Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-10-19
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Dg The word captain, so olten useo
in the Bible, simply means officer.
gY A lie is always a few shades
backer than the sin it tries 10 hide.
s9r People who are always wanting
something new should try neuralgia.
sa- That man hath the most friends
who needeth not friends assistance.
a@ There are about $4,000 acres
under tea cultivation in British India.
a@ The catacombs of Rome contain
the remains of about 100000 people.
s@ An uncut diamond looks very
much like bit of the best gum arabic.
aE The best illustration of mingled
hope and fear is lazy man looking Tor
work.
eE Throughout the entire world
there are annually about lSO,OOO
suicides.
saS In small hotels in Russia each
guest is expected to find his own bed
clothing.
eS The average reformer never sails
Into the faults to which he himself Is
addicted.
pag Enjoy what you have, and do
not be envious of those who have more
than you have.
p@ Unless q Christians walk cor
responds with his talk the less he has
to saw the better.
sg The best of doctors tell their
patients not only how to get we'll, but
how to keep well.
pS- An aged Beverly, Mo-, woman
claims 10 have slept on the same cord
ed bed every night for the last 30 years.
s6- 1t appears to the Binghampton
Leader that these meetings between
debtors and creditors are largely over
dun.
m@ To say what should be said, to
saw only what should be said, and to
say it only as it should be said, is a
rare gift.
nag In every mile of railway there are
7 feet and inches that are not cover
ed by the rails-the space left between
them for expansion.
n9~ A farmer who has tried it, says
that hogs watered exclusively with
well water will be free from cholera,
while those that use surface water
frequently get the disease.
s6- A happiness that is quite und's'
turbed becomes tiresome; we must
have ups and downs; the difficulties
which are mingled with love awaken
passion and increase pleasure.
p4 A New York auctioneer says
that 25 years. experience has taught
him that people are willing to pay a.
much for old things at auction as new
things would cost at the store.
p9r Let us never forget that every
station in life is necessary; that each
deserves our respect; that not the sta
ton itself, but the worthy fultilment OF
its duties, does honor to man.
nag Husband-You're not economi-
cal. Wife-Well, if you don't call
woman economical who saves her we'd
ding dress for possible second mar
riage, I'd like to know what you think
economy is."
ny~ 81 would not be woman, for
then I could not love her," says Mon
taigne. Lady NJ. w. Montague says,
"The only objection l have TO being
man is that 1 should then have 10
marry a woman"
nas~ There is lake near the Japan
ese town of Nara in which no person
lis permitted to bathe, because once,
many years ago, japanese emperor
bathed there, and the waters have
since been held sacred.
s@ A philosopher of China and a
pig tail gentleman says: "Good breed
ing is nothing more than the art OF
knowing how to wait patiently until
our turn comes. A little child won't
do this, and little pig cannot"
p9n A man is always fool. If he
be young, the world says, "When he
is older he will know MORE" If he
be older it says, "He is old enough to
know better. And when he is old, it
says, "There is no fool equal to an old
fool"
p9> "There is one thing like about
the religion that this here Sam Jones
and other evangelists dishes up," said
the man with red clay on his boots
and hay-seed in his beard. '1t don't
Interfere none with the language a
TELLER uses when be is drivin' mules" l"
s9 There is a gun in the British
navy, a 22.ton Armstrong, which hurls
solid shot a distance of IL miles,
the highest point in the arc described
by the shot being 1900 feet above
the earth's surface. The discharge Of
the gun cannot be heard at the place
where the ball strikes.
e9n About the year 1867 the beats
and calls of the drum, then used in
the service, were put into definite
shape. The tattoo or beat of the drum
calling soldiers to their quarters at
night was once called "tap-too," from
the Dutch word signifying "no more
drink to be tapped or sold."
s6r The tomb of Noah is supposed
to lie in the small town Of Nakhtche-
van, on the plain of Ararat. The
burial place is at the side of the broken
walls of an abandoned fortress in the
midst of vast plain, which is literal
|ly covered with the remains of bygone
glories.
e9 1t is fact not generally known
that the United States government