Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-07-09
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-uTrees which abide age" said Burke,
"grow slowly. The gourd that came up In
a night, withered in a day"
A patent has been taken out, in Boston,
for cleaning fish, by giving them snuff, when
they sueeze their scales off.
"A Young lady being asked why the noun
bachelor is singular, replied, "because it's
very singular they don't get married"
When did Esau the hairy man, lose his
whiskers? Ans. When his brother Jacob
shaved him.
No one living in society can be indepen-
dent. The world is like watchdog which
fawns upon you or tears you to pieces.
"I shall never get out of this scrape a.
live" said the hog, as they rubbed the brls-
ties off his back with clam shells and scald-
ing water.
When we see pretty female foot we
naturally conclude that it belongs to beau
tiful woman, on the principle that "all is
we'll that ends we'll"
- Mirabeau said of man who was excee-
dincly fat, that God created him only to
show to what extent the human skin would
stretch without breaking.
-nMy horse, if you please" said the
wife. "My money bought that horse: p
nYes, madam" replied the husband, bow
ing, "and your money bought me-"
Man is never wrong while he lives for
others; the philosopher who contempates
from the rock is less noble image than the
sailor who struggles with the storm.
Punch says schoolgirl would like to
have two birthdays every year. When she
grows up woman she objects to having
even one.
The city of Paris is supplied daily with
twenty-five million gallons of water, London
fortY.five millions, Boston ten millions, New
York thirty millions, and Philadelphia nj
teen millions.
"A gentleman who has very strong de-
sire to be a funny man, sat down upon a
hooped skirt the other day. With despc'
ration equal to any emergency, he whlstled
"I'm sitting on the STYLE Mary"
Theodore Hook and friend in a stroll
together came to a toll-bridge. "Do you
know who built this bridge?" said the gen
tleman to Hook. "No," replied the w.t.
"but if you go over you will be tolled."
- Helter-skelter isl contraction Of the Lat
in Hilariter celeriter, "cheerfully and quick
ly." Hocuspocus is in like manner verba
mutation of Hoe est corpus, "This is my bo
dy."
"A little girl, nine years old, having at
tended soiree, being asked by her mother
on returning, how she enjoyed herself, an
swered: "I am taN of happiness, couldn''
be any happier unless could grow
Boy said an ill.tempered old fellow t'
noisy lad, swhat are you hol1crin' for wher
10y, asoiag -hr SS"- suuypb. ..,~r"bEaed u8
hoUerin' p
1t is suggested that woman, and not he1
wrongs should be redressed for that beau
ty, like real estate, ;s to be valued only BY
the quantity of square feet enclosed, seems
recognized principle of feminine faith.
A good conscience will consume your
grief as the sun dissoves ice. 1t is spring
when you are thirsty-a staff when you are
weary--a screen when the sun burns-and q
pillow in death.
An Irish servant girl was requested by a
lady to go to one of our dry goods stores and
obtain "bed comforter" for her. About
an hour afterwards she returned with one of
the clerks. 1t is needless to add, perhaps,
that the lady tainted.
"A gentleman complained to old Banis-
ter that some malicious person had cut off
his horses tail, which as he meant to sell
him, would be great drawback. "Then," "
said Charles, "you must sell him wholesale" "
"Wholesale" says the other; chow so?"
"Because you cannot retail him."
"A traveller in Africa declares that he
met one King who had eleven portly wives,
all of whom were weighed monthly, the one
that weighed the most being invariably in
stalled mistress of the household until the
time of the next weighing.
Pleasure unattained is the hare which
we hold in chase, cheered on by the ardor
of competition, the exhliarating cry of the
dogs, the shouts of the hunters, the echo of
the horn, the ambition of being in at the
death. Pleasure attained is the hare hang
ing up in the sportsman's larder, worthless,
disregardcd, despised and dead
In the bull-6ghting days, blacksmith,
who was rearing bull pup, induced his old
father to 60 on all-fours and initiate the bull
The canine pupil pinned the old man by the
nose. The son, disrcgarding the paternal
roaring, exclaimed, "Hold him, Growler boy,
hold him bear it, feyther, bear it, it III be
the making Of the pup"
-"Boy," said a traveller to little fel-
low, whom he met, clothed in pants and
roundabout, but minus another very neces-
sary article of apparel--"Boy, where's your
shirt?" "Mamma's washing it," "Have
you no other?" "No other !" exclaimed
the urchin in indignant scorn, would you
want body to have hundred shirts? ?"
"A fellow went few weeks since into the
store of fashionable milliner. uHaye vou