Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-02-01
dtausiae Gatherings.

p9- More than 100000 persons in
New York city are suffering from the
grip.
pHr 1t is better to suffer wrong from
every man than to do wrong to a sim
gle one.
s9- Some men will do you a favor
and then bore you for an hour talking
about it.
r9- Never lose your temper. No
body wants it; all have enough OF
their own.
n@ Greater New York has an as
sessed real estate valuation of nearly
Sc, 900, 100000.
p9a In India, the native barber will
shave you when asleep without waking
you, so light is his touch.
p9- The United States squadrons In
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will
soon be of about equal strength.
pas- Sprained ankle has been cured
in an hour by showering it with hot
water poured from the height of few
feet.
p4 Six large corporations, composed
of Americans and foreigners, have
formed a combine to control the borax
supply of the world.
p9- A Washington dispatch says that
the Oregon is not going to Samoa, but
will 20 straight ahead to Manila, after
taking coal at Honolulu.
nag Since the 3Oth of June last, in
spite ofathe war, the expenditures OF
the United States have exceeded the
revenue by only 90,S17,97O.
pH- The treasury estimate of the
population of the United States last
month was rs, 1880, 900, and the amount
of money in circulation was $780,
sol ,422.
p9r The pension claims on account
of the Spanish war now amount to
about 5000. Most of them allege
malarial poisoning as the cause OF dis
ability.
sS- Truth is established by investiga-
ton and delay; falsehood prospers by
precipitancy. When wronged, there
fore, don't be in too great hurry to
prove you are in the right.
e0r The memorial tablet to Ensign
Bagley, who was killed on the torpedo
boat Winslow, off Cardenas, Cuba, was
unveiled at the naval academy al
Annapolis on Sunday of last week.
pg General Wood speaks well of the
Cuban oficeholders whom he has ap'
pointed at Santiago. He says the
people are cheerful and contented and
that everything is as quiet as in Ne"
England village.
pdr "The piece of silver" mentioned
in the Bible as the kind of coin IL
which the reward of Judas's treachery
was paid was about 66S cents. Juda:
Therefore received a sum about equa
to $40 of our money.
p9- A cargo of parrots that arrived
in Leith, Scotland, was purchased by
a firm of whisky manufacturers. Ths
birds were taught to cry, "drink Blank
whisky" and were then distributed il
gilt cages to Liverpool saloon keepers
s9- Little Johnny had heard th'
minister exhorting his hearers to strive
to enter in at the straight gate. A few
moments later, when the contribution
box was passed around, he whispered
MA, are they after the gate money!
s9 $50 that fellow is Knight o
Labor? Seems to be rather a mis-
nomer, for wherever he goes he pre-
vents men from laboring." "To bt
sure. Doesn't the good book say
When the knight cometh, no man cal
work."
pp When you make mistake dom
look back at it long. Take the reason
of the think into your own mind, anc
then look forward. Mistakes are les
sons of wisdom. The past cannot b'
changed. The future is yet in YOU
power.
s9 "Do you like the dinner, John p
anxiously asked his wife. 81 cooked
it all by myself" "Ye-es," said John
trying to be kind and truthful at once
"but am afraid, dear, that there mus
be some misprints in the cook books
you use."
e@ There are rival revolutions ir
some of the Philippines and the north
ern and central provinces of Luzon are
against Aguinaldo. Anarchy would
be established over the whole group bu
for the presence of the United State:
troops.
s6 The postmastership of Pembroke
Me-, has been held by one family long
er than that of any other town in the
country. William Kilby was appointed
to the Office in 1900, and his direc
descendants have handled the mail:
ever since his retirement in lS40.
s9 At Portland, Inc, Mrs. Speaker
wife of Lake Erie and Western tele
graph operator, gave birth week age
to child which weighed only one anc
one quarter pounds. This little mite
of humanity has been thriving since
then, is apparently healthy, and now
weighs two pounds.
g9 A Boston paper tells of Con
necticut farmer who fed sawdust anC
corn meal to his hens with success un
til he set hen with 13 eggs, the re
suit being II chicks with wooden leg:
and one woodpecker. The farmer
should have known better than to sci
l3 eggs.
H6 A human freak of unusual in