Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-09-23
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lis home without another?'
p@ Friends got without desert are
apt to be lost without cause.
D@ There are in Paris 5000 women
who are heads of mercantile houses.
p9 No man can keep his mind alive
without constant reading and thinking.
@ 1t is estimated that Queen Vic
toria now rules over 367 ,00O,0 900 peo-
pie.
p@ A desirable accomplishment is
the ability to get pleasure out of hard
work.
p@ The only dumb animal is the
giraffe. 1t cannot express itself by
any sound.
p6 Economy is no disgrace; it is
better living on little than OUTLYING
a great deal.
H6r The engine of an express train
consumes 12 gallons of water for each
mile travelled.
saF A Swedish cure place in Chicago
prescribes turning somersaults as
cure for fatness.
r9- The English language is annual
ly increased by the addition of about
1000 new words.
nag One of the hardest things in the
world is to be charitable toward un-
charitable people.
nag Thirty thousand lamps of various
kinds are required to light the city OF
New York municipality.
s@ Parents who are rude to their
children need not be surprised if their
children become rude to them.
s6" If your religion does not stand
the test of daily life it will not stand
the test of Gods judgment seat.
a@ To have the advantage of an
enemy, and yet abstain from using it.,
is to display true Christian magnanim-
| ity.
b6 The commonest form of gamb-
ling in East India is betting on rain.
A book called "Guide to Rain Betting"
has been issued.
p6 A radish 1S inches in length has
been grown near Weiden, Germany,
which is said to be in the exact form
of baby, even to the fingers and toes.
~ A father usually worries as
much from fear that his daughter will
marry the wrong man as her mother
worries from fear that she will not
marry at all.
s9 The Paris Figaro says that last
year more than 10000 horses were
consumed in that city, and that there
were at least 200 butcher shops that
sold horse meat.
H6T How many there are who pro-
fess to forgive, but who cannot forget
an injury. Such are like persons who
sweep the chamber, but leave the dust
behind che door.
s9 Friendship supplies the place of
everything to those who know how to
make the right use of it; it makes
your prosperity more happy, your ad-
versity more easy.
s9~ The lad who accidently sat
down on a redhot stove pensively
remarked that he was reminded of the
retreating general who burned his
bridges behind him.
B6- 1t was New Jersey wife who
said, "My dear, if you can't drink bad
coffee without abusing me, how is it
you can drink bad whisky without
abusing the barkeeper?"
p9 We often wrong ourselves, but
we soon forgive ourselves these wrongs,
and they do not at all lessen our love
to ourselves; and in like manner we
should forgive and love our neighbors.
s9- A whale recently captured in
Arctic waters was found to have i'm
bedded in it's side harpoon that be-
longed to whaling vessel that had
been out of service nearly half cen
tury.
p9- You can never tell if a joke is
good or not when women laugh at
it; the women count laughing at jokes
as part of their duty, the same as
attending church, and sending flowers
to funerals.
a@~ Apples, if sour, says the New
York Observer, have a direct effect
upon the liver. One eaten before
breakfast every morning goes far to
prevent any irregularity or disturbance
of that organ.
@e The mountaineers of Georgia
catch trout with Siege hammer.
Their practice is to thump a rock, un-
der which trout seeks refuge, with a
hammer, and the conclusion renders
the fish senseless.
nag In Germany the bridal wreath is
usually formed of myrtle branches, in
Switzerland and Italy of white roses,
in Spain of red roses and pinks, in the
United States, France and England,
of orange blossoms.
s6" "Sirs," said an irate little man
Of about 4 feet II inches to 6-foot
man, "I would have you know, sir,
that I have been we'll brought up"
"Possibly," was the answer, "but you
have not been brought up far"
s9~ A cotemporary asks: "Did you
ever notice how sensitive are the ears
of woman in church to the crying of
some other woman's baby, and how
deafer than a post she is when her
own offspring sets up its piercing
squall ?"
R8 DR.. William f. Griffis makes a
good point when he says that it is a
great mistake not to discriminate be-
tween the different types of working
non-tbe temnerate and the drunken