Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-08
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dust, and no glasses like brandy glasses
p8 A clock and a business concern
have to be wound up when they rur
down.
p6- 1t is good to dwell in amity, bu,
it is amity hard thing to do with some
people.
s9- The United States acreage in
grain is greater than the entire area o.
the German empire.
p9 The average whale is from 30 te
65 feet in length, and from 33 to Ss
feet in diameter.
H9~ The man who pays his New
Years bills promptly enables Other
people to pay up their bills, too.
H9- There is a difference between 6
cold and the grip, but you will not re-
alize it until you receive the doctors
bill.
H@. "What is she marrying for
money or family ?" "Family, I should
say. He's widower, with II child
ren."
p@ Work that you do causes you
less trouble than the work you don'
do when you worry over it. Fretnot
tire not.
p6- A college training will do much
for a man, but it will not teach him to
look for towel before filling his eyes
with soap.
p9e Taking the whole land surface ot
the globe into consideration, there are
223 acres for each inhabitant on this
planet.
p@. Do not work sick animal
Rest is better than medicine, especially
where the trouble results from lame
ness or sprain.
H6r There are but two ways of pay
ing debt: increase of industry in rails
ing income increase of thrift in laying
it out.-Carlyle.
p@- The iron pen mentioned by Jot
in the book of that name in the Bible
is supposed to have been steel graver
used for inscriptions on stone.
S@r The people of foreign countries
paid $19O, 900, 900 for the animal and
cereal products of American farms
during the past II months of 1895.
,nGr The Southern situation is sum.
med bysa' bright Northern journal in
this wise "The corn is full ofkernels
and the colonels are full of corn"
~ Mans thoughts are the only
part of him he cannot to some extent
control. They will rebel, and he can
never entirely hold them subject.
,S@ Let farmers forevermore be hon.
ored in their calling, for they are the
chosen people of God, declared Thorn
as Jefferson, the sage of Monticello.
~ The precepts of the law may be
comprehended under these three
points; to live honestly, to hurt nc
man wilfully, and to render every man
his due.
I% A West Virginia man is 80 pecu-
liarly affected by riding on train that
he has to chain himself to seat to
prevent his jumping out of the car
window.
p@ 30, Mrs. Snappy! I 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."
D@- It is to be noted that Salisbury
speaks of the United States as plural
noun; but he is likely to find that it is
unit upon the maintenance of the
Monroe doctrine.
t@ Some harps have been discovered
in Egyptian tombs. It is said that the
strings in several instances were intact
and gave forth destinct sounds after a
silence of 5000 years.
B6- Mrs. Partington says nothing de-
spises her so much as to see people
who profess to expect salvation, 60 to
church without their purses when q
recollection is to be taken.
H6. There was a time when if the
back was broken the man would die
but it has passed. Tales of men living
with dislocated spines are getting to be
a commonplace of medical intelligence
p6- A Kansas judge recently com
mitted the local agent of brewing
company to Jail for contempt of court
for refusing, when on the witness stand
as an expert, to drink some of his own
beer.
a6 Three .fifths of the nickel pro
duced in the world comes from Cana
da. The production in other portions
of the world is so small as to cut nc
figure in the statistics of mineral pro
duction.
Ha~ An anonymous letter is mode
of moral murder, which, using only
an inkstand for bowl, and pen fol
a poignard, poisons confidence ano
stabs character without fear of detec
ton.
n8~ The persons of African descent
in the United States are classified &C
cording to the degrees of colored blood
into 6,337 $50 blacks, 956,9S9 mulat
toes, 1885, quadroons, and 69,92t
octoroons.
B@. Baron Anderson once released
from his duties juror who stated thai
he was deaf with one ear. "You may