Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-09-22
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man or woman, is wisdom.
Prudence is of more frequent practical
use than any other of the intellectual quail
ties.
Never speak or write when you are an.
cry; it is always dangerous to put to sea in
q storm.
A correspondent writing from Leaven-
worth, Kansas, abreviates the name OF that
town thus: '1lworth.'
The more grand and noble man is in
his actions, the more simple he ought to be
in his conversation and manners.
Mohammedans say that one hour Of JUS
tice is worth seventy years Of prayer. One
act of charity is worth century of eloquence'
BE not affronted at a jest. If one throws
salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, un-
less thou hast sore places.
The fear of God makes no man do any
thing mean or dishonorable, but the fear OF
man leads to all sorts of weakness and base
ness.
AT late Bloomer convention the dele
gates resolved that they would wear short
dresses or nothing. Short dresses by all
means.
Liberty will not descend to people
a people must raise themselves to liberty:
it is blessing that must be earned before il
can be enjoyed.
To ascertain whether your wife is jeal-
GUS, lace up another lady's shoes, and let
her catch youat it! If that don't make her
round shouldered, nothing will.
"A cotemporary defines Methodist
preacher as man who is working fora ma
ked subsistence, and looking for his wages id
eternity. 80 e.
"A person being asked why he had given
his daughter in marriage to man to whom
he was at enmity, answered, Il done it out OF
pure revenge
Among the curiosities lately added to the
Museum, is a mosquitoes bladder, containing
the souls of twenty-four misers, and the for
tunes of twelve printers-nearly half full.
- The water that flows from a spring does
not CONCEAL in winter. And those sentiments
of friendship which flow from the heart can
not be frozen in adversely:
IA rolling stone gathers no moss A
very doubtful adage. We have just seen,
in country paper, the marriage of Peleg
Rowlinstone to Miss Ophelia Moss.
The number of miles of railway in the
United States is $4,000. Roads are built
cheaper and pay better in the South than
elsewhere in the Union. 80.
"A lady having written letter, couclu-
ded it as follows Give everybody's love to
everybody, so that nobody may be aggrieved
by anybody being forgotten by somebody
= Mr.. David Dale Owen, now engaged in
the geological survey of Arkansas, has pub
iished letter in which he states that there
is possibility of finding diamonds in certain
parts of the State. .
Mrs. Partington says, the only way to
prevent steamboat explosions is to make the
engineers bile their water on shore In her
opinion, all the Dustin is done by cooking
the steam on board.
The agricultural department of the Pat
ent Office will have one hundred thousand
vigorous tea plants ready for gratuitous dis.
tribution within three or four months. 1t is
expected that American grown tea will enter
the market within five years.
"A new shot gun has been perfected at
Colts armory at Hartford, which is made for
FIVE charges on the revolverprinci and is
loaded and fred with great facility; and is
of convenient weight, and may be carried in
any way without the possibility of accident.
The New York Sun has now in process,
of construction at cost of forty thousand
dollars, press that possesses this advantage,
namely; it will feed itself and print beth
sides of the paper at the same time, and with
the same rapidity that one side is printed on
the mammoth Hoe presses now in use.
"A shoemaker received note from a
lady to whom he was particularly attached,
requesting him to make her pair of shoes,
and not knowing exactly the style she re.
quired, be despatched a written missive to
her, inquiring whether she would have them
sWround or Esq Toad The fair one, in:
dignaut at this rich specimen of orthograpby
immediately replied, 'Kneethre.'
- The Winstead (Conn.) Herald tells
the following good one in regard to the pro.
ceedings of a congregation in that village
There was considerable disposition manifest.
ed there to settle as pastor on young man,
but plain old farmer gotup, and in blunt
way suggested, that, for his part, he had
got sick of breaking steers The project wa.
dropped.
The citizens of Iredell county held a
meeting ut Statesville, for the purpose of ia.
king into consideration the Importance Of
building railroad from Charlotte via. States.
Vile, to Jonesboro, Tennessee. There is to
be meeting of the friends of the road at
Statesville, on the 4th of October, and the
counties interested are invited to send dele
gates. Charlotte Democrat.
psr Captain Miller, of the Cunard steam,
ship America, states that when he sailed
from Liverpool, tickets were being issued