Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-07
aNausiae Gathtrings.

Ireland in 1889.
sd There is village called A B c
in New York state.
p@ There are more republics in the
world than monarchies.
nag Nothing except the mint can
make money without advertising.
a4 "Learn to labor and to wait"
Do not forget that labor comes first.
B9 If we have good in us it is sure
to come to the surface whenever it has
an opportunity.
BS Do not tell what you are going
to do; if you do not do it, the people
will laugh at you.
s9 Education is good thing when
it does not directly unfit man for
working for living.
H9 There was never but one origi-
nal man, and that was Adam. The
others are limitations.
n9 The use of tools does not wear
them out so rapidly as do the sun and
rain, rust and exposure.
p@ To the end of the world the
most delightful people will be those
who mind their own business.
n~ A New York man made over all
his property to his wife. She eloped,
and he is now in the poorhouse.
p9 If some men could only be con-
vinced that it pays to be good, they
couldn't be kept out of church with a
gun.
ng "Papa, why do we wish people a
good Appetite but not a good
thirst t?'" because that isn't neces-
sary?"
sT Chicago has a frontage of %
miles on Lake Michigan, and a navi-
gable frontage on the Chicago river OF
about 23 miles.
sS Marriage seems never so much a
failure to q man as when something
goes wrong at home that he can't pos
sibly blame on his wife.
p6 No man need expect to play on
a golden harp in heaven who only con-
tributes to the church collection on a
mouth harmonica basis.
s9 The Egyptian fellah is apparent
ly the worst taxed man in the world.
Even on the palm tree, which gives
him food and shelter, he pays SO cents
a year.
adr There are two classes of things
in the world that it is unwise to fret
about: First, the things which can
not be helped. Second, the things that
can be helped.
p6r All lack of love, all Indifference
to others, all sharp, hasty judgments,
all temper, touchiness and irritation, all
bitterness and enstrangement, have
their root in pride.
s6 "Hold your tongue for fool !"
was the polite recommendation of an
Irish husband. "Sure, then, you're
going to spake yourself!" was the
equally polite reply of the wife.
rG" What do you think of 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
begin storming about the cooking?
HdT 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 morn
ing. Loss fully covered by insurance. "
Rd 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 coined
into dollars.
R~ Visitor (at the iD-Poor, poor
man May I offer you this bunch of
flowers? Man behind the bars-You
have made mistake, miss. The feller
that killed his wife and children is in
the next cell. I'm yere fur stealin' a
cow.
H6 The time to do good thing is
when you can. Unimproved oppor-
tunities never return. If you find it
in your power today and here to help
a struggling soul, you are guilty before
God if you fail to stretch out your
hand. Tomorrow will be too late.
saE" A building four hundred feet
square, with great ornamental towers,
the entire structure to be covered with
rolled silver, and to contain the min
eral exhibit of the west, is to be the
great feature of the trans Mississippi
exhibition at Omaha in 1898.
BH "Ah!" exclaimed the merchant,
coming into the office and discovering
one of his clerks smoking; "you are
disobeying one of my rules, sir. l
suppose you are familiar with the old
adage, where there's smoke there's
fire p" And the clerk was promptly
fired.
Hd- Priest-Pat, there's hole in the
roof of the church, and l am trying to
collect enough money to repair it.
Come, low, what will you contribute I?
Pat-Me services, sor. "What do you
mean, Pat? You're no carpenter"
"No; but if it rains next Soonday,
OIL sit over the hole"
Ba 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.
Ba5" A Russian doctor traces the grip
back to the Ninth century. He says it
meanders around for three or four
years aud then retires from business
for 20 years or more. 1t may be some