Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-08-26
aTausiae Gatherings.

school masters.
p8 Promises makes debts, and debts
make promises.
p@ No young man ever climbed the
ladder of success with whisky flask
lin his pocket.
p6 Tomorrow is the time when the
fool is going to be wise and the lazy
man Industrious.
s@ Help from without is often en-
feebling in its effects, but help from
within invariably invigorates.
w Thare are 5000 Hebrews in the
city of Amsterdam over 10000 OF
them are dealers in diamonds.
p~ On Egyptian monuments over
5000 years old there are representa-
tions of persons playing at game re-
sembling checkers.
p6s- From rough calculations lately
made it appears that over $780,
600 species of animals have been de-
scribed by naturalists.
p@- In the middle ages cats were Of
ten kept in nunneries, and this may
have something to do with their ira
ditional association with old maids.
p@ Never bluster. Say quietly and
calmly what you will and won't, and
let it stand at that. 1t is only the
weak man who find in necessary to
swear.
n6y Russia has the most rapidly in
creasing population of any country in
Europe. The growth in the last 100
years has been fraction under 1,O0O,-
900 annually.
~ The banana is one of the most
prolific of all the fruits of the earth,
being A times more productive than
potatoes, and 131 times more produc-
tive than wheat.
s@ If you wish success in life, make
perseverance your bosom friend, exper'
lience ycur wise counsellor, caution
your elder brother, and hope your
guardian genius.
S@ If you want to be miserable
think about yourself, about what you
want, what you like, what respect
people ought to pay you, and what
people think of you.
t@ The interest with which a young
man watches hair coming out on his
face is only equalled by the interest
with which an older man watches it
coming out of his head.
p6 The man who will not accept the
Bible, because he cannot see through
everything it contains, might just as
we'll stay in bed on cloudy day, be-
cause he cannot see the sunshine.
s@- 1t rather disgusted a Vermont
man who went to a neighbor's farm to
steal a cow to find when he got the
animal home that it was his own cow
which his neighbor had stolen earlier
in the night.
r6T An invalid, after returning from
southern trip, said to friend: "Oh,
shure, an its done me a wurruld OF
good goin' away. I've come back an
other man altogether; in fact, I'm
quite meself again."
s6r Many an employee has fully as
much ability as his employer. There
is no reason why such a one, after
saving little money, should not make
successful business man. Lack Of
ambition is the greatest failing of some
men.
nag A well-known medical authority
saws in a recent work that cheese
should be eaten at least once day.
sIt is the most valuable animal food
attainable," he says, "from two to
three times as nutritious as the same
money value of ordinary meat"
s% A story comes from Berlin of a
young woman in Eichelberg, a small
Bavarian village, who went into the
village inn for refreshments, drank five
and half gallons of beer, "and then
still possessed the ability to thrash the
inn keeper"
s@ A horse dealer in West Wood
stock, VT, has owned 452 horses dur
ing his life, and has never told lie
about horse. One man who has dealt
with him was 80 impressed with this
remarkable fact that he recently gave
him a hatchet.
s~ "Mamma, Johnny is such mug
wump that don't want to sleep with
him any more" A "mugwump ?"
"Yes, mamma. Didn't you tell me
that mugwump was some one who
would not take either side? And
that's the way with Johnny. He wants
to sleep in the middle of the bed"
s@ There is dog in Albany, N. Y,
that can play the trumpet-that is to
say, he can blow two or three harmo-
nious notes from small brass horn
and wonderfully funny he looks when
he sits on his launches blowing away
for dear life. The dogs name is Mas
cot, and he is the queerest genius alive.
Har Harry" said Mrs. Gloonip, at
dinner, looking down at her watch,
but speaking to Mr.. Gloonip on the
other side of the table, "my watch
hasn't varied a second in week. {"
"Remarkable said Mr.. Gloonip.
"How did you get it to vary SO little ?"
"I broke the mainspring," said Mrs.
Gloonip.
s@ Henry Ward Beecher, in his
famous speech at Manchester, England,
in which he talked to a bowling mob
of rebel sympathizers before he gained
their attention, was interrupted by a
man in the audience who shouted,
"Why didn't you whip the Confeder-
ates in 60 days as you said you would P"
"Because," replied Beecher, 1--WE found
we had Americans to fight instead of