Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-04-18
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more than 1000 weddings day.
s6- Every man who is not bearing
any burden is burden to himself.
s6- A hypocrite's mouth has more
death in it than that of mad dog.
a6 While man is learning mathe-
matics a woman is learning manners.
ad- When fly lights on piece of
sticky paper he realizes that he is bet
ter off.
s6 Twenty million acres of the land
of the United States are held by Eng
lishmen.
n6 The temperature of the planet
Neptune is estimated to be 900 degrees
below zero.
s6 British government expenditure
is running now $7,OOO,OOO week
beyond revenue.
e8" The French statistician, DR.. LlV-
rier, says that half of all human beings
die before they are II.
e6y 1t has been estimated that it
would take a man 5000 years to read
all the standard works.
s6- For every 100000 inhabitants
in Russia, there are only 10 newspapers
and journals Of all sorts.
snS- Nothing is more indicative of the
selfish greed of a man than the numer-
Gus pockets in his clothes.
roS. Between the ticks of a watch a
ray of light, it is averred, could move
eight times around the earth.
pd- Science has produced an instru-
ment for counting the number of dust
notes that exist in sunbeam.
@- A California man has proved by
experiment that there is so pounds OF
oil in every ton of orange peel.
W In Great Britain on certain streets
of large cities drunken women are as
numerous as intoxicated men.
s9- Without confidence, friendship
is but a mockery, and social inter
course sort of war in disguise.
n6- We must not take the faults OF
our youth into our old age; for old
age brings with it its own defects.
s6 George Washington Walker, OF
Albion, Ind. walked little. He weigh
ed 5s5 pounds; body and coffin, 800.
S4- Perterze Observation-Disclosures
is San Francisco cabinet maker. He
is said to occasionally use his name for
saw.
s6. Above all things let us promote
peace in the home, for "the hand that
rocks the cradle is the hand that rules
the world"
s6- Be patient it is the only remedy
against the evils of life; the best, the
only alleviation to our sorrows which
life can afford.
sas- There is only one debt-the debt
of nature-which cannot be repudiat
ed. We should, therefore, be always
ready to pay it.
s8 The sacred Scriptures teach us
the best way of living, the noblest way
of suffering, and the most comfortable
way of dying.-Flavel.
s9- There are more than 100000
Free Masons in good and regular
standing in the jurisdiction of the
grand lodge of New York.
a6r In one of the great Paris hospi-
tails, out of S3 patients who suffered
from epilepsy, 60 were found to be
children of drunken parents.
Edr Don't be discouraged by mis-
takes. The most successful men in the
world would do lots of things different
ly if they could do them over.
p9 The two counties of Brewster
and Preside (Texas) having a joint
area of 600 square miles, have, it is
said, fewer than 5000 inhabitants.
pH People are too much inclined to
wait until something pleases them be-
fore they laugh, and to cry without
waiting for something to cry about.
HdF The famine 10 India extends over
territory 100000 square miles; in
other words over an area four times
greater than that of the British Isles.
s@ An editor over in Missouri hav-
/ ing heard that drowning men remem-
ber every event of their lives, advises
his subscribers to bathe in deep water.
tag The editor of western paper,
speaking of Lyceum entertainment,
says "the hall was lighted by the
smiles of fair women and by kerosene
lamps"
nay A brass plate in the Alabama cap
itol, in Montgomery, marks the place
where Jefferson Davis stood when he
took the oath of Office as president OF
the southern Confederacy.
a6 How the baby is named in Persia.
Five names are written on as many
slips Of paper. One of the slips is
drawn at random. The name on the
slip is the one the child has to bear
through life.
Bd Queen Wilhelmina, Of Holland,
is much grieved over the war in South
Africa. Both she and her mother are
constantly contributing funds in aid of
the Beers. She is fully persuaded that
the English people are in the wrong.
a9 The marriage of John and Hen
ry Paine, twin brothers, of Claiborne,
Tenn, to Misses Mary and Hannah
Youcum, twin sisters, of Lee county,
Va, took place at Middlesboro, KY,
last week, in the presence of 1000
spectators.
s4@ Port Tampa city, Fla, has a
"curfew bell" in new form. No male
colored man is allowed on the streets