Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-02-14
at'ausiat @atherings.

of roses.
pT A foot of newly fallen snow
changes into only an inch of water
when melted.
e9- In escaping from fire, creep or
crawl along the room with your face
close to the floor.
pdF In Russia yot must marry before
80 or not at all, and you may marry
only five times.
s6- A lowly origin does not preclude
a lofty destiny. The carpenters son
was also the Son of God.
p8- The man who has no business OF
his own to attend to will soon be
found attending to the devils business.
pd- Wheat that is grown in northern
latitudes produces much more seed
than grain grown further south.
pd- 1t is principle of our holy re-
ligion to be diligent in business, fer
vent in spirit serving the Lord.
pG- Bass, who is versed in the
Scriptures, afirms that in the begin
ming woman was but side issue.
p6 Advice, like the DOCTORS doses, is
easy to give but hard to take, and with
most of us a little will 60 a long way.
R9- In Colorado there once lived a
gigantic lizard-like creature 80 feet
long and as large as the largest whales
of today.
pd He is happy whose-circumstances
suit his temper but he is more excel
lent who can suit his temper; to his
circumstances. e..
pd- Taking the whole land surface OF
the globe into consideration, there are
22A acres for each inhabitant on this
planet.
p65. Life is too short to nurse ones
misery. Hurry across the lowlands,
that you may spend more time on
the mountain-tops.
p1- There are nearly 100000
children in schools in the United States,
nearly 100000 in public schools,
and nearly 400, 900 teachers.
p6- Ohio has FIVE and one-half times
and Illinois five and four-ffth times the
inhabitants of Maine, but Maine has
more savings bank deposit than either.
sdr "Oh, What Shall the Harvest
Be?" is appropriately sung by the
choir of church in Scotland while the
collection is being taken.
p6T The city of Sidney, Australia, has
imposed a fine of s5 upon any person
convicted of splitting upon the floor
of public buildings, or upon the street.
s@ A countryman, on being charged
by rampagious bull, held his wife
firmly in front, saying, "Stand steady,
Maria he can't toss both of u.s."
p9- An ice marriage took place re-
Gently in Holland. The couple were
married on the frozen Zuyder Zee, the
ceremony being followed by a dance
on skates. e.
R6- The best evidence that we can
give that we are pious Christians, and
heirs of eternal life, is the earnest
desire of our hearts and labors of our
lives for the salvation of sinners.
HdE The best men are not so good as
they ought to be, and the worst men
are great deal more degraded and
sinful than they themselves or any one
else supposes.
sdr The governors of only three
States of the Union receive salaries of
$4,000 each; namely, New York,
New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The
least is $1,000 paid by the State of
Rhode Island.
s6- An uncomfortably tight shoe
may be made perfectly easy by laying
a cloth wet in hot water across where
it pinches, changing several times.
The leather will shape itself to the
foot.
p9r Banana juice is said to make a
first-class indelible ink. A spot on a
white shirt from dead-ripe banana is
marked forever, and the juice from
bananas thoroughly decayed is a
bright, clear carmine.
.p@e "See here, Mr.. Grocer" said a
Hartford housewife, "If your going to
bring me any more goods, I want them
to be the very best" "We keep none
but the best" II presume so; you
must sell the worst in order to keep the
best"
pdn Mr.. Chamberlain, the British
statesman, once remarked to a member
of the house of commons, who was
notoriously lazy and vacillating. "My,
dear boy, observe the postage.stamp
its usefulness and value depend upon
its ability to stick to one thing It'll it
gets there"
s9- 1t is a sad perversion of tears to
be crying over the poor heathens in
China, or over the sins and short-com-
ings of other peoples children, in your
own neighborhood, while you are neg.
lecting your own children's spiritual
interest.
sa The idea of carrying potato in
the pocket as a cure for rheumatism
has it origin in the well-known fact
that potatoes contain good deal OF
potash, especially in the skin, and that
is one of the reasons why potatoes are
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