Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-05-04
dt'ausiae Gatherings.

world TO do is to do nothing.
pD" The man who is entirely satisfied
with himself is easily contented.
pSr Nearly three per cent. of the
deaths in France are from apoplexy.
sg" There are now in Japan 377
Christian churches, and 643 mission
aries.
sa@ 1t is estimated that there are
Is, 100000 dogs of all kinds IN the
United States.
sS- There are those who think time
is out of joint, because it cannot turn
and 90 backward.
n9@ "No, ma'am," said the grocer to
an applicant for credit, 81 wouldn't
even trust my own feelings"
H9- Ada-Jack says he wouldn't
marry the incest girl living" Dolly
Pshaw! As if I'd have him."
pY~ What state would you be re-
minded of if you were taken sick in an
iron boiler-maker's shop? III in noise.
Ga While analyzing and criticising
your neighbours character, it might be
we'll to find out what he thinks about
yours.
a6- The best way to discipline ones
heart against scandal, is to believe all
stories to be false which ought not to
he true.
aG~ The Ploughman gives the ad-
vice: "Never strike horse that is
pulling its best, even if the progress
be SLOW"
aey" There are in circulation in China
at the present time coins bearing the
names of emperors who lived 1000
years ago.
ssSa 1t would take 40 years for all the
water in the great lakes to pour over
Niagara at the rate of 100000 cubic
feet a second.
aa" Ten thousand of the greatest
faults in our neighbors are of less con-
sequence to us than one of the small
est in ourselves.
aHn The railroad laws of Switzerland
compel all railroads to allow at least
one holiday in every three weeks to
railroad employees.
p@r If ones hands perspire easily
when doing delicate work, they should
be bathed in a few drops of cologne
from time to time.
B9" The expressions "Hallelujah"
and "Amen" are said to have been in
troduced into Christian worship by st.
Jerome about A. D. 800.
eDr A trenchant French proverb
says: at is easy to eat the wedding
break fast; not so easy to eat the week
day dinners that come after"
s9r The largest family in the world
is that of the king of Siam. His ma
jesty has two official wives, So wives
of minor order, and 72 children.
sE A bicycle maker says that the
$50 and $75 wheels now on sale are
just as good as the 500 wheels made
| by the same manufacturers last year.
a6e Alphonse Karr: Some people
are always finding fault with nature
for putting thorns on roses. l always
thank her for having put roses on
thorns.
g9@ To feel the need of more religion
always means that God wants us to
have more. The devil never makes
any one hunger and thirst after right
eOusness.
gH A Quaker once hearing person
tell how much he felt for friend who
needed assistance, dryly observed:
Friend, hast thou felt in thy pocket
for him ?"
a9" Three hundred boxes of 200 or
auges each fill a car, and 90 carloads
are leaving southern California every
day now for the east. This is 5,4OO,-
600 oranges.
Ray twenty-five hundred acres Of
cedar timber are cut down every year
in order to make wood cases for lead
pencils, of which more than 1000 acres
are in Florida.
gAF People are commonly so en-
ployed in pointing out faults in those
before them as to forget that some one
behind may at the same time be des-
canting on their own.
a3% Fogg has noticed that the man
who wants to wade in blood somehow
manages to keep away from where the
blood is. But then this may be only
an extreme case Of self-denial.
pas" A pool room in the board of
trade building at Chicago, which is pa
tronized by women exclusively, was
raided recently, and 80 women who
were betting on the races were arres-
ted. Many of them were richly dress
ed, and two of them had babies in
their arms. They were all released
on bail.
B9" A rope 7 miles long and 4! inch
es in circumference, weighing nearly
60 tons, has just been made for use in
district subway in Glasgow, Scot
land. 1t is said to he the biggest rope
ever made for haulage purposes.
BsT A sure cure for pain in hollow
tooth is a mixture of powdered alum
and common salt, applied with lock
of cotton. A sensation of coldness
follows the application, after which the
pain gradually subsidies.
g9% An interesting statement is made
to the effect, that in case of war some
of the gunboats will be carried over
land from one port to another by train.
1t is claimed that this has been done
in some cases both in Russia and
France.