Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-06-17
atauside Gatherings.

B@- What is the good of giving your
children good advice, while setting
them bad example?
n@ The joints endure much use
because they are constantly fabricated
by an oil secreted by glands specially
adapted to that purpose.
p@ Our grand business is not to see
what lies dimly at distance, but to
do what lies clearly at hand.
p@ The only safe way of dealing
with duty is to perform it at once.
"What thou doest, do quickly.
p9- About 1000 sailing vessels dis
appear in the sea every year, entailing
the loss of $4,000 human lives.
p@ The man who bites off more than
be can chew is not so numerous as he
who swallows more than he can digest.
pB No man ever served God by
doing things tomorrow. If we honor
Christ, and are blessed, it is by the
things which we do today.
s@ Over 400 diamonds are known to
have been recovered from the ruins OF
Babylon. Many are uncut, but most
are polished on one or two sides.
s8 The State of Ohio has taken the
place of Virginia as the mother Of
presidents, and it has an enormous
offspring of presidential candidates.
p@. Pastime is word that should
never be used but in bad sense it is
vile to say that a thing is agreeable
because it helps to pass the time away.
s@ Camels are perhaps the only an.
imals that cannot swim. Immediate
ly upon entering the water, it is said,
they turn on their backs and are
drowned.
p@ "Got on your husbands cravat,
haven't you?" asked neighbor OF
Mrs. BiIkins. eyes," replied Mrs. B.,
sadly. "It is the only tie there is be-
tween us now"
p@ Nothing that man will ever
invent will absolve him from the uni
versal necessity of being good as God
is good, righteous as God is righteous.
holy as God is holy.
p@ The Missouri is the longest river,
and the Mississippi really joins the
Missouri. But the Mississippi was
discovered first and obtained the repu-
tation of being the principal stream.
va An editorial notice of a woman's
grocery store reads as follows: "Her
tomatoes are as red as her own cheeks,
her indigo is as blue as her own eyes,
and her pepper as hot as her own
temper"
p% "Shall I play this pretty German
waltz for you ?" she asked, as she ran
her fairy fingers over the ivory keys.
"No, thank you," he replied; "play
an American air. I do not under
stand German.
pT AS might have been expected,
the dreadful calamities in the West
have produced great demand for
tornado insurance. It is estimated
that $2,0O0,OOO of this insurance has
been written in St. Louis alone.
H8 Recent Investigations. according
to Science, establish the fact that the
essential poison ivy can be nothing
but an oil. Hence water will not re-
move the poison from the surface, but
alcohol will, if applied freely.
s@ "Doan' cross er bride till yoh
gifts ter it," said Uncle Eben, "but at
de same time doan' SIT down an spose
dat de bridge is gwinter be dah wait
in fob yer every time, wheddah yoh
superinten's de building OBJ it or not. y
s8- The Pennsylvania railroad offers
a prize of an annual pass to the farm
er along each of its divisions whose
farm presents the best appearance,
with view to making the landscape
along it's line attractive to the trav-
eler.
s6r Prayer is the means which God
has given us and to which we come in
stinctively for finding God, for living
with him and for carrying about with
US sense of his presence, deriving
from it comfort and peace and calmness
and strength.
n@ Said a college professor to no.
torious laggard, who was once, for a
wonder, promptly in his place for
morning prayers, ~ marked you, sir,
as punctual this morning. What is
your excuse9" "Couldn't sleep, sir, !"
was the reply.
p~ "John did you 60 round and ask
how old Mrs. Jones was this morning,
as told you to do last night ?" "Yes
SIR" "Well, what was the result ?"
"She said that, seeing as how you had
the imprudence to ask how old she
was, she'd no objection to telling you
she was a."
w "What was the trouble at church
this morning?" inquired one Dakota
citizen of another. ~ understand
there was a row." "Oh, it didn't
amount to anything. Some of the
members in the back pews threatened
to shoot the minister unless he spoke
louder. That was ALL"
BdF One dollar loaned for 100 years
at per cent, with interest collected
annually and added to the principal,
will amount to $34O. At s per cent,
it amounts to s2,2O3, or nearly seven
times as much. At IL per cent, it
amounts to SS4,O75, or more than 1000
times as much.
b9 Christians little realize how
closely they are watched by the world ;