Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-11
a'ausiae Gatherings.
p8 North Dakota is paying bounty
of so cents a bushel for grasshoppers.

beings, ifidjected into rabbits or dogs
causes death.
s6r Every year a layer of the ses
fourteen feet thick is taken up into th'
clouds.
B@" The advice to "improve you
opportunities" is hint that they art
not so good as they might be.
s6 Iowa milk and bntter product
amount to nearly $4,000, 900 year
from 1902, $50 milk COWS.
s@- Three things effect a man.
spirits--A dull day, an empty purse
and being in love.
e@ Since the shaft was finished II
1888, 1,4O9,9 persons have ascendet
the Washington monument.
H6- Under her new law, one must b'
aresident of New Jersey for seven days
before one can be married in that state
s6~ II costs eight dollars and fifty
seven cents to raise an acre OF whea
in South Dakota, which is less than il
any other state.
s6- Figuring it down to a nicety
about 80 7-10 per cent. of human en-
ergy is expended upon keeping warn
in cold weather and cold in hot.
p9 "Say, aren't those woolen clothes
warm this kind of a day ?" 81 dom
know I haven't asked them. If they
are like me, they are, though"
p% "If the people of God do not stant
for the Sabbath" says The Christian
Mirror, cit is doomed. With it 60 ou1
Christianity and our civilization"
p6- Greeble-Is that your baby
Crawdon-No, sir; the possession il
on the other side. He is not my baby
I'm his father.
pay A 13-year-old boy at Crown
Point, Ind, became violently insane
few days ago as the result of continued
indulgence in the cigarette habit.
p9~ The best blood purifiers are pure
air, outdoor exercise, fruit diet, ant
frequent baths, followed by friction o
the skin with hands or coarse towel.
p1 "The verb to love-" says wick
ed French writer, ''is an active verb
which runs until it sinks exhausted
into the easy chair of marriage"
p6 Farmers are paying more atten
tion to crops than pts!itics just now
and they and the whole country are tc
be congratulated upon the change.
s@ The purchasing power of money
in the days of the Roman emperor:
was about ten times what it is al
present.
s6r A novel device for controlling
tobacco consumption by users of the
weed is a tobacco box so controlled BY
a timelock that it can be opened al
certain predetermined intervals.
n6e The fruit crop of Missouri this
year is roughly estimated to be worth
2O,OOG,O0O. 1t is stated to be worth
more than the wheat crops of Illinois
and Missouri combined.
p4~ "Some genius in Birmingham
has invented a buttonless shirt. y
"Why, that's old. I've worn them
every since my wife learned to ride
bike"
B6r If we were always as particular
not to breathe foul air as we are not tc
drink dirty water, we should have 6
different race of beings, physically
from what we now have.
pGr The busy man suffers far less
from a. heated "spell' than the idle
man who has nothing to divert his
mind from thoughts regarding temper
ature.
Hdr Isn't it strange, waiter, that
find so many flies in my beer ?" "Well
no, sir, considering the time of year
If you were to find 'em at Christina:
it would be strange"
sa~ English society, according te
the London Star, has decided thai
the word "lady" is to be expungeo
from it's lexicon of polite conversation
and the good, old fashioned "woman'
is to take its place.
p6r NJthing goes so far in soothing
a horse that is terrified as kind, as
suring voice. Never use the whip tc
cure the horse of fright. Keep COO
yourself, and your horse will soon gain
confidence.
s@ A shrewd but unenlightened old
time school director used to say on ex
amining candidates for the post o.
teacher, awe all know that a, b, C, is
but we want to know why
they is vowels."
s@ One of the best bicycle stories
that have come to our notice is the
one where the rider purchased 8
to be attached to his ma
chine so that he could tell when he
was scorching.
s@ In Germany the bridal wreath is
usually formed of myrtle branches; in
and Italy of white roses
in Spain of red roses and plnks; IL
the United States, France and Eng
land of orange blossoms.
sda To understand the world is wiser
than it is to condemn it. To study the
world is better than it is to shun it
To use the world is nobler than tc
abuse it. To make the world better
lovel:sr and happier, is the nobles'
work Of man or of woman.
a6" When once filled in, Moslem
grave 5 never reopened on any ac'
count. To remove the faintest chance
of its being thus defled, cypress
tree is planted after every interment
so that the cemeteries resemble forest;
more than anything else.
a6 1t is proposed to build q steel
tower 2140 feet high to mark the birth