Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-02-07
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keep you in mind.
nag If find man who vhas honest
und copyright I doan' 60 back on him
because he eats nit his knife.
s6 Four things cannot come back
the spoken word, tbe sped arrow, the
past life, the neglected opportunity.
p@ One of the latest inventions is 6
three-cornered nail that will drive
easily, and will not split the wood.
B@ By not doing without the things
we don't need, we sometimes have to
do without the things that we do need
s@ Mrs. Grundy says that fashion
able folks who sneer at religion are the
ones who want to escape its RESPONSE
bilities.
p6 There are too classes of people
in this world-those who make fools
of themselves and those who DOM
need to.
s6 There are few things in this
world to be more dreaded than 8
communicative man with nothing tc
communicate.
R6r There is a time in every mans
life when he thinks there is nothing
sweeter under the sun than somebody's
daughter.
p@ He is happy whose circumstan
ces suit his temper; but he is more
excellent who can suit his temper tc
circumstances
p@ A Rockford, ILL.,, man has invent
ed typewriter no larger than watch
on which he says it is possible to write
faster than with the pen.
p@ Let youth who stands at the
bar with glass of liquor in his hand
consider which he had better throw
|away-the liquor or himself.
s8- The sacred Scriptures teach us
the best way of living, the noblest
way of suffering, and the most com
Portable way of dying.
sG Tests of the dynamite guns al
the Golden Gate, CAL, resulted ir
stunning to death great shoals of fish
and fishermen made harvest.
B6 A St. Bernard was sold for So, ,35(
at the Birmingham (Eng.) dog show
This is said to be the highest price evel
paid for St. Bernard at auction.
B@ The usual thickness of veneers
for furniture is from one-eighth to one
fortieth of an inch, but as curiosity
they are cut as thin as 160 to an inch
s@ Sure it is that secret, unobserved
religion is not the religion of the Lore
Jesus Christ. Whatever religion car
be concealed is not Christianity.
s6 There are men in the world who
if they displayed one-half the energy
in business that they exhibit in loafing
would soon become independent.
s@- The Southern planters, by diver.
si6ed crops, can control the cotton
markets of the world. A less cotton
crop means more profit and more
money.
B6- 1t is said that there are two
words, and two only, in our language
which contain all the voweis in their
order. They -"abstemiously" and
"facetiously."
nag Dean Burgon once ended an
animated sermon, "and so Jonah was
lodged in the whales belly, where, my
dear brethren, weNwill leave him until
next Sabbath"
p9~ The Chinese rapidly assimilate
American ideas, after all. Lee Chunk
a San Francisco Chinaman, under ar
rest for murder, says he will never be
hung as long as his money holds out
pSr 1t is better to have good inten-
tions for one hour than not to have
them at all. There is no man who is
not the better for pure, unselfish re-
solves, however brief they may be.
s6 A man at Sewell, N. j., has II
alarm clocks. If he wishes to rise fol
trivial matter, one clock is wound
for a more important affair, two OF
three are used, and so on up to to the
limit.
B9 About 25 years ago an English
syndicate offered the Transvaal gov
ernment 100000 for the exclusive
right to all the mineral resources O.
that country, and the government
came very near selling it. 1t is esti
mated that the gold product Of the re-
gion this year will be S5O,000,000.
s9 Prof. Baird states that one of the
pixies which can be seen at the Imperi'
al Aquarium, St. Petersburg, was born
toward the end of the Fifteenth cen
tury, and is now, therefore, about 400
wears old. This extraordinary fact is
rendered all the more probable wher
it is borne in mind thai divers other
fishes in the same aquarium are ovel
200 years old.
B9 "When man Gies suddenly
without having been attended by
DOCTOR" says a popular guide to the
law, "the coroner has to be called in
and an inquest held to ascertain the
cause of DEATH" "But," adds the
writer, "when he dies after having
been attended by doctor, then every
body knows why he died, and so ar
inquest is not necessary"
B4 They say: That a level head
seldom gets swelled that the mos,
rnoon;onc oroon ic tho nasal orpan