Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-03-08
Wtapsiae Gatherings.


CITY million dollars year.
Adam was proudly conscious that he new
er made mistake in his boyhood.
Some say salaratus will not harm the
stomach. 1t is lye.
Marriage is described by French cynic
as tiresome book with very fine preface
The New England colleges have one hum
dred Chinese students.
What is wanted in this country just now
is company to insure the insurance compa-
MES.
The man who takes the most interest in
his business-the money-lender.
Paris dressmakers send out dolls to their
patrons in fac-simile costumes of what they
have for sale
"A Missouri Judge has decided that a wo-
man is not an "old maid" till she is thirty
FIVE.
- Marriage is game of chance in which
men risk their liberty and women their hap
piness.
Tile amount of telegraph wire in opera
tion in England is estimated to be 100000
miles.
The annual report of the Bank of Italy
shows that the Pope has $32,00O,O00 in that
institution.
The incapacity of meu to understand
each other is one of the principal causes of
their ill-temper towards each other.
Cider is getting very bad name. DR..
Reynolds, temperance lecturer, calls it "the
devils kindling- wood"
We seldom find people ungrateful as long
as we are in a condition to repder them SER
vices.
- The position seems to be, that every body
thinks that every body else should sell or
work for less money.
-" -"Man," said Adam Smith, "is an animal
that makes bargains. No other animal, does
this-no dog exchanges bones with another"
-"Ah Jenny" said synpathizing friend
to man who was just too late for the train,
"you did not run fast enough" "Yes, did,"
said Jenny; "but didn't start soon enough"
"A. young lady sent poem to paper,
entitled, II cannot make him SMILE" The
editor thinks she could if she had sent him
the poem.
A crusty old bachelor says that Adams
wife was called Eve, because when she ap.
peared, mans day of happiness was drawing
to close
-"Lunatic fringe" is the name given in
New York to the fashion Of cropping the hair
and letting the ends hang down over the
forehead.
Over $4,000 Masons were made in North
America last year, and the whole number of
affiliated Masons on the Continent at this
time exceeds 100000.
"A gentleman preferred wearing holes in
his socks to having them darned, Because"
he said, "a holesmay be the accident of
day, but darn is premedtated poverty
Never put much confidence in such as
put no confidence in others. A man prone
to suspect evil is mostly looking for in his
neghbor what he sees in himself.
- What this country needs, is religion
which will make man feel that it is as cold
for his wife to get up and build a fire as it is
for himself.
AN exchange says: 1--WE have known
some extreme cases of headache cured in half
an hour by taking teaspoonful of finely
powdered charcoal in half tumber of wa
ter. 1t is an innocent yet powerful alkali."
In France the average salary of workmen
is sixty-eight cents per day; in Germany, 1t.
ally and Switzerland, thirty-eight cents in
England, eighty-three cents, living being
thirty per cent dearer than in France.
-"I don't see how you can have been work.
ing all day like horse |" exclaimed the wife
of lawyer, her husband having declared
that he had been thus working. "Well, my
DEAR" be replied, "Pve been drawing con-
veyance all day, anyhow"
-"Handsome is that handsome does," quo
ted Chicago man to his wife the other day.
"Yes," reoined she, in winning tone, as she
held out her hand; "for instance, a husband
who is always ready to hand some money to
his wife.
"A poor old woman, who had worked and
toiled for nearl y three-score years, said if she
didn't think she'd have rest in the next world
she'd tie milestone round her neck and
Jump into the river, and 60 to the bottom
and stay there as long as she lived.
MA, dses pa kiss the catw "Why, no,
my son. What in the name Of goodness put
that in your head p "Cos when pa came
down stairs this morning he kissed Sarah in
the hallway and said, That's better than kiss
ing that old cat up stairs, amt it Sarah ?"
Jewish silver shekels have lately been
found near Jerusalem, belonging to the time
Of Simon Maccabeus, B. C. one hundred and
forty -four. On one side they have the cup of
mama, and on the other the budding rod of
Aaron.
"A witty writer has observed, with much
truth, that every man is, in sense, three dit.
ferent men. In the first place, he is the man
he thinks himself to be; in the second place,
he is the man other persons think him to be;
and finally he is the man that he really is.
- Ten thousand men are engaged upon the
Paris Exhibition building, and the founda-
tions are wholly completed. The authorities
reckon upon daily average of from thirty
to forty thousand visitors to make the Exhi-
bition financial success.
"A Boston minister, speaking some time
since at one of Moody and Sankey's meetings
in Chicago, is reported to have said "One-
third of all the infdeity in the United States
is in New England, onethird of all that is in
Massachusetts, and one.third of all that is in
Boston"
advertising is good thing, but when
grocer recently carried to funeral an um.
brella on which was painted, conspicuously,
the business of his house, and held it over the
preachers head while he read his prayers, the
bystanders thought he was running the thing
into the ground.
Some men never lose heart, but always
look on the bright side. We met one down
street the other night His umbrella was
blown into tatters, and he was fairly soaked
through. To our "PrettY wet night" he an.