Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-07-01
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cism-write on bank notes.
- Why are hoops like an obstinate man !!
Because they often stand about tribes.
- Surley some people must know them
sel7es-they never think about any body
else.
49, The surest way to lose your health is
to be all the time drinking that of other
folks.
-Serve every one as much as you can,
and compete With no one more than you
must. 49,
- The man who carried the subject too
far has let it drop. The constable was after
him. ~
ITO kill bed-bugs, take corrosive sub
Innate and daub it all over your bedstead |;
then burn your bedstead and bed clothing,
and move into another house.
-A FIRE broke out recently in a broken
bank of Illinois. The Cashier snothered it
with bank.rags The flames were no match
for their "weight in swila CATS"
Ina certain town, lately, a quack's
sign was stolen. It had upon it, "To DR..
- g apartments" The missing sign was
found securely nailed to the c~hurchyard
gate.
60 A large hen, on the Frankfort road,
near Philadelphia, recently Matched out nifty
six chickens at one batch, which perhaps IS
the most extensive achievements the poultry
line on record.
-sMr. Lemon has come over to our
party, said q politician exultingly to an op-
ponent. Well, if your party has nothing
stronger than Lemon.aid to recruit with, it
must be in abad way
1t has been thought that people are
degenerating, because they don't live as long
as in the days of Methuselah. But the fact
is, provisions are SO high that nobody can
afford to live very long at the current prices.
Mr.. Sturtevant, of Cleveland, Ohio,
asserts that he can bring bees forwad two
months earlier by the simple process of feed
ing them With unbolted rye meal placed on
boards near the hive. They "pitch into it
at once"
go Oh, whistle, and I will come to
thee, my lad" said a man, with a threaten
ing shake of his fist, to a very quiet Quaker
friend Of ours. "Then thee may consider
me as whsstling, for it is the way I usually
call such animals as thee |"
The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Times says that the President
has rendered to Governor Winslow, of North
Carolina, the Sandman Mission, which the
latter accepts. The delegation from North
garoliua expresses great dissatisfaction, as
they claimed a first class mission.
The hoops, at last, are really going
cut Of fashion ! Already in New York several
leading fashionables have appeared on Broad
way without them-and there is a general
tendency to contract their dimensions. Prob
ably by nextmail ono fashionable lady would
be seen wearing such a thing"
Oregon must be a great country for
moisture. A writer for the Kuiokerbocker,
now In Oregon, says it rains twenty-six hours
in the day, forseyenteen months in the year.
L commenced, he says, on the Sd of last
November, and continued until the 18th OF
May, when it set in for a long storm, which
is not ended yet!
- Afriend of ours has a better method
Of sending money by mail than that ofregis-
tering the letter at the post Office. When he
is lucky enough to have money to send to his
friends through the mail, he places a large
black seal upon the letter, and writes under
meath IN haste! Such letters always get to
their destination in safety.
The Tribune declares it has no candi-
date for President, and will have none earlier
than November or December, 1859. 1t adds
eff you want an aspirant effectually killed,
have him trotted out and commended, and
regarded as the inevitable candidates two
years before the nomination is to be made,
and you will have done his business.
"A chief ofthe Snake Indians residing
near Utah, lately died, and his relatives, in
addition to the killing of his favorite horses
over his grave, buried with him alive a little
boy, Of whom the deceased was very fond, in
order that he might accompany him to the
spirit land. They wrapped the boy up alive
ina blanket, and placing him in the grave with
the corpse, buried them together.
The Erprsss and Spartan tell of a
homicide that was committed on the person
of a negro belonging to Mr.. Woodland Allen,
by Mr.. D. T. Black. There was an en-
counter in which the negro struck Black a
stunning blow on the head. with a brick,
knocking him down. As soon as Black re.
covered, he stabbed the negro with a knife,
killing him almost instantly.
- In Sweden it is the custom to take off
the hat when acknowledging a salute. King
Oscar once said to a gentleman who was COM
misserating him for being obliged to keep
his hat off the whole lenghth Of the Drott-
ninggatan in a violent snowstorm, "you are
quite right, it was exceedingly disagreeable,
and I could not help wishing that instead of
being King of Sweden, I was the King of
Thibet, where, according to Hue, the polite
salutation is simply to stick out your
tongue"
We are getting on with lightning
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