Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-11-05

-""Tis false" as the girl said When her
lover told her she had beautiful hair.
Receive your thoughts as guests, and
treat your desires like children.
While we retain the power of rendering
service, aud comforting faVors, we seldom
experience iugratitude.
If there is any person to whom you feei
dislike, that is the person OF whom yo1
ought never to speak.-Cec'k
- There are echoes in the air, but rev in
the hearts of our fellow-creatures when the
reyerberation would tell of distress
- There is nearlyas much abilityrequisite
to know how to make use of good advice,
as to know how to act for ones SELF
- In becoming a "lion" of a party, does
a man necessarily have to make beast OF
himself?
"A Yankee editor says that the girls com
plain that the times are so hard the young
men can't pay their addresses. K
- SANDER is a gift exclusively human
So little of mere animality is there in it,
that it is practised only in fullest perfection
by men. So
- Useful knowledge can have no enemies,
except the ignorant; it cherishes youth, de-
lights the aged, is an ornament in prosperity,
and it Yields comfort in adversely.
= Let every man be occupied, and occu-
pied in the highest employment of which
his nature is capable, and die with the con-
sciousness that he has done his best.
The woodman who ssspared that tree
has run short of wood, and is, almost split
ting with vexation to think how green he
was. He now CAKES" donation.
- Some very excellent people tell you,
they dare not hope; why do thay dare not
hope? To me itseems much more impious
to dare to despair.
"A woman has sent very brief letter to
member of Congress from Massachusetts,.
1t reads as follows: "Balaam's ass once
spoke-can't you?"
- Insults, says a modern philosopher, are
like counterfeit money; we can hinder them
being offered, but we are not compelled to
take them.
- Keep yourspirituutained, your thoughts
uncontaminated, so shall your life be virtu-
GUS. AS man thinketh, so he is. Take
care of the thoughts, and the actions will
take care of themselves.
"A gentleman accustomed to the sigma
ture of the firm in which he was partner,
having to sign baptismal register Of one of
his children, entered it as the son of Smith,
Jones & Co.
If seaman should putabout every time
he encounters head wind, he would never
make voyage. So he who permits himself
to be baf1ed by edverse circumstances, will
never make headway in the voyage of life.
-"John," said dotiug parent to her
rather Unsuitable boy, "cau you eat that pud-
ding with impunity?" 81 don't know, ma, -
replied young hopeful, "but I guess, can
with spoon"
If the speculator misses his aim, every
body cries out. sHe's FOOL" and some
times, "He's rogue" If he succeeds, they
besiege his door and demand his daug hter
in marriage.
Wit is the lightning Of the mind, reason
the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight ;
for as the bright orb of the night owes its lus-
tire to the sun, so does reflection owe its exis.
tence to reason.
"A singer who. had led the psalm tune at
a meeting short time since, finding his con-
cluding word, which was Jacob, had not syl-
tables enough to finish the music, endeed
thus: "J-a.a-a-J-a.a.a.fol. de-riddle-cob!'
When Jake Jones discovered that he
had polished his bed-mate's boots instead of
his own, he called it an aggravated instance
of "laboring, and confouudedly hard, too,
under o mistake"
- Never trust a secret with a married man
who loves his wife, for he will tell her, she
will tell her aunt Hannah and aunt Hannah
will impart it as profound secret to every
one of her female acquaintances.
- requires more courage to think differ
emily from multitude, than it does to flight
them. The first hero, therefore, was not
he who made the first conquest, but he who
uttered the first doubt.
-"Why in such hurry?" said a man to
an acquaintance. "Why," said the man,
81 have just bought new bonnet for my
wife, and fear that the fashion may change
before I get home"
An editor once said to bore who had
sat about two hours in his Office, ~ wish
you would do as my fire is doing" CHOW
is that 7" said the other s'Why, sir, it is
going out" replied the editor. "
A witness in Hoosier court being asked
how he knew that two certain persons were
man and wife, replied, "Why, dog on it, I've
heard 'em scolding each other, more'n fifty
times" The evidence was held as conclu-
sive.
"A Dutchman recently went into bank
to deposit a number of Spanish quarters
The teller informed him that they were worth
only twenty cents. The Dutchman said
81 save 'em, because te bill preak, now te
silver preak tool"
Greed for money is like fre--the more
fuel it has, the hotter it will burn, as every