Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-11-26


called him pheasant? Because it would
be making game of him.
A critic, malignant enough to tell the
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nature is a woman trying to run.
- Clear writers, like clear fountains, DO
not seem so deep as they arc; the turbid
look the most profound.
- WHY is a woman in love like man of
profound knowledge? Because she under
stands the arts and sigh.enccs.
Pride, though it cannot prevent the ho-
ly affections of nature from being felt, may
prevent them from being shown.
Remember this, girls: the secret which
YOU dare not tell your mother is danger
Gus secret.
- Truth is violated by falsehood, and it
may be equally outraged by silence.--Am-
midA.
- The most lovable heart is that which
loves the most readily; but that which
easily loves also easily forsets.-Goethe.
- Society, like shaded silks, must be view
ed in all situations, or its colors will deceive
US Wigglesworth.
Money makes the man." Perhaps it
does; but Punch thinks it particular y neces-
sary that the man should make money first.
-Alphonse Karr, the French author, has
this singular yet truthful motto upon his
sisnet ring: 81 fear only those I love-"
Self-cou6ence is the first requisite to
great undertakings; yet he who forms his o.
pinion of himself, without knowing the pow
ers of other men, is very liable to error.
- Home is emphatically the poor mans
paradise. The rich, with their many re-
sources, too often live away from the hearth
stone.
- tits stated that professor at Cambridge
has been displaced, because he regulated the
astronomical clock so as to make it keep
mean time.
Look not mournfully into the past-it
cannot return; wisely improve the present.
it is thine; 60 forth to meet the shadowy
future without fear, and with manly heart.
- Neither men nor women can become
what they were intended to be by carPetlng
their progress with velvet; real strength is
tested by difficulties.
True politcness may be cherished in the
hovel as we'll as in the palace, and the most
tattered drapery cannot conceal its winning
charms.
- Learning is like mercury, one of the
most powerful and excellent things in the
world, in skilful hands; in unskiful, most
mischievous.
- He who is not handsome at twenty, nor
strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise
at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich
or wise.
At late hen convention, the feathered
tribe finding it difficult to raise the price of
eggs, resolved for the future to lay only ten
to the dozen.
- The Albany Knckerbocker cautions
the four black cats that are continually rails
ing thunder on our back shed, to beware, or
we'll send them to the sausage shop
The Koran has maxim all may en-
dorsc. GA mans true wealth, hereafter, is
the good he does in this world to his fellow
men,"
- The man who first introduced the fan
ning-mil into Scotland was denounced as an
atheist; he was getting up gales of wind
when Proyidece willed calm
Verse is like pair of skates, with which
man can fly lightly over the smooth, shin
ing surface Of the ideal, but stumbles hor-
ribly upon an ordinary road.
If you wish to cure scoldiug wife, ne
yer fail to laugh at her with all your might
until she ceases-then kiss her. Sure cure,
and no quack medicine!
-Theophile Gautier predicts the time
when the forces of the soul shall be reduced
to chemical formulas, and apothecaries will
sell wit in bottles, generosity in pills and po-
etic genius in powders.
A member of the Lazy Society was
complained of last week by another, for run
ming. His defence was that he was going
down hill, and that it was more labor to walk
than run.
The understanding is lowered from as
sociation with interiors. With equals, it at
tains equality; but with superiors, superior
ity. He who calls in the aid of an equal un-
derstanding, doubles his own.
Men often escape lightly from the first
imprudence, and suffer terribly from its rep
etitiou for folly repeated becomes sin, and
sin is always punished There is no varia-
bleness in the government of God.
- Habits are as easily caught as 'yallar
birds Let circus arrive in town, and in
less than week half the boys in town will
be throwing summersets, and breaking their
necks over an empty mackerel barrel.
- Custom is a great tyrant; let anything
the most absurd get into common vogue, and
it isa perfect so. If smoking were not in
the custom, it would take years and almost
centuries to bring so strange habit into
common use.
-Censure is willingly indulged, because