Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-12-20
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tinent.
H9 We hate our enemies with far
more intensity than we love our
friends.
s6~ The defects of the mind, like
those of the face, grow worse as we
grow old.
H4 Men are willing to work for the
devil, but object to accepting his meth
cd of payment.
R@ A German statistician has figured
out that Monday and not Friday is the
real unlucky day.
tag The easiest money to spend and
the hardest to save, is that which we
have not yet earned.
R@ The most delicate and the most
sensible of all pleasures consists in
promoting the pleasures of others.
H~ God asks no man whether he will
accept life. That is not the choice.
You must take it. The only choice is,
how.
a@ To find friends when we have
no need of them, and to want them
when we have, are alike easy and
common.
p@ 1t is imprudent to keep an oil or
gas stove burning in sleeping-room.
They consume the oxygen, and thus
vitiate the air.
p9"What is gossip?" reflected the
preacher and then he answered, "It's
putting two and two together and
making them fve."
B4r Young ladies in Austria, although
having titles and fortunes, are sent to
famous millincrs and dressmakers to
serve an apprenticeship.
BG Skilled labor is always wanted.
The trouble is that hundreds of young
men are more or less industriously
fitting themselves for nothing.
@ "Why do you suppose they al
ways represent Cupid as boy ?" he
asked. because he never arrives at
years of discretion" she replied.
B9 The fruit shipped from Southern
California this season filled 5000 cars,
and the growers paid the railroad
81, ,6OO,0OO for its transportation.
p6- Josh Billings says: "'Give the
devil his due reads we'll enough in a
proverb, but what will become of me
and you if this arrangement is carried
out?"
a@H Among his hints to divinity
students, Henry Ward Beecher says,
''Make your audience laugh and cry,
and those too proud to cry, make them
blow their noses"
pa" How many have kept their
health and spirits so as to be able to
say as Taglioni says, 81 would never
know I was not young, if I had not so
much to remember ?"
BS~ A Kansas district has written a
contract with a teacher to teach the
school, chop the wood, make the fire,
sweep, and find the matches, for $S5
month. The teacher is woman.
s@r Strange to say, the American
college has given US no noted woman
writer. Every woman who has made
a name by her pen will be found to be
one who never went through college.
s@r The years of compulsory atten-
dance at New York schools are from
8 to IA. The arrests for truancy now
amount to less than 500 in a year,
against 1000, the average of 10 years
ago.
p6r The two sides of the human face
are never alike. In two out of five the
eyes are out of line one eye is stronger
than the other in seven cases out of ten,
and the right ear is generally higher
than the left.
Bag The-Jersey cattle are said to be
in size. Those in this coun-
try are much larger and harder than
those brought over 20 years ago, and
we have better stock here than can be
procured elsewhere, not excepting
even the Isle of Jersey.
s9 II say, tell me. l hear you've
been in a marvellous country, where
everything grows rapidly and luxuri-
antly." "Grows? Well, I should say
so! Why, if you stick your cane fin
the ground, the next morning it will
be covered with leaves"
p@ 1t is said that during one of Mr..
Moody's meetings worker approached
a young man with the question, care
you a Christian ?" The young man
looked up, smiling good-naturedly as
he replied, "Oh, no, sir 1 am one Of
the choir"
H@r The fact that there will be two
moons in December for the first time
since Christ's birth, 1896 years ago, is
the cause of some speculation among
those who are superstitious as to
whether or not the event may not por-
tend the second coming ofthe Messiah.
s@ The London Telegraph tells of a
boy, a smart little boy, who was am
bilious to be a letter carrier. A short
time ago he secured bundle of old
love letters that his mother had treas
ured since her courtship days, and dis
tributed them from house to house
throughout the neighborhood.
t4- Salt cellars first came into use in
medieval times. There was only one