Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-07-11
Mjausiae Gatherirlgs.
a When a man takes a crooked
an he leads some boy astray,

several days in New York for the
payment of debt of $35.
p@- A philologist of high repute is
authority for the statement that there
are 70 languages spoken in Russia.
p@r There are about 100000 inlands,
large and small, scattered over the
oceans. America alone has $500
around its coasts.
sdr 1t is the Transcript that says OF
a certain woman that she carries her
age we'll because she has been doing
it for a long time.
p6- The most cautious man we ever
knew was the one who was afraid to
buy lead pencil for fear the lead
wouldn't reach clean through it.
p9@ A horse can travel safer and
better with his head hanging down, or
free, than it can when it is checked up.
By all means let your horse have its
head.
s6 Boys, remember that you grow
older every day, and if you have bad
habits, they grow older too, and the
older both get, the harder they are to
separate.
B@r A Philadelphia occulist who has
been studying the human eye for 30
years, declares that all great men of
the past and present had or have blue
or gray eyes.
H@ There are two kinds of unhappy
people in the wcrld-those who are
sad because they are not known, and
those who are miserable because they
are known too well.
D6 The custom of shaking or giving
hands can be traced to the days of the
ancient Israelites, and was intended to
signify peace, to swear friendship,
promise alliance, or give security.
H8 We cannot remember a day so
dark as to have hindered the approach
of coming day, nor storm so furious
or dreadful as to prevent the return of
warm sunshine and cloudless sky.
p9r ~ would have you to know"
said Pomponious, THAT 1 am self.
made man." "Well," said young
Rasper, "there's one thing certain, you
needn't waste any money securing a
patent"
a6 Everytime Miss Amanda, whose
understanding is somewhat large, stops
at hotel, she cleans her own shoes,
and sets outside her door small pair,
which she carries with her expressly
for that purpose.
p6r If you want a pair of boots to
last four years, melt and mix four
ounces of mutton tallow apply the
mixture while warm, and rub it in
we'll and then put the boots in some
closet and-go barefoot.
pdT A young woman of Butte, Mon
tana, applied to court there the other
day for permission to kill her lover,
who had Tilted her. She thought she
had right so to do, but wanted to 60
about it legally and decorously.
a9- "Did you take much pressing be.
fore you accepted Jack ?" asked a
young lady of her friend, who had just
got engaged. "Oh, a lot. And then
Jack is so strong, you know. He
nearly squeezed the breath out of my
body"
R@ When an Armenian maiden at
tains her 18th year, and is not engag-
ed to be married, she must undergo a
strange punishment. She is forced to
fast three days, then for "a hours her
food is salt fish, and she is not permit
ted to quench her thirst.
b9- Mrs. Weedle-My dear, the
Dingles want to rent their cottage at
the seaside next season, and Mrs.
Dingle told me yesterday that we
might have it for the summer for $500.
What do you think ? Wheedle-We
might take it for few minutes.
g@- The largest Masonic library in
the world, and the only one occupying
building of its own, is in Cedar Rap
ids, la. 1t contains 10000 volumes,
and is in charge of Theodore S. Parvin,
who for nearly fifty years has been
grand secretary and librarian of Iowa.
s9- "And you don't find it tiresome,
dear, all alone with me? You are quite
sure that you don't wish to 60 back to
your bachelor life again. He earnest
|ly)-Quite, my darling. Indeed mar
ried life is so awfully jolly that, you
know, if you were to die tonight I'D
get married again tomorrow.
a@ "Literature certainly runs in the
Green-Smith family. The two daugh-
ters write poetry that nobody will
print, the son writes plays that nobody
will act, and the mother writes novels
that nobody will read" "And what
does she father write?" "Oh, he
writes checks that nobody will cash."
H9" If you wish to know whether
you are Christian inquire of yourself
whether, in and for the love of God,
you seek to make happy those about
you by smiles and pleasant sayings.
Are you a comfortable person to live
with. Are you pleasant to have
about.
sd" The Chinese have many queer
notions. They believe the water from
melted hailstones is poisonous, and
that the rain that falls on certain feast
days is sure cure for ague and ma
larial fever. They once believed that
they could whip the japanese, but
this notion has been thrashed out of
them.
n@- "Here is some money, my love-"
said the husband. 81 don't want any,
replied the wife. "Come, now, dar-
ling, take this $25 and 60 out shop
ping" "Thank you, dearest; but l
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