Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-02-16
atjausiae Gatheriags.


remarked when the merchant tackled
up a sign, "At COST"
ndT In the United States and Cana.
da there are 96O,094 Odd Fellows, and
S37, 1896 Freemasons.
p@ All the flowers of the Arctic re-
gion are either white or yellow, and
there are 762 varieties.
p@ If you would be capable, cult
vate your mind if you would be loved,
you must cultivate your heart.
H6r 1t is easier to tie knot 10 q
cord of wood than to do an evil deed
and get rid of the consequences.
r@ It is said that candles will not
burn in the Klondike because the heat
of the wick fails to melt the tallow.
e% A minister recently preached q
sermon which local paper compares
to "a jackscrew raising earth to heav-
en-"
s@r The City of Moscow, in Russia,
is mentioned as being in possession OF
excellent wood-paved streets 300 years
ago.
p6 Yes, religion pays and honesty is
always the best policy. Sam Jones
announces that he makes $780, 900 a
year.
s9- Whatever you have to do, do it
with your might. Many lawyer has
made his fortune by simply working
with q will.
p6r 1t is always best to avoid contro-
versy with two kinds of people those
who cannot understand you and those
who will not.
s8- II saved my sister from marry
ing that silly young Hopkins" "How
30 ?" She accepted him by letter, and
I forgot to mail it."
sey Men who never have had any
advantages, sometimes make it up by
taking advantage of everybody they
have dealings with.
s@r Despondent men have been
known to commit suicide because out
of work. This indicates that tramps
are not despondent men. :
p6S- 1t has been said that a politician
is statesman out of a job. 1t is to
be supposed, therefore, that states
man is politician with pull.
~ "Uncle, which breed of chickens
is the best ?'' "Well, sab, de white
ones is de easiest found, an de dahk
ones is de easiest hid after yo' gifts
'em."
p6 A lady being asked how many
calls she made the other afternoon, re-
piled, sob, I only made seven l was
unfortunate enough to find everybody
at home.
p8 In New York city there are s.
O91 clothing shops and &c, 500 workers,
Is per cent. of whom are Jews. Some
are paid seven cents for making pair
of trousers.
p@ Josh Billings says that he has
finally cum to the konclusion that the
best epitaff emmy man ken have, for
all practical purposes, is a good bank
ackount.
p6 Lake Huron contains 5000 is.
lands. Loeb Erne. in Ireland, has 365.
The lake of the Thousand Isles is only
an expansion of the St. Lawrence rlv-
er, and has LOO.
s6r Five is the sacred number of the
Chinese, who have five planets, five
cardinal points, FIVE tastes, five vir-
tues, five musical tones, five ranks of
nobility, and five colors.
p6- A clearinghouse keeper always
dislikes country woman for board
err; the country woman looks with
such suspicion at the butter that it ex-
cites distrust among the boarders.
pd- There is no denying it, men are
prone to be attracted by other mems
wives and yet they cannot help won
dering how those mems wives hus-
bands ever came to marry such women.
p6 Queen Victoria's favorite apple
is the Albermarle pippin, raised in
Virginia. Her majesty's long contin-
ued good health is partly due to her
partiality for wholesome American
fruit.
s6 Cute little shoes, Intended for
dogs, are made and sold in London.
They are of chamois, with light leather
soles. They are only worn indoors,
and are to protect polished floors from
scratches.
s@ The following epitaph is inscri.
bed on the tombstone of North Caro-
lima mo, nshiner "Killed by the gov
ernmens for making whisky out of
corn grown from seed furnished by a
congressman"
s6 The peasantry of Spain have
learned to make roosters hatch eggs
and look after the chickens, while the
hens, being at liberty, can and do lay
more eggs than they would if hamper
ed by maternal duties.
B9" Compressed -four, in the form of
bricks, is used by the British army
and navy. In this form space is econ
omized, and 800 pounds of packed
-four may be stored in the space which
100 pounds would occupy in loose
condition.
p@ A noted physician asserts that
high living checks the growth of the
hair. He declares that it is easy in
society to pick out the girls whose
parents have arisen from the ranks of
proverty, by the superior quality and
abundance of their hair.
s@ A Presbyterian of Toronto pro-