Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-01-26
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liable.
tag One song sung amid a storm il
better than whole concert when the
sun is shining.
p% 1t usually happens that mar
who is leading fast life is rapidly
running behind.
s6 1t is estimated that the Yukon
region will have $4,000 new inhablt
ants by next June.
p6 The world is full of human
milestones, since it is more easy te
point than to plod.
R4 It is better to say little worse
than you mean than to mean little
worse than you say.
p9 People whose eloquence reveals
rascality are always said, ny the ras
Gals, to "talk too much"
s9- The property value of Greater
New York would buy one-third OF the
farms ir the United States.
p@- A newly discovered spot on the
sun, which is visible just now, is said
to be 10000 miles in diameter.
nag The difference between hungry
man and a glutton is, "One longs tc
eat, and the other eats too long,"
p9r The man who sees nothing bul
sin in fun has blunt sense of the diff
ference between the good and the bad
pa- The largest egg is that of the
ostrich. 1t weighs three pounds, ano
is considered equal in amount to "a
hens eggs.
p@- An injury to the tongue is re-
paired by nature with more rapidity
than is the case with any other parl
of the system.
p6- A boot and shoe shop hangs out
the sign, "Cast iron lasts" We al
know it does but we don't want any
boots made of it.
s4' The first piece of cotton clott
made in America was presented to the
wife of General Nathaniel Green, who
had dress made of it.
s8- New York city has had ninety.
one mayors since 1865, but with 6
four years term it will take some time
yet to- round out the hundred.
s4- "Your son is an actor, you say
Mr.. Maginnis ?'' "Faith, he is
"And what role does he play? ?" 'Rolls
is it? Faith, he rolls up the curtain. ,
p9- A Maine girl earned two hun
dred dollars last summer selling four
leaf clovers at ten cents each to jew
eller, to be made into good-luck ban
giles.
s@- An editor in Huron, Kansas, ir
announcing the arrival of his frs
baby, says: "We wouldn't take $40,
900 for him, nor pay so cents for an
other"
B9 Next to our grape wine it is be
lieved that Japanese sake, or rice wine
is the oldest alcoholic beverage known
to man, its use in japan dating bacl
over 1000 years.
p@ The Indianapolis Journal Offers
the profane suggestion that locomo
tive is always spoken of as "she" be
cause of the horrible noise it makes
when it tries to whistle.
p6 The number of things that mel
novelists and critics don't know abou
women is exceeded only by the mum
Der of things that they think they
know.--Independent.
H6 ~ cannot understand" said th'
bachelor clerk, "why mans wife il
called the better half "Yo,
would" said the married clerk, eff yol
had to divide your salary with one."
a@ A Vienna doctor claims that hi
has discoved the secret Of controlling
sex but, the Somervllle Journal sus
poets that for many years to come j
will be as hard as ever to control th'
female sex.
RdT A chess game that lasted for two
years and five months has recently
been furnished. 1t was correspond
ence game between players in New
York and Bremen, Germany, and th'
New Workers won.
a@ The difference between religious
enthusiasm and sectarian zeal finds it
latest illustration in that western towr
which Bishop Cranston pictures-"s
little village of some 700 people, witt
13 church organizations"
nag The amount of capital investee
in the manufacture of bicycle tires il
the United States is estimated at IS,
100000, the number of persons EN-
ployed at 5000, and the number o
tires produced annually at 100000.
s9 Though Rome is called "tht
eternal city," the name by rights be
longs to the city of Damascus in Syria
which is the oldest city in the world
As long as man has written record
the city of Damascus has been known
H@ II wish you would be more ex
plicit when you're moralizing to th'
children" said the good wife to he
husband. "You told Jimmie las
night that he must never put things
off till tomorrow" eyes" "Wel
the little imp went to bed with hi
shoes on"
s@ An exchange says that specta
cles have been patented for horses, ant
are now being used with great sue
cess. Their object is not so much tt
magnify objects as to make the grounc
in front,of the horse appear nearer tt
his head than it really is. The resul
is continual high stepping, which, afte
while, becomes natural, and gives t.
the horse an aristocratic gait which ht