Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-24
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as cincher, that it is the height of impolite-
ness to 90 anywhere unless you are sent for.
"A mans wife is his best lawyer, his best
counsel, his best judge, his best adviser, and
also the cheapest and most reasonable.
"A Chicago doctor asserts that there are
$4,000 habitual drunkards in that city, which
is pretty large story, even for Chicago.
- Truthfulness is cornerstone in charac-
ter, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there
will always be weak spot in the character.
"A lady was lately hugged to death in
Minnesota illustration of the "pow-
er of the press"
The minister who boasted that he could
preach without notes didn't mean bank notes.
OF course not.
The ladies give as a reason for marrying
for money that they so seldom find anything
else in man worth having.
Indiana claims the proud prominence of
having more female preachers than any other
State in the Union.
Life, like war, is series of mistakes; and
he is the best who wins the most splendid VIC
tories by the retrieval of mistakes.
The most striking difference between fool
and looking-glass is, that the fool speaks
without rejecting, and the looking.glass re-
fleets without speaking.
We should give as we would receive :
cheerfully, quickly and without hesitation
for there is no grace in benefit that sticks to
the fingers.
An indiscreet man confded secret to
another, and begged him not to repeat it.
"It's all right" was the reply, "1'll be as close
as you were."
If, in reply to reviling language, you can
not speak words that are wholly inofensive,
let them be less 80 than the words to which
they are an answer.
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found
unfit for circulation, because men have dis
covered that it is more convenient to adulter-
ate the truth than to refine themselves.
"A gentleman who had been arguing with
an ignoramus until his patience was exhaust.
ed, said he didn't wish him dead, but he would
be glad to see him know more.
Resolve to edge in little reading every
day, if it is but single sentence. If you
gain fifteen minutes day, it will make itself
felt at the end Of the year.
Editing newspaper is very much like
raking a fre-every one thinks ne can per-
form the operation better than the man who
has hold of the poker.
"A Welsh orator recently remarked in a
fine peroration, "Innocence is like an umbrel-
la-when once you have lost it, we can never
hope to see it back again"
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry,
lost knowledge by study, lost health by tenn
perance or medicine; but lost time is gone
forever.
That is an ingenious girl in Joliet, ILL.,,
who being troubled with beaux who stay late,
has instructed the servant to bring her in a
lunch of raw onions and cold pork at 10 p m.
The beaux generally make their bows at once.
Some ingenious observer has discovered
that there is remarkable resemblance be-
tween baby and wheat, since it is first era
died, then threshed, and finally becomes the
flower of the family.
No man can be in proper frame of
mind for the discovery and reception Of truth,
who is not utterly regardless Of the question
whether his being in a majority or minority,
will be the result Of his Investigations.
"A girl at Usage, Ind, whose ears are
grown up, has no means of hearing, except
through her mouth. When young man is
talking she keeps saying EYES," for fear he
might propose to her and she not hear it.
ALL men have their frailties, and whoever
looks for friend without imperfections, will
never find what he seeks. We love ourselves
Notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to
love our friends in like manner.
1t is because we are dissatisfied with our
selves that we are so anxious to have Others
think we'll of us, and were we conscious OF
meriting their good, we would care less for
their i'll opinions.
This is the way the Cedar Rapids Repub'
hcam puts it "Don't borrow newspaper
nearly all the prevailing epidemics are spread
in this way. If you don't want the small
pox take your paper direct from the publisher
AN old lady gave this as her idea of a
great man "One who iskeerful of his clothes,
don't drink sperets, ken read the Bible with
out spelling the words, and eat a cold dinner
on washday without grumbling."
If ever the human spirit be rendered ca
pable of contemplating the mysteries Of the
Divinity, it is Thou who givest it the light by
which it understands, and the attractions by
which it is penetrated.
- They have new way Of getting up sur
prise parties. A person receives an annony.
nous letter, stating that surprise party will
be with him on a certain evening. He pre-
pares for it. Nobody comes, and the surprise
is complete.
In Siberia, during the winter, milk is
bought and sold in frozen state, and carried
for a long period in a simple bag. When re-
quired for use, the requisite quantity is chop.
ped off with a hatchet or sheath.knife, and
thawed as needed.
One good action, one temptation resisted
and overcome, one sacrifice Of DESIRE Of inter.
est, purely for conscience sake, will prove a
cordial for low spirits beyond what either in
diligence, or diversion, or company can do
for them.
Minutes are sometimes very precious. A
total solar eclipse gives rare opportunity for
certain astronomical observations, but it is es'
timated that there are not, in any one spot
more than ten minues of total eclipse in a
century.
We sometimes run about a whole day
seeking what we have unwittingly left at
home. So we often throw aside content, but
presently having occasion for it again, We
search for it everywhere but in the right
place.
-Happiness is like manna-itis to be gath
cred in grains and enjoyed every day. II