Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-06-03
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OLD MAIDS.

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OLD MAIDS.
There is stigma of reproach cast upon
the term "old maid-too often justly 80, /
admit. But where does the fault he! i
know two women who may be cast in this
category-unmarried, forty years old, or
thereabouts. Both are of good family, the
daughters of wealthy men. The one, some
dozen years ago, finding, as no sensible wo,
man can fail to find that Fashionable life had
nothing in it to satisfy her, made stand
for herself. She told her family that she
must have life of her own. She had no
especial gifts, except remarkable aptitude
for business, inherited from her father. In
a quiet way she had turned her attention to
fruit-growing, branch of industry offering
many attractions to her, and into that busi'
ness she determined to enter. Fortunately
she had sufficient money left her by her
grandfather, to be able to carry out her
plans, despite the sneers of her fashionable
acqnaintances, and the objections and OBJ
stacles raised by the home circle. She es-
tablisled herself on q fruit-farm in the
western part of this State. Her work pros
pereo. Now she is the owner of several
hundred acres, and has constant and remu-
nerative occupation of kind agreeable to
her. After a few years her father died,
and, instead of the rich man he was estima-
ted, he was found to be bankrupt. This
daughter had comfortable home and sup
port to offer her mother and invalid sister.
She has quite settlement of work people,
men and women, to whom she and her SIS
ter minister in various ways. In fact, she
lives life which is useful to others and
develops her own powers, and in the con-
sciousness of that she finds happiness and
peace.-Lappinc0tts Magazine. :,
Power OF Observation-Disclosures, an
ancient Grecian, could call by their names
the twenty thousand citizens of Athens.
Cyrus could repeat the names Of every
soldier in his army. Hortensius, one of
the orators of Rome, after sitting whole
day at public sale, could enumerate from
memory all the things sold, their prices,
and the names of all the purchasers. Ben
Johnson could repeat, word for word, all
that he had ever written; and indeed, whole
books that he had simply read. Seneca,
the rhetorician, was able to repeat two thou
sand names in the exact order in which
they had been spoken to him; and on one
occasion, two hundred unconnected verses
having been pronounced in his hearing, he
at once repeated the whole Of them in re-
versed order, beginning with the last verse
and proceeding backward to the first. 1t
is said of Paschal that he ''forgot nothing
of what he had read, heard, or seen." Sir
William Hamilton, on whose authority we
give the above facts, mentions the case OF
a young Corsican who would, with mo-
ment's hesitation, repeat "thirty-six thous-
and names in the order in which ne had
heard them, and then reverse the order and
proceed backward to the first" being able
to do this after the lapse of whole year
between the time of hearing the names and
that of repeating them.
The SUNDAY STONE" in one of the
English coal mines there is constant for
nation Of limestone, caused by the trick
ling of water throug Oh the rocks. This wa
ter contains great many particles of lime,
which are deposited in the mine, and as the
water passes off, these become hard, and
form limestone. This stone would always
be white like marble, were it not that men
are working in the mines, and as the black
dust rises from the coal, it mixes with the
soft lime, and in that way black stone is
formed. In the night, when there is no
coal dust rising, the stone is white; then
again, the next day, when the miners are at
work, another black layer is formed, and
so on, alternately, black and white, throug h
the week, until Sunday comes. Then, if
the miners keep Sunday, much larger
layer of the white stone will be formed
than before. There will be the white stone
of Sunday night, and the whole of Sunday,
so that every seventh day the white layer
is about three times as thick as any of the
others. But if they work on Sunday, they
see it marked against them in the stone.
Hence, the miners call it the "Sunday
Stone"
DEAFNESS OF CHEAP DREss.-Cheap
clothes are the dearest. If you buy a
number of cheap dresses, you must pay as
much for making as those that are dearer, if
Won wish them to fit. Then they soon lose