Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-12-01
dtjausiae Gatherings.
aE Faith in God will never grow

EES Faltl In IOu Will ucSol Sio"
stronger by neglecting prayer.
@ Little outgoes spoil large incomes,
and small losses waste big profits.
RS- The law allowing divorce for in
compatibility has been aptly styled
'the cat-and-dog act"
H9" The re-enforcements going for
ward from Spain to Cuba are chiefly
waits and homeless boys.
s6- People who are addicted to tat
tie, gossip, and scandal are no better
than those they talk about.
sd- What is that which you cannot
hold 10 minutes, although it is "as
light as feather ?" Your breath.
p@- Beth, who saw the minister's
wig blow off, exclaimed, excitedly,
"Poor man his head is all uncorked. ="
s@- The colored people of the United
States maintain seven colleges, seven
teen academies, and fifty high schools.
aS- A wealthy gentleman of London
is daily whirled around the streets OF
the metropolis in carriage drawn by
four zebras.
p4~ A West Philadelphia man named
Button is the father of six young chill
dren, and he always speaks of them as
the "six-button kids"
nag AS the shadow of the sun IS
largest when his beams are lowest, so
we are always least when we make
ourselves the greatest.
s@- New Orleans estimates its loss
from the yellow fever epidemic at
s25 100000, and it is doubtful If this
covers all the incidental damages.
s@- "Kleptomania," the old colored
man explained, sis disease dat might
make a nigger steal punkins wen dey
was a watermelon patch in de same
lot."
nd. The Journal of Health comes to
the rescue with the assertion that
morning maps are good things, and that
it is wrong to get up before you feel
like it.
s@ There are two ways of getting
rich-one by adding to our posses
sions, the other by diminishing our
desires. The latter is much the easier
and reader.
a4- The active officer who recently
arrested a savage blow, has since
further distinguished himself by stop.
ping a flying report and catching a
violent cold.
pS~ Russia has the most rapidly in
creasing population of any country in
the world. The growth during the
last 100 years has been a fraction less
than 100000 annually.
t@ The hired man who will let the
hoe or plough rest, and is continually
found leaning on it, will do to retire
from the business. He will always be
found able to draw his salary.
s6- One of Mark Twain's latest cpl
grams is that it is more trouble to make
a maxim than it is to do right. Another
is keen enough: Man is the only ami
NAL that bushes. Or needs to.
a9 "The fact is," said Dawson, 81
married because I was lonely. To put
it tersely, I married for sympathy"
"Well, old man." replied his friend
Haley, "you certainly have mine."
s@ An acre was originally as much
as a yoke of oxen could plough in a
day, but in the Thirteenth century it
was made by law of its present size.
The word "acre" is from the Latin
ager, cultivated field.
s4. Sheet.iron is rolled so thin at
the Pittsburg iron mills that $4,000
sheets are required to make single
inch in thickness. Light shines as
readily through one of these sheets as
through ordinary tissue paper.
s9r 10 remove the smell of new
paint, lay a bunch of hay in the room
and sprinkle it with a little chloride
of lime, close the room for several
hours, and when it is again opened
the smell of paint will all be gone.
H6~ The wife of celebrated artist
was recently heard boasting that be
had painted a picture of some onions
for the exhibition, which were so nat
ural that the committee put them on
the top line so that people would't
smell them.
p9" Of the $50 stamps which have
been issued, the values have ranged
from one cent to $4,000. Five dollars
is the highest value among postage
stamps, but newspaper stamps reach
the 800 mark, while a revenue stamp
may represent $4,000.
s9- The Jewish Chronicle gives ia
BILE of over 1000 Jewish mechanics
now dwelling in Jerusalem, represent
ing 367 joiners, 290, tailors 2SS shoe
makers, 2O4 masons and stone-cutters,
with large assortment of workers in
metals, and 16 other useful trades.
B4 Green elm wood is about one
half water; beech, one-ffth; oak,
two.fifths. In burning cord of aver
age wood, about three-fourths of ton
of water must be converted into steam
to no purpose. Two cords of dry
wood will do the work of three cords
of green wood.
H@ The Methodist has good RENE
| DIV for most of life's irritations !:
"Speak we'll of everyone. If you can
not, then speak no i'll. Silence here is
golden. This does not mean that no
criticisms are permissible, but never
say of others what you would not be
willing to say to them or in their
presence"
s6 This is advice of the Chicago
Tribune to those intending to 60 to
the Kiondike: acquire habits of self
control and industry; be prepared to
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