Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-06-12
9tjausiae Gatherinas.

p6T Good manners are made up Of
petty sacrifices.
p@ If some of us would pray more
we would grumble less.
p@r An investment in knowledge al
ways pays the best interest.
b@ Divorce has been described as q
matrimonial ticket-of.leave.
p@ "Time," says Horace Smith, lis
the vehicle that carries everything into
nothing"
p@ Envy is blind, and knows moth
ing except to depreciate the e1cellen-
cies of others.
H@- Almost everything has declined
in value during the last 20 years ex-
cept gold and timber.
p@ The Spaniards say: "a woman's
counsel is no great thing, but he is a
fool who does not take it."
r6 During a recent week the patent
Office "broke the record" by receiving
/ lao applications for patents.
I6- The farmer who lives happy and
contented in a home free from debt
need not envy the millionaire.
B% All-around work makes an all
around man, while special work often
makes only a very efficient human
machine.
1~ The PROFESSIONALISM insect is
found most widely distributed through.
out the earth? The Pupil-The
Humbug.
n@ History tells us that Galileo's
first telescope was an old piece of lead
water pipe with spectacle lenses glued
in each end.
"a 1t is always well to reflect, be-
fore signing petitions for pardon,
whether something is not due to the
majesty of law.
B@- A little girl recently asked her
mother: "Mother, what part of heav.
en- do people go to who are good but
not agreeable ?"
D8 Education begins at the mothers
knee, and every word spoken within
the hearing of little children tends to.
ward the formation of their character.
p8- A special commission has arriv-
ed in this country from Japan, for the
purpose of studying the workings of
electrical power and telephone sys-
TENS.
p8 The horse business in the coun-
try is much better than it was a year
ago. A good many are changing
hands, and prices are higher, though
still low.
t@ Sectarianism is miserable,
short.sighted prejudice. 1t makes you
hate you neighbor because he eats his
oysters roasted, while you prefer them
in the she'll.
t@r st. Louis is the greatest mule
market in the world. The mules that
transported the baggage of the British
army during the last Egyptian war
were bought in st. Louis.
p@ "Papa, where are the most dia-
monds found ?" asked Willie. "In
somebody else's hand when they are
trumps," growled papa, who had been
having hard luck at whist.
B@ The weakest living creature, by
concentrating his powers on single
object, can accomplish something |;
the strongest, by dispensing his over
many, may fail to accomplish anything.
p@ Why is it, asks the Philadelphia
Press, that clergyman who only gets
about 500 year is able to work all
through the summer, while $4,000
parsons need absolute rest for the sum-
mer months?
p@ A Chicago preacher increased the
attendance at evening service 800 per
cent. by offering cake and lemonade.
Now if he had offered some substitute
for lemonade-but probably the church
wouldn't hold more worshippers.
s@ A non- poisonous match has been
devised by French chemist. The
matches are made easily and without
danger, ignite readily, are not liable to
explosion when stored in quantity,
and have an odor said to be positively
agreeable.
p@ During the most peaceful years
the world has 100000 soldiers who
are withdrawn from productive occu.
pations to pose as soldiers. The pay,
equipments, food and clothing of these
men cost the worlds taxpayers nearly
So, 100000 day.
b8 The distinction between good
preacher and a bad preacher has not
changed much since Archbishop
Wbately declared that "a good preach
er preached because he had something
to say, and bad preached because he
had to say something"
B6 A close estimate of the crop of
oranges in Southern California this
season, made by the president of the
Southern California Fruit Exchange,
puts it at 5000 carloads, or 100000
boxes. This is an increase of about
100000 boxes over last season.
.s6- Imaginashun tew mutch indul-
ged in" says Josh Billings, "soon is
tortured into reality this is one way
good hoss thieves are made; a man