Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-04-26
attausiae Gatherings.

a9- Hoarded money pays no divi-
dends.
p8- The foe to the public school is a
foe to the republic.
@- When you borrow money you
usually borrow trouble.
pG- The first English parliament was
opened 627 years ago.
B@ Repentance never comes too late
if it comes from the heart.
e9- 1t doesn't make lie any whittier
to put it on tombstone.
n6 All men are frail but thou should
reckon none so frail as thyself.
p4r The American navy has practi-
cally all been built since 1883.
p9 Many a person has fallen behind
in trying to keep up appearances.
pT The best way to teach children
to be good is to show them how.
B@ People are scarce who are salts
fed with their next door neighbor's
religion.
aar A good way to learn how to
move mountains is to begin on grains
of sand.
s6y Sell honest goods at honest prices
and nobody will ask what church you
belong to.
nay The leaf of the banana is usual
ly six feet long by two feet wide. The
flowers are pink.
a6s- A man down in Georgia has built
a number of houses which are occupied
by widows free of rent.
a@ No man can lift himself by his
boot tops but he can easily pull him
self down by his chin.
p9r The German government has
expressed sympathy with the United
States in losses in Samoa.
p9 Pigs fed upon cows milk at the
Ohio agricultural station were found
TO have developed bad cases of tuber-
culosis.
s9 Surgeon General Van Reypen, OF
the navy, says all reports from Manila
show that Admiral Dewey's health is
excellent.
p9r The pistol taken from General
Santa Anna at the battle of San Jacinto,
was recently placed in Texas depart
ment of. history.
eT He that thinks himself the hap
piest man really is so; but he that
thinks himself the wisest, is generally
the biggest fool.
g9- Twenty-Five years ago France
was able to put as many soldiers 10
the field as Germany. Now it falls
short about 100000 men.
s8- A camel will work seven or eight
days without drinking. In this he diff
fers from some men, who will drink
seven or eight days without working.
p9 A German doctor has started a
theory that most drunkards can be
cured simply by eating apples at every
meal. The acid gas does it.
p9 The cost of maintaining convicts
at the Michigan penitentiary is 3S3c.
each day, and the daily earnings of
the prisoners average 353c. each per
day.
s4r The value of gold, silver, lead
and copper mined in Colorado in 1898
was s42, ,646, ,344, the gold being one
half that amount and the silver about
one-fourth.
s8 John Walter, of the London
Times, left as legacy to his daughter
one of the advertising columns of that
paper. 1t has brought the lady a
steady income of $3.50 day.
R9" Beer tabloids are about to be put
on the market in Germany. A small
tablet dropped into a glass of water
will turn it into beer as fresh as if just
drawn from keg.
s9~ In Philadelphia last week 25l
cases of typhoid fever and 3S deaths
from the disease were reported. Dur
ing the preceding week 29s cases and
4S deaths were reported.
s9~ "You niggers," says Uncle Nose,
''dat thinks you is gwine to git up dem
golden stairs without climbin', and
climbin' hahd, is mighty much mis-
taken. I des want to tell you right
now dat de yellervater is stopped rum
MIN ebber since de days OBJ ole 'LUah. I"
n@ Through the French embassy
the state department has notified the
Spanish government that it stands pre-
pared to pay at any time the 500, ,00O,-
900 named in the treaty of peace as
the sum to be paid on account of the
cession of the Philippines.
p~ Says an exchange, "The only
use of birds tail is to serve as rud-
der during flight" This is unwarrant-
able pathological ignorance, exclaims
The Transcript. Everybody knows
that the principal use of the birds tail
is to put salt on, to keep the bird from
flying away.
tag Colonel Duncan N. Hood, COM
mander of the Holguin district of
Santiago province, is the youngest
officer of his rank in the army, and he
selected young men as officers of his
regiment, in so far as the eligible list
would permit. Colonel Hood is a son
of the Confederate general of that
name.
s9 Near Salisbury, N. c., vein Of
gold and copper bearing ore half a
mile long and from 80 to 100 feet be-
low the surface has been discovered
at the Union gold mines. Engineer j..
J. Newman thinks the copper supply
will equal the famous Calumet and