Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-07-18

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the pieces numbered, and set up where wanted
without the least delay. The bridge at LOup Fork.
is fifteen hundred feet long, and as fine . Howe
truss as can be found in the land. While our train
was running the sixty miles from North Platte
over mile of track had been put down and one.
train passed over it From one o'clock till 6urin
the afternoon mile and two hundred feet were
added to this while the party were looking on:sz
Phe progress was astonishing, and the more 30 be-
cause the ground was wet and the soil stiff AND
hard with alkai ~. ,..',...'3.,, -, n
Unless driven of by Indians, which does not
now seem probable, the road viii touch the base
of the Rocky Mountains the coming Autumn
The California end has already reached b point
about an hundred miles east, and Is descending the
eastern slope of the Sierra Nevsdas into the valley
of the Humboldt It is confidently expected that
Salt Lake viii be reached next year, and that 1870
will see the whole line completed While the na-
ton has scarcely heard Of what WAS being done,
the work has been near one-third accomplished.
FRENCH WOMEN. =. 5.., : a.,
Dr. Guthrie, in commenting on the fact patent
to all travellers, that less of poverty and Wetched-
ness is visible in Paris than in most cities Of the
continent, or in London and Edinburgh, pays
deserved compliment to the industry and good
taste of the French woman. He says: s3.s;H
Call her, if you choose, and as some do, fivo-
lous, or, as others, deceiful, she has taste and
sense of propriety which would make her q:
shamed to show herself with an unWashed face or
send forth her husband or children with sragon
their backs or hole in their dress In. Parisyou
may see people with mended, but none with rag
ged clothes; 80 that until we came TO Brittany,
where the people are as remarkable for their po-
pish bigotry, and deep drinking, anddreadful swear
ing as for their antique and picturesque costumes,
we almost never saw French woman with rag
on her back or spot on her face ;and even here,
the women speaking Of them generally, Is they
ply the distaHf while they tend their COWS in The
field, or walk the roads knitting, or sit at their
windows sewing, show atidiness that is remarks
bic as their industry
In fact, for neatness Of attire, respect for person
al appearance both in herself and IN her famiY,
and habits of industry, the French woman is . pat
tern to the world. Scarcely ever do We fndthem
what the Scotch call haad-ids and slstterns never.
The girl who keeps shop is busy with some piece
of work when customers do not require her atten-
ton. The woman who sits by her stab IN the open
street, with her feet on box Of lighted charcoal
to keep them warm, is usually sewing or Knitting;
and only Lifts her head from her work to say, when
she becomes aware of your presence, "Whatdo
you wish, sir?' -.
And but yesterday, in walking through the week
ly market at Quimper, where the Breton women
sat all idily attired, with towers andwings ofmowy
linen on their heads, and on table before them
the produce of their dairy in curiousy carved pats
and pillars Of excellent butter, was greatly struck
with the spectacle of industry which the scene pre-
sented Hardly one not engaged with customer
but was busy with wire or needle-a lively, as Veh
as pleasant spectacle, for their tongues went as
fast as their tools I have seen In the humble
homes of our own country how taste for tdiness
and habits of industry will throw over poverty it
self decent appearance; and characterized as the
French woman is by these, to her, In some measure,
may be attributed to that happy absence Of the ap-
pearance of extreme and ectwretchedness, which
distinguishes the streets of Paris asiI 91'5@5,''
We boast of our superior virtues, but there are
minor virtues in regard to which we would do well
to take lesson from France. It is nothing to the
purpose to say that the respect which is paid to
the personal, outward appearance hereis but the
whitewashing of asepulchre;i the embroidered pail
which covers the coffin and corruption. Whatev-
er immortality may lie concealed in France under
the appearance Of outward decency- dol deny
its existence, although, according to the Scotch
proyerb, Ill doers are ii dreaders," I believe it
has been often greatly exaggerated immorah-
y in France is certainly not owing to those habits
Of industry, and to that taste for personal decency
which eminently and honorably characterizes its
women. These simple and attractive raees are
not vice; and 50 fars the abstinence Of them from
being proof Of piety, that it is blot upon it.
The body is the temple Of the Holy Ghost and
experience proves, as the old divine said, that
holiness and cleanliness are nearly alhed-a remark
which owes its triteness to its truth. =,
THE E9oLDEsT RELIC OF HUMANITY.
The oldest remnant Of mortality extant is the
skeleton of one of the earlier Pharaohs encased In
its original burial robes and wonderfully perfect,
considering its age, which was deposited, about
eighteen or twenty months ago, in the British Mu-
scum, and is. justly considered the NEST valuable
IF oil ;fs anchaeolnoical treaHreS The lid of The