Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-22
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mines only the track it has passed.
s9 The man who has half an hour tt
spare generally drops in and occupie
a-half hour that belongs to some othe
man.
B9 Nervous prostration is on the in
crease everywhere, and the medical ex
PLANTATION of its spread is that we live
too fast.
skp The crocodile will sometimes e
without food for year. Upon wax
ing up from a nap of this duration, h'
is something TO be avoided.
adr The chief exponents of music ir
Japan are women. Most men woulC
consider that they were making them
selves ridiculous by playing or singing
in society.
D9r You can lay so many books or
the brain as to bury it, and teach chill
dreu so much that they learn nothing
and preach so long that the people for
get all that is said.
R@~ The most inveterate borrowers
are the borrowers of trouble. Why
not reverse the ancient order of things
Let trouble 60 to protest, and borrow
happiness once in a while.
p9 Every man is missionary now
and forever, for good or for evil
wdether he designs it or not. A blank
he can not be; some influence, good
or bad, must radiate from every one.
p@. A New Jersey school committee,
finding that a large proportion of the
children came to school every morning
on bicycles, has provided racks for the
wheels in the different schools in town.
s9" Some industrious looker-into
things has dicovered that there are
$500 disorders concealed within a
human frame, which are great many
tenants for common frame structure.
Ba Some of the brick houses built in
England 200 years ago are so cemented
together that the walls have to be
blown down with gunpowder when it
is desired to erect new buildings.
sH" Bella-What are you making
grimaces in the glass for, my dear?
Della-I am trying to practice a look
of astonishment. Some of my friends
are going to give me a surprise party
tonight.
n~ Cars in which aluminium will be
used for all metal work, save the
wheels and axles, are to be put on the
state railroads of France. The saving
in weight for an ordinary train will be
80 tons.
BdA Falsehood is never so successful
as when she bats her hook with truth.
No opinions so fatally mislead us as
those that are not wholly wrong; as
no watches so effectually deceive the
wearer as those that are sometimes
right.
s6. 1t has often been truly remarked
that in sickness there is no hand like a
woman's hand, no heart like a woman's
heart, no eye so untiring, no hope so
fervent. Woman by a sick mans
couch is divinity personifed.
H4- We see that a man really becomes
better or worse morally, advances or
retrogrades socially, according to the
standard of life which prevails around
him-a standard which he himself is
at the same time helping to depress or
raise.
B9 Acetylene, the brilliant new gas,
can be easily liquifed and stored until
needed. When it is to be used, the
pressure is lessened, and it becomes
gaseous again. 1t gives more than 10
times the light of coal-gas burned in
the best burners.
sa" Some ingenius rogues in Calcut-
ia and Bombay purchase favorite
brands of liquor in the original pack
ages. They remove the good liquor
without touching the cork or the cap
sule, and substitute vile stuff. This is
done by drilling hole in the bottom
of the bottle.
s9- \ Paris beggar has been living
very comfortably by hanging himself.
He would choose a tree where young
children were playing, string himself
up and groan to attract attention, SO
that they would run for help. He
would be cut down and restored, and
a letter in his pocket would explain
his attempted suicide by statement
of his destitution.
eH" "Goods at half price," said the
sign. "How much is chat tea-pot?''
asked the old lady who had been at
tracted by the announcement. "Fifty
cents, num-" ~ guess I'll take it.,
then" said she, throwing down quar-
ter. The dealer let her have the tea
pot, but took in his sign before another
customer could come in.
H9n Genius is a dazzling thing, but it
won't plod. Talent is forced to plod
or get left, and so with the instinct OF
self.preservation it generally plods.
Genius starts out a petted darling,
and ends by dodging The bailiffs and
dying in the poor house; while talent
raises a monument in its honor, and
pays the bill out of its well-filled
pocket.
B9 A jolly Englishman, now a cler-
gyman in Canada, shortly after his
marriage to a country girl in old Eng
land, was walking with her on the
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