Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-10-13
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others: Result, misery and a mort
cages.
nag It is the vice of the unlearned to
suppose that the knowlege of books is
of no account, and the vice of scholars
to think there is no other knowledge
worth having.
n6 A young wife who lost her hus'
band by death, telegraphed the SAD
tidings to her father in these succinct
words "Dear John died this morning
Loss fully covered by insurance"
s4 What do you think of a man
who will, at the table, tell the Lord he
is thankful for the things before him
but as soon as he says "Amen," will
Legin storming about the cooking?
s@ The kindly treated horse is the
gentle horse; the gentle horse is the
safe horse; the safe horse is the high
est priced horse, other things being
equal, and is the kind treatment coin
ed into dollars.
r4- On a recent Sunday, while Rev
J. w. Chadwick was preaching in the
Second Unitarian church of Brooklyn
his voice suddenly failed. His wife al
once proceeded to the pulpit and fin
ished his sermon for him, after which
she conducted the service to its close.
nag A German doctor says that the
two sides of a face are never alike
in two cases out of FIVE the eyes are
out of line; one eye is stronger thar
the other in 7 persons out of 10; ano
finally that the right ear is generally
higher than the left.
R8 The time to do a good thing is
when you can. Unimproved oppor
tunities never return. If you find il
in your power today and here to help
a struggling soul, you are guilty be-
fore God if you fail to stretch oul
your hand. Tomorrow will be too late
p4r Priest-Pat, there's hole in
the roof of the church, and l am try
ing to collect enough money to repair
it. Come, now, what will you con-
tribute? Pat-Me services, sor
"What do you mean, Pat? You're
no carpenter" "No; but if it rains
next Soonday, OH sit over the hole"
s6~ The Burmese women are great
personages and play great part in
their households. They choose their
own husbands and divorce them when
they like, retaining their own property
and all that they have earned they
are at liberty to marry again whether
as widows or divorces.
H8 The Chinese settlers on the island
of Sumatra have a strange and ludi
crous form Of salutation. When they
meet each other, say, after an absence
of a month or longer, they do not
shake each others hand; they smile
broadly, and each grasps his own hand
shaking it vigorously for a few mo
ments.
sar Man is the only animal that has
a real nose or chin. Horses have faces
that are all noses, swine have snouts
and elephants trunks; lions have
vast smelling organs; but none of them
anything that can be separated from
their faces, and called a nose. 1t is
even more true of the chin, which is
particularly human.
n9 Somebody says: ~ cannot toler'
ate nor do I have any confidence in 8
mans religion who will jerk his hor'
ses. When l see horse dodge every
time his owner comes about his head
know that the horse has been jerked
and his owner ought to be jerked by
the cruelty to animals society,"" Is he
right?
nag The n. Y. Journal of Hygiene
says that many people eat altogether
too much salt. The result is that the
skin and kidneys are excessively taxed
to get rid of the salt, and both are in.
jured by it. Few people have healthy
skins, and it is believed that many
cases of arrangement of the kidneys
are due to the salt habit.
B6~ "Perhaps you would like to dc
the shopping for the family yourself''
she exclaimed. "Perhaps you would
like to undertake the responsibility Of
providing the funds" he retorted
Then both shuddered, and realized
that there was no use of trying to
settle the question. 1t was the old
old dispute between capital and labor
b9" A curious custom prevails in
Bulgaria. All newly married women
are obliged to remain dumb for
month after marriage, except when
addressed by their husband. When il
is desirable to remove this restriction
permanently the husband presents hel
with a gift, and then she can chatter
to her hearts content.
H6 A train was rushing along
through some swamps in northern In
diana. The track was fringed or
either side with "cattails," literally
thousands of their brown heads bob
bing around in the breeze. A small
boy eagerly drank in the scenery. He
was evidently city-bred boy, for hi
presently exclaimed, "Mamma,
didn't know that sausages grew ir
that way"
Bd5- How many little misunderstood
ings stick like splinter, in ones fin
ger, until they make mischief and trou
BILE that cannot easily be remedied
And how many cases five minute:
frank, honest talk would have settled
the whole matter. The policy of 81
lence at such times is very dangerou:
policy, and many hearts have bled ant
suffered when a word would have
healed them.
n9- Bees, according to statistician
must in order to collect a pound o
laxo., lo,r;,,a 60 000 r1oyar h1oocom,