Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-10-06
atausiae Gatherinas.
Rd- The man who never made mis-

himself? When he taxes his memory.
p@- New York city has a funded
debt of nearly $2O0,O00,00o.
s@- No person in Norway may spend
more than six cents at one visit to a
public house.
p6- The unexpected would not hap
pen so often if we did not bring it up
on ourselves.
p6- 1t is a singular fact that red is
made fron madder, and that bulls are
made madder by red.
p4r There are more people in Great
er New York than in all English
speaking Canada.
a@r There was never but one origi.
nal man, and that was Adam. All
others are limitations.
p@r Education is a good thing when
lit does not directly unfit a man for
working for living.
pR- The density of population is
greatest in Europe, where it averages
81 to the square mile.
p6- Ee is a pretty good man who
doesn't worry himself and doesn't
make other people worry.
p8- To the end of the world the
most delightful people will be those
who mind their own business.
p8- Do not wait for extraordinary
opportunities for good action but make
use of common situations.
p6> Jerusalem is rapidly becoming
modernized. There are now large
printing Offices in the city.
a6- A New York man made over all
his property to his wife. She eloped,
and he is now in the poorhouse.
@ A wise man does not speak of
all he does, but he is careful to do
nothing but what may be spoken of.
pT 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.
s6- A London paper says: "There
are three kinds of dancing-the grace
full, the ungraceful, and the disgrace
full"
p8- "Papa, why do you wish people
good Appetite but not a good
thirst p ~ because that isn't nec-
essary."
p9- It is not until we have passed
through the furnace that we are made
to know how much dross was in our
composition.
n8- Chicago has frontage of %
miles on Lake Michigan, and a navi-
gable frontage on the Chicago river of
about % miles.
p8- There is only one objection to
people who "mean WELL" and that is
they never can spare time to carry out
their meaning.
p@- The United States has not many
over so sheep for every 100 of popula-
ton, while Australia has 5000 to
every 100 of population.
p6- Marriage seems never so much
failure to a man as when something
goes wrong at home that he can't
possibly blame on his wife.
B6 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.
p4- The farmers of this country an
nually use $4,000 tons Of twine upon
the self.blnding harvesters, equal to a
string long enough to 60 more than six
times around the earth.
H6- 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
q year.
H6- There are two classes of things
in the world that it is unwise to fret
about. First, the things that cannot
be helped. Second, the things that
can be helped.
p9. There is sum pholks in this world
who spend their whole lives in hunt
ing after righteousness, and kant find
emmy time to practiss it.-Josh Bill
lings.
p6~ A man getting rich is much like
a man getting drunk. The more he
gets the more he wants and the less
he is capable of knowing when he has
enough.
p6 An old peasant woman in Eng
land, in praising her favorite curate to
the rector, exclaimed !; "Ah, sir, Mr..
Drone is quite an angel in sleeps
clothing"
IG- "I know how we walk" said
Willie. "We put one foot down and
let it stay till it gets way behind, and
then do the same thing with the other,
and keep doing it."
s6r Here is one of the questions
which candidates for appointment as
schoolteachers in Abilene, Kansas,
were required to answer: "Why does
horse walk backward while eating
grass, and q COW walk forward ?"
s@ Goethe said "In all things it is
better to hope than to despair )" and
Henry Ward Beecher said, "Faith
never limps, but always steps firmly
with both feet"
s6~ tits stated thatit takes a healthy
man four months to eat his own weight
in food. Wonder how long it would
take the man with a perpetual thirst
to drink his own weight in liquor.
Rag If we were only half as lenient
to the living as we are to the dead,
how much happiness might we render
them, and how much remorse might