Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-12-08
dt'ausiae Gatherings.

oil Dill grows StrouSeI.
! saF The best readers of signs are
surely the deaf and dumb.
a9 Advice to old bachelors who dye
their hair-"Keep it dark"
Rd. Lawsuits are too expensive for
most people to 60 courting in.
s9 Many young ladies have students
instead of pupils in their eyes.
pS- 1t is generally other people who
profit by our bitter experiences.
sY- The cowboy supplies the fuel
that warns the cattle range.
say Uneasy rests the number seven
foot which wears number five shoe.
pg Nothing can keep men from
having a good time in this world
but sin.
n6r The devil will he sure to stay
while, if be calls on you when you
are idle.
p6r When the office goes out to seek
the man he is generally within hailing
distance.
s9- It is better to deserve praise and
not get it, than to get praise and not
deserve it.
n6 Since 1870 Victoria, Australia,
has voted more than $25O,0OO for the
destruction of rabbits.
a6- The reports show there are on
the rolls $3.50 pensioners who draw
s5O ner month or over
s9. Caterpillars from 6 inches to l
foot long are common in the vicinity
of the Darling river, Australia.
p6~ In 1871 the enrolment of school
pupils in the United States was 1851.
5S2, and in 1896 it was IA, 37e,O7S.
a9~ 1t isn't the cost, it isn't even the
beauty of a gift that must be first con-
sidered it is the need of the recipient.
s@~ The muskrats of Minnesota are
this year building their houses high,
with thick walls. This indicates a
cold winter.
sH- A New York precious metal firm
says it's sales of gold and silver to jew
ellers this year have been the largest
in nearly 20 years.
p6- The best thing for those Amer
lean prisoners released from Cuban
dungeons to do is to register vow
never to 60 there again.
p6- "It doesn't seem right for the
wind to relieve us of our wealth of
leaves, when we have to root for liv-
ing" soliloquized the trees.
S9- Mr.. Moody has coined many a
sensible epigram. Who could say a
better thing than this: "Character is
what man is in the dark ?"
s6 On the planet Jupiter the nights
are only five hours long. This reduces
the business hours of cats to one-half
of what they are on the earth.
p6~ They say that women are great
match-makers and yet everybody
knows how long it takes them to match
so simple a thing as bit of ribbon.
H8~ "Would you be mean enough to
give a bad piece of meney to a blind
man ?" "Of course; he can pass it Oft
with a better conscience than l can"
a9. Russia is said to own 10000, 900
horses, or nearly one-half of the whole
number in existence. Most of them
belong to the peasants of that vast
empire.
R6> Zion's Herald cautions the min
listers against uncredited revivalists,
reiormers, and anti Catholic crusaders
who are seeking the privilege of speak
ing in the pulpits.
p8- America, rather than Palestine,
seems to be the promised land of the
Jews. They claim to number 1,OOO,-
900 in the United States, New York
alone having nearly $4,000.
p8- 81 say, do you think that Wig
gins is man to betrusted ?" "Trust-
ed? Yes, rather. Why, I'd trust him
with my life" eyes; but with any,
thing of value, I mean."
s9- 1t requires 100000 cows, and in
winter more, to give New York city
her daily supply of milk. This in
wolves half-million acres of pasturage
land and 250,000 of good meadow.
g6~ The Macon Telegraph says that
western cattlemen are buying up Geor-
gia cattle and shipping them to the
Indian Territory. 1t pays them better
than to raise the cattle themselves.
p9@ "Not a song-bird hat in stock"
is posted on frequent bulletins through
the millinery department of Marshal
Fields great Chicago store-public
acknowledgment of the victory of the
Audubon crusade.
s6H The appropriations for cleaning
the streets of some of the large cities
are as follows: Chicago, $672, 1000
New York, s2,999, 900; Boston, $780,
900; Paris, 81 400, 900; Berlin, 81 ,400,-
900; Vienna, ss50,000.
s6 English c!ergymen in poor par
ishes have to turn their hands to all
kinds of work. A Sutherland vicar,
who acted also as dentist for his par
ishioners, hauled out twenty-five thou
sand teeth during long ministry.
aas This advice may not be abso-
lutely new, but it is worth repeating
Never bear more than one kind of
trouble at a time. Some people bear
three kinds-all they have had, all
they have now, and all they expect to
have.
sae Sam Jones says that the women
are cutting off their dresses at the top
for ball rooms and are cutting them off
at the bottom for bicycles. Sam says
he is getting frightened, for he don't
knew when the women are going to
stop cutting.