Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-08-05
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p6r 1t is great point of wisdom to
find out ones own folly.
s6r 1t is easier to repress thought
than to atone for its ripened damage.
s@ Religion in business is just as
desirable as religion in the church.
p@ He who takes takes the child by
the hand, takes the mother by the
heart.
bT The moment you are instinctively
prompted to rub your eyes, stop using
them.
s6 Wealth consists not in having
great possessions, but in having few
wants.
s6F We are all the time making char
acter, whether we are doing anything
else or not.
b@ Mr.. Gladstone is still the cham
pion postal card writer, consuming over
1900 year.
n6E No one ever learned how to do
right by experimenting in things that
are wrong.
p~ No young man ever climbed the
ladder of success with a whisky flask
in his pocket.
s@- Salt and vinegar brighten brass.
es as we'll as any more modern and
expensive potions.
n6 The entire population of the
limited States could live comfortably
in the single state of Texas.
nag The division of time into months
and weeks is so old that its origin can.
not possibly be ascertained.
pE A cannon ball fired from one of
the great Krupp or Armstrong guns
travels at the speed of 2,SS7 feet per
second.
s@ Whenever you buy or sell, let or
hire, make clear bargain, and never
trust to tive shan't disagree about
trifles."
n6E The most curious paper weight
lin the world is said to belong to the
Prince of Wales. 1t is the mummified
hand of one of the daughters OF
Pharaoh.
s@ The latest case of absence of mind
| is that of young lady who, upon re-
turning from a walk with her lover,
raped him on the face and bade good
night to the door.
s@ The Eastman, Ca, Journal says
that "the idea of teaching every girl
to thump piano, and every boy to be
bookkeeper, will make potatoes four
dollars bushel in 20 years.
p@ A German firm has just brought
out glove for gentlemen, the special
ty of which is that small mirror,
about the size of the half dollar, is in
serted in the palm of the hand.
p@ "Doctor," said the grateful pa
tient, seizing the physicians hand,
eI shall never forget that to you I owe
my life." "You exaggerate, returned
the doctor, mildly; "You only owe me
for Is visits"
p6r Every soldier knows that a
horse will not step on man intention.
ally. 1t is a standing order in the
British cavalry if a trooper becomes
dismounted he must lie still. If he
does this the whole squadron will pass
over him without doing him injury.
~ A silver watch which was drop
ped in a we'll in Belfast, Maine, 25
years ago was recovered day or two
ago. Unlike most watches recovered
under such circumstances, this one
wasn't running just as if nothing had
happened to it.
p@ Nancy Bennett died in the Port
Hand, (Me., !, almshouse recently at the
age of II, after living there continu-
ously for 81 years. She was mentally
and physically sound, but she was
taken to the almshouse when but 5
years old, and never wanted to leave it.
s@ Habits of inattention, of mental
lindolence, of surface or of random
thinking, of inexact statements though
they may involve no conscious wick
edness, are the source of widespread
and insiduous corruption of character.
p@ They were getting ready to 60
to social gathering in Dallas, when
Colonel Yerger said aside to his wife !:
"What makes you scowl so everlast-
|ingly? Can't you smile and look
pleasant, like Mrs. Gaily?" "You
forget that she is a widow" replied
Mrs. Yerger. The colonel wilted.
a@- Some idea of the vast extent of
surface of the earth may be obtained
when it is noted that if a lofty church
steeple is assembled, and the landscape
visible from it looked at, 100000 such
landscapes must be viewed in order
that the whole earth may be seen.
n8" A Danbury, Conn.,, man has de-
cided upon an original plan of commit
ting suicide. He intends to enter a
cage containing live lion and allow
himself to be eaten by the beast. He
proposes to charge an entrance fee of
SIS to those who wish to see the tragedy,
the proceeds to 60 to his family.
ads- An Irishman called upon a friend
of his one evening, cobbler by trade,
and found him busy at work, and ex-
claimed, "Bad luck to him that in
vinted work by the light of a dirty,
greazy lamp, whin the blissid light of
the sun is enough for ony mon to
work Bly," Said the other, "Bad luck
to him that invinted work at all, at
ALL"
na A noted sharper, wishing to in
Fgratitate himself with a clergyman,
said: "Parson, I should like to hear
you preach more than I can tell you"
"Well," responded the clergyman, eff