Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-06-14
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one that never wears out.
-. There is Just as much intemperance in
drinking physic, as in drinking anything
else. ..
-. Never purchase love or friendship by
gifts; when thus obtained, they are lost as
soon as you stop payment.
%. Jane said wag, 'it's all over town.
whats all over town? Mud James
eyes dropped.
The confidential friendship of two bad
and cunning men is generally an injury to
> others, and no benefit to themselves.
-. The young queen of Portugal lately
asked her husband at dinner what wine he
preferred. Port-you-galv was the reply.
:" A crusty old bachelor says he thinks
it is sronaan, and not her wrongs, that
ought to be redressed. =.
=" Nothing is more odious than the face
that smiles abroad, but flashes fury amid
the caresses of tender wife and children.
-" Why is the bridegroom more expensive
than the bride {? Because the bride is al!
ways giren aacay, and the bridegroom is
usually sold.
bT A gentleman praising the generosity
of his friend, observed HE spends his
money like water Then off course he
liquidates his debts rejoined a wag.
:" Prentice thinks if young lady has a
thousand acres of valuable land, the young
men are apt to conclude that there are suf-
fcient grounds for attachment.
:" A rich man told poor man that he
workedto get a stomach for hisme tAnd
| L. said the poor man, 'work to get meat
for my stomach
:" 1t is in vain to hope to please all alike.
Let man stand with his face in what di.
rectiou he will. he must necessarily turn
his back upon half the world.
- 1t is a general remark that all classes
of persons are ever ready to give their opin-
ions. We think the lawyers must be ex-
cepted: they. sell theirs.
-. Tom Moore compared 6rst.love to po-
tato, because it shoots from the eyes
sOr, rather, exclaimed Byron, because it
becomes all the less by paring.'-
-. Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright
and shy. If we strive to grasp it, it still
eludes US, and still gftters. We perhaps
seize it at last and find it rank poison.
".Nevec neglect your freplaces. Much
of the cheerfulness Of life depends upon
them. What makes fire so pleasant is,
that it is live thing in dead room.
-. Make good use of time, if thou lowest
eternity; yesterday cannot be recalled-to-
morrow cannot be secured-to-day only is
thine, which, once lost, is lost for ever.
=" Hold your tongue for FOOL! was the
polite recommendation of an Irish husband.
Sure, then, you're going to speak yourself!
was the equally polite reply of the wife.
-" Misery makes strange fellows-A hand
some young fellow ia this city recently mar
ried a rich old lady of seventy. He was
miserable for the want Of money, and she
for the want of husband.
:" An old Scotch parson, praying after
Howery young brother had preached said /:
Lord bless thy young servant; and with
thy great wisdom prick him with thy Spirit;
and let the wind out of him
:" Mr.. Merryman Lathrop says, when he
went on the steamer to California, they kept
the chickens in the hatcAway, the beef in
the Juuworks, near the steerage; and when
they run out of eggs, the ship lay too.
-. The Bishop of Reiz thanked the bish-
op of Lisieux for having consecrated him.
1T is for me- said the latter, ito thank you.
1 were the ugliest bishop in France until
you were elected
In 1882 the wages of Factory girls
we're IL cts. week, and calico was 81, 90
per yard; now calico is from s to 10 cents
per yard, and the wages of factory girls, six
dollars per week.
-. The highest and most characteristic
glory of all earthly beauty is to make us
aspire to heavenly one; and woman is
great in proportion to the ideal she sug-
gests.
- Most ofpersons are particularly spiteful
against those foibles in others which they
themselves have. They remind us of mon
key scratching and grinuing at the mimic
monkey in the glass.
-. A book, formerly thing put aside to
be read, is now read to be put aside; and
the world is now divided into two classes
those who forget to read and those who read
to forget.
-. The influence of woman, either for
good or evil, on the heart and mind of man
is omnipotent. Vain are the struggles to
resistit it. In misfortune it tempers the en-
ergies, in prosperity it adds grace to them.
-. An exchange thus pathetically describes
the faiuting of a young lady:
Down fell the lovely maiden,
Just like a slaughtered lamb;
Her hair hung round her pallid cheeks
Like sea weeds rounds calmn
80 Aunt E. was trying to persuade
little Eddy to retire at sun.down. you
see my dear, how the little chickens go to
roost at that time 'Yes, aunty, replied
Eddy, but the old hen always goes with
them Aunty tried no more arguments
with him.
"A man should neither be hermit nor
a buffoon human nature is not so miser.
able, as that We should be always melan-
choly; nor so happy, as that We should be
always merry. In a word, man should
not live as if there was no God in the
world nor, at the same time, as if there
were no men in it.
:" 4 Chinese merchant in San Francisco
terselv cave an American friend his ideas