Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-07-04
at'avside Gatherings.

Drawing salary.
p@r Steel rails average 1S0 tons to
the mile; iron 145.
b4 The best regulations are usually
owned by poor men.
g8 We learn something from every
thing, even from failure.
n8r One should play, read or labor
with earnestness, and then rest.
p6- A man never gets so poor that
he can't borrow trouble without securi'
ty.
p@- Few men get their life labor ac-
complished without some sore heart
aches.
p9r The fruit crop of Georgia ives
one.third ruined by rains of last
week.
p8r The more promise there is in
you, the more you will disappoint
your friends.
p6- The general opinion seems to be
that economy should begin at some.
body else's home.
e@ Sewing circles are sometimes
gatherings where dresses are sewed
and characters ripped.
p@- Last year Kansas exported g.
zoo, 900 dozen eggs, as compared with
ISL 900 dozen in 1895.
p6~ It is estimated that the total
wheat yield of Oklahoma will be 3d.
100000 bushels this year.
p6- 1t is more natural for man to
lie in bed and wish he was rich, than
it is to get up and earn dollar.
p@- Mexico is now the only country
in the world of any commercial stand
ing which remains on silver basis.
D6- Some men address people in the
way farmer calls his pigs to corn,
and then wonder that they are not
popular.
D@ Dimes are little opportunities
the man who rejects them waiting for
the big opportunity ola dollar, never
becomes rich.
p8- The number of people who die
inside of the city limits of London
every year would fill a cemetery of
twenty.three acres.
va There is one thing about the
devil that ought to frighten you in
thinking of him-he never fails to COL
lect what is due him.
p8~ The mite mentioned in the gos.
pei in connection with the widows
contribution to the treasury, was a
a Greek copper coin weighing 1S
grains.
p6- "Spondulix," as slang name
for money, had its origin in the Greek
word spondulor, shell; shells of that
species being once used as money,
both in Greece and Egypt.
p6- the Japanese press urges active
measures against China, with-or with
out the consent of the powers, and
Japanese naval and military officers
are busy with preparations.
D6 A man in Washington county,
Pennsylvania, has a bantam rooster
that is so familiar with cat that it
can get on the feline's back and crow
without the cat taking any notice of it.
s@" A little girl who had been bad
ly bitten by mosquitoes the night be-
fore, seeing a lightning bug, ran to her
mother, exclaiming "There's mos
quito now with a lantern looking after
mew
I@. One towboat on the Mississippi,
in good stage of water, can take from
St. Louis to New Orleans a tow car
rying 10000 tons of grain, quantity
that would require so trains of 10 cars
each.
s@. The Washington Grand Lodge
of Masons, in session in Tacoma, has
voted not to admit liquor dealers to
membership in the order, and di.
rects present members who are in that
business to withdraw.
g6T The transport Burnside, which
left New York for San Juan de Puer-
to Rico, carried $1,OOO,0OO in Ameri-
can gold, silver, and paper money,
which is to be put into circulation in
Puerto Rico as rapidly as it can be ex-
changed for the old Spanish money.
a6~ A story has been printed in Lon
don to the effect that in January four
Oriental maidens arrived at York
house and announced themselves as
present to the Duke of York from an
eastern potentate. They were dis.
missed automatically.
sd- The Kreuz Zeitung, at Berlin,
says: "There is a good chance that
the Beers will maintain themselves in
Lydenburg and the Zoutpans district,
where they will establish new strong
hold, leaving the English Rand. Guer-
rilla warfare may be kept up without
diminution."
stS- Belgium has been visited by
huge swarms of large winged insects,
variously described as dragon flies and
locusts. In Brussels people in the
street had to cover their faces, and
many fled indoors at the sight of the
Invading swarms. In several squares,
the story goes, there was a veritable
fight for possession between the insects
and the human inhabitants.
s@ In buying out his associates in
the Southern Pacific, Coils P. Hunt
ington becomes sole and individual
owner, manager and controller of a
vast transportation system, embracing
1900 miles of railroad, ferries, termi-
nails, river and ocean lines extending
from Portland, Ore, through Califor-
MIA, to New Orleans, and representing
$3.50, 100000 of securities and nearly
$60,0O0,000 of annual gross earnings.
ny. unnnn man whc WAS hnntino