Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-28
dTausiae Gatherings.
a@ Vermont gained but 1900 in
habitants from 1850 to 1890.

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! s9- Put good face upon everything,
unless you are so ugly that you can't.
p9- The Tartars take man by the
ear to invite him to eat or drink with
} them.
a6F A. learned writer asserts that, af'
ter all, energy quite as often drives OIL
disease as it brings it on.
BH- Fiji is the only British colony in
which the natives pay their taxes in
kind chiefly in cocoanuts.
p9 What is the difference between a
bill and pill? Ones hard to get up,
and the others hard to get down.
s@ Billings says, "There amt emmy
thing that will kompletely kure lazy
ness, but 1 have known second wife
to hurry it sum-"
sH In Mexico the school children
who have done best are allowed to
smoke cigars while pursuing their les
sons.
r6r The Brazilian government has a
standing offer of prize of s15O,OOO
for the discovery of sure remedy for
yellow fever.
s0- During the season $4,000 head
of cattle are boiled down into extract
of beef every week at Fray Bentos,
South America.
B@ II has been estimated that an oak
of average size, during the five months
it is in leaf every year, sucks from the
earth about 123 tons of water.
p8 Josh Billings say: "It is statis-
tical fact that the wicked work harder
tew reach hell than the righteous do
tew get TO heaven"
p9 "Not every man is made a fool
Of" remarked the observer of men
and things; "but every man has the
raw material in him."
pa" All birds when perched on trees
or bushes serve as weathercocks, as
they invariably arrange themselves
with their heads to the wind.
R1 TO matter how good he is to her,
woman will always have terrible
doubt whether her husband will meet
her in heaven, says the N. Y. Press.
pH- Sonny" said Uncle Eben, "don't
you nebber vase yoh time trying ter
define what happiness is. 1t kin be
anything fun million dollars down
to circus ticket"
pa- A small piece of cheese and an
electric wire form the latest rat trap.
The cheese is fixed to the wire, and
the instant the rat touches the cheese
he receives shock which kills him.
sdy- A person was boastirg that he
was from high family. eyes," said
a bystander, "I have seen some of the
family so high that their feet would
not touch the ground"
s8- Liberality toward children, az
cording to the view of some parents,
is allowing them to 60 skating in the
summer time and swimming in the
winter.
s~ "Pop, what is promptness ?"
"Promptness ?" Well, it is a bad
habit of always being on time, and
getting tired to death waiting for peo-
pie who are not"
sd5. If there were but one potato in
the world, a careful cultivator might
produce 10000, 100000 from it in ten
years, ard that would supply the world
with seed once more.
l.-p9 An inhabitant of Arendskerke,
in Holland, has notified to the munci-
pal registrar the birth of his 21st son,
all the others being alive and in the
enjoyment of good health.
a@ Clean out the feet of every horse
when the days work is done; brush
the necks and breasts thoroughly, and
if they are inclined to he at all tender
or sore, bathe with some cooling lotion.
H9- The Turkish court pianist re-
ceives $4,000 a year for his services,
but he is temporarily suspended every
time he plays tune the sultan does
not care to hear.
BGn In the Whitechapel England)
county court three witnesses in success
sion in one case could neither read nor
write. Three witnesses in the next
case we're named respectively Speller,
Reader and Wright.
Bd The expectation of frozen rab-
bits to London is reducing the numbers
noticeably in Australia, and promises
to put an end to the plague. About
$4,000 rabbits day are shipped from
:. Victoria alone.
e9" "'Tain't de white nor yet de
black folks what hab de most influence
in his world, but de yaller boys" said
old Aunt Chloe, as she jingled a few
gold coins that had come down from q
former generation.
H9 Advocates of government own
ershio of industries may get some
light from the match industry in
France, where it costs more to strike a
match ttan in any other civilized
country. The business is monopolized
by the government.
p6- The ameer of Afghanistan has
become victim to the cycling craze,
but, as he is averse to using the ener-
gy necessary to propel bicycle, he
has had built for him machine on
which he can ride in comfort, while
two attendants work the pedals.
n6- The smallest warrant ever issued
by the treasury department is held by
President Cleveland. 1t calls for one
cent, and was issued to cover a bal
ance due on his salary for the month
of June, 1895. The warrant has never
been cashed, and will probably be pre-
served by the ex-president as a Curl