Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-05-22
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AZ The area Of winter wheat is g.
100000 acres larger than it was last
year.
aD' Never give way to melancholy;
resist it steadily, for the habit will
encroach.
n" Contributions at New York for the
fire sufferers of Jacksonville, Fla,
amount to $4,000.
aN No matter how many mistakes
you've made. The point is, what have
you learned by them?
Ar Belgium, hardly larger than one
of our New England states, as $500
miles of public highways.
az SAttorney-GeneralH Harlan, Of Porto
Rico, has created CONSERVATION by de-
claring prize fighting illegal
"a The best seasoned wood contains,
by actual experiment, at common tenn
perature, about one-tenth of water.
sg A discontented and grumbling
woman is as fatal to the peace and
happiness of a family as a drunken
man.
ar The oldest large bridge in Europe
is that at Ratisbon, over the Danube.
1t was built in 1135, and is 994 feet in
length.
SB The Bible must be translated into
over 80 dialects before it can be Of
service to all the Inhabitants Of the
Philippines.
3J The human brain, according to
Cuvier, is the one twenty-eighth part
of the body; that Of the horse but one
four hundredth part.
sg Coming in the course of his can
vass to tailor's shop, facetious can
didate said, What we look for here
are meaures not men,"
SJ A wealthy man, living in Du-
buque, Ia, adopted nine little girls as
his daughters. They are his nieces.
He already has II sons.
ar OF GIL paupers in the Edinburg
poorhouse, not one was an abstainer;
and 407 admitted that their poverty
was due entirely to intemperance.
ar A patent medicine dealer says in
his advertisement that "the blood is
the centre of vitality" Yes, and the
nose is the scenter of the system.
S9 Fleming won't allow his wife to
get trusted. He says she hasn't any
Judgment" That's so. She showed
her want Of it when she married him"
Ar "Why do you laugh at his stale
jokes?" "If did not laugh he would
think that I did not understand the
jokes and would try to explain them" "
ar The garrison at Fort Gibson, Alas
ka, has issued supplies to destitute
miners to such an extent that there
is likely to be a shortage of provisions
at the post.
revealed that French firm was max
ing more than $4,000 corsets year for
men, 5000 being shipped to England,
chiefly for army officers.
"a Every soldier returning from the
Philippines praises the islands as a
region Of great undeveloped riches. On
the average about fourth of a re-
turning regiment remains behind to
engage in business.
8J A gentleman on a bicycle was OBJ
served displaying a very thin pair of
legs in knickerbockers, when one
friend remarked to another that "those
calves must have been taken away too
soon from their mother"
Sy A New York business delegation
returned from Texas to say that the
time may come when New York will
not stand first in population. The Lone
Star State grows upon it's visitors as
a vast region Of great possibilities.
SJ The Church Times says that on a
recent Sunday in church in Dublin
the choir was startled during the sing
ing of the psalm by the appearance Of
the organ blowers head, who shouted
out, "Sing like blazes; the bellows is
busted"
ag A species Of frog in Borneo has
very long toes, and these are webbed
to the tip. 1t can leap from a high
tree, spread it's toes, and Is thus sup
piled with four little parachutes, which
enable 1t to easily descend. For this
reason 1t Is called "the flying frog"
8T Robert W. Potts, of Monroe City,
wants $1,000 damages from Theodore
Jordan, saloon-keeper, claiming that
the defendant continues to sell him
intoxicants. although the plaintiff has
warned him to the contrary, whereby
he (the plaintifO has lost the respect
Of his neighbors and the affection Of
his wife. Potts Is local preacher and
somewhat eccentric.
sB "You old idiot" said the judges
partner, in the privacy Of the office,
'how could you sentence Jorbo to two
years in prison when you knew he was
innocent?" "Why," said the Judge,
"the warden Of the penitentiary is a
good friend Of mine, and he wrote me
the other day that he really wanted a
good man to wait on his table And
this fellow Jorbo is one Of the best fel-
lows in the business"
AT A reporter last week took a CEN
sus Of a mile of Fifth avenue, New
York, embracing the homes of many
rich men, and found just Is children
under the age of IL. There was an av-
erage Of one child to three houses.
Then the reporter transferred his at
tention to the East Side tenement dis
trict, where he found in one fiat-house
63 children, or more than four times
the number found in the whole Fifth
avenue mile.
AZ A farmer in Dickinson county,
Kansas, recently found some queer
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