Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-04-12
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lis to run your nose against lamp posi-.
Excess Of cermony shows want of breed.
ing. That civility is best which excludes
all surperfous formality.
"A teacher of penmanship, in twelve1es.
sons, taught lawyer to read his own wri'
ting.
-. She that marries man because be is
a good match" must not be surprised if he
!, turns out sLucifer.'
The love that has naught but beauty tc
] keep it in good condition, sshort-lived, and
subject to shivering 6ts. 81
-. A country newspaper speaking of the
blind wood-sawyer, says although he CAM
see he can saw -,
| =. A sensible writer puts his strength inte
his arguments. A silly one puts his into
his epithets.
80. One hour of justice is worth seventy
years of prayer. One act Of charity is worth
a century of eloquence.
The pleasantest things in the world are
pleasant thoughts, and the greatest art il
life is to have as many of them as possible
LET no reproach make you lay aside
holiness; the frowns Of the world are moth
ling to the smiles of Heaven.
1t has been discovered that bread can
be manufactured out of wood. Long be-
fore this discovery was made, all wood was
known to have grain in it.
"A Mr.. Pea has been indicted in Ohio
for whipping his wife and children. Nc
doubt he thinks it hard case that man
cant be allowed to thrash his own Peas.
=. The widow of the gallant and eccentric
Colonel David Crockett, died lately in
johnson county, Texas, in her seventy
fourth year.
-. Mr.. John Jack, Kentucky editor
says that one day his gal slapped him in the
face avering, by way ofapology, that she was
fond of slapiacks.
."St. Augustine, Florida, is the oldest
town in the United States, and was founded
ffty-6ve years before the landing of the
Pilgrims, at Plymouth ca. D. 1920
-" An aged clergyman, who had not
known one days illeness, was asked his Sc
cret. DRY feet and early rising was his
reply these are my only two precautions
E" The only money that does young man
good is what he earns himself. A ready.
made fortune, like ready-made clothing, sell
dom fits the man who comes into possession.
."sGet down on your hands and knees a
minute, ma, please said an incipient ar
tist the other day to his mother. why,
what on earth must I do that for?' Cause
I want to draw an elephant!
-. Texas~is larger than New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Vermont, Rhode
Island, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Mas.
sachusetts, and Connecticut, all put togeth-
er.
-. The cause of the potato rot has at last
been discovered. Without doubt it is the
rot-ta-ter-y motion of the earth. This prob
lem was solved by a learned convention of
common -taters.
-. Learning is not offensive in a woman,
| if she preserves gentle and thoroughly
feminine disposition. Some one has very
significantly said that it does not matter how
blue the stockings are, 50 the petticoat is
long enough to cover them.
."sSee here, Grips, I understand you
have superior way of curing hams, I
should like to learn it. well, yes; know
very we'll how to cure them but the trouble
with me, just now, is to find out way to
procure them
."I 1T is a deplorable condition. says
Bishop Sherlock, ito be always doing what
we are always condemning.' The reproach-
es of others are painful enough; but when
the lash is laid on by your own hand, the
anguish is intolerable.
"A man once asked company of lit
tie boys what they were good for? One
little fellow promptly replied: I'VE are
good to make men Of Clever boy that
wouldn't be surprised he gets to be Presi-
dent.
=" A Yankee editor says I'VE don't
mind recording the deaths of people with
out being paid for our trouble-though tits
not fair; but panegyrics on the dead must
be paid for-we positively cannot sendpeo
pie to heaven for nothing
-. One of the best remedies for lice on
cattle, says Homestead, is the water in
which potatoes have been boiled, thoroughly
rubbed in so as to wet the skin. 1t is per-
fectly safe, costs nothing, and easily appli-
ed
=" Captain Marryatt expressed the opinion
in his book of American Travels, that q
British army of thirty thousand men could
walk from one end of our Union to the 9th
er. We guess they would frequently 'break,
like some trotting horses, into ran.
-. The Westminster Review states that
White6eld, the great revivalist preacher
was at one time Shareholder, being, at his
death, the owner of fifty slaves, men, wo
men and children, whom he left, in hil
will, to the Countess of Huntington.
:" The other day lady fell into the riv
er, and poor boy rescued her. When she
was safe, her husband handed the brave
fellow a shilling. Upon some of the by
ISLANDERS expressing indignation, the boy
said, as he pocketed the coin, well, dom
blame the gentleman, he knows best; may
hap if I hadn't saved her he'd have giver
me sovereign
-. Mr.. and Mrs. Amin, residing near tht
High Bridge of the New Jersey Centra
Railroad, are supposed to be the larges
couple in this country. The gentleman
weight is seven hundred pounds, and th'
ladz,s weight FIVE hundred Mr.. Annin'