Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-07-13
atjausiae Gatherings.

| HS5 A rare COLI Observation-Disclosures . one
sense.
p@- Toxic, Japan, has 90 Christian
churches.
p8 One third at least of our life is
passed in sleep.
s9 Philadelphia has $4,000 more
women than men.
nag Illinois is next to Pennsylvania
in coal production.
BG The railways of America employ
over 1900, 900 men.
Har Good wine in France sells as low
as ten cents gallon.
p9- If there were no bad men, there
wonld be no bad women.
B6T Iron horseshoes have been found
dating back to the year 4S1.
s@ He who is ashamed of his friend
| is friend to be ashamed of.
pd If Adam had been wide awake,
he wouldn't have lost that rib.
s@ Of the $4,000 school teachers in
Prussia, only 5000 are women.
H@- Private schoolteachers in China
get only cent day from each pupil.
s9r Our greatest glory is not in new
er falling, but in rising every time we
fall.
s6F There are in the United States
17s, 900 churches and 24,O00,O0O mem
bers.
p6 Leisure is very pleasant gar
ment, but it is bad one for constant
wear.
s@ The neglect of little moments is
responsible for many of life's greatest
| failures.
a6y In the time for work we should
work as if we never again would have
the chance.
nag There are 81 law schools in this
country turning out 10000 new law
yers yearly.
ade Those who walk fastest in going
to dinner often walk slowest in going
back to work.
Bay The first theatre in the United
States was in Williamsburg, Va, iu
the year 1852.
sar In Cambridge, Harvard profess
sors are usually spoken of as "Mr." in
stead of "Professor" or CDR"
s6 Fogg suggests that the United
States flag is not only a tri-color, but
that it seldom tries in vain.
s@ To rejoice in another's prosperity
is to give content to your own lot to
mitigate another's grief is to alleviate
or dispel your own.
sar All kinds of meat are inexpen-
sive in Australia, especially mutton,
which sell as low as l penny pound.
Fish costs even less.
B9 Death is but kind and welcome
servant, who unlocks with noiseless
hand life's flower encircled door to
show us those we love.
Bag A canal connecting the Mediter-
ranean with the Red sea, existed as
early as 600 years before the Christian
era. Its length was 90 miles.
BdT- An Irishman complained of his
wife as a thankless jade. "Whin I
married her." he said, "she had't a
rag to her back, and now she's covered
with 'em !"
s6s- The total number of women over
IS years old who are employed in the
factories and workshops of the British
Islands is about 100000, of whom 21
per cent. belong to trade unions.
BaF A regiment of 1000 men could
readily find shelter under single ban
van tree. In India there there is one
of these trees which has 400 main
trunks and over 5000 smaller ones.
H6 "Is Jones a Christian ?" ayes" "
"To what denomination does he be-
long?" "None. He is only Chris
tian as yet. He hasn't been converted
long enough to become sectarian."
pH- About 10000 volumes are ev-
cry year added to the British Museum
library. The printed catalogue, which
is to be completed at the end of the
year 1900, will fill nearly 1000 vol
umeS.
Rar A German student, not very
we'll acquainted with English, tried to
quote the passage, "The spirit is will
ing, but the flesh is weak" as follows /:
"The ghost is willing, but the meat
feeble"
pT And now it is discovered that
Columbus started on Friday on his
world finding voyage, and actually
sighted land on the same unlucky day,
which should forever rid it of its ban
to Americans.
s@ The human race includes two
kinds of people-those who know two
much and those who don't know
enough. From the first class, the
knaves are mostly recruited, and from
the second class the fools.
s9. Several sailors of the Russian
navy were given shore leave at Hong
Kong, and enjoyed themselves by buy
ing Chinese tallow candles and eating
them in the public streets. Every man
devoured at least pound.
R9' Mammal wonder what we
shall call the baby? JOHNNY don't
think we'd better call him any of the