Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-01-19
at'ausiae Gatherings.


r@- Blotting paper is made up of cot
ton rags boiled with soda.
s6- In Japan every child is taught to
write with both hands.
s@ A school where blushing is taught
is the latest novelty in Paris.
p9 A ton of oil has been obtained
from the tonge of single whale.
pG A bigot, says Billings, IL a reli-
gious coward trying to play the auto
krat.
H@ He who knows the weakness of
his own wings is sure of successful
flight.
pdr The more we help others to bear
their burdens, the heavier our own
will be.
s6- In giving thanks for your bless
ings, don't forget the criticisms you
have received.
p6r In Russia it is the custom for
duellists to breakfast together before
going out to fight.
p6 According to an eminent doctor,
the excessive use of salt tends to par.
alyze the sense of taste.
p@ A German emperor took for his
motto, "Better please one good man
than a crowd of bad Ones"
BBr The habits of ants are more like
those of man than are the habits OF
any other of the lower animals.
p@r What is the difference between
an oyster and a chicken? One is best
out of the shell, and the other isn't.
a6T When one knows that he doesn't
know everything, it is worth more to
him than all the rest that he does
know.
pd- At sea level an object 100 feet
high is visible a little over 13 miles.
If 500 feet high, it is visible nearly 30
miles.
s9- Make plain statement of facts
to 20 people, and 19 of them will i'm
mediately ask some irrelevant question
about the matter.
nag There are now in the United
States 10000 ministers of all denom-
nations that is, about one for every
500 of the population:
sds. The world seems narrow place
when we wish to avoid our enemies,
but wide and vast is it when we part
r.oro tboco u,o loya
n@- A number of New York women
have formed a "Don't Worry" club.
They don't care whether their hats
are on straight or not.
s9 She-"They tell me, professor,
that you have mastered all the modern
He-"All but two-my
wife's and her mothers"
e@ An editor who married a Miss
Church says he has enjoyed more hap
piness since joining the church than
he ever did in his life before.
B6r Some of the more advanced
Jews are agitating the proposition to
change from the Saturday Sabbath to
Uu6 SuTlStldu OduudGu.
sD" The longest train on record was
that of Catherine De Medici on the oc-
casion of her marriage. 1t was 48
yards, and born by 10 pages.
a@ They will tell you that this is
disappointing world; but it is easy
enough to be satisfied with somebody
else's lot, no matter how bad it is.
e@ Goethe says, "It is only necessa-
ry to grow old to become more Indul-
gent. l see no fault committed that /
have not committed myself"
sd" Jerusalem is now nothing but a
shadow of the magnificent city of an
cient times. 1t is about 8 miles in
and is situated on a
rocky mountain.
ad" What madness it is for a man to
starve himself to enrich his heir, and
so turn friend into an enemy for his
joy at your death will be in proportion
to what you leave him.
pa~ The man who revenges every
wrong that is done him has no time
for anything else. If you make your
life success, you can afford to let the
dogs bark as you 60 by.
n8' When a woman gets into a pet
and calls her husband "a real mean,
horrid creature" and a cruel, heart
less wretch" the question is whether
these can be called "pet" names.
H6 The queen of Italy is about to
assist science by having an observatory
built on the summit of Mont Rosa,
14,S10 feet above the sea level. 1t will
be the loftiest observatory in the world.
ag New Hampshire derives its name
from Hampshire, England, where John
Tuition Mason lived. Mason claimed
to be proprietor of much of the state,
and gave it the name it has always
borne.
B@ Adversely exasperates fools, de-
jects towards, draws out the faculties
of the wise and Industrious, puts the
modest to the necessity of trying their
skill, awes the opulent, and makes the
idle industrious.
a6- In the British Isles and Austria
the rule of the road is to keep to the
left in passing vehicles and to the right
in overtaking them. In all other Eu-
ropean countries the rule is exactly
the reverse.
ads- A reporter who has made the
announces that it takes 16
hours of travel by all sorts of convey
ances, and costs S9.61, to make the
complete trip around Greater New
York.