Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-02-11

tr0d but woman Is the prettleSG.
- He who reckons on his neighbor will 20
to bed fasting.
The best certificate Of mans character
is, " lie keeps his promises
- There has never been 50 large number
of convicts at Sing Sing prison as now. There
are about 900 males and 90 females.
A good minister prayed fcrvently for
those of his congregation who were too proud
to kneel and too lazy to stand.
The number of postage stamps used du-
ring the year 1857 was 1GS, ,l04, $40 the
value of which was 81, ,649,97525.
Industry must prosper" as the man said
when holding the baby for his wife to chop
wood
! In Florida they put thieves the pillory
and pelt them with rotten eggs. Ever after
they are "In bad odor"
The name of the architect who builds
castles in the air, is Tomorrow; and Hope
lays the foundation.
A dandy lately appeared in Iowa with
legs so attenuated that the authorities had
him arrested because he had no riSibh mrans
Of gs"ppoH.
Why cannot deaf man be legally con-
demned for murder? Because the law says,
no man shall be condemned without hear
ing.
An Alabany man advertises for his run
away wife, who "is but ID years of age,
and of a loving disposition, and had on three
rattan hoops"
AT Hamilton, Canada, there is a woman
in prison for civil debt She has been there
for seven years, and still no prospect for her
release.
Secret kindness done to mankind is as
beautiful as secret injuries are detestable.
To be invisibly good is as god-like as to be
invisibly evil is diabolical.
A little stealing is dangerous part, but
stealing largely is a noble art; It's mean to
rob hen-roost of hen, but stealing mil
lions makes US gentlemen.
- Adversely tries our friends--prospcrity
our enemies "Give me neither poverty nor
riches," said divine one. He that is rich
may be proud, he that is poor may steal
1t is only necessary to grow old to be-
come more indulgent. [ see few faults CON-
mitted that T have not committed myself.
| Goethe.
TO pronounce man happy because he
is rich, is just about as absurd as to call
man healthy because he has enough to eat.
a very common mistake.
TO become wealthy-ncvcr spend six
pence for unnecessary objects until you have
accumulated that amount over and above
your regular necessities.
The following laconic cpitaph, carved
on Spanish tombstone, should be rcmem-
bered: 81 was well-tried to feel better
took physic, and here I ann
A lady in Holmes County, Mississippi,
hung herself short time since, from morti-
fication on account Of her husband having
been caught playing cards with negro.
The phrase fighting on his own hook"
is now more elegantly rendered, "waging war
upon the prudent individuality of his person
al curve"
-" "Though it is not in your power" said
Marcus Aurclius, "to be naturalist, po-
ct. an orator, or mathematician, it is in
your power to be vrtuous man, which is
the best nf all.
There is a dandy in Chicago of such
nice tastes that he greases his boots with the
oil of bergamot. He is a first cousin to the
youth who sleeps on bed made of sponge
cake
- He who forgcts the fountain out of which
he drank, and the trees under whose shade
ganboled in the days Of his youth, is a stran-
ger to the sweetest impressions of human
heart
- The unfortunate youth who was drown
ed few days ago ina "food of tender rccol-
ections," was slow y recovering, but yester-
day he fell from the sublime to the ridiculous,
and Was fatally injured.
- "Did the defendants approach the plain
tiffs seriatina ?" inquired an attorney in a
case of assault and battery the other day.
"No sir-ee," was the reply, he went at'en'
with poker
An Irishman, near Boston, becoming
greatly alarmed, recently, al the severity of
the thunder and lightning, fell suddenly up
on his knees, and exclaimed: 40, Lord, for
give US, and stop this"
-sYou want a hundred dollars? Here's
the money; charge five per cent. a month,
and as you want it for year, that leaves
just forty dollars coming to you Innocent
borrower-'Then if wanted it for two years,
there'd be something coming to you eh p
A man by the name of Smith, was re-
Gently convicted by the Lexington Mass.
Circuit court, of whipping negro woman
to death, and was sentenced therefor to
thirty years labor and imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
"A fool, says an Arab proverb, may be
known by six things-anger without cause,
speech without profit, change without mo-
tive, inquiry without object, putting trust in
a stranger, and not knowing his friends from
his foes.