Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-23
ae'ausiae Gatherings.

R8H Persons who complain at grow
ing old would find fault at fruit ripen-
ing on the trees. Old age is the per-
fection of human life.
p6s Tommy-There's a girl at our
school, mamma, they call Postscript" :"
Do you know why2 "No, dear"
because her name is Adeline Moore. l"
p6H "They may say what they like
against him." said the convicted ones
defender; "but his heart is in the right
place." eyes," assented the other /;
"and so is the rest of him, for few
years."
p6- "The rooms are rather small, !"
said the prospective summer boarder.
"The advantage of that" said the ho-
tel keeper, complacently, "is that not
so much fresh air is required to keep
them COOL"
p@- An esteemed cotemporary says !:
"In the piece on our fourth page enti.
tied, we must not lag behind instead
of the line THAT moulds his dirty
shirt please read, That would its
duty shirk.' "
s6~ Neal Dow, now SO years of age,
has read the Bible through on an aver
age once in two years for the last 25
years. At the end of every book in
his Bible is recorded the date he com
pleted the reading.
s6- One of the most bene6cent laws
in France for the protection of infants
is that prohibiting the giving Of any
form of solid food to an infant less
than a year old, without prescription
from regular physician.
sag An extraordinary railroad trip
was recently made over the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy, from Chicago
to Denver. The distance is ,025 miles,
and the trip was made in 1,069 min
utes actual running time.
s4- The largest fruit farm in the
world is said to be at Olden, Mo. 1t
consists of $500 acres, on which are
more than 100,000 peach trees, 10000
apple trees, 1000 pear trees, and 40
acres of blackberries.
I@ He-They tell me your husband
is great artist. She-That he is.
He painted a picture of some onions
for the last exhibition, and they were
so natural that the committee put them
on the top line, so that the people
wouldn't smell them.
l@H An advertisement, praising the
virtues of a new make of infants
feeding. bottle, says: "When the baby
is done drinking, it must be unscrewed
ard put in a cold place under a tap.
If the baby does not thrive on fresh
milk, it should be boiled"
p6S- in Connecticut there is hardly a
farmer who does not raise tobacco.
Tobacco is grown in at least dozen
states. Pennsylvania leading in the
amount of production, while Ohio has
$4,000 acres given up to the culture,
and an average crop of 30,O00,000
pounds.
H4~ A man going to work on a BIZ
cycle and carrying hod over his
shoulder on the wheel was one of the
funny sights on Olneyville Square,
Providence, the other day; and it il
lustrates the extent to which the pop
ular use of the bicycle is reaching.
p6r Rice is being exported from In
dia in spite of the famine, according to
London Truth, $4,000 bags being
shipped in one week to Mauritius,
while the people Of the neighboring
districts were appealing to England
for food.
H9r Pupils in the St. Louis schools
are prohibited from using tobacco in
any form or cigarettes or having either
in their possession on the school
grounds or elsewhere during school
hours. The board of education will
suspend any pupil who disobeys this
rule.
H9- "It's surprising how impractical
some very learned men are" eyes !;
there's Professor Lingwist, for exam
pie. He spent one-half his life in ac-
quiring fuency in nine or ten different
languages, and then went and married
wife who never gives him chance
to get word in edgeways."
rG- In the course of the last fifty
years a considerable number of Eu-
ropean song birds have been turned
loose in the woods and gardens of the
New World; but, with rare excep-
tions, they all disappeared Before the
end of the second winter. Only four
out of the so English larks brought to
Maryland in 1879 were seen the next
spring; and no nightingale has as yet
managed to survive an American bliz-
zard.
s@ A peculiar slab of stone was
found in a coal mine at Webster City,
Ia, $50 feet below the surface. 1t is
about two feet long by one foot wide
and four inches thick. The surface is
artistically carved in diamond-shaped
squares, with the face of an old man
in each square. Of the faces all but
two are looking to the right. The
features of each are identical, bearing
a peculiar mark in the shape of dent
in the forehead.
p6S There is a crusty old bachelor,
of considerable wealth, in Kentucky.
"What will you do with your money
when you die ?" some one asked him,
recently. "Well," he replied, ~ am
going to sell everything for cash, and
get ali my money in paper. When 1
find that death is near, I'll pile this
paper money on the floor, stick a
match to it, and lie down on it. Then
the money and the house and I will