Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-17
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work to push you.
p4r The entire coastline of the globe
is about 10000 miles.
R6- The hide of the hippopotamus,
in some parts, is two inches thick.
s@ Shoes made of porpoise leather
are absolutely impervious to water.
s@ You cannot prove that you are
very good by proving that somebody
else is bad.
sd 1t IS easy to speak harsh word ;
but impossible to recall it when it is
once spoken.
pd A Chicago woman is possessor OF
the sword which Byron wore in the
Greek revolution.
~ "What, in your opinion, is the
most pleasant decoration for wheel p
ga pretty woman"
E6r There is no condition in life 80
distressing but that it has some miti-
eating circumstances.
s9- There are % illusions in the Bi-
ble to the east wind, 10 of them being
of disparaging character.
D6 In all controversies, secular and
religious, it is the rule that those who
know the least bawl the louder.
pS- No matter how hard your lot is
you will make nothing by giving up
and cherishing respondent spirit.
nag Patience is virtue which, as St.
Paul teaches, comes through tribula-
ton, and it is usually of slow growth.
pa~ One of the best ways of hang
ing on to your faith in human nature
is by always taking good security for
your loans.
p9- awe are always complaining" "
said Addison, "that our days are few,
and acting ss though there would be
no end to them"
Ha" The greatest hotel in London,
and one of the greatest and most cost
ly hotels in the world, the Cecil, is
really an American concern.
H9. There are three varieties of the
dog that never bark-the Australian
dog, the Egyptian shepherd dog, and
the "lion-headed" dog of Thibet.
s6- The latest thing in hotel bills of
fare is stated to be an edible menu
card. 1t is generally made of biscuit,
which the guest eats with his cheese.
s9 The colored brother in Virginia
church prayed, at the close Of white
brothers. sermon, 20 Lord, bress de
brudder to whom we has listened so
patiently"
s4- The trees in the streets of Paris
are looked after by a public official
appointed just for that purpose, and
therefore the Partisan streets always
look beautiful.
nag An editor remarks that some
one has written on the art of making
one happy without money, and says
he is in excellent condition to be ex-
perimented upon.
S@- In some parts of China the pun
ishment for murder is sleeplessness.
The culprit is kept awake until he
dies. Under this treatmement per-
son lives nine or ten days.
a6- Mrs. Newwed-"My husband
always gives me kiss when he goes
to get a scuttle of COAL" Mrs. Old
wed-"Well, in about a year you'll be
lucky if you get the COAL"
Ba~ Little Susie, having been asked
if she had confessed her naughty con-
duct to God, replied, ayes, began to,
and then 1 thought it had better not
be spoken of outside the family"
p9r The late George M. Pullman
had 100000 life insurance. The
Equitable had $4,000 of it; New
England Mutual Life $4,000; Home
of New York and Travellers $4,000
each.
s6 When a man makes pretentions
to personal sanctity that would appall
an archangel, and yet leads common
place and ordinary life, he cannot
blame his associates for noticing the
discrepancy.
s9- If the preacher who resents all
criticism of his sermons were only
compelled to sit in the pews and listen
to the same sort of discourses from
somebody else, he would see things in
different light.
p9- "Good-by, my son." replied the
old man, "and don't forget that while
fortune is pretty certain to knock at
every mans door, she has never been
known to meet him at the depot with
a gold brick in her hand"
pB~ The man who is not just as hon
est in trading as he is in prayer is not
a Christian. 1t is not possible to be a
sinner in business and saint in reli-
gion. The thief in the board of trade
is hypocrite in the church.
n6 A man sent this answer to a
bookseller who sent in his account for
book sometime before delivered {:
~ never ordered the book. If I did,
you did not send it. If Igot it, paid
for it. IF didn't, I won't"
H6- "Some fend incarnate," says a
Mississippi editor, "with the roaring
furnaces of hell staring him in the
face, entered the residence of John
Jones Sunday night, and stole the
Presbyterian Sunday school collec-
ton"
s6- "Mere knowledge" said the
prosy man, "is of little value" "Now
you hit it that time" said the listen
ing young man, with much earnest
ness. 6: know what are exactly the
correct things in clothes, but amt
able to buy 'em."
s8 How fast time flies when you are
working against it, how slowly when
Won are working to fill il uni What