Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-04-20
dVausiae Gatherings.

pas- Better waver about taking the
drink than wabble after getting it.
pns- Plenty of work and good diges-
ton is good remedy for the blues.
aas" The man who has not an enemy
may be good man, but what is ne
good for?
sd A very large proportion OF the
glass used in the United States is made
in Pennsylvania.
s9" The monetary unit of Spain is
the peseta, which is worth about ~
cents of our money.
g9r Prophet Totten says call great
occurrences happen in even years" I"
Which is very odd.
sd If the sun was inclosed in mass
of ice 60 feet thick it would be one
minute in melting it.
aan An old habit is stronger than a
mans right arm. Fortunate the man
whose habits are good ones.
san Austria is the only empire in the
world which has never bad colonies,
or even transmarine possessions.
sa~ No receptacle for soiled clothing,
even if handsomely decorated, should
be kept in sleeping apartment.
e9 Some peoples idea of toleration ::
"Do as want you to do and think as
I want you to think, and you Will be
liberal" ;"
say There are plenty of American
citizens who do not have to keep their
patriotism warm by bowling Yankee
Doodle all the time.
pas' This would be a very happy
world is people would always wear
the expression they do when they are
having their pictures taken.
s9n The fact that ton of seawater
Yields cents worth of gold has been
demonstrated to the satisfaction OF an
official of the San Francisco mint.
say Nearly all of the canvasback
ducks eaten in the United States come
from Alaska. They start on their
southern tour at the close of summer.
aaT The retail sales of umbrellas in
this country amount to over $50, ,OOO,-
900 yearly, and this doesn't include
those that are transferred, but not
sold.
eay- Clocks and watches are seldom
used in Liberia. There the sun rises
all the year at exactly 6 a. No., sets at
6 D. m., and is vertically overhead at
noon.
s9 Society, says a cynic, is compos'
ed of two great classes-those VINO
have more dinner than appetite, and
those who have more appetite than
dinner.
sY> A steel arch is to be thrown
across the Niagara river near Clifton,
which will be $40 feet span-a greater
distance than was ever yet spanned by
an arch.
a9 "It's no use to feel me wrist,
docthor," said Pat, when the physician
began to feel his pulse; "the pain is
not there, surr-it's in my hid en-
tirely."
seg~ "The men are all alike" She
was a telephone girl who said this.
She added, "When 1 say 'Lineis busy
they are always sure to say awful
things"
e9@ All refined gold is not alike.
Australian gold, for instance, is dis
tinctly redder than that from Calltor-
mia. The Ural gold is the reddest
found anywhere.
sgr The people of Kansas City have
determined to build a convention hall
of mammoth proportions. 1t will hold
900 people, and will be ready for
the October festivals.
a6- The government has awarded a
contract for carrying mail to the klon-
dixie twice month. This ought to be
good news for the families and friends
of absent gold seekers.
sSr German canaries excel all other
canaries as singers. A canary of Ger
many has been known to continue
single trill for minute and quarter,
with 20 changes of note in it.
Ra "God tempers the wind to the
shorn lamb, you know" said the con-
doling friend. "Perhaps So" said the
victim of fate, "but you never see
lamb anxious to be shorn again."
pS A family affair: There is dis
trict in Hennlker, n. H., where two of
the scholars called the teacher mother,
two called her auntie, two of them
grandma, and only one called her
teacher.
a9 At the recent postal congress at
tention was called to the fact that
two-thirds of all the letters which
pass through the postoffices of the
world are written by and sent to peo-
pie who speak English.
s9 "Why, DOCTOR" said a friend to
physician, ~ never saw anything
like it; you work like a horse ]"
"That's because I eat like horse"
retorted the doctor, ''simple food and
not too much Of it,"
aaa Cloth is now being successfully
made from wood. Strips of fine grain
ed wood are boiled and crushed be-
tween rollers, and the filaments are
spun into threads, from which cloth
can be woven in the usual way.
g9 A Missouri locomotive recently
ran 100 miles solely to carry a bottle
of medicine. A physician broke his
leg, and lockjaw followed the medi-
cine to cure him had to be brought
from that distance, and time meant