Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-01-05
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success, and generally gets IL.
s@ A one-cent bronze piece is three
quarters of an inch in diameter.
s@- Dentists often have a long pull
and strong pull, and their patients a
painful one.
s@ When the good man dies the
tears are shed which he in life prevent
ed from flowing.
H@ When a woman exclaims,
"That's a likely story" she means
tha: it is like lie.
k6 The director of the mint estl-
mates the gold product of the world
for 1897 at s24O, 100000.
n6F The Jewish population of the
United States has doubled since 1881,
and is now about 100000.
nag A Union Pacific mail train re-
Gently made record-breaking run at
the rate of 7s miles an hour.
par Miss Singleton-The men are all
alike. Miss Ring-Yes; but then all
men do not like the same woman.
pT Names % creameries use the
product of $4,000 cows. There are
i37, 900 COWS in the state, leaving 9S,-
600 for private dairying.
s@- Great suderiority: "What is
the difference between a violinist and
fiddler" "a fiddler always knows
how to play 'Monnie Musk"
s@ A medical student says he has
never been able to discover the bone
of contention, and desires to know
whether it is not situated very near
the jawbone.
pas- "Don't beat your carpets" says
humanitarian "try kindness and
6rmness, and if that don't keep them
down, send for a policeman and have
them taken up"
sB- "Folks keep fndiu' er heap O
fault wifi dis here life," said Uncle
Eben. "But, jes' de same, dar's
mighty few OBJ us dat does'n' wish dar
wus more of it,"
s4- Fortunately, when the head of
the family goes to bed last and leaves
the gas in the dining-room to burn full
blast all night, there is nobody priv
ileged to find fault about it.
pd~ Tacks are from a quarter to q
half-inch, though, when accidently
stepped on, this length seems to be
multiplied by 100. A pound of the
smallest sized contains $4,000 tacks.
s6r Birmingham, England, turns out
every week 300,0OO,O00 cut nails, 1OO,-
OOO, 900 buttons, 1000 miles of wire of
different sizes, 5 tons of hairpins, 500
tons Of nuts, and 10000 pairs of spec
tacles.
p4 With most men the growth of
the beard is stronger on one side of
the face than on the other. 1t is usu-
ally the case that the hair grows more
rapidly on that side on which we are
stronger.
sd- About 100000 false teeth are
manufactured annually in the United
States, while one ton of gold and
three tons of silver and platinum, to
the value of 100000, 900, are used in
stopping teeth.
p6- First Dentist-My work is so
painless that my patients often fall
asleep while 1 am at work. Second
Dentist-And mine all want to have
their pictures taken, to catch the ex-
preston on their faces.
ses- The Outlook says: "There are
two churches in one city in New Eng
land of the same denomination, one Of
which cost about 100000, and the
other over 100000, and are placed
within 100 feet of each other"
p4~ Boston is to have q restaurant
run on strictly vegetarian principles.
There are said to be over hundred
persons in the city who never eat meat
from choice, to say nothing of those
who abstain of poverty's necessity.
pB- Horse racing without jockeys is
INDUCED in at Rome during the sum-
mer. The horses are started by a
gun, which is discharged behind them.
They carry little spiked balls on cords
which swing round their bodies, and
these act as spurs.
BE 1t is an impressive reminder of
how money at interest "breeds" that
the $25, 900 which George Washington
left towards a national university
would now amount to some 81 100000
had it been safely invested at current
rates of compound interest.
sd Speaker Reed declared, in an in
terview in New York, that it would
be impossible for him to tell what
legislation would be had this winter
until he had "learned the wishes of
the national administration"
H6- 1t is said that a pastor in In
diana recently startled his congrega-
ton by the following announcement !:
"Remember our quarterly meeting
next Sunday. The Lord will be with
US during the morning service, and
the presiding elder in the evening""
a@ Try to be something in the
world, and you will be something.
Aim at excellence, and excellence will
be attained. This is the great secret
of success and eminence. ~ cannot
do it" never accomplished anything.
"I will try" has wrought wondel5.-
Hawes.
B@ Carrying Goals to Newcastle
may not pay yet, but there is quite a
business in carrying gold to California.
Most of it comes from Australia ih
payment for California wheat. The
sum of S1,375,OOO is now on its way
to San Francisco, and on its arrival