Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-04-25
dtjausiae Gatherinas.

p8 The man who knows be is wrong
is the biggest coward on earth.
p| A little weed has no more right
to be in a garden than a big one.
p9- 1t is better to suffer wrong from
everyone than to do wrong to single
one.
s@- 1t is always the man who doesn't
shovel dirt who is willing to give ad-
vice.
p@ A prayer in its simplest defini-
ton, is merely wish turned heaven
ward.
s@ Many a man has lived an honest
life because he never found it necessa-
ry to steal.
aoS Rumor is like swarm of bees,
the more you fight them the less you
get rid of them.
B6r A 2,OOO.acre farm near the Dele
ware Water Gap is devoted entirly to
the cultivation of celery.
par 1t appears to be definitely settled
that President Mckinley will attend
the goth of May celebration at Char
lotte.
gd- The latest statistics show that
the United States has over 100000
miles of railroad, and less than 10000
miles of good wagon roads.
D6T The sultan of Morocco owns
the most expensive bicycle, the whole
nrly nf xph l.
plated, and which cost him $4,000.
s% "Are you ready, Emma?" ayes,
John, I'll be there in minute; I've
only my bonnet to put on. ;" Gall right.
I'll have time to shave before we CO."
sdr She don't believe you love me
as much as you did before we were
married. He: Just as much as ever
did; perhaps not as much as l said l
did.
adT A Philadelphia man who has just
taken the pledge explains this act by
saying that when he was drunk recent
ly he committed the folly of paying his
debts.
H@ 1t may be some consolation to
some of our readers to remember that
the vast majority of people die poor,
and that only 2 out of every 100 sue
ceed in business.
p9- 1t is said to cost less to send the
product of an acre of wheat from
Dakota to England than it does to
manure an acre in England so that it
can grow good wheat.
a6 To remove glass stopper that
has become fast, put a drop of sweet
oil or glycerine in the crevice about
the stopper. In an hour or so the
stopper may be easily removed.
S6 At the University of Pennsyl-
vania there is hospital for sick dogs.
Shakespeare appears to have known
what he was talking about when he
said, "Throw physic to the dogs"
s@ Some backwoods philosopher
chops close to the line in the assertion
that if often costs more TO have a man
do you a favor than if you were to
buy the accommodation and pay cash.
sd- The author of "Tristram Shan
dy," who knew human nature pretty
we'll, says: "a sober man when drunk
has the same kind of stupidity about
him that drunken man has when he
is SOBER"
s@ 1t is always good luck that makes
good garden. The kind of good
luck that gets up early in the morning
and works awhile before the dew is
dried, and finds time to work an hour
or two after supper.
H8 A preacher in Boston, in a lect-
ure on marriage, advises every woman
never to marry man with small ears,
small nose, small eyes, small hands or
small feet, as he is certain to be small
potatoes.
H6- The greatest number of people
ever killed by an earthquake since the
dawn of history was 100000. The
date of the terrible disaster was 1908,
and the scene of the most violent dis.
turbance was at Yeddo, Japan, and
vicinity.
s4- More than 200 charters have al
ready been applied for for banks of
$25, 900 capital in towns of 5000 popu-
lation, and Comptroller Dawes thinks
the total will 60 up to 500 before the
end of the month. The applications
come mostly from agricultural towns
in the middle west, Iowa, leading.
s8> Glass, as far as research has
been able to determine, was in use
1000 years before the birth of Christ,
and was even then not in its infancy.
In the state collection at the British
museum, there is the head of lion
moulded in glass bearing the name of
an Egyptian king of the 11th dynasty.
pd~ There is good deal of profit iu
the prophet business in Java. A
prophet of that island has been paid
$4OO year for the last Is years "for
not predicting a tidal wave which will
sweep clear over the island" But af-
ter all, he can't be very enterprising.
With the amount of credulity ready at
hand to work upon, he could get ST.
900 year just as easily as not.
p9 A city of 10000 inhabitants, the
name of which has never appeared on
any map, has been brought to public
attention recently by a St. Petersburg
journal. 1t is in the extreme eastern
part of Siberia upon the border of To-
Dol. 1t contains a number Of institu-
tions of learning, three church edifices,
and numerous public and private build
ings constructed of stone. The name
of the city is Koustanal.
| my In the famous cellars of the Ho-