Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-07-12
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onion.
p6r Earthquakes in japan average
500 year.
s9 Temporary success is often the
greatest failure.
p9~ No boy is thoroughly satisfied
unless he owns dog.
B@~ Only one person in 10000 lives
to be centenarlan.
a9 All things come to those who
wait-for something else.
@~ There are eight white men to
one white woman in India.
B@~ The first ice cream freezer was
invented by woman in 1S43.
~ You can get fool to do any
thing by daring him to do it.
p@ He that cometh TO want through
laziness, doth not deserve pity.
p9~ During the Crimean war of 1854
as, 100000 men were slain.
a9 Unless politician acts crazy, the
people say he is not in earnest.
BS "E" is the most frequently used
letter in the alphabet; then comes ct"
B@ The cow sets US an excellent ex-
ample. She never blows her own
horn.
B9- There are $50 mountains in the
United States, each exceeding 10000
feet in height.
B6 A man is never so sure of having
imitators as when he does something
he should not do.
B9- Those things are unreasonable
that suit some other people better
than they suit you.
B9r People don't expect dog to be
anything but dog, but they demand
that men be angels.
@ Watches were first made in
Nuremberg in 1477, and were called
"Nuremberg animated eggs"
pG- 1t is so easy to resolve to be
more patient with the faults of children
when they are sound asleep in bed.
s9r A lady, joking about her nose,
said: "I had nothing to do with shap-
ing it. 1t was birthday present"
B@ The man who spends his life
building air castles, never owns so
much as hut of his own to die in.
B9 A great many of the new ideas
do not amount to anything. Mutton
tallow is better for sore lips than vase
line.
e@- A man, much addicted to snor-
ing, said that he slept like a top. A
friend replied, eyes, like a humming-
top"
pa" The liquor traffic is highway
man, who demands, not your money
or your life, but your money and your
life.
R9 If you must worry, worry over
the mean things you have done until
you compel yourself not to repeat
them.
Bd Girls are more polite than boys
about taking the last thing from the
plate, because to take the last means
you are to be an old maid.
Bd~ The letter o sounds odd for a
name, but there is distinguished
family in Belgium whose name $50, no
more and no less.
B9" When an ordinary man makes
money nothing is thought of it; but
when a counterfeiter makes money,
it's considered "queer."
Bd. People find themselves at 40
smilingly enduring great many trou-
bles that, when they were 20, they
condemned people for standing.
B9" There are now, it is computed,
over 25O,00O words in the English
language, or about 10000 more than in
the German, French, Spanish, and Ital-
ian combined.
Bas. The king of the Belgians makes
only one appearance at public worship
in the course of the year. This is on
the day which commentaries his ac-
cension to the throne.
saF Mark Twain says that the differ
ence between an American wilderness
and an African wilderness is, that in
one you are continually surrounded
by black bears, and in the other by
bare blacks.
Bas" "Does your pastor permit him
self to make jokes in the pulpit ?"
said one lady 10 another. "Oh, yes" "
was the answer, in an apologetic tone /;
"but they are never very good ones,
and no one laughs"
B9n The Russians have singular
method of extorting disclosures from
prisoners. In their food is mixed a
drug which has the effect of rendering
them delirious, and in this state they
are watched and interrogated, when
secrets are divulged.
~ A Canadian electician states that
electricity causes the tides, and dem
onstrates it by electrifying rubber
comb by rubbing it through the hair,
and then drawing it over the top Of a
glass filled with water, the result being
that the tidal wave follows the comb.
B9~ The next United States senate
will be constituted as follows: Repub-
licans, 40; Democrats, 80; Populist,
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