Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-11-02
atjausiae Gatherings.

IL IJdIlS VI OWo houio OoSh'
p@- To borrow is human to forget
all about it is still more so.
p8- The name Nebraska is an Indian
word, which means shallow water.
p@- Every man should shun liquor
drinking as he would taking arsenic.
p6- A much kindlier policy in Cana
da toward the United States is noted.
pT- When a man has no faith in hu-
manity, humanity has no faith in him.
R6- The Tartarian alphabet contains
2O2 letters, being the longest in the
world.
e@ Experiments are being made in
Nicaragua in shipping evaporated ba-
nanas.
p6- If some Christians were better
listeners they would hear better ser
mons.
p0r I never, said the inebriate, found
money tight till began to get tight
myself.
s8r Traits of character which you
seek to conceal you had better seek to
reform.
snS- Some men pray for their daily
bread and hustle for their nightly
chickens.
Rag- Profit is not without honor in
any country, but it is often dishonor-
ably acquired.
s@- Any man who imagines he could
keep house better than his wife is fool
ish if he ever mentions it.
p6r 1t is curious fact that the hon
ey-bee was never known in the United
States It'll imported from England.
p4- Men who attribute all their
failures to fate never think their sue
cesses may be due to the same cause.
p6- There is we'll in West Virginia
which discharges natural gas with
roar that can be heard six miles away.
p9~ OF about 80 recognized coaling
stations in the Pacific, Great Britain
owns at least IL, and the United States
six.
p6- In Paris it is required that every
vehicle traversing its streets at night,
if only q wheelbarrow, shall carry q
lantern.
p0r Political economy has heen de-
fined as running for Office and letting
your friends bear the expenses of the
campaign.
n4- After what the "Yankee pigs"
have done to Spain, Germany will un-
doubtedly fear American pork more
than ever.
p8- Playing cards were first printed
about 1850. 1t is estimated that the
present annual output exceeds 7,OOO,-
900 packs year.
e@- The oldest artesian we'll in Eu-
rope is found at Lillers, France. From
| its mouth water has flowed uniterrup-
tedly for 756 years.
p@ The average number of horses
killed in Spanish bull fights every year
exceeds 5000, while 1000 to 1900
bulls are sacrificed.
p6~ A mans curiosity never rivals
that of a woman until some one ca
sually remarks that his name appeared
in yesterdays paper.
p1 A little sugar taken with water,
not too cold, in case food is not OBJ
tainable, will relieve any feeling of
exhaustion and sharp hunger.
p8r One fourth of the people of the
earth die before the age of six, one
half before the age of 16, and only
one person in each hundred born lives
to the age of 65.
n@ Among the attractions of the
Paris exhibition of 1900 is huge tel
escope, by means of which the moon
will appear at distance of but 80
miles.
s@- 1t is believed by oil experts that
West Virginia is underlaid by sea of
petroleum. The output of white sand
oil for 1897 amounted to 100000
barrels.
s@ At Russian railway stations griev-
ance books are kept in which passen-
gers may enter complaints. The books
are sent to the central Office once q
month and all complaints investigated.
E~ An automatic electric music leaf
turner is one of the latest patents. 1t
is claimed for it that it can be easily
attached to any piano music rack, and
it is worked by touching button with
the foot.
Hd5- A feature of the population sta
tistics of Western Australia is the large
proportion of males to females. The
disparity is maintained in the arrivals
by sea. At present there are 45 fe-
males to every 100 males.
s@ How is this for a definition of
money? "That which, having not, we
want; having, we want more having
more, we want more still and the
more we secure the less happy and
contented we become"
e6r "Watah is a good thing" re-
marked Colonel Bludd, of Kentucky.
"Waal, may be so," replied conserva-
tive Major Bowie. at is truly, sab, "
continued the colonel. Grain makes
Gavin, sab, an Gavin makes whisky"
s9- "Do I have to stick this stamp
on myself?" asked dude of the clerk
at the postoffice. "Oh, no." replied
the clerk "you couldn't 30 in the mail
bags, and, besides, that is a letter
stamp, and you are not first class-male
matter"
p@- A begging letter, asking for a