Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-11-28
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H6 There is breed OF dogs IN nus
sia that cannot bark.
p@ There is a growing demand in
England for human skin leather.
p@ If you want your life to be a
success, never be found opposing the
truth.
s@r The pen is mighty engine, and
it sometimes runs away with the en-
gineer.
p6r If thou desire the happiness OF
the child, teach him obedience and
self-restraint.
pdr No man ever believed that a
crying baby belonged as much to hin
as to its mother.
nar Some women look at secret
much as a man looks at whisky-as
too good to keep.
p1 A woman readily pardon's a
minister's failings. To her, it's human
to forgive divines.
pF The wise man does not tell all
he knows; and does not always listen
while others tell all they know either.
nag The reasons why some men are
such inveterate wind-bags would seem
to be because their wives blow them
up every day.
I kT Every man is the architect of his
own fortune. And it's lucky for the
most of us that there is no building
inspector around.
H6y- The man who is drawn into a
scheme to invest l cent and draw out
81 may not be fool, but he is in no
danger from brain fever.
b@ In Paris there is a skating rink
formed of real ice on circular basin
of water artifcially cooled by pipes
containing ammonia gas.
~ "One swallow does not make a
summer; :" but it may have occurred
to you that one grasshopper makes
more than dozen springs.
I@ When you have a cold you do
not know how to cure it. All your
friends know how and they tell you
but that does not affect the cold.
s@ Mr.. Cleveland, when he was
elected president, was poor man, and
now it is claimed that he is million
aire. His salary is $1,000 year.
s4 When woman gets angry you
can generally depend on her saying
frankly what she thinks-or at least,
what she thinks she thinks just then.
H& A machine that cuts match sticks
makes 100000 a day. They are
arranged over a vat, and have the
heads put on at the rate of S,OOO,0 900
per day by one man.
S6 A clergyman says it is not wrong
to dance if you dance properly. Judg-
ing from his subsequent remarks, the
way to dance properly is to sit in the
corner and twirl your fingers.
I6r When a dog gets after a rabbit
he makes the hare fly. Sometimes,
when a woman gets after her derelict
husband she, too, makes the hair fly.
And when mother finds her only son
at the jam she also makes the heir
fly.
s@ A young lady named Drake
boasts that she has refused eleven
offers of marriage in one year. What
pity her name is not the opposite
gender of the one she bears. We
could then refer to her as "Decoy
Duck"
BE A bill has been introduced in
the Alabama legislature providing for
the licensing of any person of good
character to carry pistol or other
deadly weapon. A license of $50 per
year is specified, and it is claimed that
the bill has many supporters.
s6 Many persons use the phrase Sin
trice" who huve no conception of
its meaning. A trice is the sixtyeth
part of a second of time. The hour is
divided into sixty minutes, the min
utes into sixty seconds, and the Sec
ond into sixty trices, or thirds.
sd- A wicked Frenchman says that
women have such an innate vanity for
dress that if you were to tell one that
she was to be hanged in the presence
of twenty thousand persons, she
would at once exclaim, "Great heav-
ems! I've got nothing to wear"
s6s. Henry Barnum, one of the pro-
prietors of Barnum & Bailey's show,
recently informed a reporter Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer that a first class
elephant costs $4,000, and $500 a
year to feed it; good likely, lion costs
from $4,000 to $1,000, and their aver
aye age is about Is years.
B9" An exchange says that thou
sands of people in Jerusalem are living
just as people lived there 1000 years
ago-"same food, clothes, customs
and manners" Every one to his or
her taste, but we should think the
''same food" would be little stale
now, and the clothes somewhat the
worse for wear.
e1 Here is an item for persons
addicted to the habit of chewing gum.
Paraffine is the tar deposit left after
the kerosine has been extracted from
the crude petroleum. About seventy.
five barrels of paraffine are shipped
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