Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-05-11
Wausiat 6atherings.


aeg- 1t is estimated that there is one
newspaper for every $4,000 inhabi-
tants of the globe.
a0" The difference between pride and
vanity is that we have one and other
people have the other.
gT When a mans money is gone his
friends drop off like buttons from a
pair of ready made pants.
p9 Old Lady-Sonny, be them eggs
fresh or stale? "Fresh, IN. l buy
my eggs; doesn't stale 'em."
a9 Hope never hurts any one; it
never interferes with duty; it gives
courage and clears the judgment.
sa~ 1t is only by labor that thought
can be made healthy; and only by
thought that labor can be made happy.
s9 Never reflect on past action
which was done with good motive,
and with the best of judgment at the
time.
s9 Philip Jackson, hermit who
lived near Lake Echo, Saratoga coun-
ty, N. Y, died recently, aged 102
years.
s9 Squeaky boots may be cured by
the injection of powdered French
chalk through perforation in the in
ner sole.
s@ The Roman catacombs are $50
miles in extent, and it is estimated that
from 100000 to 100000 dead are
there inferred.
p9~ "Dah is some folks" said Uncle
Eben, "dat 'ud heap rather hab rep
utation for bein' unlucky dan er record
fob industriousness."
B9 The man who is always discov-
ering faults in his neighbors can see
some one worse than his neighbors by
taking a peep into the mirror.
aH~ The man who knew it from the
first is now getting in his awful work,
while the man who has said so all
along is also making himself unliked.
sg~ There is a good deal in the
Arabs prayer: "Oh, God be kind to
the wicked; to the good thou hast
already been sufficiently good in max
ing them good"
s9~ $50 your John has got religion ?"
"Well, he hasn't exactly got religion,
so to speak, but he is beginning to wait
at the church door for his best girl
every Sunday night"
g@> There is now building in England
cable-laying steamer with carrying
capacity of 1000 tons of cable. This
is twice the capacity of any cable
steamer now in service.
sag" None but a mean man will up.
braid his wife for powdering her nose
on sweaty day, and then turn around
and comb his black hair up over the
bald spot on the top of his head.
p9- Montana is larger than Turkey ;
Texas is larger than the whole Aus
trian empire by 10000 square miles,
aud New Mexico is larger than Great
Britain and Ireland put together.
sar Says Fogg, "Parson Jones's SER
mons give me great deal more pleas
ure than they used to-" "Indeed ?"
replied Brown, inquiringly. eyes"
added Fogg ~ don't 60 to hear them
now."
sS "And now, my dear brethren,
what shall I say more ?" thundered
the long-winded minister. "Amen ~
came in sepulchral tones from the
absent-minded deacon in the back of
the church.
RSa Do not think of knocking out
another persons brains because he
differs in opinion from you. 1t would
be as rational to knock yourself on the
head because you differ from yourself
10 years ago.
B9 Long engagements are rather
expensive affairs in Russia. The bride
groom elect is expected to send his
fiancee a present daily; not merely
flowers, as in France, but something
more practical.
p9n A boy defined salt as "the stuff
that makes potatoes taste bad when
you don't put it on" He was twin
brother of the boy who said that pins
had saved a great many lives by not
being swallowed.
B@ The origin of the phrase "to
give the cold shoulder" is said to have
been due to the custom in France of
serving a cold shoulder instead of a
hot roast joint to guests whose visits
had lasted too long.
B9~ A mother, trying to get her little
daughter to sleep one night, said,
"Anna, why don't you try to 60 to
sleep?" 81 am trying" she replied.
"But you haven't shut your eyes" ;"
"Well, can't help it; ums comes un-
buttoned."
n@ Hattie-Young Jayson makes me
weary. Ella-In what way? "Why,
he's always trying to kiss me when we
are alone" "Well, don't you want
him to try?" eyes but 1 think he
might try hard enough to succeed once
in a WHILE"
ga Stationary beds are rarely found
in the houses of the Japanese. When
the hour for retiring has come, mat,
tresses and bed.coverings are brought
out from chests, where they are stored
during the day, and spread on the
matted floor.
B@r Little James had been telling a
visitor that his father had got a new
set of false teeth. "Indeed," said the
visitor, "and what will he do with the
old set?" "Oh, l s'pose," replied lit,