Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-15
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Bas- Drunkenness Is An egg from
which all vices are hatched.
B6 No man Is 30 insignificant as to
be sure his example can do no hurt.
eH The solid constituents of milk
average from 10 to IA per cent of its
weight.
tag "Voluntary and responsive insan-
ity," was Gerritt Smiths analysis OF
drunkenness.
R9 The different countries of the
world now use over $4,000 different
kinds of postage stamps.
BH Noah Webster spent II years on
his dictionary, and yet there are very
few people who have ever read the
book.
and are remarkably weak in lung pow
er. Their strength is the kind which
is capale of terrific effort for a short
time.
a9- Mrs. Frankleigh says that she
always enjoys the responsive service
at the church. 1t is so nice to have
the last word.
B9- Truth itself becomed falsehood if
it is prerented in any other form than
it's right relations. There is no truth
but the "whole truth"
Bg The people Of Oklahoma are in
an uproar because the court has COM
PEELED the admission of Negro children
to the public schools.
sg. Old bottles which are more or
less useless, are now ground up and
employed as a substitute for sand in
the preparation of mortar.
e9- "De singin' of mockin'-bird am
sweet" remarked Uncle Eben; "but
de cackle oh er chicken on your own
roos' has heap more expression in it,"
B9r"Befo' de war;" a Negro boy who
was sharply reproved for having stolen
and eaten a turkey, replied "Well,
massa, you see you got less turkey,
but you got dat mech more niggah ?'
Bd~ We should make the morning
goodbye, as we part at the breakfast
table, kindly enough :or final farewells.
Many 60 out in the morning who never
return at night.
Ban For short distance lion or a
tiger can outrun a man, and can equal
the speed of a fast horse, but they lose
their wind at the end of half mile at
the most. They have little endurance,
R6" Little Fred, visiting in the coun.
try, and seeing for the first time pair
of oxen attached to cart, ran in to his
mother, exclaiming, "Oh, mamma,
mamma! Come out and see this cow
buggy going by!"
a9- A mans religion is all right if the
grace he says over washing-day din
ner is Just as sincere and fervent as
that which he pronounces when his wife
has invited the minister to tea.
a0- At hugging bee for the benefit
of church, a man while blind-folded
hugged his wife for several minutes
without knowing who he was hugging.
When he did find out he wanted his
Is cents back.
aa- Rather an odd sight in Rockland,
Me-, is a pet dog beloging to a North
End lady, which perambulates around
the streets with sulphur bag around
his neck to prevent his dogshlp from
catching the diphtheria.
g9r 1t is proposed by means of the
electrophone to connect London's
churches and chapels with theh ospit.
ais, so that the sermons preached each
Sunday may be heard by the patients
without leaving their beds.
a9" A reporter, in describing the
murder of a man named Jorkins, said /:
"The murderer was evidently in quest
of money, but, luckily, Mr.Jorkins had
deposited all his funds in the bank the
day before, so that he lost nothing but
his ife."
Bd5H In a Partisan omnibus, an ILL.,
bred passenger made a grimace when
very stout old lady got in. "Hip-
popotamus he exclaimed, under his
breath, but so loudly that the old lady
heard him. "Sir," she said, "you know
an omnibus is like Noah's Ark ; it takes
in all the animals-even donkeys."
s65- The most absent-minded man
was not the. man who hunted for his
pipe when it was between his teeth,
nor the man who threw his hat out of
the window, and tried to hang his cigar
on peg. No! But the man who put
his umbrella to bed, and went and
stood behind the door.
nag The birthstone mines of Calca-
sien county, La, are being developed
by syndicate. One hundred tons of
birthstone are being raised each day to
the surface through quicksand. In a
short time the product of the mines
will be great enough to supply the
United States, which will be forever
emancipated from the Sicilian product.
sDr When bitterly assailed by a
French professor, Paul Louis Courier
quietly remarked 81 fancy he must be
vexed. He calls me Jacobin, rebel,
plagarist, thief, poisoner, forger, leper,
madman, impostor, calumniator, libel
Ter, horrible, filthy, grimacing rag
picker. gather what he wants to say.
He means that he and l are not of the
same opinion, and this is his only way
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