Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-03-09
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witnessed in Arizona during IA years.
aT- Potatoes planted must have
their eyes about them if they are to
come up.
p9~ In mending gloves, use fine cot
ton thread instead of silk, which is
apt to cut the kid.
aD" A pessimist. likes thing he
can't enjoy and an optimist enjoys a
thing he can't like.
a9- Justice is probably represented
as woman because it is something a
man is always after.
p6~ Professor Nothnagel, the Aus
trian court physician, traces the grip
back to the Ninth century.
s8H Every man knows best when he
plays the knave; his neighbors know
best when he plays the fool.
ay~ From the American aloe tree is
made thread, ropes, cables, paper,
clothing, sugar, and brandy.
H4- In proportion to its size, Eng
land has eight times as many miles OF
railways as the United States.
Gag The world consumes 3,OOO,O ,OOO,-
900 pounds of paper year, and it is
supplied by 4,500 paper mills.
pdT In certain parts of Russia peo-
pie who are hungry are forbidden by
law from being so indiscreet as to say
so.
a6- There is in Buffalo, one line OF
street cars on which a car crosses "a
railroad tracks in making one round
trip.
p1r The Japanese are to have full
citizenship rights in the United States
under the treaty to 60 into effect July
|, 1899.
a1- All the biscuit and cracker COM
panies in the country are under one
management, with capital of $780,
100000.
nag. English locomotives have neith-
er bells, headlights nor cowcathers.
Warning is given by the shrillest OF
whistles.
s1- The gauge of the Roman char
lots, 1000 years ago was 4 feet 81
inches-same as standard railroad
gauge of today.
B9- The Italians invented the term
influenza in the Seventeenth century,
and attributed the disease to the infu-
ence of certain planets.
B9r A Minneapolis man asked the
courts of that city to grant him an IN
junction restraining an Objectionable
man from counting his sister.
eHr Congress, which is the war-mak-
ing power, is keeping unusually quiet.
Goodness and deliberation are good
qualities in body charged with speak
ing the final word.
BH The combined yield Of gold and
silver in the United States last year
was but one-lhird the value of the
corn crop. We received Ssh ,OOO, 600
for corn exported.
H9 Thousands of patriotic men in
the United States are regretting that
they were named for Christopher Colum-
bus, and yet he is about the only
Spaniard that ever did anything for
America.
BEE Fogg says that in his courting
days he used 10 think that Samauth ha' S
mouth was. made only for kissing.
Since he was married he has found out
that that mouth is capable of other
things.
s6- In Vienna there is a club Of rich
men pledged to marry poor girls. II
a member marries rich girl he is fined
$4,000, the money being presented to
some worthy impecunious couple en-,
gagged to be married.
BB ~ see you advertising again for
runaway dog. This is the third
time in single MONTH" ayes, both
er it! Since my daughter has begun
taking music lessons l can't keep q
dog in the house,
BH Johnny-Where are you going
Tommy-Home. Don't you hear maw
calm me? "That's nothin'. She
called you two or three times before. "
ayes, but she's out at the preach tree
now cuttin' off an ultimatum."
s6r Silver that has been laid away
and thus become badly tarnished can
be cleaned quickest if the first appli-
cation of the whiting is moistened with
sweet oil before application. After
ward dry whiting can be used as
usual.
sd "My DEAR" says a fond New
Haven mother to her child, "why do
you not play with the little Jones
boy?" "Oh, he's horrid. He says
bad, naughty words, just like papa
does" Reform will begin at home in
that family.
B@ Husband--If you only had the
ability to cook as mother used to !
would be happy, dear. Wife--And if
you only had the ability to make
money enough to buy things to cook
as your father used to, l, too, would
be happy, dear.
Bag A Maryland fruit grower has
succeeded in raising crop of peaches
with skins as devoid of the annoying
fuzz as is an apple. Next year he pro-
poses to raise peaches with skin that
can be removed liked that of an Or
apge.-Farmer's Voice.
gH Twynn-I hear that Skidmore
has led the Widow Weeds to the altar.
Triplet- is what it is called for
politeness' sake but, from my post OF
observation, it looked as though the
widow were a neck ahead of him all
the way up the aisle.
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