Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-05-03
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=. The man who hesitates to received ia
vor, will ever be most grateful.
."-The agitation of thought is the Begin
ming of wisdom. ..,.
Kindness is the golden chain by which
society is bound together.
-. Friendship often ends in love; but
love ID ffTiendship-never. .-..,
lI..Do not quarrel with your friends to-
day, you may need them tomorrow.
-. It is better to be poor and honest than
wealthy and dishonorable. ....~.
=. ma, amt there kittychism for little
boys?- catechism is SO hard.
Ladies are like horses; the gayer the
! harness, the better they feel.
=. The moment you make a man feel the
weight of an obligation, he will become
your enemy.
IF a man sees FIVE ladies crowd into one
church pew, can he any longer doubt that
Jonah swallowed the whale? -s So o..
...Life's great success is happy heart,
and good conscience the best estate
Who hath them =
We suppose that man who never
speaks may be said to always keep his
word.
."Catch not too soon at an offence, nor
give way to anger; the one shows weak
judgment, and the other perverse nature.
-. The most patient man that ever breath
ed, cursed the day he was born, and the
meekest man murdered an Egyptian.
=. 1t is vain to talk about the equality of
the sexes-they are not equal. The smile
or tear of woman conquers man.
.. Men become wiser in almost all res
poets after forty, except in those affairs in
which they are themselves concerned.
IA puncheon of rum and apunch in the
head, are both calculated to make men stag
ger.
-. Whiskey sometimes cures the bite of
snakes, but what will cure the bite of whis-
key?
."Society, like colored silk, must be view
ed in all situations, or its colors will deceive
you. ...--.-.
e. The following question is ssuggested to
debating societies. (Which is the happiest,
a negro at dance, or hog in mud hole
-. Two young men in Normandy died re-
Gently of internal ulcers, caused by tobacco
smoking.
IA good Question for debating societies
Which is the most delightful operation =
To kiss fair woman on dark night or a
dark woman on fair night?'
-. Lady Montague observed that in the
whole course of her extensive travels she
has found only two sorts Of people-men
and women.
Temperance has promising children,
but Drunkenness has scaly family, and we
have seen among his sons Debt, Dishonor,
Disease, and Death.
There is a woman living in Alstead,
N. H., who weighs over 700 lbs, and it
takes about twenty wards of calico for a
dress.
-. Oft what seems trihe, mere nothing
by itself, in some nice situations, turns the
scales of fate, and rules the most import
ant actions.
-. 1t has been said that the American
Indians and the American ladies differ in
this-the former whoop onlysin battle, the
latter hoop always
-. .sNo man in the nation is more indebted
to the people than am said an old Office
holder Indeed, sir; how much of their
money have you taken!
IA poet says that the wind kisses the
waves. That, We suppose, is the celebrated
"kiss for blow" about which we have
heard so much.
A moral writer asks how divorced
husband and wife can repair the injury
done to their children Perhaps they can
in most cases best repair it by repairing
themselves.
-. A gentleman who has been obliged to
visit the dentist lately, wishes to know if
the curious aud precarious teeth which be
has Inherited from his fathers family, might
be called his paternal dcherS.
=. Molere was asked the reason why, in
certain countries, the king may assume the
crown at fourteen years of age, and cannot
marry before eighteen? 1T is,' said Mo-
liere, because it is more difficult to rule
wife than kingdom
... The editor of one of the out-west pa
pers gives an account Of his once having
been for many years haunted by a lounger,
who had sat there so long that when he
died his shadow was found fixed upon the
wall.
-. The -four impossibilities' of science,
which have been the cause of much labor,
are the squaring of the circle, perpetual mo-
ton, the inextinguishable lamp, and the
transmutation of the baser metals into gold
and silver.
:" Strong and sharp as mans wit may
be it is neither so strong as the memory of
fools, nor so keen as their resentment. He
that has no strength of mind to forgive, is
by no means weak enough to forget, and is
much more easy to do cruel thing than to
say severe one.
=. 1t makes great difference whether
glasses are used over or under the nose.
If the former, the person can see and go
straight ahead-if the latter, the head is
rather apt to 90 where it can't see at all.
A glass before the eyes, is apt to make him
philosopher-one before the mouth will
almost likely make him fool.
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