Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-25
fun 4 famg.

- Fame is like a river, narroWest where
its birthplace is, and broadcast afar off.
- The friend of order has made half his
way to virtue.
= 1t is not great wealth nor high station
which makes a man happy-many of the
most wretched beings on earth have both.
Many of US are led by our vices, but a
great many more of US follow them without
any leading at all.
- Much remains unsung, as a tom a tsaid
to the brickbat, when it abruptly cut short
his serenade.
- In Paris, the police have caught men
catching cats, to be sold at the low eating
house as rabbits. Rare bits truly!
- It rarely happens that one artificial
mind can succeed in forming another; We
seldom initiate what we do not love.
One of our exchanges speaks of a 'fn-
ished scamp We wish they were all fin
ished.
- Thou rain'st in this BOSOM as the
chap said when a basin of water was thrown
over him by the lady he was serenading.
Alta county court a witness was asked
if he was a husbandman, when he replied,
NO, sir, Use not married.
- In the choice of lover, a woman con-
siders more how he appears in the eyes OF
other women than il her OWL.
- Never confde in a young man new
pals leak. Never tell your secrets to the
aged old doors seldom shut closely.
A man who marries a frivolous firt,
gives to airy nothing a local habitation and
a name
- coquette is a rose-bush, from which
every young beau plucks a leaf, and the
thorns are left, for the husband.
"A young lady being asked why the
noun bachelor is singular, replied, because
it's very singular they don't get married.
- However we'll young ladies may be
versed in grammar, there are but few who can
decline matrimony.
- An enlightened agriculturist out West
thinks the best way to make farmers grow
madden, is to poke 'em with a sharp stick.
Long words, like long dresses, fire.
quently hide something wrong about the
understanding.
- When we are old, our friends find it
difficult to please US, and are less concerned
whether we be pleased or not.
- Some of the Chinese in California
have silver watches so large that they use
the outside to fry potatoes in.
Alta late trial, the defendant, after
hearing a witness, jumped up and said
"Them allegations is false, and the alligator
knows it!~
- Would you rather die by the guillotine,
or be roasted to death? By the latter pro-
cess because a hot steak (stake) is better
than a cold chop.
- A lady, on separating from her hus'
band, changed her religion; being deter
mined, she said, to avoid his company in
this world and the next too.
"A man was walking quickly down the
street the other day, when he was suddenly
struck by a thought and knocked in the
gutter.
- Somebody says that a pretty woman is
a brilliant poem, full of illustrations. When
bound in ones arm increases to several vol
umes.
There is a local editor out West SC
poor, that he never stands upon more than
one foot at a time, for fear that he may wear
out his boots quick.
A Spanish proverb says, that the Jews
ruin themselves at their passovers, the
Moors at their marriages, and the Christians
at their
A favorite mode of introduction in
Brazil is said to be: This is my friend; il
he steals anything from you, I am response
Bile for it,
"A landlady in Philadelphia, it is said,
makes her pies so light, that her dodgers car
see to go to bed without a lighted candle,
after eating a moderate sized piece.
Have you BLASTED Hopes?' asked o
lady of a green librarian whose face was
much swollen by the toothache, NO, ma'am
but I have a blasted toothache.'
"A farmer was asked why he did moi
subscribe for a newspaper. Because said
he, when father died he left me a good many
and I have not read them through yet
Every vice and folly has a train of Sc
cret and necessary punishment. If we are
lazy, we must expect to be poor if intern
perate, to be diseased if luxurious to die
preuaturely.
- Glass in the middle of geography
stands up. whats a pyramid? "A pile
of men in a circus, one on the top of thu
other!' Where is Egypt? where ii
alters was
- In an engagement in Egypt, a French
man, falling into the power Of a Highland
er's grasp, sang out, quarter! quarter p
She'll no hive time to quarter ye now re
piled Donald, she'll just cut you in twa
- A countryman going into a probate
Office where the wills are kept in huge vol
umes on the shelves asked if they were al
Bibles. mo, SIR replied a clerk, they art
all Testaments.'
- Squatter Sovereignty-The entrance