Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-02-07

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and Pennsylvania put together.
s9 Steel freight cars were ordered
at Pittsburg for French railroads. The
French war department may order
more, to be converted into armored
cars.
s@ Twenty years ago we were
warned against the danger of eating
before going to bed, and now the best
authorities recommend slight repast
before retiring.
s6s- The old question is up again,
whether we shall speak of our female
friends as ladies, or as women. Well,
all ladies are women; but all women
are not ladies.
REE The man who doesn't like any
of his neighbors is usually man whom
none of his neighbors like. AS rule
there is about as much love going one
way as the other.
adF Solomon's temple was 107 feet
long, sc feet broad, and 81 feet high
Though deemed wonder of the world
it was not larger than many private
houses of the time.
tag Big heads do not always indl'
cate intellect. A scientist points out
that the Greeks, one of the most intel
lectual nations, were one of the small
est headed of races.
s9 Two patches of trained dogs,
which have been drilled to dismounl
cyclists, by pulling them from their
machines, have been sent from Ger
many to assist the Beers.
sdy The obituary notice of much
respected lady concludes with, "1n her
life she was a pattern worthy to be
followed; and her death-oh, how
consoling to her friends"
s9 The royal train in which Victo'
ria travels never exceeds 25 miles an
hour during the night, the object be-
ing to prevent her majesty from being
disturbed while she is asleep.
s6 The Brussels correspondent OF
the Daily London Chronicle asserts
that he has learned from authentic
sources that the Beers have between
IS 900 and 10000 men in the field.
p8n Mahomet wrote the revelations
of the Koran on bits Of parchment,
blocks of wood, and the shoulder bones
of sheep and threw them pell.mell
into a box, where they were found
after his death.
p9e Doctor-Well, my fine little fel-
low, you have got quite well again
was sure that the pills left for you
would cure you! Did you take them
in water or in cake? "Oh, l used
them in my pop-gun."
B9 Some are so excessively acute at
detecting imperfections that they
scarcely notice excellencies. In look
ing at peacock's train they would
fix on every spot where the feathers
were worn or the colors faded, and see
nothing else.
p4- "Women must consider it a
dreadful fate to be an old maid," mus
ed Mr.. Chugwater. "They do, Jo'
siah," said Mrs. Chugwater. "What
terrible sticks they sometimes marry
to escape it," And Josiah rubbed his
chin and said nothing.
sa According to the Kaiser's new
naval programme, Germany will have
40 battleships in 1910 instead of the
II she has now, 20 large cruisers in
stead of IL, 4S small cruisers and gun
boats in place of 80, and ia torpedo
boats instead of 81, as at present.
nas- For the benefit of men who spit
on the sidewalk, and especially for the
benefit of women whose dresses suffer
thereby, the city council of Cleveland
has voted to place spittoons along the
sidewalk, 200 feet apart, and the pub
lie must spit in them, or not at all on
the street.
e9% The German war department, il
is said, actually keeps in stock dupli-
Gates of all the bridges in the empire
considered likely to he damaged OF
destroyed in case of war; and, what is
more, it has duplicates of a good many
bridges of other countries in which il
is interested.
sSn One who does right today need
not be troubled about doing right TO-
morrow. Every act done is seed
that will bear fruit, each after its kind
The man who is generous today, will
find it easier to be generous tomor
row. An act repeated often enough
becomes a habit, and the fruit of habit
is character.
s9 Representative Henry, of Texas
has introduced bill to provide a form
of government for the territory OF
Puerto Rico. 1t provides an execu.
tive branch, consisting of governor
and secretary, and a legislative branch
of two houses, viz: A council of 19
members and a house of representa-
tives of 2G members.
sar The first currency used in this
country was the Indian wampum. 1t
was made of shells, and consisted oil
the shells of testaceous fishes quar-
ter of an inch long and in diameter
about one fourth of an inch, drilled so
as to be strung on a thread. The
beads of white color rated at half the
value of the black or violet, and passed
as the equivalent of iarthing in
transactions between the Indians and