Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-21
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learn to ride the Dlcycle.
s@ One hundred and twenty stokers
are required to feed the furnace of a
frstclass Atlantic steamer.
n@ Scientific men say that the hair
from the tail of the horse is the strong
est single animal threat known.
s8" The supreme court of Mississip-
pi has decided that juryman may be
witness at one and the same time.
p6 Many paupers have lived to be
100 years old, but there is no record OF
millionaire having attained that age.
sdr William c. Ussery, M. D., of St.
Louis, says that the best food for those
suffering from typhoid fever is the
banana.
s@ There are men who would not
clean their nails in public, but who
will shove a pewter quarter on to a
blind man.
nag A Spanish inventor renders from
grasshoppers fatty substance which
is declared to make the finest soap yet
produced.
saE In Japan man can hire horse,
keep two servants, and live on the fat
of the land, all for little over $50 a
month.
a6E A stick of timber 119 feet long
and 20 inches square, without knot
or blemish, was cut in mill at Hoqui-
am, Wash.
s4 A man six feet high standing on
level ground can only see objects on
the same level three and quarter
miles distant.
sI- Vegetables should always be put
in cold water half an hour before
using them it will freshen chem up
wonderfully.
sg Johnny-I do wish that were
grown. Mother-What for? john
ny-So I could get shave instead Of
having my face washed.
sd" "This milk tastes as if it was
watered," said Mr.. Bronson. II know
| it is, papa" said Tommy. 81 saw the
cow taking drink myself"
s@ A Boston millionaire, who recent
ly died, made provision that his wife
should receive each year exactly her
own weight in pure gold.
s6E English women as a rule are
taller than their American sisters, and
the Yankee ladies in their turn can
look down at the gentle sex in France.
H@ A man to be really successful
needs to have confidence in three per-
sons-a confidence in God, confidence
| in mankind and a confidence in him
self.
s6T The horse, when grazing, is guild
ded entirely by the nostrils in the
choice of proper food, and blind hor-
ses are never known to make mistakes
in their diet.
sdF At Plougastel, small town in
Brittany, all the weddings of the year
are celebrated on one day. In Febru-
ary last "a couples were married SIM
ultaneously.
S6T Although Japan has 5000 miles
of railway, there are still over 1,0O0,-
900 men in that country serving as
beasts of burden on such roads as the
country affords.
H6 Russia has the most rapidly in
creasing population of any country in
the world. The growth during the
last 100 years has been a fraction less
than 10000 annually.
s~ Queen Victoria's living descend
ants now number 70. Of her 9 chill
dren, all but 2 survive; of her 40
grandchildren, all but Z; and of her
80 great-grandchildren, all are living.
p6" Misconstrued "Say, paw, was
old Captain Blossom ever pirate? ?"
"No, Willie; he was only sports
man." "Well, I heard him say he got
any with ii schooners and never got
shot,"
HaT 1t is vain to stick your finger in
the water, and pulling it out, look for
hole; and equally vain to suppose
that, however large a space you oc-
cupy, the world will miss you when
you die.
RdF Says the Somerville Journal ::
Marriage is not always happy when
genius marries genius-unless the fem
mime genius is for keeping the house
in order and making digestible bread
and 6aky rhubarb pies.
Bay When a boy walks with girl
as though he were afraid someone
would see him, the girl is his sister.
If he walks so close to her as to near
ly crowd her against the fence, she is
the sister of some one else.
Hd- An illustration of the maxim,
"No pay, no PREACH" was afforded in
a western village, where a clergyman
took his teat with the congregation,
and refused to enter the pulpit until
his salary was paid.
adE The really great American tree
of today is the big tree at Tule, in
Mexico, in the state of Oaxaca. That
tree, cypress, still in full vigor and
active growth, is 154 feet in circum-
ference.
s@" "I didn't know your folks took
The Howler, Johnnie" ayes, ma'am,
we've been taking it ever since the
Poolers moved away" "Did you SUBJ
scribe for it then" "No, ma'am the
Poolers forgot to stop it,"
b6 We have ever found that black
smiths are more or less given to vice.
Carpenters, for the most part, speak
plainly, but will chisel when they can
get chance. Not unfrequently they
are bores, and often annoy one with
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