Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-20
atJausiae Gatherings.

H1e NOU W cDJoy hio oos ~ SAPoS
life ought to be our aim and aspi-
ration.
nag We never lose our temper with
out losing something of value along
with it.
rag While coveting the opportunities
of others we are losing good many OF
our own.
nag All our possessions are as nothing
compared to health, strength and a
clear conscience.
r9 For want of energy to fill up a
lamp there was no light; for want of a
| light there was wreck.
b@ No one is so poor as the man
who worries over the fact that he has
nothing to grumble about.
t@ Resolve to see the world on the
sunny side, and you have almost won
the battle of life at the outset.
D6r We should not devote too much
time to leaving things undone that
ought to be done at the right time.
p@ The dull boy who lacks wisdom
does not excite our concern half so
much as the smart boy who is fool.
p9- There are only Al insurgents in
Cuba, according to Spanish estimates,
and in every fight at least so of them
are killed.
p9- Within the last so years the rate
of speed of ocean steamers has trebled,
and the usual horse power increased
from 700 to 10000.
p6 Almost all ripe fruit may be
freely allowed to convalescents, their
action on the liver and kidneys being
favorable rather than otherwise.
g6- 1t is estimated that the present
wealth of the United States exceeds
the wealth of the whole world at any
period prior to the middle of the 18th
century.
p8- The greatest hindrance to the ap.
pearance of wrinkles is calm and
peaceful disposition. When age over
takes us the less we worry about it the
longer the lines will keep away.
p6 "Oh, Clarence ' exclaimed Mrs.
Mcbride, as her, brother entered the
house, "baby's cut a TOOTH" "Why
do you let her play with knives p
asked the unimpressed bachelor BROTH
er.
p@ If we look down, then our shoul-
ders'stoop. If our thoughts look down,
our character bends. 1t is only when
we hold our heads up that the body be-
comes erect. 1t is only when our
thoughts 60 up that our life becomes
erect.
s@ "Now if 7 understand it correct.
|ly, the first principle of socialism is to
divide with your brother man." "Then
you don't understand it correctly.
The first principle of socialism is to
make your brother man divide with
you"
s@ Jinks (at a party)-I don't see
what's the matter with that pretty
woman over there. She was awfully
firty little while ago, and now she
won't have anything to do with me.
Stranger-I have just come in. She's
my wife.
p6r To cure barber's itch, moisten
the part affected with saliva-spittle-
and rub it over thoroughly three times
a day with the ashes of good cigar.
1t is said that this treatment has
cured the most obstinate cases.
s6- A president of one of our col
leges once said: "The habit of stand
ing idle, waiting for dead mems shoes,
kills the life in many a rich mans son.
1t is a paralysis Of body and mind.
I can pick out nearly every boy in this
college whose idea of life is to spend
the money which somebody else has
earned. His looks, his acts, his talk,
are infected with dry rot"
b@~ A most remarkable luminous tree
grows in Brazil. 1t is about six feet
or seven feet in height, and is so lumi-
nous that it can be plainly distinguish
ed in the darkest night for distance
of more than a mile, while in its inn.
mediate vicinity it emits sufficient light
to enable a person to read the finest
print.
p8- "Wben I marry" said young
egotist, the other day, ~ shall expect
my wife to have bright fire blazing
in the crate when 1 come home, and
nv slippers and dressing gown and
easy chair must be ready for me. She
must cook nice, dainty little dishes for
me, and" "Oh, come" interrupted
another man, "what you want is not a
wife, but a good, active, industrious
Negro boy"
p9 A certain lady, whose absence OF
mind was proverbial, happening to
meet in society young widow who
had lately lost her husband, condoled
with her alphabetically on her be-
reavement then, after pause, dur
ing which she lapsed into her accus-
toned forgetfulness, inquired, to the
stupefaction of the mourner, "Was he
the only one you had?"
p4- There is a popular idea that
June is the favorite month for we'd
dings, and that the young woman who
loves romance and wishes fortune to
smile unon her nuptialS in every Way