Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-02-23
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maintaining cheerful demeanor.
-. He that wishes for health must make
appetite obey reason.
The dress of frivolous coquette, how.
ever abundant, is next to nothing.
-. 1t is the best proof Of the virtues of a
family circle to see happy freside.
-. A woman that wants charitable heart,
wants pure heart.
=" Ribbons Of any kind should be washed
in cold soap suds, and not rinsed.
=" A bit of glue, dissolved in skim milk
and water, will restore rusty old Grape.
-. The feeling of love for her children
survives all other affections in every moth
er's heart.
."Shrewd inquiries are being made wheth-
er the cup of sorrow has saucer. Can
any one tell us? ..>
There is nothing which gives one so
pleasing prospects of human nature as the
contemplation of wisdom and beauty.
=. 1t is worthy of notice that, while Sec
ond thoughts are best in matters Of judg-
ment, first thoughts, are always to be pre-
ferred in matters that relate to morality.
=. Pure truth, like pure gold, has been
found unfit for circulation; because men
have discoverd that it is far more convenient
to adulterate the truth than to refine them
selves. --..
-. There is gentleman in Glasgow
/ (Scotland) SO polite, that he begs his own
pardon every time he tumbles Gown. Be-
ing good-natured, he always grants it.
-. Be ever kind to woman; she is the
mother, sister, daughter, and companion,
without whom life would be intolerable to
man.
-. Oft what seems trife, mere moth.
ing by itself, in some nice situations, turns
the scale of fate, and rules the most i'm
portant actions.
"A correspondent who signs herself
"Sophia," says that woman is twice as good
as man, and proves it thus by the very or
thography-W-o-m-a-n-doubleyOu you 0 man.
Sally said fellow to girl who had
red hair, keep away from me, or you'll
set me on fire. mo danger of that re-
piled the girl; you are too green to burn p
." There is a man in town 80 knowing
that people who do not know their own
minds, generally come too him for infor-
nation on the subject.
-. Florida was so called by Juan Ponce
Leon, in 1851, bucause it was discovered
on Easter.Sunday-in Spanish, Pascua
Florida.
-. Why are young ladies, at the break
ing up of party, like arrows?' Because
they can't go off without beau, and are all
in qui;ver till they get one.
." A man is the healthiest and the hap
piest when he thinks the least either of
health or happiness. To forget an i'll is
half the battle.
-. Go down upon one knee when you ask
the hand of a young lady. If you go down
upon both you may not be able to get up
in time to escape the enraged fathers
boot.
-. In Australia when q bank suspends,
the usual practice is to take the President
to the nearest tree, and serve him in the
same manner. The remedy is simple,
and is believed by some to be eficacious.
-. A person having occasion to notify
his doctor to visit his wife, said to him as
he was stepping into the chaise "Now
doctor, you'll drive to kill, won't you?"
eyes, certainly" replied the doctor.
"A clever conundrum was that which
took prize at Philadelphia some years
since: In what manner did Capt May
cheat the Mexicans? He charged them
with troop of horses which they never
got.
-. 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
-. perhaps Brother Jonathan does ca
ry his hands in his pockets said drawl-
ing Yankee, in dispute with au English
man, but the difference between him and
John Bull is that Brother Jonathan has
his hands in his own pockets, while John
Bull has his in somebody else's.
-. Mrs. Partington addressed Isaac, while
eating dish of strawberries, thus: How
grand you are growing; by md by you will
want to board at the Brewer House, and
live on umbrella ice cream. You mustn't
be so gluttonous, dear; I don't like to see
little boy with such velocity of appetite
=" Patience is sublime virtue. The tru-
est heroism in human life is that private
heroism which bears with calmless, newt
able ills, regardless of the consultations of
fruitless sympathy, and without the sooth-
ing consciousness of public attention.
-. The muscles of the human jaw produce
power equal to four hundred and thirty
four pounds. This is only what science tells
US; but we know the jaw of some of our
lawyers is equal to good many thousand
pounds year to them.
=" "What would our wives say, if they
knew where we were?" said the captain of
'down-east' schooner, when they were
beating about in thick fog, fearful of 60
ing on shore. "Humph I shouldn't mind
that" replied the mate, 'if We only knew
where we were ourselves"
-" The authorship of Junius is at length
fairly confirmed, if what is alledged be
true, that a new volume on this fertile
theme, by Mr.. Parks, will, for the first
time, contain facts and documents derived
from the Francis familv These add to