Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-05-07
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are half way to being rogues.
Great men never effect any thing; it is
your three cent folks that put on air-swells,
and put on the pomp.
Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a
friend, but thou mayst friend into an en-
emy.
Rats are getting so scarce in Paris, that
the price of kid gloves has gone up to i've
francs per pair.
- Many books owe their success to two
things-the good memory of those who write,
and the bad memory of those who read them.
- The greater the acknowledged merits of
ary one, the more severe will be the SEN
tence passed upon any of his defects, real or
imaginary.
A lady told her husband that she had
read the cart of Love-" on purpose to be a
ereeable to him. ~ had rather have the love
without art" he replied"
The Toledo Times says they are sinking
we'll in that city, which will be twenty-five
hundred feet deep. This will be the deep
est we'll in the world.
The other day, an old lady rushed into
the garden in search of her daughter, on be-
ing told that the young lady had gone there
with tsrake"
A late San Francisco paper says that
the churches there have determined to sing
no more long metre tunes-they being too
slow for the country and the people.
Adam Good has bell foundry in Buff
falo. Pious people are scandalized by SLOW
ly reading his sign : A dam Good Bell Foun-
der. -.
Princes learn no art truly but that of
horsemanship. The reason is, the brave
beast is no Aatterer; he will throw the prince
as soon as his groom.
Young ladies who faint on being "pro-
posed to-" can be restored to consciousness
by just whispering in their ear, you were on
ly joking.
"A father writing to his son, says, "a love
of the Drama is to be cultivated, but be
careful that You don't confound the love of
the Drama with the love of an actress"
This morning friend said to an Irish
man, "Good morning, Patrick-slippery this
morning" "slippery? And be jabers, it
is nothing else, your honor; upon my word,
and slid down three times, without getting
up once"
"Harry," said a young lady, on the seat
before US at the theatre, last evening, chow
I should like to be an actress" "An ac-
tress, Henrietta why" "Oh it must be
so nice to be made love to in such pretty
words crery evening"
An Irishman meeting countryman, in
quired his name "Walsh," said the gentle
man. "Walsh," responded Paddy, care ye
from Dublin I knew two ould maids there
of that name was either Of 'em your moth
cr 2"
-"Your husband seems to be a very great
favorite among the ladies'" saiG Mrs. Jones
to Mrs. Butterwood, the other day. eyes, Z"
said Mrs. B., "butfo the life Of me, I don't
see where they find anything to LIKE nev-
er could" -
"A man had sign up, "cheap ladies"
shoes for sale here. He found that not q
woman entered his store. No wonder-the
ladies don't like to be called cheap-they
want to be called dear.
Sam was asked what he thought of the
effect of hot drinks on the system. "Hot
drinks, sir" said he, "are decidedly bad
Tea and coffee, sir, are hurtful. And even
hot punch, when it is very hot-.very hot in.
taken often, in large quantities,
1 suppose, is slightly deleterious."
- An iron comb, about four inches long,
with the letters &C. Washington" forming
the top, has been picked up in Chester Co.,
Penn. The Westchester Republican says:
every likely this comb belonged to the age
when Washington and his army were at VAL
ley Forge"
-"Well," said a soft-hearted, blundering
Jonathan, the other day, "Suke has gin me
the sack, by gravy I've lost her." "Lost her
how" inquired his sympathizing friend.
81 laid the soft soap on her so thick, that
the critter got so proud she wouldn't speak
to me- %
An old man picked up half a dollar on
the street. "Old man, that's mine," said
keen-lookiug rascal, $50 hand it over."-
"Did yours have hole in it? ?" asked the
old man. eyes," replied the other, smart
ly. "Then it's not thine" mildly replied
the old man "thee must learn to be little
sharper next time, my boy"
-"Do you go to school now, Charley?
"Ycs, sir, had a fight to-day, too," he re-
piled. "You had {! Which whipped? ?"-
"Oh, got whipped" he replied with great
frankness. "Was the other boy bigger than
you ?" "No, he was littler." "Well, how
came you to let littler boy whip you ?'-
ooh, you see, he was madder nor aoas !"
Childhood is like mirror catching and
images all around it. Remember,
that an impious or profane thought uttered
by parents lips, may operate on the young
heart like careless spray of water thrown
upon polished steel, staining it with rust,
which no after securing can deface.
Sub Rosa, a term that passes current as
significant Of secrecy, had its origin thus:
Among the Greeks the rose was consecrated