Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-06-03
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weak.
S1 It is easier to tell lie than it is
to catch fish.
H@ Where religion is trade, morali'
ty is merchandise.
p@ A man who abides in peniten.
tiary is a law abiding citizen.
BdT A man who is poor liar finds il
convenient to stick to the truth.
n@ The way to make an overcoat
last is to make the undercoat first.
s@ A soft answer turneth away
wrath, but a club keeps it turned
away.
p6 1t il an odd excursion that does
not yield $5's worth of misery for the
81 planted. -.z..ss
s9- It is not safe to judge q mans
piety by his facility in using a set Of
well-sounding phrases. =
B4 In South America there is race
of cats to which "meowing" is an un'
learned accomplishment. "
p@ A wicked little boy says that
home without a mother would be
solid picnic all the week.
p8 Thirteen has always been an un.
lucky number. Adams 18th rib was
the cause of all his troubles.
s@ Make yourself an honest man
and then you may be sure that there
is one rascal less in the world.
s@- A newspaper published in Mad
rid is printed on linen, which may be
washed and used afterwards as hand
kerchief.
p6 The farmer who lets everything
70 to waste about him will generally
be the one who complains that farm
ing don't pay"
s6 A man may be loaded to the eyes
with philosophy, and yet be as helpless
as a child when he tries to get the last
word with a woman. :
I~ Leading citizens of Virginia pro.
pose to establish national battlefield
park on the sites of the famous battles
near Fredericksburg.
p6 One of the hardest of all crops
"to raise " in the financial sense, is Q
mortgage, but 1t is easy to plant. The
less one plants the better.
p@ Only one in 100000 reaches the
age of 100 years, one in 500 reaches
the age of 80 years, and one in loo
reaches the age of'6O years.
p@ "Few men have honest convic-
tions," says some one. This does not
trouble us as much as the fact that so
many men have dishonest acquittals.
p6r He that is habituated to decep-
tions in trifles will try in vain to be
true in matters of Importance; for
truth is a thing of habit, not of will. 9
pd- The adage (and it is older than
the Christian era) "No grass no cattle,
no cattle no manure, no manure no
crops" is as true to-day as when first
spoken.
pa Killing time is one of the worst
of murders. We have only short
lease on life, and he who kills time is q
suicide to the extent of hours thus
murdered.
n@ Three-tenths of the earnings of a
Belgian convict are given to him on
his release. The majority save more
money in Jail than they have ever
saved before.
p@ A good man and a wise man
may at times be angry with the world,
at times grieved at it; but be sure, no
man was ever discontented with the
world if he did his duty in it.
p~ "The tendency to do wrong in
creases toward night" says a we'll
known clergyman. think this is
very likely to be true, for when Adam
ate the forbidden fruit it was near
Eve.
p@ You might as we'll undertake to
varnish rainbow or try to stampede
hunger with dime with a hole in it,
as expect to prevail on a man to
own up to his wife that he has been in
the wrong.
H@ 1t is said that the longest arti6-
cial water course in the world is the
Bengal canal, in India, which is 900
miles long. The next longest is the
Erie canal, which is 1853 miles long.
Each cost nearly $40, 100000.
p@ (which would you rather have
a little brother or little sister2
asked Mrs. Simpleton of her little
boy, Tommy. "Oh, ma, don't let us
have either of them, children are such
a nuisance about the house."
p@ The first house built in south
eastern Indiana, and now the oldest
house in the State, is still standing at
Greensburg. 1t is the log cabin that
was built by Thomas Hendricks, uncle
of the late Vice President Hendricks,
in 1911.
p4 Sugar is fed to cows on a large
dairy farm near London, England, it is
with good effect. The sugar
is scattered over the feed in the man
ger to induce the cattle to eat it all.
1t is said also that it improves the fla
vor of the milk.
a@ In adjusting the fire insurance
loss caused by burning of its sales
rooms and stock of wheels on hand of
one of the largest and most popular
bicycle manufacturing companies in
the United States, the fact developed
that the cost of 800 machines was but
$40 at the factory.
pg The latest whim of women
cyclists is to have their wheels painted
to match their dress. In the London
streets are seen cycles in various
shades of green, brown and terra Gotta.
The fashion was started by Lady War