Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-10-17
Hjausiae Gatherings.

f0OlS; DuC OLD men KNOW young Ineu
are fools.-George Chapman.
sI A cremated body leaves a resi-
dunn Of only eight ounces; all besides
Is restored to the gaseous elements.
sA A deacon in Indiana has four boys,
the youngest Of whom Is named Doxol-
ogy, because he's the last of the hims.
Sg The microscopists say that mos
quito has % teeth in the end Of its bill,
II above and the name humber below.
f9 A merchant in Germany has been
fined heavily for using a quotation
from the Bible to head an advertise
ment.
sN Economical: my lunches cost me
only 35 cents" said Wilkins, "Ten cents
for a Sandwich, and quarter for the
waiter"
fg It is said that of the total working
expenses Of the railroads, over 60 per
cent. goes in various ways to the wage
earners.
6y Most Of the men in the islands Of
southwestern Japan lead lives of idle
ness, and are cheerfully supported by
the women.
= sg God never goes back upon his
forgiveness. He does not remind us Of
our pardon; he casts our sins behind
his back.
s| If ones hands perspire easily
when doing delicate work, they should
be bathed in a few drops Of cologne
occa sionally.
e| It would take 40 years for all the
water in the great lakes to pour over
Niagara at the rate Of 100000 cubic
feet q second.
s| The railroad laws of Switzerland
compel all railroads to allow at least
one holiday in every three weeks to
railroad employees.
tn The expressions "Hallelujah" and
Amen" are said to have been intro
duced into Christian worship by st. Je-
rome, about A. D. $50.
f. In the Sahara desert the day
may be boiling hot, but not infrequent-
ly the night temperature falls below
the freezing point.
ss- It is said that the greatest pleas
ure wealth can afford is that Of doing
good. Alas! some wealthy people have
little pleasure, after all.
s% Instantaneous photography has re-
vealed the fact that the former meth
cd of representing electricity as fiery
zigzag was entirely false.
sg' Some men are so religious that
they will strike out for prayer-meeting
and leave their wives to carry in stove
wood to cook for company.
fyA Japanese Christian minister,
writing Of the divorces in japan during
recent year, says there were 1853, 1889
marriages and 116,775 divorces.
sg The tensile strength Of wet rope
Is only ohe-third the strength Of the
rope when dry, while rope saturated
with grease or soap Is weaker still.
sB Papa, will you buy me drum?"
"Ah! but, my boy, you will disturb me
very much If do" "Oh, no, papa; I
won't drum except when you're asleep
es' 1t is pretty generally believed that
church when it Is raining, will yet 60
to a place where ther; is a continual
drought.
kT When America Is as densely peo-
pied as Europe, this half Of the world
will have nearly 1, ,4OO. .OOO. 900. practically
at the present time.
sT The Koran, or Mohammedan Bible,
was written by Mohammed, assisted by
Baticas, Jacobin; Sergius, Nesto-
rian monk; and by learned Jew, and
was published in the year 610, A. D.
sg A little girl, aged three, asked her
father for more candy; but was told
to wait until tomorrow. Looking out Of
the window for few moments she
suddenly called out: Papa 1t looks like
tomorrow now!"
sJ When a Chinese lady approaches
a muddy place, she beckons a boy. The
boy drops on his hands and knees in
the mud, and the lady uses him as a
stepping stone, for which service she
gives him small coin.
8T When you make a mistake, don't
look back at it long. Take the reason
Of the thing into your mind, and then
look forward. Mistakes are lessons Of
wisdom. The past cannot be changed.
The future is yet in your power.
ST Rats must have access to water or
they die. A trapped rat may easily be
tanned by allowing no water but that
offered in a spoon, for the creature
soon learns to recognize the hand which
supplies this all-important necessity.
"a Be very slow to believe that you
are wiser than others; it is a fatal but
common error. Where one has been
saved by true estimation Of another's
weakness, thousands have been de-
own strength.
sg A raft Of remarkable size was
started down the Mississippi river from
| Saltwater, Minn., to st. Louis, Mo-, re-
Gently. The raft is 256 feet wide, 768
feet long, contained 100000 feet Of
lumber and has loaded on it's deck 60
car loads Of shingles.
SI Doctor-If your husbands hic-
coughs don't stop very soon, madam,
he'll be dead man. There is only
one thing to be done. He must be
startled out Of them. Can you suggest
any way Anxiously Wife (thought-
fully)-I might tell him that I had de-
cided not to order that silk dress.
SJ In Hungary and Brittany, the
young girls assemble on certain fete
days, wearing red petticoats with yell
low or white borders round them. The
number of borders denotes the portion
the father is willing to give his daugh-
ter. Each white band, representing sill
yer, denotes 100 francs per annum, and