Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-04-08
aTauside Gatherimgs.
nar The best of life is ever still ahead
or lust behind.

or just behind.
s8- In the British museum there are
at present 80 miles Of books.
b8- Exercise is the best remedy to
put color into pale face.
s@- Thrift is better than to be re-
membered in your uncle's will.
s8- Sweetening ones coffee is the
first stirring event of the day.
a@- It takes more grace to be a good
Christian at home than in public.
a@- Zanzibar, more correctly Zan-
guebar, signifies: "The coast of the
Negroes"
s6r People seldom improve when
thew have no model but themselves to
copy after.
nd. When a man and a woman are
married, their romance ceases and their
history commences.
RT Advice is like snow, the softer it
falls the longer it dwells upon, and the
deeper it sinks into, the mind.
s6- The yolk of an egg is said to be
very good substitute for cream in
coffee, and will answer for three cups.
p9- "Scientists say now that hand
shaking conveys disease" "Ofcourse /;
that's the way the grip got started"
pds~ Many a man breads throwing
away his life at once, who shrinks
not from throwing it away by piece
meal.
R1 Give a man brains and riches,
and he is king; give a man brains
without riches, and he is a slave
give man riches without brains, and
he is monkey.
Sdr Henry Clay once said to Mrs.
President Polk: "Madam, never
heard anything but praise of your ad
ministration, though occasionally !
have heard some slight objections to
your husbands"
n@ Persons holding accident insur-
ance policies will be glad to learn that
their death will be considered acciden-
tai if they are lynched by a mob. A
Missouri court has established the
precedent.
Sd- Montana's production of gold
last year amounted 10 81 1927 ,040, an
increase over 1894 of $676,000, which
is heavy percentage. 1t is the same
story the world over and feature OF
finance which economists are watching
with interest.
s@ Patient (who has just had his
eyes operated on)-Doctor, it seems
to me fifty dollars is high price to
charge for that job. 1t didn't take you
ten seconds. Eminent Oculist-My
dear friend, in learning to perform this
operation in ten seconds I have spoiled
more than two bushels of such eyes as
yours.
p~ Japan is going to build 80 tor
pedo boats. Great Britain, on the
other hand, has decided to build no
more of them, but to substitute for
them what are known as torpedo boat
destroyers. These are larger than
torpedo boats, and carry half dozen
quick-iring guns apiece, in addition
to torpedoes, and torpedo tubes.
s4 "Admiral Dot" once famous as
a midget, is now hotel proprietor at
White Plains and foreman of the fire
engine company of that town. He is
now quite stout and much taller than
when on exhibition as a dwarf. When
arrayed in his freman's apparel, he
looks like a plum-pudding, swathed in
red flannel.
s@ The oldest known medical rec
ipe, according to French medical
journal, is one dated 1000 years before
Christ, for a tonic for the hair. 1t
was prepared by an Egyptian queen,
and required dogs paws and donkeys'
hoofs to be boiled with dates in oil.
This gets away with the modern hair
restorer.
HD- A farmer writes that 25 years
ago he split white oak posts for his
garden fence, putting a peck of air.
Stacked lime around each, and they
are all good yet. He attributes their
good condition to the effects of the
lime, in which he is doubtless correct.
1t has been said that a board that has
been used in a mortar bed, and
thoroughly saturated with lime, is al
most indestructible from decay.
p@ A hatcbet was found few days
ago completely imbedded in the trunk
of a tree cut down in Cheboygan
county, Michigan. The wood had
grown over it so that it was invisible
from the outside. 1t bore the name of
Robert La Sale, the French explorer,
the date, 1865, and the Latin inscrip-
ton, "Ad Majorem Deaf Gloriam," I"
the motto of the Jesuit order to which
La Sale belonged.
p~ An unassuming citizen of frugal
mind bIackened his own boots for
economy sake the other day, and then
went out to the barber's for shave.
Lying back on the luxurious chair, he
was lulled into dreamy state by the
barber's prattle, Then he felt some
thing at his feet. Opening his eyes he
saw a colored youth in full play at
them with backing brushes. "What's
the matter there" he said ~ black
ened those shoes myself" "Dat's
what I 'spected, boss" was the cool
reply; "dat's why l had to do um
over"
n@ One reason men overestimate
themselves and underestimate their
neighbors is that they give themselves
credit for all their good desires and
purposes. They know of the good