Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-02-02
dTaasiae Gatherinss.

getlc, sara EmerSOn.
% There is no rest for the wicked.
The righteous worry them so.
nag The man who feels certain that
he will not succeed is seldom mis-.
taken.
p8 In the polar regions the seas
contain less salt than those near the
equator.
nag New rules for admission to the
bar in Ohio require three full years of
study.
p6 1t is said that nearly 81, 900 per-
sons are employed in cycle factories in
Great Britain.
R6r In China books are read back
ward, and the footnotes are made on
the top of the page.
p@ Make your good resolutions once
a day, instead of once year, and you
won't break so many at a time.
pdr 1t is one thing to have house
to live in, and quite another thing to
have home to live in.
p@ The rush for Klondike is begin
ming, although gold hunters are warn
ed that it is much too early.
p4- II is stated that 80 Christian ma
tive girls are being educated as doctors
in the medical schools in India.
s@- Now we know what is meant by
the term "open secret" 1t has refer
ence to a private session of the United
States senate.
p4- Berlin has female commercial
travellers who 60 their rounds on tri-
cycles, to which are attached their
boxes of samples.
p8- Talk about the New England
blue laws! A Tennessee youth is Ian
gushing in Jail for waving his hand
kerchief at girl.
sa| The payment of poll tax is not
a prerequisite of suffrage in Norway,
but by recent legislation vaccination
is. No virus, no vote.
pd- "Did you call Gunter lazy
donkey ?" "Oh, not so directly as
that. told him it was nearly time
be was getting into harness again."
Id Birds of prey are able to look at
the sun without being dazzled, because
there is a membrane under their eye
lids which they can pull down at will.
p6 "Johnson wants to borrow some
money of me. Do you know anything
about him ?" ~ know him as well as
do you. I wouldn't let him have a
cent"
H@ Under no circumstances leave
horse united. 1t may be entirely safe
SO times; then the hundredth time
you'll wish you hadn't, and wish very
hard.
D~ Hardly per cent. of the Ger
mans who emigrate to this country are
illiterate. The Germans ought to
welcome the educational test for i'm
migrants.
p~ An exchange remarks that no
man can afford to make fool of him
self. Our cotemparary forgets, how
ever, that some men are utterly reck-
less of expense.
R@ A reporter of a California free
fight says: "Colonel Bagges was shot
once in the left side, once in the right
shoulder, and once in the drinking
saloon adjacent"
B8 A great many articles Of daily
use in a well-regulated family will at
times get misplaced and lost, but some
how people always manage to keep SO
cards together.
p~ Austria, Hungary, France, Bel
GUM, Germany, Great Britain, Greece,
Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Norway and
Switzerland own all the telegraph lines
in their respective territory.
D9 Great Britain is said to have
spent more than $2O,OOO,0OO on i'm
ported eggs and poultry last year,
while France, during the same period,
exported S70,000,000 worth.
p9 1t is far more profitable to know
your own business than to know that
of your neighbor. The man who thor
oughly knows his own business has no
time to nose into his neighbors.
p@ A s1O,OOO,OOO railroad to Bulu-
wayo, the almost inaccessible capital
of Rhodesia in South Africa, has been
completed, linking the town of over
5000 people to Cape Town, l $50 miles
distant.
p6 A good cow will make more
pounds of human food in a year than
a steer will make in lifetime, and
you have the cow left over for another
year, and the same program can be re-
peated.
r9 Gold was known much earlier
than silver, and was at first the cheap
er of the two metals; but the price Of
silver was lowered by the discovery of
silver mines in Silesia, in Spain, and
in Laurium.
s@ Ex.President Cleveland has
bought an S5.acre farm, and will es-
tablish game preserve. And yet
people say there is no occupation in
which an ex-president can appropri-
ately engage.
s@ 1t is estimated that if a man
lives to 70 years he passes at least "a
years in sleep. So, you see, a man is
u pretty good sort of fellow one-third
of the time, bad as he may be the re-
naming two-thirds. Let us charita-
BILE.
n9~ The New York and Queens
County Electric railroad has just for
bidden its motormen even to live in
buildings where liquor is sold. This
goes far beyond anV compulsion ever