Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-04
dtausiae Gatherings.

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long cough.
nag A secret has been admirably de-
fined as "anything made known to
everybody in whisper"
s9" During Queen Victoria's reign
the taxes in Great Britain have dou-
bled, and trade has increased seven
fold.
s6y- Send your son into the world
with good principles, good habits, and
good education, and he will work his
way.
p9 Every man is of the opinion that
he paid terrible price for experience,
while others got theirs at d bargain
counter.
ad~ They used to say that the pres
ence of dog in the family was sure
sign of poverty. For "dog" now read
"bicycle."
nag When our desires are fulfilled to
the very letter, we always find some
mistake which renders them anything
but what we expect.
p9. Switzerland's national council
has voted unanimously to make in
surance against accident and sickness
compulsory on all citizens.
s9 Go into the busy world, and you
will find vaulting ambition. Go into
the lonely churchyard, and you will
find vaulted ambition.
tag The best quality of mind that
any one can come in possession of is
the strength to bear up against disap-
pointment and misfortunes.
s@ Hood in describing the meeting OF
man and lion, said: "The man
ran off with all his might, and the lion
with oil his mane."
s@ The following is an advertise
ment in a Kansas paper: "Man and
wife desire board and room in private
family. Must have storm caye."
sar II is said that food, drink, and
tobacco cost the people of New York
city 81, 100000 and over a day. Our
frivolous friend wonders how much OF
this is thrown away on food.
s@ Husband-Why are you so anx-
ious for me to insure my life? Devot-
ed Wife-Well, darling what chance
should + have of marrying again II you
left me penniless?
a@ Railroad engineers in Germany
are rewarded for carefulness. If they
run ten years without accident, each
engineer receives a gold medal and
about $500 in cash.
s6 "You durn oil plug" said the
farmer to his balky horse" "you actu-
ally amt worth killin' unless, he add
ed, after second thought, "unless l
could manage to git you killed by the
railroad"
s6 In answer to an inquirer, who
wants to know "who or what is 'Soro-
sis ?" the editor of the New York Sun
says it is club of women, and that
"most of its members are women by
profession"
p6r During the teaching of tenn
perance Sunday school lesson an Indian
boy, ten years old, was asked, "What
does alcohol do to mans brain p
He answered, at makes him think
crooked"
B@ He had married young widow,
and was in the first flush of his happi-
ness. "Darling," he murmured, "will
you ever forget your honeymoon ?"
(which ?" she queried, absentminded-
/ ly.
p~ Josh Billings says: "There is
no more real satisfaction in laying up
up in yure buzzum an injury than
there is in stuffing a dead hornet who
has stung you, and keeping him tew
look att
Bd According to the order just is
sued by the war department, Massach-
usetts stands ffth on the list Of states
in the strength If its militia. New
York comes first and Nevada last.
pd- Miss Madeline Pollard, who dis
appeared from public view after her
sensational suit against Congressman
Breckenridge, is living quietly in Lon
don, and is understood to be studying
with a view to engaging in literary
work.
sdr There is wealth of subtle logic
in the epitaph inscribed on the tomb
of North Carolina moonshiner :
"Killed by the government for making
whisky out of corn grown from seed
furnished by congressman"
s0r The expenditures for one vice,
says lions Herald, will feed and clothe
family of children. Some men, and
generally poor men, drink, burn up,
and chew up every year enough to
make them well-to-do, if not rich.
s6 The number of immigrants who
arrived in New York during the fiscal
year Just closed was 1SO, 1856, of whom
LOG, ,O4O were males. Total immigra-
ton to the United States was some
100000.
nag A woman in Cleveland applied
for a divorce on the ground that she
"wants to marry somebody else." This
is not an unusual cause for divorce,
but the frankness with which it is ex-
pressed certainly is unique.
pa" A humorist leaps gayly upon the
steps of an omnibus, and cries cheer
fully to the conductor: "Is the ark
full ?" "No, sir" replies the jovial
conductor, 1--WE have kept seat for
you. What no within there Room
for the monkey"
pdr A watchful and eloquent parrot
hung in the saloon of John Stadler,
in Muncie, Ind. The proprietor and
his family slept up stairs. A fire broke
out while the occupants were in deep