Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-24

says young girl worthy OF wearing tniS Hose-
gay is rich enough to make the fortune of
good husband. u...- ..,.,,
aa% Old Joe Wattles claims to be one of
the survivors of the American Revolutionary
War, and possesses gun which he says did
excellent service for "Uncle Sam" in years
past 1t was his delight to show this ancient
weapon to bis friends, and recount the numer-
GUS daring deeds which it enabled him2to
perform. One day, when Joe was exhibiting
his gun before an attentive crowd, and speak
ing of the conflicts through which he and it
had passed. Sam Pickles, a shrewd listener,
elbowed his way to the front, saying be want.
ed to "look at that ERE gun" Sam took it
in his hand and pretended to admire it, but
said the stock looked very new for Revolu.
tionary gun.r "Well, WE'LL" said Joe, "'the
old stock was badly worn, so had a new one
made" But Sam thought that somehow the
barrel had a modern aspect. "Never mind"
said Joe, little riIed, II had new barrel put
in, the old one was so much worn.' "But,"
remarked Sam, II thought the lock-"
"Oh, never you mind about the lock-" said
Joe; "that's new, too. "But you needn't
make so much fuss about 80 small matter
The fact is, there's nothing left of the real old
gun except the touch-hole!"
GIVE IT TO EN- IN LAr1N-It is an off,
spoken whim of the cynics-and possibly
something more-that the doctors give their
prescri ptions in Latin, 80 as to afford their
patients the benefit of little imagination.
Bokus panifcus sounds great deal more i'm
portant than "bread pill" Some years ago,
in the Rhode Island Legislature, member
moved to translate all the Latin phrases in
the statutes, so that the people could under
stand them. A Mr.. Updike took the ground
that it was no advantage to have the people
understand the laws He said they were not
afraid of anything they understood. That it
was the Latin words they we're afraid of, and
proceeded to illustrate his position as follows:
"Mr. Speaker, there was man in South
Kingstown about twenty years ago who was
perfect nuisance, and nobody knew how to
get rid of him. One day he was hoeing corn,
and he saw the sheriff coming with e paper,
and asked what it was. Now if he had told
him it was writ, what would he have cared ?
But he told him that it was capias ad satistac,
iendum. and the man dropped bis hoe and
ran, and has not been heard of since"
STUDENTS AND BooKs-Dr Mott, pro.
fessor of Union College, once said that he
could always tell the young men who are to
make their mark in the world, if he can only
see them return from a visit to the College
Library, which is only open once a week.
If" says he, 81 saw man leaving the libra
ry with FIVE or six books under his arm,
would say to myself, there goes mental glut-
ton, he will read and mark, but not inwardly
digest, and the consequence is, he is very like.
ly to have mental dyspepsia +; the mind en-
deavoring to acquire too much, strains itself,
and becomes weakened" On the other hand,
he says, IF see a young student taking but
one small book from the library, and that one
he does not return for some time, | am salts
fed that he will saturate his mind with the
intellect of the author, and not only gain all
the knowledge in the book, but sharpen his
perceptions and invigorate every faculty"
EQUAL TO THE OCCAs1oN.-Braggarts are
generally easy to be scared. A French shoe
maker, fond Of boasting that nothing could
frighten him, proved an exception to the rule
Two young fellows resolved to put him to the
test, so one slammed dead, and the other pre-
vailed upon the shoe maker to watch the body
through the night. Being busy, he took his
tools with him and worked beside the corpse.
About midnight cup of black coffee was
brought to him to keep him awake, and he
was so exhilarated by the draught that he
struck up a merry song, still plying his ham,
ner vigorously. Suddenly the would.be-
corpse arose and said, in sepulchral tones,
"When man is in the presence of death he
should not sing" The shoe maker was star.
tied, but recovering his selfpossession in a
moment, he dealt the corpse blow on the
head with his hammer as he uttered "When
man is dead he should not otspeak." IL
"Sp1rr1NG SPlTE"-No blows are struck
in the East. A quarrel in Bulgaria is accom-
panied by series of highly exasperated ex-
pectorations reminding the observer of noe
turnal feline combat. One of the combatants
spits upon the pavement, in what he conceiv-
es to be an intensely malignant and daring
manner his antagonist immediatel y follows
suit and spits upon his side of the street in
what he thinks is more desperate and blood
curdling style, and, if the controversy is a
deadly one, the participants keep up the bonn.
bardment of the unfortunate sidewalk until
their lips are so dry that they rattle in vain
attempt to expend more ammunition. When
this point is reached, the disputants generally
walk off in different directions, turning back
every two minutes for the first two miles to
shake their fists in the direction they suppose
their antagonists to have taken.