Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-11-23
aVausiae Gatherings.
nag Hawaii is pronounced Hah.

liest man of his time.
p4- The term hand, used in measur-
ing means four inches.
s@- Half the sea commerce of the
world is under England's control.
pd- The man with plenty of fat mort.
cages lives on the lien of the land.
H8- Enough spider web to 60 around
the world would weigh one-half pound.
pG- A wart can be removed by touch
ing it several time a day with castor
oil.
p@ EVERY hour of time lost" said
Napoleon, "is a chance for misfor-
tune"
Rd- The blow from a knife may be
easily cured; not SO with blow from
the tongue.
sas- United States now has as large
population as Great Britain and France
put together.
n6r In Russia the principals in a duel
partake of breakfast together before
going out to fight.
p4- The road to heaven is too mar.
row for you to travel in it and pass
anybody on the way.
p@- A funeral recently took place in
an English town which the mourners
attended on bicycles.
R@- In Prussia the price of medicine
is regulated by the state, and new
price list is issued annually.
p9- About third of the entire pop
ulation of the world speak the Chinese
language or its allied dialects.
s6r 1t frequently happens that one
man invents something and some 9th
er man gets the money for it.
p6- Mr.. Pitt-"What do you think
of the -four mill trust?" Mr.. Penn =
"Oh, it is another grinding monopoly"
p@- No human being can come into
this world without increasing or di-
minishing the sum total of human hap
piness.
p6 Seven American presidents have
died in the month of July, and in that
month Garfield received his fatal
wound.
S6- Santiago is, under American rule,
becoming the cleanest city in Cuba
and its death-rate has decreased from
70 day to 20.
p@H Hawaiian servants think their
employers are putting on airs if they
are not allowed to address them by
their Christian names.
e@- Make it constant habit to be
kind to everybody and you will do
more good than if you went about
scattering money.
sas- The young are determined to find
out for themselves how many thorns
grow around forbidden fruit the old
may as we'll quit talking.
p9- How many a man has lied to
save appearances, especially to his
wife when he might have told the truth
and gone about his business.
pd- Wiggles-Wbat an awful cold
you have! Are you doing anything
for it? Waggles-Yes, I am listening
to all the advice that people give me.
p9- There are no undertakers in
Japan. When a person dies it is the
custom for his nearest relative to put
him in a coffin and bury him; and the
mourning does not begin until after
the burial.
sG According to the Higginsville,
Mo-, Advance, the "gentlemen who
manipulate bucksaws contemplate rails
ing the price of saving wood on &C.
count of the increased cost of bacon
rind."
pS- The Chinese never dun for a
debt. If the money is not paid when
due, off comes an ear. If the custom
prevailed in America, the mutilated
members of society would be too nu-
merous to mention.
s6a United States is and has been for
wears the largest cofee-using country
in the world; and the Philippine isl;
ands produce as good a brand as the
Java or Mocha. Cuba and Hawaii are
not far behind.
a@- Owing to the scarcity of hogs out
west it is probable that the price OF
bacon will be high for year or two
so if you want to keep few dollars
in your pocket, proceed at once to
raise your own pork.
r6r The deepest artesian we'll in the
world is one in Berlin, which is 4,l94
feet deep. The next deepest well is at
St. Louis, which is 3,s534 feet in depth,
and the third deepest is at Titusville,
Penn, which is 1858 feet deep.
s6 Burlington, Wis.,, has two banks,
of one of which Mrs. Hall is pres
ident, and the other is presided over
by Mrs. Eliza Meinhardt, with Miss
Edith Meinhardt as cashier. They can
all shoot in case bandit calls.
s9 In machinery, if two hard metals
rub together, they soon wear out, and
an alloy of soft metal put between
them largely does away with the fric-
ton and wearing. This compound,
tough but soft, costs many times as
much as steel.
s8 Twenty-Five thousand headstones
are delivered every year at the expense
of the government to the friends OF
deceased soldiers, who are expected to
place them up at their own expense.
The stones are three feet high from the
ground, and ten inches wide.
s6 Giant bees, one and half times
as large as the kind now in vogue, are
to be imported into the United States