Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-09
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live like fools.
s6r Women are not permitted to b.
photographed in China.
pT Better be deceived now and ther
than eradicate sympathy.
s@ Over $4,000 Spanish soldiers ar
ill with tropical diseases in the hospi
tails at Havana.
S@ Princess Ii, wife of Viceroy L
Hung Chang, owns 1000 pairs of shoes
but cannot walk.
R6r The United States has $172, ,229,
S44 in gold in the treasury, with s37,
935, ,4S9 outstanding gold certificates.
s@ Don't find fault with the wealth
er; keep on good terms with the indi
vidual, and the weather will be o. K
p~ The tigers strength exceeds tha
of the lion. Five men can easily holt
down lion; but nine are required t
subdue tiger.
t~ Arizona has the greatest daily
change of temperature on the earth
surface. There is frequently chang'
of 800 in the IL hours.
Gag 1t has been proposed by citizens
of Portland, Ore, to build a bicy eli
path from that city to the base o
Mount Hood, distance of 81 miles.
s@ The joy of knowing that yol
are little by little surmounting the OBJ
stacles that have been in your way
pays for all the worry incident to the
process.
s% "My name," said gentleman
"is composed of seven letters; but
take the first two away, and there
will remain eight" His name wa:
Speight.
rag No man is beaten until he give!
up. To stop trying is the only defeat
Many a man owes success to the fac
that he never seemed to know wher
he had been beaten.
H@ An inventor proposes to scare
away rats, moles, etc., by placing abou
artificial figures of cats, made of plaster
or terra Gotta. and having eyes of
phosphorescent material.
p~ At the beginning of this century
most peculiar cholera remedy was in
use in Persia. 1t consisted of waddine
up leaf from the Koran and forcing
it down the patients throat.
p6 The largest building stones are
those used in the cyclopean walls o.
Baalbec, in Syria, some of which
measure 63 feet in length by 26 feet ir
breadth, and are of unknown depth.
H6 A French doctor says that per
sous who attain their 18th year with
out suffering from any serious disease
are likely-all things being equal-te
live until they are at least 73 years o.
age.
p6E On the state railways in Ger
many the cars are painted according
to the colors of the tickets of theil
respective classes. First class cars are
painted yellow, second class green and
third class white.
p6E Miss Hardick-Ethel can't be
after money. She has broken her en-
gagement with that wealthy plumber
Miss Fosdick-Don't be too sure. She
Tilted him for man who owns 81 bicy
Gle repairing shop.
s% An eminent physician, lately de-
ceased, said of the achievements o.
medical science in his day, "When
graduated I had dozen remedies fol
every disease; when I retired from
practice 1 had dozen diseases fol
every remedy"
H@ Round Robin is the designation
of a protest in writing, having the
subscribers names written in the form
of a circle, so that no name appears
first on the list. The custom is SAID
to have originated among the officers
of the French army.
Bd Of course we all love our neigh
Dor as ourselves but when our coal
bin is full and his empty, somehow
the news of an advance in coal does
not make us look half so glum as
when the conditions of the respective
coalbins are reversed.
B9 The Russians have a simple de-
vice which is said to be very effective
in checking runaway horses. A thin
cord with a running moose around the
neck of the horse is used, and when
the animal bolts the cord is pulled
The horse stops as soon as it feels the
pressure on the windpipe.
s@ "Benson, you know, went te
Africa, and there met his death.
"Poor fellow! But his body was
brought home and given a decent
burial, wasn't it ?" "Well, they
hanged the cannibal, and then brought
home the body and buried it,"
s@~ The duration of mans life should
not be estimated by his years, but by
what he has accomplished-by the uses
which he has made of time and oppor.
tunity. By inuring our mind and
body to exercise and activity, we
double the years of our existence.
B8 A primary teacher in Sunday
school took for a subject ''The Lord
loveth cheerful giver." She inquir'
ed if any one knew what it meant
when a little four-year-old boy said