Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-07-29

say God will damn the man and the nation that
will act so, God will damn the nation in which wo
men, with no arm to shield and protect them, are
seduced and left to mourn over their lost, fallen
and degraded condition. God bless you. Amen.
THE ISLE OF PATMos.
Patmos now known by the name of Patmo, or
Patmosa, is Greek Island situated in the Egean
Sea, and forms one Of the Sporades. 1t is fifteen
miles in circumference, and contains between four
and FIVE thousand inhabitants It's principal pro-
ductions are maize and barley. Its wine is the
best favored of any Of those islands 1t is very
sterile, and presents rugged appearance. 1t is
thus described:
"On approaching the Island, the coast is found
to be high, and to consist of succession of capes
which form as many ports, some of which are ex-
celIent. The only one in use, however, is deep
bay, sheltered by high mountains on every side
but one, where it is protected by projecting cape
The town attached to this port is situated upon
high, rocky mountain rising. Immediately from the
sea and this, with the Seara below upon the
Shore consistig.of some shops and houses, forms
the only really inhabitable site of the island. The
town contains church, monastery, and q
school,"
1t was once used by the. Romans as place Of
Punishment for criminals. 1t was here that sacred
history speaks of the Apostle John being exiled.
Thus Patmos is rendered memorable by the asso-
Citations connected with it. Here John saw the
visions of God, and penned the revelation of
tbor, &c. T NM, ~ tbo ;,1ond oojloJ D.t,..,
he writes, in speaking of them to the churches;
before. his enraptured view glistened the jasper
walls of the city of God" while the angel who
hath the keys of life and DEATH stood and CON-
muned with him, and revealed to him the things
which must shortly come to pass
And it was here here in this ''sea-girt island,
that this mysterious Vision, this wonderful revela
ton, was made known to him. A bare and rugged
spot it is of but little interest to the world to the
multitude; but to the lover of sacred history, Pat
mos like Carmel and Olvet, and all those places
visited by our Saviour while upon the earth, that
were pressed by the blessed feet of apostle and
disciple, of prophet and PATRIARCH seemed hallowed
and awaken deep and abiding interest.
CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT WHARF.-THE extent to
most solid is very wonderful. The glittering opal
which beauty wears as an ornament is only flint
and water: OF every twelve hundred tons of
earth which landlord has in his estate four hun
dred are water. The snow capped SUBMITS of our
highest mountains have many million tons Of wa
ter in solidi6ed form. In every plaster. of Paris
statue which an italian carries through our streets
for sale there is one pound Of water to four pounds
Of chalk The air we breathe contains five grains
Of water to each cubic foot of its bulk. The pota
toes and turnips which are boiled for our dinner
have, in their raw state, the one seventy-fve per
cent, and the other ninety per cent, Of water.
If a man weighing one hundred and forty pounds
were squeezed in hydraulic press, seventy pounds
of water would run out, the balance being solid
matter A man is, chemically speaking, forty-fve
pounds of carbon and other elements, with nitro
gen difused through five and half pailsfnl of wa
ter. In plants we find water thus mingling no
less wonderfully. Asun.Aower evaporates one and
a quarter pints of water day, and cabbage about
the same quantity. A wheat plant exhales in one
hundred and seventy-fve days about one hundred
thousand grains of water
The sap of plants is the medium through which
this mass of fluid is conveyed 1t forms delicate
pump, up which the watery particles run with the
rapidity of swift stream. By the action Of the
sap various properties may be communicated to
the growing plant Timber in France is, for in.
stance dyed with the various oolors mixed with
water, and sprinkled over the roots Of the tree.
Dahlias are also colored by . similar process.
SHRINKAGE IN MEASURES. 1t is not unusual
to hear people boast that they buy things at whole.
sale, in order to get the benefits Of low rates. If
the articles are to be consumed in o short time it
is no doubt, an excellent practice but if they are
to be some time on hand it is questionable if much
is made by it. This is especially true if the arti.
Gle is to be sold again, instead of kept for ones
own consumption. Few people have any idea of
the great amount of shrinkage in almost every,
thing, in very short time. We have seen one
hundred bushels Of carefully measured potatoes,
when celared in the fall, yield only eighty in the
spring; and we have no doubt but that from ten to
twenty per cent. is lost on any farm produce kept
over few months after maturity. This is the ex-
perience of others. A correspondence the Conn.
try Gentleman found the following results in corn
He says;
''We weighed large basket of corn when about
through husking, November lst, 1868, and placed
it up in the wood.shed till January l5th-two and
a half months; then weighed, shelled, and weighed
the grain, After computing, we have the follow
ing results S2l pounds of ears at husking, or 81
pounds in the middle of winter, produce bushel
ofcorn-56 pounds. The corn twelve rowed white
fint) was not quite as ripe as usual when stored,
neither have we had as drying winds this winter.
Seventy pounds of ears of dry corn is the rule for
q bushel, and is probably the nearest correct, as
the cobs we're damp when we shelled the oorn In
ordinary seasons eighty.one pounds would be sufi-
,ient at husking to make bushel. A small cob,
with eight rows, would dry much faster and give
different results; so would different varieties of
corn.
FLOWERS AND CHILDREN. Flowers and chill.
lren are of near kim and too much Of restraint or
TOO much Of forcing, or too much Of display, ruins
heir chief charms. I love to associate them to-
yether and to win the little ones to love Of flow
srs Some day they tell me that violet or tuA
If lilies is dead; but on spring morning they
'ome, radiant with the story that the very same
'ioet is blooming sweeter than ever upon some
ar away cleft of the hillside So you, my child,
the Great Master lifts you from US, shall bloom