Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-12-14
Mjausiae 6atherinas.


one, if you would be free.
s9- A successful hypocrite is never a
success at anything else.
s9- The cost of the Capitol at Wash
ington has exceeded sSO,OO0,OO0.
a6~ Never use a big word where a
little one will serve the purpose.
E6- The devil shakes hands with the
man who drives hard bargain.
p9- The leaf of the banana is usual
ly six feet long by two feet wide.
e8~ The cynic is the man who knows
the price of everything and the value
of nothing.
a@- Many a man will fight you, if
you kick his dog, who lets his wife
carry in all the wood.
a6~ The man who never makes any
mistakes misses many splendid chances
to learn something.
g9 There is one thing God cannot
do. He cannot make saint out of a
sinner without his consent.
p9- An exchange says, eff you would
avoid poverty, work your jaws less and
your mind and hands more"
H9r 1t takes a strong man to hold his
own thoughts so much in subsection
that they will not worry him.
B9 How much better is the man who
will rob in trade than the one who will
do it at the muzzle of pistol?
H6- You can't always tell how much
religion a man has at home by the
way he shouts at camp meeting.
H@- One of Blaine's sayings: 81 don't
know why this man should be my
enemy. l never did him a favor"
p@- There are people who think that
if they behave themselves on Sunday,
they have done more than enough.
gS Jerusalem is still supplied with
water from Solomon's pools, through
an aqueduct built by the Crusaders.
s@r Do not think it wasted time to
submit yourself to any influence which
may bring upon you any noble feeling.
g8 Madam Roland defines marriage
as an institution in which one person
undertakes to provide Happiness for
two.
g@ If some men were as tender in
heart as they are in pocket, what
great things they would do for their
Lord.
s9 A good way to find out how
much religion people have is to watch
them when they can't have their own
way.
H@ Drunkenness does not produce
faults; it discloses them. Fortune
does not change manners, it uncovers
them.
p@ There are plenty of fpeople in the
world who practically grumble because
they can't find something to grumble
about.
s6~ The average weight of the
Chinese brain is said to be heavier than
the average weight of the brain of any
other race.
H@ When we say a person has good
sense about most things, we mean, of
course, that about most things he has
good sense to agree with US.
s9 "The devil has a mortgage on
the soul of the man who expects to
get to Heaven because he has never
robbed bank or killed his brother"
s@~ There is tribe in Central Afri-
ca among whom speakers in public are
required to stand on one leg while
speaking, and to speak only as long as
they can so stand.
s9- A recent court decision in Eng
land gives a man right to sue the
preacher when he makes the mans
wife 90 to church instead of staying at
home and cooking his dinner.
E9- The finest quality of Guatemala
coffee is consumed by England and
Germany, the inferior kinds and what
may be called the "sweepings" being
exported to the United States.
p@- At Stockton-in-the- Forest. York
shire Eng, is piece of land called
"Petticoat Hole," and it is held on the
condition of providing poor woman
of the place every year with a new
petticoat.
sa- tits said that banana juice makes
firstclass indelible ink. A spot on a
white shirt from deadripe banana is
marked forever, and the juice from ba-
nanas thoroughly decayed:is bright,
clear carmine.
a9 "Why does he call himself Colo
nell if he never was in the army P"
because, sab, in the heat of passion
he may kill man sometime; and, if
he's colonel, its a mitigating circum-
stance, sah."
s@- "He has been drinking hard
nearly a month. I should think he
would begin to see snakes !" "He
drinks Irish whisky only, and there
are no snakes Ireland, you know" was
the response.
s6- Visitor-What bright eyes you
have, my little man. You have plenty
of sleep, I presume. "Yes'm. Nam
ma makes me 60 to bed every night at
8 o'clock" $50 you will keep strong
and healthy ?" "No'm. So she can
mend my pants"
nag 1t takes but constant prayer and
watching to enable us to avoid the
errors and faults we are ever ready
to condemn in other people. The
nearer we come up to the high ideal in
our lives, the more charity we have
for other people. A censorious spirit
is very far from the spirit of Christ.