Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-04-27
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the handle that fits them all.
ga Gods bread is always sweeter
than the devils plum pudding.
p9 Nearly $4,000 men desert from
the German army every 12 months.
p9~ What is done cannot be undone,
especially if it is hard-boiled egg.
a9r 1t is right to be contented with
what we have, but never with what
we are.
pT- Of the AZ largest cities in Japan,
ranging in population from l 1,2SO,OOO
to $4,000, "a have electric lighting sys-
TENS.
r@% The microscopists say that a
mosquito has % teeth in the end of its
bill, IL above and the same number
below.
nag The average man will never hes
itate to take ten cents worth of time
looking for five cents worth of lost
money.
s9~ Put good man in any commu-
nity and his life will make his neigh
bors feel that they ought to live better
than they do.
p9 Most of the men in the islands
of southwestern Japan lead lives Of
idleuess, and are cheerfully supported
by the women.
eG In California peach trees are
successfully grated with rosebuds,
thus producing groves of red, white
and pink roses.
par All kinds of antiquities are man.
ufactured in Egypt or elsewhere for
the benefit of pilgrims. Even num-
mics, it is said, are now made to order.
gds" The average speed of carrier
pigeon in calm weather is 1,210 yards
minute. With strong wind in the
direction of flight, some pigeons have
covered 1880 yards minute.
sd Speaking of lions, that was quite
an idea of the hard-shell preacher who
was discoursing of Daniel in the den
of lions: "There he sot all night,
looking at the show for nothing; it
didn't cost him a cent"
Pd A simply remedy for neuralgia
is to apply grated horseradish, pre-
pared the same as for table use, to the
temple when the face or head is affect
ed, or to the wrist or shoulder when
the pain is in the arm or shoulder.
s@r The oldest medical recipe is said
by a French medical journal to be
that of a hair tonic for an Egyptian
queen. 1t is dated 400 B. c., and di-
rects that dogs paws and asses hoofs
be boiled with dates in oil.
~ Fogg says he begins to think
there is no perfect state in this world.
When he was young he was always in
the way of the old folks and now that
he is old, he seems to be always in the
way of the young people.
gaE He-I had a queer dream about
you last night, Miss Louise. 1 was
about to give you kiss, when sudden
ly we were separated by river that
gradually grew as big as the Rhine.
She-And was there no bridge and no
boat?
p1- "Hot !" he exclaimed. "Well, l
should say so. And the least exertion
wears me all out" And while his
wife toted a crying baby around, he
wandered down town and walked
eight miles and AZ laps around bill
lard table.
a@ A little boy was coming home
with his mother from church, when he
heard her saying that the sermon was
not worth much. The little boy i'm
mediately turned around and said,
"Oh, mother, what could you expect
for halfpenny?"
rag The special wheat investigation
of the department agriculture shows
that the crop of 1897 amounted to
five hundred and thirty million bush
els. The Cincinnati Price Currents
estimate is five hundred and forty
million bushels.
s4 care there any more jurymen
who have a prejudice against you ?"
whispered the young lawyer. "No,
boss, de jury am all right, but 1 wants
you to challenge the jedge. Use been
'victed twice before under him, and
maybe he's ginning to hab prejudice
'gainst me-"
pG An Englishman came to New
York, and put up sign Established
1904" and rather prided himself upon
the antiquity of his establishment.
The next day his Yankee rival across
the way burlesqued his sign in this
way: "Established yesterday. No
old goods on hand"
R6 The water torture is in use in
some penitentiaries. 1t consists in
confning the prisoner in a closet too
small for him to stir. While he stands,
water, one drop at time, is allowed
to fall from O faucet on his head. 1t is
said that few persons can endure this
punishment for more than an hour.
s9 A pickering pair of Quakers
were heard in high controversy, the
husband exclaiming: 81 am deter
mined to have one quiet week with
thee!" "But how wilt thou be able to
get it ?" said the taunting spouse, in
that sort Of reiteration which married
ladies so provokingly indulge in. II
will keep thee a week after thou art
dead" was the Quaker's rejoinder.
BS There is no other work in the
world of which so many copies are
printed annually as of the Chinese al.
manac. The number is estimated at
several millions. This almanac is
printed at Pekin, and is monopoly of