Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-07-22
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- III mas Deen discovered that" 1anKee
Doodle" is identical, note for note, with
Dame Esparta, an old Spanish tune.
- Arkansas is a queer county. If you
60 there with a FIVE dollar gold piece, they
tar and feather you for being a rich man.:
Ifyou are poor, they give you fever and ague,
and let it kill you. Curious country.
"A model young lady just graduated
from a certain distant academy, remarked,
the other day,-"I cannot deceive how the
young gentleman Of. the Pamela can drink
to such a recess, when they know it SO con-
furious to their institution "-Panola Star.
DIR. Bouchelle, of Pleasant Ridge,
Alabama, has in his possession a specimen of
rock, containing in its centre q globule of
water movable and visible. This wateris, if
there be any truth in Geology, one of the
oldest drops of water in the universe.
- LIBERAL RAILROAD COMPANY
The Grand Trunk Railway Company, of
Canda has furnished the clergy of all de-
nominations with permanenttickets, enabling
them to ~travelin any direction on the Grand
Trunk line for half price.
- Two centuries ago not onein a hundred
wore stockings. Fifty years ago, not one
boy in a thousand was allowed to run at large
night or day. Fifty years ago not one girl
in a thousand made her nanny wait on her
as a hired servant. Wonderful improvements
in these latter days.
- A letter. from Boston says: Very lit
tie is done here on the credit system at pres
ent, but the Southern merchants appear to
get far more indulgence and accommodation
than any other class. I understand that
they meet their payments more punctually
than the same class from other quarters.
An eastern friend of Senator Sumner
wishes US to publish statement that he re.
Gently submitted quietly, " without a word
or a VINCE" to have his back scared by his
physician with e red.hot iron. A general
complaint against the Senator is that he has
submitted to operations upon his back too
quietly.-LouisuiM Journal.
- The signature of Shakespeare was sold
in London on the 18th ult., for 900 guineas,
about $500. This is more than the poet
could have raised upon his name during his
life. The signature was affixed to a mort
gage deed of a house in Black-friars. The
bidding for the treasure commenced at So
guineas and went up to 300.
- There is said to be an old lady now
livining in the town of Blooming Grove,
Orange county, N. Y, blythe name of Diana
Brooks. She is one hundred and fourteen
years old, and yet is intelligent and active,
and walks half a mile to church every Sab
bath. She was thirty-two years of age when
the Declaration Of Independence was made.
Many testify to the efficacy of the fol-
lowing remedy in all cases of fux, dysentery
Of cholera morbus: Take two heapiug tea
spoonsful of -four of slippery elm, and one
teaspoonful of Henry's Calcined magnesia
Cor three teaspoonsful of common calcined
magnesia), and mix them in water till they
together assume the consistency of "clabber,"
and drink three times a day. Ratchman.
- 1t is asserted that a man marrying
nowadays marries a great deal more than
he bargained for. He not only weds him.
self to a woman, but a laboratory of prepared
chalk, a quintal of whalebone, eight coffee
bags, four baskets of novels, one poodle dog,
and a system of weak nerves that will keep
four servants and three doctors around your
house most of the time.
Col. VIM. Alderman, of this county,
has politely left at this Office a rare and beau
tiful specimen of corn from his plantation.
1t consists ofthirty.nine distinct ears of corn
on one stalk. They are small, in q cluster,
at the head of the stalk, where the tassel
usually appears, and surrounded by a rich
silk, nearly 2 feet long, there being probably
six times as much of this silk as is common
on a stalk.-FayetteviM (N. CO. Observer.
They are tanning an elephants hide
at Cincinnati. 1t was purchased by furrier
in Wisconsin where the animal, which be.
longed to a menagerie, died. The freight
to Cincinnati cost SIS. 1t is an immense
hide, so bulky that the tanners handle it
with the greatest difficulty. 1t is nearly two
inches thick, and full ayear and a half will be
required to tan it thoroughly. 1t will be a
curiosity when thoroughly tanned and sea-
soned.
- California, like Missouri, will soon
rival Ohio in the produce of native wine
There is one firm in San Francisco which
produced last year two hundred thousand
bottles of champagne from their W vine
yard in Los Angeles. This is but one of
many instances of California enterprise in
wine-growing. Almost every State in the
Union now adds its quota-small in many
cases, but always increasing-to the annual
product.
- Boston had at its celebration, on the
9Th, a novelty, and as might be anticipated
it was connected with Music. All the bands
gave a morning concert on the Common, and
the Light Artillery Company kept time to
the music in the firing of cannon. The
landyard (string by which the printing tube
is ezploded) was in the hands of gentlemen
skilled in music, and was pulled at the precise
instant indicated, in the Music score, by the
arranger of the music.
- Prentice, of the Louisville Journal,