Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-12-13
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to save themselves little work.
II Taken the world over. the annua
rainfall. is go inches.
n There are few things more GER
tain than expenses we hadn't counted
on.
II The people who believe most II
luck are those, who have never hat
any.
sE Clothes don't make a man any
more than a complexion makes wo'
man.
,ssr Many a man who Is up with tht
lark has really kept the lark up al
night.
4T Some fellows have a lot Of goot
in them. but the trouble is they keel
it there.
"a The oldest silver mines are II
Germany, but the richest are II
Spain.
,fJ The loftiest city in the world Il
Pasco, in Peru. It is 1925 feet above
the sea.
f8- The Japanese BRIDES wedding vel
is always used as her shroud at he
death.
II Borneo women dye their hair II
fantastic zcolors-pink, green. blue ant
scarlet.
"a Only IS per cent Of Spain's 90,
900, eoe population are able to, reat
and write.
,S1- The sultan of Turkey has the rich
est collection of gems and regalia II
the world.
IA It is claimed that municipal own
ership of telephones is a failure II
England.
"a This may, be cold, cruel world
but it's the best we have at the pres
ent writing:
II Some men can't pass a saloon an!
more than a woman can pass a bar
gain counter. a.. T..
N You can't always tell II man, 4
we'll bred from the amount Of dougl
in his possession.
Il The girl who says she would mar
ry nothing less than a foreign noble
man really couldn't.
W The finest private collection o
wild animals in the world is that o
the Duke Of Bedford.
flT It isn't until a man asks faVo
that he discovers some Of his friend
o,o ,,oara1x, ocn,,o N a
1zs' More gold watchcs are worn b!
American artisans than by those o
any three other countries.
sE The search for happiness oftenes
resembles a search for ones spectacle
when they are on the nose.
SB The railroad rolling stock OF Eng
land would form train 1900 mile
long with $4,000 locomotives.
ST Some fellows are in such hurr;
to do things that they hate to lose tim
finding out how to do them.
III Salt, in Italy, must be bought Il
the tobacco shops, salt, like tobacco
being a government monopoly.
SJIt would do the chronic bore
lot of good to take a few days of an
get acquainted with himself.
IA Perhaps 1t is possible for a woma'
to keep a secret, but most OF ther
are terribly out Of practice.
6T There are tobacco lands In thi
country which are bringing their own
ers a yearly profit of $4,000.
"a It is estimated that 1t takes tw
years for the waters Of the Gulf Q
Mexico to travel to the coast Of Nor
way.
IA II we had all the money we hav
spent foolishly, we should probabl
find even more foolish ways Of spend
ing 1t.
u In Manila most Of the houses an
offices have tiny window panes mad
of transparent oyster shells instead
glass.
68 The United States has the larges
foreign population. Argentine, wher
12 out Of every 100 are foreigners
ranks second.
1g Oak water pipes as sound as whe
first used, hundreds Of years ago, hav
been found in a coal mine, near Swan
sea, in Wales.
eg The Spanish government encour
ages telephones by taxing the com
panies from 10 to 35 per cent Of thei
net revenues.
fE The electrif1cation Of the LAX
Shore road from Syracuse to Utics
a stretch of forty-four miles, has jus
been completed.
6a OF all the letters which pas
through the postoftices Of the worlc
two-thirds are written by and sent t
people who speak English.
1g At Strohbeck, Prussian SaxonJ
chess Is a part Of the regular schoo
curriculum, and every boy and gil
carries a board and men.
III Most Of the numerous temple
throughout China are painted red
everything lucky or pleasant amon
the Chinese is Of vermilion color.
dz- Every year a layer of the entir
sea, fourteen feet thick, is taken up In
to the clouds: the winds bear thei
burden into the land, and the waite
comes down in rain upon the fields, t
flow back through rivers.
ar BY means Of glass -bottomed boat
it has been discovered that the bottom
Of Monterey Bay, Cal, Is beautiful
submarine forest Of sea oranges, gree,
ribbons, horse tail. sea pompoms, etc
Some Of the plants are thirty feet Il
height.
8T All are ready to speak good word
of the dead. And that Is well. But W
are not all ready to speak good word
of the living. Is that well? Who mos
needs good words? To whom are goo
words Of most service? Let us con
slider this.
ar Mans great actions are performe
in minor struggles. There are nobl
and mysterious triumphs which n
eye sees, no renown rewards, and n
flourish Of trumpets salutes. Life
MIST Inc. isolation, abandonment
and poverty are battlefields which hav
their heroes.
3S The "sorrowful tree" which grow
on the Island Of Goa, near Bombay, i
so called because 1t has dropping