Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-07-18
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No. Vo,I, hoe rooobod 4100 530

New York has reacneQ $lUl,o
t6- Why is it easier to be clergyman
than physician n? Because it is easier
to preach than to practice.
s6" Forty million dollars worth OF
manufactures were exported during
May, breaking all records.
s@ Two of the worst things in the
world: To see a young boy smoke,
and to hear an old man swear.
s@ More is accomplished by doing
each days work faithfully than by
crowding two days work into one.
s@ All the generous deeds men have
ever done without hope of reward
could be enumerated in one volume.
p6 The first ingredient in conversa-
ton is truth, the next good sense, the
third good humor, and the fourth wit.
tag Dean Swift said: 1t is useless
to attempt to argue man out OF a
thing he was never reasoned into"
s@ The receipts of the Philippine
treasury during April were s7S6,967.- =
81 an increase over the previous month
of Sl55, ,595.
RdF We should never grumble at
those things we could have prevented,
nor at those things that we could not
have prevented.
p@ Cuban custom receipts in five
months of 1900 footed up $6,70S.0H,
an increase of $1,05S,25 over the
same period of 1899.
B@ The smallest measure of weight
in use, the grain, took its name from
being originally the weight Of we'll
dried grain of wheat.
n@ There were representatives in
Kansas City during the national con-
vention from the Cherokees, Choctaws,
Chickasaws, Seminoles and Creeks.
H6H 1t is a fashion to say girl is Gas
graceful as a willow" but don't you
think the willow, with its dropping
ways, looks little round-shouldered
p9 The latest statistics prove that
more than two-thirds of the grown
male population of the globe use to-
bacco in some one of the many forms
in which it is taken.
nag Chow is Johnny getting along
with his writing?" asked the fond par
ent. "Rapidly," replied the teacher.
81 think he is already competent to
write his own excuses"
n@~ The speed of the fastest railway
train is only little more than one
half the velocity of the golden eagles
flight, the bird having been known to
make 40 miles per hour.
tag The points of the compass may
be told from trees, the moss growing
the thickest on the north side, and
where exposed to the sun, the limbs
are largest on the south side.
aa~ 1t is asserted that water
wheel runs faster at night than in the
daytime, because at night the water
is cooler and, therefore, more dense
than when warmed by the sun.
H9- The condor scars higher than
any other known species of bird, spend
nine-tenths of its life floating about
in the, rarifed atmosphere at height
of over three miles above the level of
the sea.
s@~ In Madagascar a dissatisfied
husband has only to give his wife a
piece of money, and say, "Madam, l
thank you )" and, according to the
laws of Madagascar, he is divorced
straightway.
p8- The tusks of an elephant weigh
from thirty to seventy pounds each,
and sell for about five dollars per
pound. The natives of Africa eat
every particle of the elephant, and OBJ
tain from it large quantities of fat.
s@ "Where is the island of Java situ
ated ?" asked school teacher of a
small, rather forlorn-looking boy. 81
dunno, SIR" "Don't you know where
coffee comes from? eyes, sir; we
borrow it from the next-door neigh
bor."
b9 Peacemaker--I wouldn't fight,
nv good men. First Combatant-He
called me a liar, sure. Second COM
batant-An' he called me lazy loafer.
"Well I wouldn't fight over a differ
ence of opinion. You both may be
right"
H9 The variations which time
works in family names was we'll illus
trated at the Scotch family gathering
in Chicago. Various members of the
clan spell their names Mclean, Mac
Lean, McLain, MCLEAN and McLane.
The chiefs name is spelled Maclean.
R9- The custom of Chinese wearing
pigtails is not so very ancient. 1t
dates from 1927, when the Manchus,
who then commenced their conquest
of the Celestial empire, enforced this
fashion of doing up the nair as a sign
of degradation. The average cue is
three feet long.
s9 An excellent way to cure insom-
MIA is to bandage the eyes with a
handkerchief before retiring. The
compress seems to drive away the
blood from the eyes, and so cure, or at
least, temporarily relieve that feeling
so often experienced by insomniacs OF
trying to see in the dark.
a9' "Strange," remarked Mrs.
Brown, "I have rung at Mrs. Smiths
door three times this week and didn't
succeed in raising anyone. guess the
family is out Of town." "Possibly,' y
replied Mrs. Jones, "but Mrs. Smith
was telling me just now that she could
tell your ring among a thousand.
a6" "That girl is the checklist Great.
ure that ever drew the breath of life, "
said a well-know lawyer, the other
day, after stylishly dressed female