Gulf
of Mexico sufficient mud to cover q
square mile of surface to a height OF
240 feet.
sdr "Bloomers may be all right to
strike matches on" says an astute
New Yorker, "but the girls will find
they are mighty poor things to make
matches in"
ady Every boy could tell some
mighty mean tales on good little boy
next door, whom his mother holds up
for a pattern, if it wasn't for impli.
eating himself.
B6 Spain has more sunshine than
any other country in Europe. The
yearly average in Spain is 5000 hours
that of Italy, 23O0; Germany, 100
England, 14O0.
pd5- There's one thing Fogg says he
can't understand, and that is how
money should be so scarce when al
most everybody is making more or
less of it all the time.
Bd Insects are for their size the
strongest members of the animal crea-
ton. Many beetles can lift weight
equal to more than five hundred times
that of their own bodies.
aGF If men were as Jealous for the
Christian religion as they are for par.
tisan politics, Jesus, the Prince oi
Peace, would soon become practically
the ruler of this country.
Bg Although the salary of the king
of Greece is four times greater than
that of the president of the United
States, it is said to be smaller than
that of any other European monarch
s6g An Italian peddler from whom a
New York policeman demanded a Ii
cense showed confidently certificate
of discharge fron Sing Sing prison,
which he said he bought, believing ii
was license.
neg A Missouri mother has hit upon
an excellent plan for getting her
daughters home at satisfactory hours
in the night. She requires the last
one in to arise first and prepare the
family breakfast.
H@ A coffee bean is now made oi
-four, and the imitation is so perfect as
to deceive the eye of even expert cof-
fee dealers. Of course the flavor ex.
poses the fraud; but it is said that i'm
mense quantities are sold.
sfS The cheapest summer resorts are
in the mountains of Japan. There
are mineral springs there to which
peasants bring tteir own bedding and
rice, paying only three cents a day
for lodging and use of the water.
B9 "You told me last week that
you would try to raise my salary
said Briggs. "Oh, yes" replied his
employer; "well, I did. raised it
after some trouble. Believe me, l had
a very hard time raising it this week" "
p9r The water of the River Tinto
in Spain, hardens and petrifes the
sand of its bed, and if stone. falls in
the stream and alights upon another
in q few months they unite and be-
come one stone. Fish cannot live in
its waters.
aBr An Oklahoma editor expresses
his thanks for a basket of oranges
thus: ave have received basket oi
oranges from our friend, Gus Bradley,
for which he will please accept our
compliments, some of which are near
ly six inches in diameter"
B@~ The ameer of Afghanistan has
become a victim of the cycling craze
but, as he is averse to using the energy
necessary to propel bicycle, a Lon
don firm has built him machine on
which he can ride in comfort, while
two attendants work the pedals.
saF The extreme of luxury has per-
haps been reached by the sultan OF
Morocco. He has a narrow gauge
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