Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-11-09
at'ausiae Gatherings.


because he differs with us in opinion.
pT- A man who has no paor kin
thinks it would be pleasure to help
them.
a~ A great many victims Of laziness
are posing as victims of the hard
times.
R~ People who are too honest to
steal outright, will borrow and never
pay back.
g4 One cause of the hard times is
that too many men are looking for
soft snaps.
E0- When a woman wants to be in
bed by 10 o'clock, she begins getting
ready at 9.
pT When a man gets to the point
where he finds dancing too much like
work, he is married.
r9 You can never estimate the size
of the sore on boys finger by the
amount of rag he ties around it.
R6- 1t is believed that diet of corn
bread makes bigger mep, physically,
than bread made of wheat flour.
e9- Mrs. Edward Harris, of Rich
mond, Mo-, has given birth to seven
pairs of twins. They are all living.
s~ A photograph of a little boy
never looks like him because no one
ever saw boy as clean as he is on a
photograph.
p8 Bicycle manufacturers are ex-
pecting big business next year. 1t ls
encouraging to note that one line OF
business, at least, is hopeful.
H@~ Private bull fights are occasion
ally given by the very rich people in
Madrid, and guests are invited to them
as they would be to dinner.
s@- The vanity of some women
prompts them to wear their shoes 80
tight that when they get to heaven
they will be unable to wear pair of
golden slippers on account of their
corns.
s@- The lynching practice, says Gov
ernor Fishback, of Arkansas, "can only
be broken up by hanging few Of the
participants" True words; and now
the country would like to hear of a
few just such executions.
p@ A soldiers widow, a resident of
Philadelphia, died there in 1877. For
13 years she had been pensioner. 1t
has Just been discovered that her
daughter has been personating her for
the past 81 years, and drawing her
pension.
s@- "Where did you get that cake,
Annie?" "Mothcr gave it to me-"
"She always gives you more'n she does
me-" "Never mind, Harry; she's 60
ing to put mustard plasters on us to-
night, and I'll ask her to let you have
the biggest"
D9- A Kansas man has discovered
that brandy can be made from wet elm
sawdust, and a discouraged Prohibi-
ZIONIST asks what chance the good
cause will have when man can 60
forth with rip saw and get drunk on
fence rail /?
rag Paper floors for dwelling houses
are coming into use in Germany. They
are formed of several thicknesses of
stout paper, dampened, pasted and
rolled. They have no crevices or joints
to harbor dust or vermin, and are
yielding to the feet.
s6s~ 1t was an old New England judge
who once interrupted a lawyer IN the
midst of a spread-eagle speech by say
ing: "Mr. -, l wish you would
take few feathers from the wings of
your imagination and put them in the
tail of your judgment"
a@ A prize hog, weighing 1924
pounds, has been raised by T. w.
Williams, of Meigs county, Tenn.
Here are its dimensions: Height, 4
feet 6 inches; diameter, 7 feet; length,
10 feet 2 inches. 1t is considered the
largest hog in the world.
p@ Two little pigs caused contention
between a couple of neighboring farm
ers in Shannon county, Mo. Each
claimed both pigs. They went to law
about them, and when the costs had
amounted to $50 the litigants compro-
missed by each taking pig.
p6 A colored citizen of Sedalia, Mo-,
has most wonderful voice. Speaking
in an ordinary conversational tone, it
is said, he can be easily heard across a
40 acre field, and when calling at the
top of his voice his words may be dis
tinguished for more than mile.
adr AS a party of gentlemen and
ladies were climbing to the top of a
high church tower one hot day, gen.
tleman remarked, "This is rather a
spiral flight of steps," To which a
lady rejoined, ayes, perspiral;" and
she wiped her brow as she spoke.
saS Be careful with your promises,
especially to child. His whole con-
ception of the sacredness and import.
ance of veracity may be distorted for
life, his character ruined, and his soul
eventually lost, by the breaking of a
pledge made him in his early years.
n9- A friend of ours who was married
few weeks ago, was seen the other
morning very early looking for kind
ling wood. There is nothing that
takes the romance out of marriage
like getting up at day break and hunt
ing for an old barrel stave or something
or other to hnild q fire
B@ The question was once raised as
to which was the more content of the
two, the owner of half million or