Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-04-03
Njausiae Gatherings.

8B The income tax Of India Is lev
led on all incomes of G33 and upward.
AZ The 'army food Of the future" it
is predicted, will be dried eggs in cans.
AZ The census of Mexico's population
takes into account II Indian Ian
guages.
aA' Mexico buys all of it's shears and
sharpedged tools from the United
States.
8s' The catalogues and floral die
tionaries give the names Of $50 kinds
of roses.
89' A foot of newly fallen snow
changes into only an inch of water
when melted.
az In Russia you must marry before
50 or not at all, and you may marry
only five times.
AZ In escaping from fire, creep or
crawl along the room with your face
close to the floor.
ar Sausage castings are imported
into this country in large quantities
from New Zealand.
az 1t is estimated that since the war
began, $1,000 natives have been killed
in the Philippine Islands.
sJ A lowly origin does not preclude
lofty destiny. The carpenters son
was also the Son of God.
ar Wheat that Is grown in northern
ATTITUDES produces much more seed
than grain grown further south.
8T 1t is a principle Of our holy reli-
gion to be diligent in business, fer
vent in spirit serving the Lord.
3aT The man who has no business Of
his own to attend to, will soon be
found attending to the devils business.
"A There will be between $4,000 and
100000 additional acres of land devoted
to rice culture in the South this year.
3T Advice, like the doctors doses, is
easy to give but hard to take, and with
most of us little will go long way.
39 Taking the whole land surface of
the globe into consideration, there are
22s acres for each inhabitant on this
planet.
Sg In Colorado there once lived a
gigantic lizzard-like creature 80 feet
long and as large as the largest whales
of today.
az The queens funeral cost $1SO,OOO,
nearly one-third of which was for the
housing and entertainment Of the for
eign guests.
8aT Life is too short to nurse ones
misery. Hurry across the lowlands,
that you may spend more time on the
mountain-tops.
8J In Atchison county, Kan, a far
mer's wife sold $1,000 worth Of butter
last year. Another one sold 1854 worth
of butter and eggs.
s9' To display a crest in stationery
and plate in England costs each fam
lily tax Of guinea a year. About
10000 people pay it.
a. A leading Cincinnati minister re-
Gently prayed for those in his congre-
cation who were too proud to kneel
and too lazy to stand.
S1 "Oh, What Shall the Harvest
Be?" is appropriately sung by the
choir of church in Scotland while the
collection is being taken up.
s9 For several days past the ther-
mometer in the southern districts of
West Australia registered as high as
145 in the sun and 121 in the shade.
Sg The best men are not so sood as
they ought to be, and the worst men
are a great deal more degraded and
sinful than they themselves or any one
else suppose.
8g In the Gettysburg National park
225 mounted cannons have been placed
and a total of 80 monumental tab
let's and about 500 monuments have
been erected.
az While Spain held Cuba and Porto
Rico, coffee raising was prohibited
industry. Now that those islands have
passed from her, she is encouraging
coffee-tree planting at home.
68 The best evidence that we can give
that we are pious Christians, and
heirs of eternal life, is the earnest
desire of our hearts and labors Of our
lives for the salvation of sinners.
S1 An uncomfortably tight shoe may
be made perfectly easy by laying a
cloth wet in hot water across where
1t pinches, changing several times.
The leather will shape itself to the
foot.
SN Banana juice is said to make a
first-class indellible ink. A spot on a
white shirt from dead-ripe banana is
marked forever, and the juice from
bananas thoroughly decayed is a
bright, clear carmine.
SJ Grazing lands in Indian Territory
which formerly yielded a rental Of 10
cents an acre, are now in sharp de-
mand at from 80 to 40 cents an acre,
for them at the advanced rate.
Sy "See here. Mr.. Grocer" said a
Hartford housewife, IF your going to
bring me any more goods, want them
to be the very best" 1--WE keep none
but the best" "I presume so; you
must sell the worst in order to keep the
best"
20 1t is a sad perversion of tears to
be crying over the poor heathens in
China, or over the sins and short-com-
ings Of other peoples children, in your
own neighborhood, while you are neg
lecting your own childrens spiritual
interest.
"a A poor family in Boston overlook
ed a credit of $40 in a savings bank in
1880, and the matter was forgotten un-
til 1857, when the accumulated amount
WAS $432. FL IT WAS allowed to rennafn