Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-05-21

When the day breaks what becomes of
the fragments? Dissolved in light, of course
Which five letters may form sentence
expressive of forgiveness? I XQsU.
Mr.. Smith, the hogs are getting into
your cornGcld. Never mind, Billy; I'm
Sleepy. Corn won't hurt 'cm.
When may two people be said to be half
witted? When they have an understanding
between them
Why is it easier to be a clergyman than
a physician Because it is easier to preach
than to practice.
We would like to know how many spokSes
there are in wheel of fortune? Ofwhat
kind of timber is the post of honor?
"A country paper lately got up an account
of fire, headed: "Destructive fire Eleven
Buildings, ten Horses, and one COW in Ruins
Why is man who sets out to stop the
circulation of slander like one travelling to
city in the north of Africa? Hecause he
is going to trip lie. (TripolD.
The woman who undertook to scour the
woods, has abandoned the job owing to the
high price of soapsuds. The last that was
heard of her she was skimming the seas.
-"Mr. D., if you'll get my pants done
by Saturday, shall be forever indebted to
you" "1f that's your game they'll not be
done, sure," said the tailor.
Why is a man who makes additions to
false rumors like one who has confidence in
all that is told him? Because he relies on
all that he hears.
Why was Herodias' daughter the fastest
girl mentioned in the New Testament? Be-
cause she got head of John the Baptist on
charger. :,
IF you have friend who loves you who
has studied your interest and happiness de-
Tended you when prosecuted and troubled,
be sure to sustain him in his adversely.
sNIargary, what did you do with that
tallow Mr.. Jones creased his boots with this
morning 9 please, marin, baked the grid
die cakes with it, 'l.uSky yOa did, Miss
thought you wasted it,
An exchange asks very innoccntly if 1t
Ia any harm for young ladies to sit in the
laps Of agcs Our opinion is, that it all de-
pends on the kind Of ag6s SELECTED. Those
from IS to 25, we think are rather hazara0as.
-- Fontenelle was SO years of age when a
young lady asked him at what period of life
men loose all taste for sailaptry. "Indeed, y
replied the old gentleman, "you NUT a0k
the question of some one older than myself,
TO one who said, Il do not believe there
is an honest man in the world another re-
piled, 1T is impossible that one man should
know all the world, but quito possible that
one may know himself.
IL widow said once to her daughter,
when you arc as old as me, you will be
dreaming of husband; fYes, mamma,
replied the thoughtless damsel, 'for the Soc
ond time.
Father said cobler's lad, as he was
pegging away at an old Ghae, they say that
trout bite now We'll, well,' replied old
Jobson, you stick to your work, and they
won't bite you.
An attorney, on being called 10 an ac-
count for having acted unprofossionally In ia
king less than the usual fees from his client,
pleaded that he had taken all the man had !!
He was thereupon honorably acquitted.
"A pleasant cheerful wife is rainbow
set in the aky, when her husbands mind is
set with storms ard tempests; but dissatis-
fed and fretful wife, in the hour Of trouble,
is like one of those fends who are appointed
to torture lost spirits.
"A chicken-faucier is trying to get up
new race of pullets by crossing weather-cocks
with Shanghai hens. We shall watch his
success with much interest. This is pro-
gressive age. Rope walks will yet be made
to trot.
-"Dad, if I was to see duck on the
wing, and was to shoot it, would you lick
Inc ?" ooh, no my son it shows you are a
good marksman, and I would feel proud of
you" "Well, then, dad, pumped our old
drake as he was flying over the fence to-day,
and it would have done you good to see him
drap!
Madam, said a doctor one day to the
mother of a sweet, healthy babe, 'the ladies
have deputed me to inquire what you do to
have such lovely, happy, uniformly good
child?' The mother unused for a moment
over the strangeness of the question, and
then replied simply and beautifully: 'Why,
God has given me healthy child, and let
it alone.
The ladies won't tell their ages, and law
yers need not attempt to get it out of them.
In the Griswold divorce case, in Philadel-
phia, the depositions of Mrs. Anne E. Ste
phens and Mrs. Elizabeth +. Ellet we're read
last week one says she is 'over twenty-one,'
the other says, 4 don't know my age of my
own knowledge which is equivalent to say
ing she can't remember when she was born.
There is story of a young wag who was
once invited to dine with an old gentleman
of rather sudden temper. The dining-room
was on the second floor, and the principal
dish was a fine roast ram. When the old
gentleman undertook to carve it, he found
the knife rather dull, and in sudden pas
sion flung it down stairs after the servant
who had lust brought it. Whereupon the