Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-10
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QOllleSS III we arc plouo VI ~.
t6s' Mexico is the richest mineral
country in the world, not excepting
Peru.
s@ When people find out that it is
blessed to give, they never want to
stop.
p6s" Make the devil let 60 of the
children, and he will soon have to give
up the world.
s@' No man has any better religion
than that which he actually exhibits
in his daily life.
p6" The worst troubles lose their
keen edge when we insist on getting
some good out of them.
p@ Douglas Jerrold says Eve ate the
forbidden fruit, that she might have
the pleasure of dressing.
p@ Keep your conscience clear in
the sight of God, and you need not
fear what men may do to harm you.
p@ The boy who grows up to be a
cigarette holder isn't worth the tobac-
he consumes, asserts the Adams Free
man.
p@ Politics should be treated as any
injurious insect under chronological
rules and we'll sprayed with common
sense.
nay California has paid out over
SIS, 900, 900 for roads since her creation
as state. 1t costs her $4,000, 900 per
annum now.
p@ How full of blemishes our char
ter must be if it cannot be made to ap-
pear presentable without casting mud
upon every good name around us!
pSr The "year without summer"
was 1916. Ice half an inch thick
formed in New England and in the
Middle states in July and August.
s@r The family physician asked the
clergyman satirically how the patri-
arch came to live so long. because
they took no physic," said the minister.
s@ In France hospitals for infectious
diseases are furnished with telephones,
so that the sick may converse with
their friends without danger of COM
muncating disease.
p@ The cracking sound of freshly
ignited wood or coal is caused by the
air or liquid contained in the pores ex-
panding by heat and bursting the COW
ering in which it is confined.
p~ Belgium, like Italy, has adopted
the twenty-four hour method of mark
ing the time for railways, post and
telegraph and the old distinction OF
of a. m. and p. m. is to be abolished.
s@ "Won't you take this seat?"
said the gentleman in the car, rising
and lifting his hat. "No, thank you" "
said the girl with the skates over her
arm. "I've been skating and I'm tired
sitting down."
p4 Ruth Jones, a four-year-old girl
of South China, Me-, when told recent
ly by her mother that there would be
no tears in heaven, promptly rejoined
"Why, ma, don't they never cut up
onions there"
p% A young English girl, at a re.
ception given to a number of literary
lions, remarked to one of them, after
survey of the collection. "How very
odd that the better they write the
uglier they are !''
p@ A man was killed by a circular
saw, and in his obituary notice it was
stated that he twas good citizen, an
upright Christian, and an ardent pat
riot, but of limited information in re-
gard to circular saws"
n6- There is no evil which has not
its corresponding alleviation. For in
stance, if one cannot keep the wolf
from the door, he has the satisfaction
of knowing that the wolf will keep
from his door all but firm friends.
p9 A man who runs skunk farm
near Otisville, N. Y, says there is one
element of loss he is not compelled to
take into account in estimating his
profits, and that is any fear of loss
from thieves who come in the night or
daytime.
S@ Yeast-Do you believe there is
such a thing as hypnotist Grim
sonbeak What's that? "Why per-
son who can make you do something
you don't want to do" "Oh, yes; my
wife's one. She makes me bring up
the coal every night"
p~ French papers insist that the
roller-boat of M. Bazin, which is to
cross the ocean in three days, is likely
to be success, and that it will glide
over the water as smoothly as car
riage along a road. A trial trip on the
Thames is promised shortly.
pa3" A gentleman travelling in Persia
says he has been in a town where the
bells ring for prayer five times day,
and business men rush out of their
offices to the churches, leaving their
places of business alone and unlocked,
and nobody ever has thing stolen.
pa- In the year 1893 Great Britain
took 19,7O7 American horses. In 1894
the same purchaser received from the
United States 22,S66 horses, and the
succeeding year 34,092. During the
first nine months of the year 1896 there
had been shipped from the United
States to England "a, ,642 horses.
sdy' People who have superstition
about the unlucky number Is will not
get much comfort from the possession
of the American quarter, on which
there are 13 stars, Is letters in the
scroll which the eagle holds in its
claws, .13 feathers composing its wing,
13 feathers in its tail, 13 parallel lines
on the shield, 13 horizontal stripes, IL
arrowheads and 13 letters in the words
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