Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-06-27
atjausiae Gatherinas.

loses his temper.
p~ There are too many people who
like to tell bad news.
pB The Union Pacific railroad cross
es nine mountain ranges.
p~ No mans work is a failure un-
less he himself is a>failure.
p@ What becomes of all the smart
children after they grow up?
p@ If you are gentleman you will
never find it necessary to say 80.
p8 The best preparation for the
future is the present we'll seen to.
p@ A man does more toward making
fate than fate does toward making
him.
s6r 1t is one thing to fill a vacant
pulpit and another to fill vacant
congregation.
p6r Every president of the United
Estates has either been lawyer or a
soldier, or both.
p@ The sentence "John quickly ex-
temporized five tow bags" contains
all the letters of the alphabet.
p@ Having a place in the world is
one thing; but being in ones place in
the world is quite another thing.
p@ How to be a Christian. Don't
think Heaven was made for the ex.
elusive use of yourself and friends.
p6E A loud hallelujah shout does not
glorify God half as much as a quiet
smile bestowed upon some unfortunate
one.
p@ Eight bronze howitzers have
been stolen from the Chickamauga
National park, presumably by metal
thieves.
s@ Every man has an idea that if
he had been in Adams place, the
whole earth would now be a Garden
of Eden.
p6r Alaska, with its islands, is said
to have a coast line of $4,000 miles,
equal in extent to the circumference of
the globe.
p% The Sierra Nevada Range of
California is nearly 500 miles long, 70
miles wide, and from 1000 to $4,000
feet high.
D6- 1t takes lifetime of experience
to teach us that we are our best friend ;
that we are our own worst enemy we
never learn.
pI The difference between persever-
ance and obstinacy is that one comes
from strong will and the other comes
from a strong won't.
b6F So dense is the water in the
deepest parts of the ocean, that an
iron clad, if it were to sink, would
never reach the bottom.
p6e The word hairbreadth, now used
for an infnitesimal space, was once a
regular measure. 1t was the width of
16 hairs laid side by side.
s6. When a man learns to mind his
own business and leave the affairs of
others alone, he accomplishes success
as great as falls to mortals.
p~ 1t very often happens that the
black sheep of the family is the one
called upon to furnish wool to keep
the rest of the family warm.
D6- "What are you trying to raise
here ?" asked the traveller; and the
farmer looked up from his work long
enough to reply, "a mortgage"
pd- The longest artificial water
course in the world is the Bengal
canal, 900 miles; the next is Erie,
1868. Each cost nearly $1O,000,0OO.
pdr The department of agriculture
estimates the total area planted in
cotton at 25, ,55S, 900 acres, an increase
of 2,O96, 900, or 81 per cent. over last
year.
p@ Suffering becomes beautiful
when when anyone bears great calami-
ties with cheerfulness, not through
insensibility; but through greatness of
mind.
H6-. A young stockbroker having re-
Gently married stout old widow with
100000, said that it wasn't so much
her face that attracted him as the
figure.
Da- Among the Kondeh people, who
live on Lake Nyassa, in Africa, the
favorite form of suicide is to enter the
water and allow ones self to be de-
voured by crocodile.
p@ When nuts and screws have be-
come immovable on account of rust,
pour on little kerosene and wait a
few minutes, when they can be easily
removed and the bolt saved.
rdT Robert V. Roosevelt, uncle of
Governor Roosevelt, of New York,
who has just returned from Paris,
says the exposition ''is the worst fake
and fraud ever perpetrated."
1@" Those who are today for you
will, perhaps, be against you tomor-
row. On the other hand, you may
have as friends those who now hate
you, for men change like the wind.
Hd5. The storing of automobiles is
quite a problem in New York city
now. Some of the liverymen have
declined to accept them on the ground
that they are running the livery
business.
Hd- The United States never coined
gold pieces of higher denomination
than $40. Some years ago jeweler
at San Francisco struck gold pieces of
the value of $50; but that was on
private account.
H6r Fish balance themselves in wa
ter by the muscular contraction of the
air bladders. At death the muscles
relax and the air bladders expand,
with the result that the fish is thrown