Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-03-27
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casagua there is not single female.
Mr.. Everett's lecture in Richmond,
Va, realized, for the Mount Vernon cause,
1855.
The average quantity of meat Of all
kinds, consumed in France, is about one
sixth Of 8 pound per diem to each person.
"A woman's tongue has been found ca
pable, on actual experiment, to move l,62O
times minute! Think of that and weep.
"A friend has presented US With the
autograph of the blacksmith who 'riveted the
public gaze
"A Yankee doctor has recently got up
q remedy for hard times. It consists Of ten
hours labor, we'll worked in.
-Commodore Connor, Of the United
States Navy, died at his residence in Phila'
delphia on the 2lst instant
He who is passionate and hasty is
generally honest It is your cool, dissem-
bling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
"A partizan paper says sit lisa mistake
that the (opposite) party plays upon harp
Of thousand strings. The organ of that
party is Ire.'
-- 4 rather credulous individual, on be-
ing told that he should not believe more
than half he heard, asked which half shall |
credit?
"A man who puts aside his religion be-
cause he is going into society, resembles a
person taking off his shoes because he is a.
bout to walk upon thorns.
Punch, speaking of the cradle-gift to
the Empress of the French, "would prefer
to see in France another sort of cradle-the
cradle of liberty
The Spartanburg Express states that
corn is selling at SIS cents in that district
and will probably experience still further
decline
The entertainments given by Cover
nor Aiken, of South Carolina, are said to
surpass, in elegance and hospitality, all 9th
ers in Washington.
"A wag says he knows only one thing
better than love, and that is to be thrown
into pond of mush and milk, with the priv
Hedge Of eating your way ashore.
--A distinguished literary lady was once
found in paroxysm Of tears over the sup
posed tomb of Washington at Mount Yer
non. but which turned out to BE an ice
house
Why are the ladies of the present
cav, like the lilies of the scriptures? Be-
cause they toll not, neither do they spin
yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed
IKE ons Of them.
"a lady vas asked to join the divis-
ions of Daughters Of Temperance. She re-
piled, shat is unnecessary, as it is my inten-
ton to join one of the sons in the course of
q few weeks
49, An editor out West says-'1fwe have
offended any man in the short but brilliant
co1rss Of our public career, let hin send US
in e new hat, and say nothing more about
ie."
Mrs. Hoar, wife of Hon. 8. Hoar, of
Concord, Massachusetts, is the only survi-
wing child Of Hon. Roger Sherman, one Of
the signers Of the Declaration of Indepen-
dsnce.
How can FIVE persons divide FIVE eggs
80 that each man shall receive cne, and still
one remain in the dish. The last takes the
dish With the egg, and can let it lie there aS
long as he pleases.
"A private Of the llth regiment Of
Huzzars, named John Dryden, who received
tbir.y-oue wounds in one day at the storming
Of Sebastopol, is entirely recovered, and
again doing duty.
-- Bob, you say that you believe most
diseases are contagious. How long have you
entertained such notions? Ever since sat
along side Of blue-eyed girl and caught
the palpitation of the heart
The reason why man was made after
everything else, was because if he had been
created first, he would have annoyed the Al
mighty by endless suggestions of improve
ment.
"A contemporary marvels at the phe-
nomenon of myriads Of flies getting upon the
telegraph wires upon recent occasion; but
il he will observe closely, he will find it was
Just after an arrival where the wires were
conveying the price Of sugar and molasses.
-In olden time unmarried women used
to wear a scarlet pe.ticoat during leap year.
If they showed the edge of this garment to
any'mau, he was bound to marry them, but
could buy himself off by presenting the la.
dy with a new goHn--a cheap alternative.
-- The statistical returns Of Providence,
Rhode Island, ahow that two patept-medicine
establishments in that city render the enor.
nous product of 1000 barrels and 49,, 600
sottles G: medicine, 70 the amount Of s70C-
900.
- The Riyinssyille FactorT, in Spartan
burg District, with twelve hundred acres Of
,aod belonging to it, was recently sold by
the Sheriff for s19,500. In lS45 the same
property sold for more than three timss that
amount.
- 4 dispatch from New York dated the
18th inst, says: "The chooner Falmouth,
outward bound, was seized in this harbor
tia morning g the United States Marshal,
{, suspicion OF heing boupd on slave ira.