Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-24
Sfjausiae Gatherings.

and SnuLS DIS eyes.
r6r Hard and steady W work is good
antidote for hard times.
D@ The way to have good times is
to help make them yourself.
p@ A man is frequently known by
the company he keeps out of.
p~ Govern your thought when alone
and tongue when in company.
p% What man is, will always depend
upon what he believes God to be.
p6 There is q constantly growing
demand that other people be good.
D% The surest way to become poor
in earnest is to try to keep all you get
p@ To keep your own secret is wis
dom, to expect others to keep it is
folly.
Ddr Many people find their only hap
piness in forcing themselves to be un'
happy.
S% People look at you six days in
the week to see what you mean on the
seventh.
D% A woman can win a mans love
without trying, but she can't keep il
that way.
t% Circumstances are beyond the
control of man, but his conduct is in
his power.
I@ Last year the people of the Uni.
ted States consumed 4 900, 900 punches
of bananas.
b% The doors of the tomb that is to
enclose General Grants body weigh
1000 pounds.
D@ Thirteen tons of postage stamps
are said to have been sold in New
York city last year.
rB It is not true that horse has
six legs, although he has fore legs in
front and two behind.
D6 Mail matter is sent between Par
is and Berlin, distance of 700 miles,
through pneumatic tubes.
b@ If you want to have power to
mould other men, learn to control the
man who wears your hat.
D@ The rolling stock of the railroads
of the United States is valued at q
billion and q half of dollars.
pE The secretary of war says the
United States could put into the field
an army of about 100000 men.
s@ "Parlysis ?" said an Irishman.
ssIt's the disease that makes ye 80 that
livery time ye move, We can't STIR"
p8r An exchange truly says that the
grip is the only thing that can make
some tough people feel meaner than
they are.
tag "Name some of the most import
ant things existing today that were
unknown 100 years ago." Tommy
You and me.
H6- ''I have always wished" solilo-
quized the coroner, pensively "that I
could have held this Office Immediate
ly after the food"
adF The letter I in the Chinese Ian
guage has AS ways of being pro-
nounced, and each pronunciation has
a different meaning.
s@ "Do you enjoy novel reading ?"
"Yes; one can associate with people
in fiction that one wouldn't dare to
speak to iu real life"
D@- In 1924 statute of Edward II
of England commanded that three
barleycorns, dry and placed end to
end, should be an inch.
I6. The man with squeaky boots on,
who walks up the church aisle during
prayer time, intrudes his sole-stirring
music at the wrong time.
a6s- Life is earnest-life is labor.
Life is rest. Life is taxes. Life brings
its ills, bills, doctors pills. Very good.
But without love, life is dead.
sdr Mrs. Gabb-Does your boy take
after you or his father? Mrs. Gabb-
He takes after his father. You can
never believe a word he says.
I6T care any of the colors discerni-
BILE to the touch ?" asked the school
teacher. II have often felt blue" re-
piled the boy at the head of the class.
s@ None are too wise to be mistak.
en-, but few are so wisely just as to ac-
knowledge and correct their mistakes,
and especially the mistakes of preju-
dice.
S6r Cleanliness is next to godliness
but it is hard to convince the man
whose wife is in the throes of house
cleaning that there is any truth in the
adage.
r@- Gray hair is caused solely by the
loss of pigment which gave it color.
Grayness may occur at any period of
life, irrespective of age; it is also her.
editary.
p@r There is nothing that so prompt
ly cuts short congestions of the lungs,
sore throat, or rheumatism as hot wa
ter when applied thoroughly and
promptly.
p@ At the beginning Of this century
Ia most peculiar cholera remedy was in
Persia. 1t consisted in wadding up a
leaf from the Koran and forcing it
down the patients throat.
H@ The old Washington hall in Dur
ham, Eng, which is supposed by some
to have been the seat of George Wash
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