Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-16
dfJausiae Gatherings.

Exchange cost Sl1, ,OUO eacn.
p4 A million tons of ice are expect
ed this year from the Kennebec river
alone.
p@ To be able to say no at the right
time is better than to be able to speak
half dozen languages.
t@ A clever Partisan has invented a
machine which can split one human
hair lengthwise into 80 strips.
p6s- President Cleveland will be 60
years old two weeks after the expira-
ton of his present term of Office.
a6 NJ. Nobel, the inventor of dyna-
mite, who has just died, was a singu-
larly gentle and mild-mannered man.
b6 California now has over $4,000
acres of almond orchards, representing
an investment of more than $40, 0,OO0,-
900.
s8- A clock keeps its hands before
its face, probably because it is ashamed
of the cowardly way in which time
flies.
p@ The cigarette fend smokes to
kill time, but usually discovers that
time can stand the racket longer than
he can.
l6F Don't try to get rich all at once.
ANY one can be sure of competency
who has sense enough to keep what
he earns.
s@- In breach of promise case the
lover was convicted of writing, "Mi
hart beets only for the, Mi darling
hunney."
p@ Save in the Ottoman Empire, Per-
sia, Arabia, Siam, China and the interi-
or of African countries, slavery is now
extinct.
p@- In Melbourne woman gets two
pence half penny for making shirt,
while Chinaman gets five pence for
washing it.
p6- In the Pabst brewery at Milwua-
kee is machine which corks, wires,
and caps $4,000 bottles per day au-
tomatically.
p@- A strong microscope shows the
single hairs of the head to be like
coarse, round rasp, but with teeth e1-
tremely y irregular and jagged.
@ The lowest temperature ever re.
corded was on December 80, 1871, by
Professor Gorochon, at Werchojausk,
Siberia, 81 degrees below zero.
-mT According to college statistics,
Girard college, Philadelphia, is the
richest college in this country, having
over s11, ,250,O 900 of endowment.
p6- The speculative astronomers are
now arguing that the moon is in the
shape of a plumb bob, and that the
large end is always toward the earth.
p4- Only 70 years have elapsed since
the first railway in the world was fin
ished. During that comparatively
brief period 100000 miles have been
constructed.
p4- In the last 20 years the southern
states have expended $S,000,000 for
Negro schools. Nearly every dollar
of this vast sum was furnished by the
white people.
s9r Steel pens are destroyed by cor.
rosion from acid in the ink. If nail
or some old steel pens are put in the
ink the acid will exhaust itself on
them, and the pens in use will not cor
rode.
s9 A New York clergyman who
recently conducted Sunday morning
service on Blackwell's Island learned
that there are at present fifteen COL
lege graduates wearing the "stripes" in
that penitentiary.
s9 And still people ask if the year
1900 will be leap year! There are a
great many folks in this country, and
| it takes a deal of time to tell the
whole of them that there won't be
another leap year until 1904.
BD All experience teaches US that
we become that which we make our
selves. We strive against the inclina-
ton to do wrong, we strive for the in
clination to do right, and little by lit
tie we become that for which we strive.
Every days effort makes the struggle
easier.
s@- At some of the Pennsylvania
mines coal is selling for IS and 60 cents
ton, and the miners are paid 70
cents. The owners of the mines appa-
rently lose money on each ton of coal
taken out, but as many of them are
interested in the railroads which carry
the coal to market, they probably
more than make good the loss.
pd" A Chicago clerk recently threw
book agent forcibly out of his office,
after refusing to take the mans card in
to his employer and was justified by
the Judge before whom he was tried for
assault, who established as Chicago
law the theory that such forcible meas
ures in dealing with book agents were
justifable.
B9" 1t was said not long ago that the
United States government was asked
to appropriate 81, 100000 for the sup
preston of the Russian thistle in the
northwest. Now a South Dakota mill
owner has offered $3.50 a ton for all
the thistles which may be delivered at
his factory. He says that it is nearly