Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-30
atjausiae Gatherings.
p@ In Germany the census is taken

We I1all VI yOuI "OlAy Vouoy 10 ouo
to your neglect yesterday.
H@ Religion is like medicine-it is
the overdose that neutralizes.
S~ Laplanders often skate in one
day a distance of $50 miles.
s@ An excellent thing to remember
is that every story has two sides.
a8 Simplicity of character is the
natural result of profound thought.
p@ Consider we'll what you can and
ought TO do, and be faithful in per-
forming it,.
p@ Newspapers are folded, wrapped
and addressed by machine recently
patented by man in California.
s@ Mckinley is another of the long
list of American presidents who were
not college graduates.
p@ A woman, the manager of one of
the leading insurance companies in
California, receives $4,000 year.
Hdy Sorosis has started war in be-
half of the birds but the fact prevails
that bird in the hat is worth two in
the bush.
SdT Seven miles an hour is the cam
els limit, nor can it maintain this rate
over two hours. Its usual speed is five
miles an hour.
s@ No man who is intoxicated, or
whose breath is even tainted with
strong drink, is allowed to take his
post on train on the Grand Trunk
railway.
B@ Fly Flannigan-"Will yer help a
redooced gentleman that's out at de
knees, lad ?" "How came you to be
out at the knees ?" "Prayin' fer work,
lady"
p6- Millions of men in India live,
marry and rear apparently happy
children upon an income which, even
when the wife works, is rarely above
so cents week.
@ A mountain lion shot in Clallam
county, Washington, weighed 25O
pounds, measured 10 feet from tip to
tip and had 4-foot tail and whis-
kers inches long.
p~ A drummer who has been in
south Florida for the past week, says
that the beef in that section is 80 tough
as to render it almost impossible to
stick fork in the gravy.
p6- The pipe smoked by the new
Shah of Persia on state occasions is set
with diamonds, rubies and emeralds OF
the costliest kind, and is stated TO be
worth as much as 100000.
m- A man wrote to a scientist that
he had an apple which he had preserv-
ed for So years, and on being request
ed to forward it for inspection, he re-
piled that he could not, as it was the
apple of his eye.
Idr St. Michael's church, London,
has had large telephone transmitter
placed in the pulpit, so that sermons
may be heard in number of hospitals
and other institutions.
D~ By the latest report of the comp
troller of the currency, there are 3,679
national banks. The number is con-
stantly changing, because of the clos
ing of old banks and the opening OF
new ones.
r& To prevent person from "acci.
dentally" taking the wrong coat and
hat upon leaving public place New
York man has invented coat and hat
hook which locks the articles fast, the
owner only being able to release them.
p@ "Willie," said the sweet boys
mamma, "you mustn't say darn, for
that simply means damn" "Then,
mamma" replied Willie, ~ suppose
you'll damn papa's stockings, as usual,
this afternoon"
p9- At the beginning of the present
century the Bible could be studied by
only one-fifth of the earth's popula-
ton. Now it is translated into lang
uages which make it accessible to nine
tenths of the worlds inhabitants.
p6- Apples, it is said, can be kept for
two years perfectly sound by wrap
ping them in a newspaper in such
manner as to exclude air. The SUBJ
scription must be paid in full on the
newspaper, or the dampness resulting
from the due will spoil the fruit.
s8- Recently Robert Lesperance of
Tecumseh, Ontario, was fined 81 and
costs for swearing. What made him
cuss most after he got home was the
fact that the costs were SO. Eleven
dollars for making remark about the
weather gives a man no chance to ex-
press his feelings.
s@- Among the Anglo-Saxon races
the consumption of tea is recorded as
one pound per head in America, while
England is credited with putting away
seven pounds per head Of her popula-
ton, and each individual in Australia
on an average gets away with II
pounds of tea every year.
p@- A bicycle race with a panther
was the exciting experience of an
English lady in Singapore one even
ing. When riding slowly homeward
along road outside of the town the
cyclist found that she was being quiet
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