Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-02-23
atjausiae 6atherings.
p8 California is beating Florida out

refuses to entertain an OPINION.
pB- An estimate comes from Madrid
that the Cuban war in three years has
cost s2sO,OOO,OOO.
D8- 1t is rather strange that it is
usually the unattractive woman who
has remained single from choice.
s6- There are both times and places
when clearly two is company and three
crowd; for example, on tandem.
p9 "Why men drink is what stag
gers u.s." says woman's journal.
What men drink is what staggers them.
s4- A cobweb spun across an open
doorway is surer sign that nobody
has entered lately than an iron-bolted
gate.
p8- The Japs are up-to-date in new
ideas, and 5000 of them are prepar-
ing to start for the Klondike next
month.
p8 She-Do you think that Adam
really loved Eve? He-Certainiy.
You see, there were no other women
around
p4- A little girl four years old says
she knows what drawing is: "You
just think something and then run a
line around your think"
p@- If you engage in wheat deal,
aud rake in the profits, call it legiti-
mate. If you get bitten, say it's gamo-
En.r luayS he consistent
s6- 1t is rather paradoxical, but true
nevertheless, that it is the persons who
make the most trouble for themselves
who are always borrowing it.
p4r Courting is a natural blessing:
1t teaches young people to speak mild
ly, especially if the old folks are in the
next room with the door open.
p6- Much charity which begins at
home is too feeble to get out of doors,
and much that begins out of doors
never gets into the home circle.
p6r The political atmosphere at Mad
rid is said to be full of electricity.
The only question now is as to the
direction in which the sparks will fiy.
B9- Coins of low denominations cir
culate very rapidly thus it is calcu-
lated that every penny in circulation
changes hands a dozen times week.
s9- "My hair is getting quite gray,
and will remain so as long as l live."
"Well, you know, dear, you can al
ways make it remain blonde as long as
you dye"
p8- Germany owns over 100000
square miles in Africa and islands Of
the Pacific, but in ten years only 2,So9
Germans went to these colonies, while
S95 ,92O came to the United States.
p8- frankie said his new boots
suueaked very bad. When asked
what the reason of it was, he replied
that he did not know, unless it was
"the expression of two burdened
soles."
n@- Judge Willhouse, of Kansas, is
called the Apple King in those parts.
His orchards cover 1880 acres, with
over 100000 apple trees. In l3 years
he has harvested 100000 bushels of
apples.
pD- "Tbis is not such an unjust
world, after all, when you come to
think about it, said the old-young
man. "Of course the rich people have
ice in summer, but don't the poor get
it in winter ?"
p4- Dr.. Boyd was once asked why it
was that he consented to the marriage
of his daughter to a Presbyterian.
"Well," be replied, "as far as l have
been able to discover, Cupid never
studied theology"
p4- The guardians of the poorhouse
in Oldham, England, recently discon-
tiuued the daily allowance of half a
pint of beer to each inmate, where
upon most of them went on strike,
leaving the institution.
sG. Municipal councils in France are
having their proceedings reported by
phonograph. This system of perpet-
uation never will be popular in the
United States where people are anx-
ious to forget such incidents as soon as
possible.
a4. Japan has under construction
four immense battleships, ten large
cruisers and twenty-three torpedo
boats, which will make her navy the
third largest in the world. The Japa-
nese fleets will have something to say
about future affairs on the Pacific.
R9- There were ISL locomotives
built in the United States in 1897,
though it was not the best possible
year for the business. Of these, 225
were built on orders from foreign coun-
tries. Over 500 locomotives came
from one Philadelphia establishment.
s@- Virginia has a law forbidding
the sale of Intoxicating liquors to stu
dents in the State university, "and all
other institutions of learning" A bill
has Just been overwhelmingly defeat
ed in the senate, the design of which
was to repeal the vital points of this
law.
sGH oI can't see how failed" said
the ex. travelling man who tried to run
hotel. 81 thought I had been on the
road long enough to know just what
the travelling public would want"
"It isn't so much a question of what
they want" his lawyer explained, "as
what they will stand"
a9~ The aormal peanut cropis t,0OO,-
600 bushels, and Americans are so fond
of the nut that they spend upon it
$40, 1000 year. Chemists say the pea