Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-29
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py looking at the tongue OF q wagon, can tell
what ais it?
The Virginia Wheat Crop exhibits
a very promising appearance through the
valley.
- IF you have a friend who loves you
who has studied your interest and happiness
defended you when prosecuted and trou-
bled-be sure to sustain him in his adversely.
"A down-east paper wautsto know why
credit should nottbe given to physicians in
notices of death, as we'll as ~clergymen in
notices of marriages. p
The journals of the West TEEN with
announcements of the Aourishing condition
of the coming crops. The same is the case
in England.
-W Why are sheep the most dissipated
and unfortunate of animals? Because they
they gambol in their youth, frequent the
turf, are often blacklegs, and are universally
aeeced.
The oldest couple living are supposed
to be a Mr.. Snyder and his wife, who reside
at Burnside, Pa. He is Ill and she is lO7
years old, and they have been married about
50 years.
"A I" talking member Of the Louisi-
ana Legislature lately presented a dumb boy
with a shirt. The boy wore it and has since
recovered his power of speech. So says a
private correspondent of a Louisiana paper.
-"Inever complained ofmy condition."
says the Persian poet Sadi, s'but once, when
nv feet were bare, and I had no money to
buy shoes butt met a man without feet, and
became coutentwith my lot"
The Charleston Courier, Of the 23d,
state, that the suspended banks of Charles
ton are making arrangements for an early
resumption of specie payments, and which
We trust will be carried into effectat an early
day.
The ordinary rate of speed is: Ola
debtor With. sheriff at his heels, IL miles per
hour. Ofa teapot, at an old maids soiree,
Is. Of a bottle, at o~onviyal meeting, q.
Of a scandal, going the circuit Of a small
countrytown, 40.
Three pianos have been made from
the wood Of the Charter Oak. Ittakes a
high polish, and the instruments which the:
wood e~ncloses are of the best description.
Yankee Doodle is said to sound well on
them.
-a Doctor" said a despairiug patient
to his physician, al am in a dreadful state:
Ican neither tag nor set. What shall 1
do 2" >" Why,athen," replied the doctor,
very gravely 81 think you had better
roost."
G-Rhiueas T. Barnum is in luck once
more. He is again at the head Of the New
York Museum, which has been la%nguishing
forswant Of his paternal care, and with the
assistance of 50, ZOO lately received on insu.
rance, is preparing to rebuild " Iranistau,"
his late residence at Bridgeport, Conn. on
q magnificent scale.
Quite q number of womeu-most of
them old maids-have issued q call for a
convention, stating their object to be 'to gain
a true knowledge Of the nature and attrib-
utes of men,. We respectfully suggest to
them that they are not going the right way
to work. Whydon't they get married.
A youth smitten with the charms of a
beautiful maid, only vented his passion by
shy looks, and now and then touching his
fair ones toe with his toe under the table.
The girl bore with his advances a little while
in silence, whenshe cried Outlook here,
ifyou love me tell me SO, but don't dirty my
stockings"
- Halls Journal of Health (New York;
is responsible for the following: owe have
often gone to hear Abolition stars lecture,
masculine, feminine, and neuter but never
saw so much spontaneous gladness in the
face Of the whole Of them as may be witness
ed in any half hour on the levee, at New
Orleans, among the negroes who are loading
and unloading the cotton boats
"A United States naval officer recently
at Siam, was introduced to the King, whom
he found an accomplished scholar, and well
acquainted with the English language. He
had two copies of Webster's Dictionary,
which he remarked was one of the best he had
ever met. A thousand copies Of Webster's
Spelling Book were recently ordered forCon-
stantinople.
"A gentleman from Ohio lately stated,
that by adding his personal observations to
those Of a friend, he could say, that from
Omaha City, Nebraska, to Washington, there
was a line of prayer meetings along the whole
length of the road, so that wherever a Chris
tian traveller stopped to spend the evening,
he could find crowded prayer meeting a.
cross the entire breadth of our vast Repub-
lie. $
The London Waterman records that
the Rev. John Hickling, ninety-three years
of age, and having been seventy years a
preacher, on the 26th of February delivered
a discourse of an hour and twenty min
utes, on clearly Methodism," and that in
its delivery ''there was no deficiency Of
voice, memory, or mental power, but the
whole was connected, interesting, and in
structive." On the 18th, he preached
twice to overlooking congregations-his dis
courses being each an hour long, and dis
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