Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-11-04
Wauside Gatheriugs.
sG The man who expects his daily
bread will never get it by loafing.

uiCou VIII hS'SA 6~S ~ ~
g@- Spain has already sent more than
200, 900 soldiers to put down the Cuban
p@- His theory "Davie, what makes
the rain fall ?" "Why, it has t., that's
all. If it didn't fall it would 60 up and
put out the sum-"
BT The tale-bearer and the tale
hearer should both be hung up togeth-
er back to back, one by the tongue
and the other by the ears.
sar The precepts of the law may be
comprehended under these three
points; to live honestly, to hurt no
man willfully, and to render every
man his due.
p@ go, Mrs. Snappy! saw your
husband in the park with three or
four ladies around him." "That's all
right; but let me catch him with one
lady around him."
s@ A big item: "Say, mister" said
the little Fresh Air child, as she
watched the cattle enjoying their cud,
"do you have to buy gum for all OF
them COWS to chew?"
p~ A hardware dealer in western
city closes an advertisement as follows: ::
in the country wishing to
purchase a KIT of tools will please
send for one of our CATALOGUES"
R6y The old maid Maud-Are you
never going to marry9 Miss Prim-
Never, my dear! I'm going to be an
old maid all my life, and am going to
bring up my children the same way.
p8 Let your religion be seen. Lamps
do not walk, but they do shine. A
lighthouse sounds no drum, it beats no
gong, and yet far over the waters its
friendly spark is seen by the mariner.
p6F Papa (who had used bad word
when he tore his trousers): 1 forgot
myself Sammy. 1t was wrong for me
to use such word. Sammy: Oyou
needn't apologize, papa! I often use
it myself.
nag One of Josh Billings's maxims:
'sRise early, work hard and late 4; live
on what you kant sell give nothing
away; and if you don't die rich and
go to the devil, you may sue me for
damages"
t@- The smallest known species of
hog is the pigmy swine of Australia.
They are exactly like their larger
brethren in every particular except
size, being not larger than a good sized
house rat.
nag Said a lawyer to his young clerk,
'Why weren't you at the Office earlier
this morning?" "Beg pardon, sir, but
am a reformer. I believe that the
office should seek the man, not the
man the office"
s@ "And why" the teacher con-
"should we hold the aged in
respect ?" "Cause it's mostly the old
men that has all the money!" Tommy
and the teacher wasn't able
to offer any better reasons.
R6 An accurate remembrance Of
names and faces has been called gift
of princes; another gift, showing the
nobility of both heart and breeding,
is that of punctilious courtesy toward
the humble as we'll as toward the great.
a6 Sound travels at the rate Of 142
feet per second; about 13 miles in
minute. So that if we hear clap of
half minute after the flash,
we may calculate that the discharge
of electricity is six and a half miles
off.
nag Under the new marriage law in
Brazil widows cannot marry until their
husbands have been dead 10 months.
This seems hare but perhaps it will
make the wives take such care of
their husbands that they won't die
at all.
aT Poverty is a disease, says DR..
Glynn, and to this definition the New
York Tribune aptly replies: "Per-
haps, but if the patient treats it with
injections of honesty and
steady application of industry, it can
be overcome"
p9 The following is the entire list
of wedding anniversaries: First an
niversary, iron; fifth, wooden; tenth,
tin; fifteenth, crystal; twentieth, Chi
ma twenty. fifth, silver; thirtieth,
cotton; thirty-fifth, linen ; fiftieth,
golden seventy-fifth, diamond.
s9 A business partnership: Mr..
Mason-We's kim t. git marri'd.
Rev. Mr.. Dixon-Why, Sam, how yo'
gwine t. support a wife? ewes
gwine inter d laundry biz" "Yo'
can't wash!' "No, sab; but Use
gwine t. furnish d. s'iled clothes"
s@ According to current news
paper story, an Italian who applied
for naturalization papers and was
asked where he was born, responded,
'sMcKinley." "How long have you
lived in this country ?" "McKinley."
''How old are you ?" "McKinley."
r@e On one of our steamers, during
the war, was one regular Irishman
from Cork. On one occasion he was
placed on the lookout. Seeing land
be cried out, Gland away ]" The u.s.
ual response, "Where away ?" brought
out the original Irish answer, GAIL
along the shoore, SIR"
aagr Let US have done with vain re-
grets and longing for the days that will
never be ours again. Our work lies in
front, not behind us; and "Forward"
is our motto. Let us not sit with folded
hands gazing upon the past as if it
we're the building it's but the founda-
ton. Let us not waste heart and life
of what might have been, and
the "may be" that lies be-