Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-05-22
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everybody knows you.
ea Abuse a man unjustly, and you
will make friends for him.
HaF What fools we mortals be, par
ticularly when we are young.
@ 1t is the idle people of this earth
who make most Of the trouble.
E Instruction is to the human intel
lect what cultivation is to the soil.
p1 Avoid quarreling with your
friends; quarrel is never made up.
aar The worlds population increas-
es at the rate of one per cent. per an
mum.
eS You can trade your reputation
for a dollar, but you can never trade
back.
s@ 1t is said that more money is
spent for eggs than for flour in the
United States.
s@ Many preachers try to make
their congregations better than they
are themselves.
s9 For every dollar man earns, he
sees something that he wants that
would cost him two.
s9 When suspicion points her little
finger at man, the finger soon grows
to be as large as telegraph pole.
HT "If you want to make the most
of your hired man, give him the tools
to work WITH" says an old farmer.
s@- Texas will have no timber in Is
years if the present rate of cutting
1,000,O0O,000 feet year continues.
sa- So many friends who look sym
pathetic when YOU tell your troubles,
think to themselves that it serves you
right.
g9- "How do you happen to be call
ed Jack ?" "Oh, it is just nickname"
"I didn't know but that it was an abb
breviation."
e9- The court records of Stafford
county, Va, date back to 1899. The
writing of the oldest document is as
distinct as the day it was traced.
ssr Platinum has been drawn into
smooth wire 80 fine that it could not
be distinguished by the naked eye
even when stretched across piece of
white cardboard.
By" A person was boasting that he
was sprung from high family. eyes,"
said bystander, II have seen some OF
the family so high that their feet could
not touch the ground.".
HS~ A lazy fellow falling a distance
of so feet, and escaping with only
few scratches, bystander remarked
that he was "too slow to fall fast
enough to hurt himself"
gS. "Small thanks to you," said a
plaintiff to one of his witnesses, "for
what you said in this case" "Ah, sir"
replied the conscious witness, "but
Just think of what 1 didn't say"
e% Fogg thinks it a remarkable in
stance of the superior intelligence of
the house fly that it can remember,
after lying dormant all winter, which
member of the family is possessed of a
baldhead.
Beg A boy who could not understand
what conscience meant was at last
asked "What is it that gives you an
uncomfortable feeling when you have
done something wrong?" ?""Dad's cane,"
was the reply.
s@- "Hold on dar" said a colored
man, hailing an acquaintance. "Does
yer cross de street ebery time yer sees
me ter keep from payin' dat bill ?"
"No, l doesn't" "What fur, den ?"
"Ter keep frum bein' axed fur it,"
bG- Tapioca is not grain like rice.
1t is a starchy substance obtained by
washing and scraping the roots OF the
cassava plant. Most of it comes, we
believe, from Brazil. The cassava plant
does not grow in the United States.
s@ An extempore preacher intended
to end his peroration with u slow
ejaculation of "a mess of pottage."
He did end with, "a pot of messages
a-message of pots-a pottage of mes
ses," then, giving it up, hastily retired.
S@- Fifty years ago a horse power
cost six or seven pounds of coal an
hour. Today a good compound en-
CINE will produde horse power at one
and one-half pounds an hour. Water
power costs nearly as much now as
then.
"a" If Chinaman saves mans life
be is compelled by law to support him
the rest of his days. Often drown
ing man will perish in sight of a score
of sturdy swimmers who are too poor
to undertake the feeding of another
mouth.
BD" A San Francisco girl, disappoint-
ed in love years ago, has built cabin
in the woods on the Upper Salmon
river, and lives there alone. She is an
expert hunter, and has raised pair of
grizzly bears, which are very affection
ate toward her.
s@~ Pat-Ye sez Ohm not ez good an
American as We are. Begorra, I'm
sight better wun. Native A. P. A
How is that, you bog-trotting Fenian
Pat-Because We wuz born an Ameri-
can an cudn't help yerself, whole Dim
one Nv me own free will.
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