Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-31
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simultaneously.
p9- There are 4S different materials
used in constructing a piano, which
come from no fewer than Is countries
n8 Somebody says, "Don't argue
with fool" He was evidently a mo.
rose chap, and didn't like to be talked
to.
B6 The telephone which extends
over the longest route is that between
Boston and St. Louis, distance Of
IA, 900 miles.
s8 The St. Louis Post Dispatch has
discovered that the more the doctors
become experts the more they disa'
gree;
p@ Last year $4,000 immigrants
landed in the country, making total
of something over Is, 900, 900 that have
come since 1920.
B6. BARRIERS say that they can tell
which side a man habitually sleeps
on, because his mustache grows longer
on the other side.
nag Mamma-Where's papa? Flo
ra-He's down stairs. "What's he
doing?" "His bicycle is out of breaff
and he's giving it some more"
b~ Four things are grievously emp
ty: A head without brains, wit
without judgment, heart without
honesty. and a purse without money
s@ A man that would call every.
thing by its right name would hardly
pass through the streets without being
knocked down as a common enemy.
s8- eff you had half the nerve this
tooth has," said the dentist to the
quivering wretch in the chair, "you
could have this all over in about five
seconds"
s9 The tea consumed yearly in Lon.
don is 33,OOO,OOO pounds. The daily
consumption of tea is 10000 pounds
of coffee $4,000 pounds, and of cocoa
$4,000 pounds.
p@ Andrew Bair of War6eldsburg,
Md, is a vigorous and active man OF
S3 years. He has not eaten pound
of meat in all his life, his diet being
strictly vegetable.
nag Some one says that baptism is
no more than a bath, and the Lords
supper no more than a bite and a
sup, without repentances and soul
communion.
B4r In some of the cities of Europe
the cost of putting out fire is made
charge upon the property of the
person for whose benefit the fire de.
partment is called out.
p% "Sir," said DR.. Johnson to a
friend, commenting upon a widower
who remarked, though his welded life
had been unhappy, cit is the triumph
of hope over experience"
B@- A boy with a patch on his knee
can't be hired to 60 on an errand to
the next house, but he will follow a
band-wagon all over town and never
realize that he isn't dressed in broad
cloth.
p@ At sixteen different observato-
ries the astronomers are now busy
making maps of the stars, which re.
quire 10000 negatives to complete
them, and a number of years to do
the work in.
nay A generous swain in Chicago, af-
ter paying one dollar for marriage
license, manfully said, as he threw
down q second dollar, "There, give me
another license. want one for the
girl, too"
B9H "I tell you," said a rabid free
thinker, "the idea that there is God
never came into my head" "Ah
precisely like my dog. But there is
this difference-he don't 60 around
bowling about it."
p4 AS an agency in preventing dis
ease, sunlight is powerful. There is
no disinfectant that surpasses it for
cheapness and effectiveness. The sun
has disinfected the earth for ages, as
we'll as afforded light and heat.
S9r A travelling evangelist in the
west has an assistant stationed outside
his meeting places, and every time he
brings down fresh sinner he signals
to this man, who sends up sky rock
ct, though whether this is to notify
the Lord or the public is not stated.
p9 Let the children in our country
homes have reading which is good,
sound, entertaining and morally
healthful. Have the means of i'm
provement and contentment at home,
and then outside temptations to father
and sons will have less power.
R@ When food scorches in the ket-
tie, the latter seems ruined beyond
REDEEM ption, but a possible remedy is
to take the kettle at once from the fire
and set it in a pan of cold water.
This treatment, oddly enough, will
nine times out of ten remove the
burned taste entirely.
16 The farm is the place to rear a
good family. They are free from the
vices of the city, and have something
to do that tends to elevate and fit
them for the duties of life. With the
help Of machinery which we now have,
it is easy for one man to run farm
himself.
s6 When Calhoun was vice presi-
dent, and therefore presiding officer in
the senate, he would not permit one
senator to refer to a colleague as "my
friend from Virginia." or "the gentle
man from Massachusetts," He insis-
ted that the correct phrase was "the
senator from Virginia, or "the senator
from Massachusetts"
n~ Two sorts of Christians make
most of the trouble in church. They