Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-02-26
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s8- He is thy friend who speaks we'll
of thee behind thy back.

p4 Sin has many tools, but lie S
the handle that fits them all.
p8 Time does not turn backward
when an old man dyes his whiskers.
s4 Each of us has his or her place in
the world, and no one else can fill it.
p~ People who say sharp things
often get the reputation of being blunt
p@ There are dull times on the farm
when the boy has to turn the grind
stone.
s9 Marriage is lottery in which
we all draw something-usually a baby
carriage.
p4r How much sooner it gets toe
dark to saw wood than it does to play
lawn tennis.
s8 How many there are who notice
when bad deed is done how few who
observe a good one.
pd When a Christian goes wrong
he makes it that much harder for some
sinner to 60 right.
D6r When a man does anything
especially mean, he usually lays the
blame upon human nature. .
p6 The government mail bag repair
shop at Washington gives employment
to 135 persons of both sexes.
b6 We gain nothing by falsehood
but the disadvantage of not being be-
lieved when we speak the truth.
p@- 1t is estimated that there are
81, 900 married men in New York city
who are supported by their wives.
s@ A poor girl has to be awfully
good looking to be pretty, and rich
girl has to be awfully homely to be
ugly.
p% If q man can laugh at no other
time, he can generally laugh when the
juke is on some one who laughed al
him. .
p~ Columbus, Ga, has broken the
recrod. A man was convicted and
fined, the other day, for not returning
an umbrella.
p@ An aerolite which fell in Austria.
liza had.a spot on one side nearly II
inches in diameter which was compos'
ed of pure copper.
s6- It is not so much the years we
have spent as the use we have made OF
them that will count when our life
work is reckoned up.
p@ Why should you be unwilling to
grant liberty of opinion to your breth'
rem, when you insist upon it so siren
uously for yourself?
H6r A word of kindness is seldom
spoken in vain !; while witty sayings
are as easily lost as the pearls slipping
from broken string.
p6 There is more real religion in
paying 100 cents on the 81, than in
some of the most eloquent prayers that
were ever delivered.
n8 Ifyou knew the struggles through
which your brother is passing, you
would stop criticising him and throw
your arm around him.
B6r When a man tells you anything
that is derogatory to your neighbor
ask him to 60 with you at once to that
neighbor and tell him about it.
p1r 1t is announced that man al
Cherokee, low a, has succeeded in max.
ing "molasses from corn cobs that is a
perfect imitation of maple syrup"
p@r Thirty-seven years ago Brook,
Vile, Maine, woman received a present
of lamp, two chimneys and globe,
and though in constant use all are yet
unbroken.
H9 The imagination is wonderful
thing. One need only insinuate q
thing, and the imagination of the
hearer Immediately concocts a first
class story.
bH If a man should fall out of a
balloon at a distance of five miles
above the earth, his velocity at the
last second would be at the rate OF
4, 1858 feet per second.
gag When a parent gives his child
rem good instructions, and sets them
at the same time bad example, he
may be considered as bringing them
food in one hand and poison in the
other.
n6 A "hole in the ground" 4,SOC
feet deep, is to be one of the attrac'
tions at the Paris Exposition. People
will descend and ascend by elevators
of which there are to be eight, each
600 feet in extent.
s8 Lemons will keep good fol
months by simply putting them in q
jug of buttermilk, changing the butter
milk about every three weeks. When
the lemons are required for use they
should be we'll dried with cloth.
H~ A Texas man made bet that he
could invent question to which 5C
people would give the same answer
He won the bet. The question was
"Have you heard that Smith had com
mitted suicide ?" The answer in each
case was: "What Smith ?"
a4 About one.fortieth of the popu
lation of the world dies each year. In
the time of Augustus about 1,25O, ,OO(
died yearly, now about sc, ,ooo,OoO per
sons die. No estimate of any value
can be made as to the total deaths in