Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-10
atjausiae Gatherings.

sB- 1t doesn't take many pints Of
whisky to make peck of trouble.
p@r 1t is beauty's privilege to kill
time, and times privilege to kill
beauty.
p% A mournful fact-It is difficult
to make the pot boil with the fire OF
genius.
p@ When people are crazy to marry
they attach no consequence to conse
quences.
b6e The muscles which close the
hand are more powerful than those
which open it.
s@r There are still 5O,000,000 square
miles of the earth's surface that have
not been explored.
p@ A contemporary says lawyers
are noted for losing their patience
How about doctors?
sosr Happiness consists not in having
vast rich possessions, but being fitted
to enjoy what we have.
nag To be able to sit on the fence is
political talent. To know just when
to get off is genius.
s@ A sound discretion is not &c
much indicated by never making 9
mistake, as by never repeating it.
s@- Not one unmarried woman in 8
hundred tells the truth when she is
asked why she never married.
s6 "Here is another idle shattered
said the young man whose father in
formed him that he must 90 to work
b6r 1t takes a fraction less than three
seconds for message to 20 from one
end of the Atlantic cable to the other
Ddr The man who can't keep up with
the procession in this world mustn't
expect to enjoy the music of the band
s@ Imperfect teeth are a sure sign
of civilization. Perfect teeth are
found, as rule, only among savages.
s@ "Why did Joseph's brethren cast
him into the pit ?" because they
didn't want him in the family circle u
Ddr 1t is easier to keep cow from
shrinking than to restore the yield
after it has once been allowed tc
lessen.
par The slippery elm contains in its
inner bark a great quantity of muci-
lage, which gives it its peculiar prop
erty and name.
s@ An American robin was recently
found near Manchester, England
British naturalists are wondering how
it crossed the ocean.
say A man with a satin-lined over.
coat is just as anxious to let people
know that fact as is the woman who
wears rustling taffeta skirt.
p6r "That is curious-looking cane
colonel. Is it a memento of the war ?'
eyes. It was made from the log
occupied during the battle of Lookout
Mountain"
adP The total taxable property Of
the state of Massachusetts, is So, ,269,'
352. .253, of which the real estate is
81 1854, 1884, LOG, and the personal ST.
304, ,51s,147.
R4r Greek and Roman doors always
opened outward, and when man was
passing out of house he knocked or
the door, so as not to open it in the
face of a passerby.
p6r The Bank of France has a cam
era so trained that the picture of any
suspicious visitor may be secured with
out the suspected individual knowing
that he has been caught.
n6r Efforts to throw a silver dollar
down a new gas we'll at Anderson
Ind, proved unavailing. Although
the coin was sent down sideways, the
gas threw it out every time.
r4 A benevolent man at Charles
City, Ia, has established "home" fol
tramps, where they may rest anG eat
They have no wood to chop, no stock
to feed and no one to support.
pdr A Spanish paper says that the
queen of Portugal recently amused
herself by taking X-ray photographs o.
the court ladies and was so Mortified al
the sight of the deformed skeletons
that the corset is now tabooed in court
circles.
s9~ The bill before the Georgia Leg
islature for the protection of the pos
sum failed because powerful opposi'
ton took the ground that the 'possum
which is very fond of "yellow legged
Chickens" is not so worthy of protec
tion as the chicken.
p8- No kissing ever occurs in Japan
except between husband and wife
not even between a mother and child
no shaking of hands in salutation. i
one were to offer kiss to a japanese
maiden, she would probably think she
were going to be bitten.
s9r Mrs. Nansen, wife of the famous
Arctic explorer, is the owner of a re.
markable carrier pigeon, which, after
being away from its home for nearly
two years, winged it's way back over
thousand miles of frozen waste and
vet another thousand of ocean and
frost and plain. Under its shining
white wing it brought a note from Nan.
sen, telling his wife that he was well
and that the expedition was doing
finely.
s4 The consular reports made to
the state department have disclosed
one interesting fact recently. That is
that the most expensive manufactured
product in the world is the charcoal
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