Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-10-05
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ga The Suez canal yields an annual
profit of S13,750,O00.
a6r The average velocity of light is
1876, 900 miles per second.
sar 1t is not your friend but the tax
collector who never forgets you.
ea If a man falls out of a window
what does he fall against? Against his
will.
g9 If there is such a thing as 8
spoiled child, it always belongs to
neighbor.
g6S The Dakota river is the longest
unnavigable river in the world-ovel
1000 miles.
B6- Old saws are made into surgical
and mathematical instruments of
high grade.
s6S If you ever feel yourself getting
conceited, just remember that the best
people are all dead.
BS- The United States has les:
percentage of blind people than any
other country in the world.
Rd- There is delicious sarcasm in
the old proverb, "God help the rich
because the poor can beg"
s6- Gladstone had the honor of be-
Ii ing the only man who was four times
prime minister of England.
s@ Cheerfulness is ar excellent wear
ing quality. 1t has been called the
bright weather of the heart.
s@ Prejudice and selfsufficiency nat
urally proceed from experience OF the
world and ignorance of mankind.
s6r In making champagne the grapes
are squeezed six times, each pressure
making wine of different quality.
a@ 1t is only through the experience
of human love that the blessedness o1
Divine love can be fully understood.
gss- 1t is only by labor that thought
can he made healthy and it is only by
thought that labor can he made happy
s9 A good deal Of honesty we are
expected to admire seems to be moth
ing more than strong fear of the
law.
s@ A man in love with pretty wo'
man doesn't love the ground she walks
on where she walks with another
fellow.
aaF We should not allow our faith
in the good and the true to be shaken
by the evil conduct Of wicked men
and devils.
e6sr The average age of cat is IL
years; a dog, 20 years; horse, 70
years. Elephants have been known
to live 400 years.
s6y What is fame? The advantage
of being known by people of whom
YOU yourself know nothing, and fol
whom you care as little.
HG Bad temper is its own scourge
Few things are bitterer than to feel
bitter. A mans venom poisons him
self more than his victim.
pd The St. Lawrence river is the
only absolutely fioodless river in the
world. Its greatest variation, caused
by drought or rain, never exceeds
foot.
s9 Poverty is hard, but debt is hor'
rible; man might as we'll have q
smoky house and scolding wife, which
are said to be the two worst evils oI
our life.
gg Standing in our own light and
gazing upon our own shadows, we muir
muir at the darkness of our pathway
and imagine that fortune has been un'
kind to us.
n@ Keep your promise to the letter
be prompt and exact, and it will save
much trouble and care through life
and win for you the respect and trust
of your friends.
pdF London contains one-eighth oI
Great Britain's population, has larger
daily delivery of letters than all Scot.
land, birth every four minutes, and
death every six.
s9' Hortensius, the Roman orator
had memory so wonderful that, on q
wager, he spent whole day at an auc
ton and at night repeated all the sales
the price and the names of the buyers
s9n Aunty (oracularly): I know two
little boys who never teased their
mother for permission to 60 over
and play with neighbors' children
One of her nephews: l know who
they were-Cain and Abel.
saT Two lawyers on opposing sides
seem to be ready to cut each others
throats, but when off duty they are as
friendly as sister kittens. Lawyers
like the blades Of pair of scissors,
cut only what comes between.
sS "What time is it, my lad ?" ask
ed an American traveller of a small
Irish boy, who was driving couple Of
cows home from the fields. "About
12 o'clock sir" replied the boy. 81
thought it was more" "It's never nc
more here" returned the lad in sur
prise. at just begins at one again."
say A female lunatic in the north oi
England is of the opinion that she is
in an envelope containing letter, and
with this idea she fixes stamp on hel
forehead and imagines that she goes
through the post to visit her relatives.
The following day she sticks another
stamp on for the return journey.
s8 as your daughter properly
equipped for literary work ?" asked
the editor. "Equipped? I've bought
her Louis something desk, fountain
pen, silver inkstand and mother
of-pearl penholder, besides the most