Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-09-03

who think, and a tragedy TO those WHO leee' =,
Wealth without friends, is like life with
out health; the one is an uncomfortable for
tune, the other miserable being.
- The darkest and most contemplate ig-
norance is that Of not knowing ones's self;
that all We have. and all We excel iu, is the
gift of God. .....
There are in the English language 20,-
500 nouns, 40 pronouns, 5000 adjectlves,
5000 verbs, SO interjections, &c. In all,
there about $4,000 words. -;
"A raw Irishmau, on his fret sight of a
locomotive, declared it was the devil 'No;,
said his companion, ~''it's only a steamboat
hunting for wather." IS
1t is with certain good qualities as with
the senses; those who are entirely deprived
of them can neither appreciate nor compre-
hend them.
Somebody says wife should be like
roasted lamb-tender and nicely dressed
Somebody else wiokedly adds-''aud without
sauce "
- Money and time are the heaviest bur.
dens of life, and the unhappiest of all NOR
tails are those who have more of either than
they know how use. - = e.. - :
Wedlock without love is like feast Of
dishes-a mere show and deception. We
would sooner wed an almshouse than female
minus heart. Well, we would. .,
Prosperity is the only test that vulgar
man can pass through. If man has any
thing mean in his disposition, a little good
luck is sure to bring it out.
There are some minds which, like the
vulture,s eye, can pass heedlessly over the
beauties Of the verdant meadow, and spy on
ly the carrion that lies rotting in the corner.
II say, Pat, what are you about-sweep-
ing out that room ?" "No," answered Pat,
ri am sweeping the dirt, and leaving the
room"
Why is printer like hen? Because
he sets awhile, matches out newspapers and
then lays his type in the case. The fellow
who perpetrated the above is bad egg.
- The less a man knows the more easily
he is tickled. A tbread-bare joke, uttered
by second rate clown, will keep a bench of
blockheads in laughter for week.
An antiquary is a person who busies
himself in collecting the trash which Time
has flung away, and endeavoring to preserve
what Time has forgotten.
1t is an extraordinary fact,that when
people come to what is commonly called
"hig gh Words" they generally use slow Ian
guage." -. ..-.. ,.'.
- Somebody said that if nature had de-
signed man to be a drunkard, she would
have constructed him like churn, so that
the more he drank the more firmly he would
stand.
We learn federation from children; for
no man can have his whiskers pulled by a
young brat, without feeling what an intoer-
able nuisance he must have been as child
himself.
-"Mr. d." observed Mr.. B., in recent
trial, 'practises bis arguments before a glass
"Better practise them before a glass than
qfcr glass;" was the courteous retort of
the able lawyer
Guard, if it be possible, your friends
from injuring you, lest they, by so doing,
become your bitterest enemies, never forgiy-
ing the wrongs they have themselves infict-
ed.
- The truest sentiment ever read at pub
lie dinner was "Hoops and the Equator
Crinoline and the Equinoctial line, God
bless 'em The one encircles the earth, the
other the heavens"
The rules to form young man are to
talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone up,
on what has passed in company, to distrust
ones own opinions, and value others that
deserve it.
The Culpepper Observer says: "Want-
ed at this office, an editor who can please
everybody. Also, foreman who can so ar
range the paper as to have every mans ad-
vertisement to head the column"
DIR. Cousin having heard the famous T.
Fuller repeat verses on scolding wife, was
so delighted with them as to request copy;
but Fuller told him copy was needless, as
he had the original"
John B. Stanley, of Florida, is the
greatest hunter of the age. Besides his al
most daily presence on his plantation, during
the last twenty-five years, he has killed at
least ten thousand deer, one hundred wolves,
sixty panthers and twelve bears.
The force of emphasis, in giving mean
ing to sentence, is we'll illustrated by the
brief colloquy which we overheard, the other
day, between two persons: "Do you imagine
me scouudrel, RI" demanded one, indig-
nantly. "No, do not Imagine you to be
one."
-Agentleman was promenading the street
with bright little boy at his side, when the
little fellow cried out: "Oh, pa, there goes
an editor" "Hush, hush !" said the father,
"don't make sport of the poor man-God
only knows what you may come to yet."-
What compliment upon the fraternity !
That man deserves-a button.
"A Western correspondent says: 81 at
tended wedding few days since. Wish
ing to saw something hecnminn the occasion.