Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-02-20

" Ihe examination closed on Monday, the l1th
and the new semi-annual session begins the same
day. ,.. Z ..g -aus,.1...., - ..s &"
English. ,..a : ;.',.g,,- .s....os- III.
A daily paper of Charleston says: sThree young
colored scamps, aged about fifteen, on yesterday,
stole some shoes, ETC. The on before yesterday is
an affectation, and should be omitted. Without
on the sentence is English; with it, it is, to say
the least, questionable. The syntax isgood both
ways; but it is question of idiom.t 91fa7fs
Firewood. ....- And -.a.. ..."r't
This article still holds fine price on the streets
of Columbia. A few days ago we priced small
load, and found the priceto be$3 BymeasuriDg,
we found the load contained 80 feet Of wood. This
is ten cents foot; and ten cents foot makes
$3.50 cord. The owner told us that he got that
price regularly. The weather was not at all bad,
either ..'o..'.. ...' 80. .t''.i -
Book for Children. .~.. -t.. '.' .'!i' -
The last book out, for the delight of the young
folks, is Foles and FAIRIES, by Mrs. Comfort. 1t
contains twenty-seven cheerful stories with morals,
of about ten pages each, illustrated; all about ugly
little dwarfs, and ly-white ladies' who did all sorts
of impossible things, fairy charms rings, monkeys,
talking baby-dolls. butterflies and lots of other
things that children like better than they do cate
chism and sums The book is Of the size called
square quarto; is published by Harper & Bro. ;
and sga here By pafe = Chapman for one dollar:
We see that j. 7. Headley Che used to be the
Rev., but now he appears as the Hon. J who wrote,
years ago, Washington and His Generals, Napoleon,
and His Marshals, has just gotten out two new
books in the same STYLE They are Faragm and
our Maral Commanders, and Grant and Sherman,
their Campaigns and Generals Of course these
new books are like the old, only more so-forid,
rhetorical, and laudatory fowery, frothy, and hi
falutin; grandiose magnIoquent, and Johnsonian |;
bombastic, blatherskitish, aud Bombastes-furioso-
nian Headley is species of whale; and has
never been in his right mind since Poe reviewed
his Sacred Mountains
Writing for the Press.
We desire to answer several inquiries about wri-
ting for the press, and will throw together the va
rious points before u.s. -....
Write on only one side of the paper. This
is important. ... ,....
Put in all the punctuation that you want the
printer toput in Printers can punctuate for you !;
but if your writing is worth printing at ALL it is
worth your attention to its proper form. Besides,
the printer (of newspaper especially is not well
enough paid to do both his work and also part Of
yours. It is mentioned that great men often write
badly and do not punctuate at all To this we say:
When you become great man, maybe the world
will pardon you the impertinence of iIegible manu-
script but until then it would be safer not to trust
too much to that one solitary symptom of greatness.
3.-Foolscap is not the most convenient form of
paper for the printer. It is too broad, and it
should fold at the top We, formany years, in vain,
sought what we conceived to be exactly the thing
needed both by the writer and typographer. We
learned definitely that there was no such form Of
paper in the market and we have adopted the
plan of having it made to order for our own use.
Our paper-which we call Copy Raper, because
suitable for copy, or manuscript to be printed
from,-is twelve and half inches long and FIVE
wide, folding over the top like legal cap, white,
ruled on one side of each leaf with an unruled space
Of two inches at the top. Some Of the advantages
Of this paper are-it is wide enough for ten-syl-
abled verse of poetry and no more, and does not
cover too much of the compositor's case; by fold
ing over the top the leaf that is turned is out of
the way; any number of leaves or sheets can be
fastened together with paper fastener INC
Girs patent is good one) the leaf will go into
government letter envelope without folding long
the envelope being just seven inches
ong by turning the paper over, you have un-
ruled paper if you prefer that At our suggestion,
Dufie and Chapman, of Columbia, have ordered a
lot of Copy Paper to be manufactured for this mar
ket The price is the same as for ordinary fools
cap of the same quality. '...