Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-30
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would enSue IN hVe hours.
s6. An English potato merchant Of
fers free medical attendance and med
icine to all customers who buy his po-
tatoes.
H6T So severe is the climate of South
America upon iron, that before ties
have shown signs of decay, the Hanges
of the rails will be nearly eaten Oft
by rust.
s9" A giant sewing machine has
been finished at Leeds, England. The
machine, which is to be used for at.
taching cotton betting, weighs five and
a quarter tons.
aG- 1t is something past finding out
that boy who will 60 in swimming a
dozen times a day makes such terri
BILE bother when he has only his face
and hands washed.
p9- A bride in Montreal appeared at
the altar with her pet canary fastened
to her shoulder by a golden chain.
The bird enlivened the marriage cere-
mony with song.
n@ A widower married his dead
wife's sister. A friend who has been
off on long visit returns, and meet
ing him, asks who he is mourning for.
"For--for-my sister-in-law."
s6 Ninety-nine men out of every
100 believe in their hearts that day
of judgment will come; and SO OF
them secretly believe that somehow
they will be overlooked in the jam.
.sg Gazooks-It seems to me that
the wheelmen of the world ought to
adopt motto. Zounds-Well, they
eouid't do better than adopt the saying
already in common use: "1t's a good
thing. Push it along"
p9 Visitor Gn Washington)-Isn't it
unusually dark this morning? Demo-
cratic Congressman with much fero-
city)-Yes. The sun is rising very
reluctantly. 1t is afraid Speaker Reed
won't recognize it
p6 A carping spirit rarely goes with
working spirit. 1t is easier to find
fault with what some one else does,
than it is to do something ones self !;
hence a man who enjoys doing the
easier thing, is disinclined to do the
harder one.
s4 All Hohenzollern princes are
baptized with water from the Jordan.
A great porcelain jug of this water is
kept in the shop of the castle apothe-
cary, and after every baptism the water
left in the font is carefully returned to
this receptacle.
s@ Ada Byrd, the girl of IA, who
recently eloped with and was married
to the young son of Governor Atkin-
son, of Georgia, only followed the ex-
ample of her forbears. Her mother
married at 13, while her maternal
grandmother married even younger.
p9- A poor Irishman on his death
bed was consoled by friend by the
commonplace reflection that "we must
all die once" "Why, dear now 7"
cried the sick man, "and isn't it that
what vexes me? If could die half
a dozen times, 1 would not mind it for
this wanst."
s6- A medical journal has made
some careful Investigations among the
COLLEGES of New England, which ena-
bled it to state that students who do
not use tobacco gain weight, height
and eirth of chest from 10 to "a per
cent. faster than those who chew or
smoke.
r@ A most peculiar case has recent
ly come up in North Dakota court.
Some time ago man was tried for a
crime. The jury found that he was
guilty, and because he had sworn he
was not guilty the judge held him un-
der 81 900 to answer to the charge of
perjury.
p6F Every man should always write
as plainly as he can. Once upon a
time a young man wrote to a girl !:
"Your loveliness has inspired me to
ask you to become my wife" She
read it loneliness" and got so ever.
lasting mad that she refused him by
return mail.
tag Mrs. Jones was telling Mrs.
Smith that her husband intended CIV
ing her an insurance policy. "Oh,
that's nothing" replied Mrs. Smith.
"My husband is going to give me a
81 900 bond, and he has cut all the
coupons off so that l won't have any
trouble with it,"
s6 Of all the athletic exercises,
with perhaps the single exception of
football, the very best is digging, says
doctor. Every muscle, vein, artery,
and nerve in the body is worked in
the process. There is no aid to diges-
ton, no recipe for a good nights sleep,
to match an hour at honest digging
once or twice day.
a@ A palace of silver is to be the
most imposing feature of the Omaha
Trans-Mississippi Exposition. The
building is to be 400 feet square, sur.
mounted with mammoth ornamental
towers, and the entire structure will
be covered with rolled silver. Over
100000 square feet of external sur
face will covered by the precious metal.
BHa For those who believe in the
fatality of the number 13, the Ameri-
can uuarter-dollar is about the most
unlucky article they can carry Oh their
persons. On this are 13 stars 13
letters in the scroll which the eagle
holds in it's claws; 13 feathers COM
pose its wing, 13 feathers are in its
tail there are 13 parallel lines on the
shield, 13 horizontal stripes, 13 arrow
handr ond 10 lattars in the words