Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-03
atjausiae Gatherings.
R6 Lost time is never found.

GD Men lose more Dy SelnSnneSs
than they gain.
p~ Breaking your promise to child
is one way of teaching it to lie.
s6r Do as much as you can and God
will see to it that you do enough.
p~ Accusing another often means
nothing more than excusing ones self
p~ 1t is of no consequence how gooG
a man is abroad if he is really mean al
home.
s~ A Philadelphia grocer has this
sign behind his counter: "The mar
who trusts is out"
pd The British museum has three
copies of the Bible written on the
leaves of the fan palm.
p4 One drop of ink will darken 8
glass of water, and one bad boy viii
corrupt neighborhood.
p@ A japanese tailor makes the lin
ing to a garment first, and cuts out the
cloth from it as pattern.
p& The oldest national flag in the
world is that of Denmark, which has
been in use since the year 1919.
p6r If all the states were as popu.
lous as Massachusetts, their aggregate
population would be Ills, ,045,000.
p@ The house fly of Europe is said
to be of an entirely different species
from the same af1iction of America.
p% Two hundred thousand barrels
of souvenir buttons made and sold in
the last three months is the record ol
one factory.
R6 Instead of looking at the many
poor representatives of Christianity in
the church, let us look at the life o1
Christ to see what Christianity is.
p@ A philosopher who went to a
church where the people came in late,
said it was "the fashion there for no.
body to 60 till everybody got there"
p~ A writer in the London Speaker
declares that the greatest aid to diges-
ton is conversation at meals and that
laughter is almosta cure for dyspepsia
s@ "Why, frankie, what are you
reading in that book about bringing
up children? ?" "I'm just looking to
see whether I'm being properly brought
up."
p8 1t is proposed to ship Texas cot
ton from San Francisco, CAL, to To-
kio, Japan, in a Japanese steamer.
This is a new movement in the cotton
trade.
s@ Courage is not the absence OF
fear. Any one can do what the world
calls a brave deed if he is not afraid,
but it takes hero to do it when he is
afraid.
s6- The man who is always pious,
but never pleasant, is probably not
much nearer the kingdom of heaven
than the man who is always pleasant,
but never pious.
p1rDr. Kurnit (writing prescrip-
this every morning"
Pat-"Devil q bit I will. Do yez t'ink
Dim a billygoat, that yez can fade me
on a bit O. paper?"
s6r Statistician Yale of the Califor-
MIA State Mining bureaus has just COM
pleted a compilation of figures showing
that from 184s to 1895 inclusive Cali
fornia has produced $1,265,2l7,2lS in
gold.
s@ Mrs. Partington, in illustration
of the proverb, ga soft answer turn
eth away wrath" says, "It is better to
speak paragorically of person than
to be all the time finging epitaphs at
him."
e6r The late A. T. Stewart, speaking
fguratively, rather than literally, once
said: "If you have two bushels OF
potatoes to sell, spend the price of one
bushel in advertising the price Of the
other"
agThe oldest love letter in the world
ls in the British museum. 1t is pro-
posal of marriage for the hand of an
Egyptian princess, and it was made
$500 years ago. 1t is in the form OF
an inscribed brick.
p6- The British parliament has
passed, during its existence, about
20, 900 statutes, of which only about
5000 are still in force. Nearly one
half, or $500, have been passed during
Queen Victoria's reign.
p@ A stranger called at 4S different
houses, and asked: "1s the boss
homer" There was no man at home
in any one instance, and yet Al of the
women promptly replied: ayes, sir
what do you want?"
s6 A student who had too frequently
asked for leave of absence offered as
reason the necessity of attending the
funeral of cousin. "Well I suppose
you must CO." said the doubling pro-
fessor, "but I wish it were a nearer
relative"
n9 Some of the papers are calling
attention to the fact that pensions have
cost this country $2,000,0 100000 since
1862. But more than that amount
within the same time has vanished in
the flame and smoke of confagrations
in the United States.
p~ eff you don't give me quar-
ter" said little Willie, 'T'm going to
tell about you kissing sister," "But 1
hadn't even thought of kissing your
sister," protested the young man.
"You amt? ?" said Willie, puzzled.
"Then I wonder what she told me to
say that to you for9"
p6 Fully as important as the mat
ter of saving q portion of ones income