Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-10-21


|, weighs tho triHe of one thousand billions
/ hundred weight But it would bo q grievous
error to suppose that this enormous weight
{ is raised by tho moon in tho same manner
s,that man lifts hundred weight, or magnet
S,attraots nail. Looking at the CLASSY surface
Sof an island lake, and, though it bo ever SO
Charge, when the moon is in the zenith, not
Ethe slightest rise Of the tide will be marked.
n The conditions upon which the high water
Eis dependent are furnished by the extraord.
xnary facility with which small particles of
Ewater are displaced by that vast body of water
gcalcd the Pacific Ocean, extending over more
Ethan one quarter of tho globe. Other causes
gco.operate, which, to explain, would lead me
Ebcyond my design. An explanation Of the
Hwhole may be found in good physical gcog
Eraphy.
h TO confirm the belief in o lunar influence
Hupon the weather, it has been asserted that
Ethe moon must act on tho ocean Of air--the
3atmosphcrc- the same manner that it nets
Non the ocean of water, producing kind of
Rebb and flow. Theoretically, this had long
Gbecn assumed ! but it required the incest OBJ
excavations of years, upon the most delicate!y|
Econstructcd barometers, before philosophers
Gssuccceded in proving certain very minute
ERuctuations due to the action Of the moon
&yet what arc these fluctuations against those|
ssof the barometer in our atitudcs oftonl
Samounting to several lines at time, and'
Swhose immediate cause is the difference in'
3 heat, to be referred, consequently, to the sun
81 Hence We find no reason here either to as.]
scribc to tho moon any influence upon the;
Hweathcr.
q ness~ An invalid lady heard much of thci
Hbcuefcial properties of the water from GER
Stain spring some distance from where she,
presided. She had read pamphlet that emu
generated many diseases for which it was ai
HspcciGc, among which she recognized at least;
Il half dozen with which she was afflicted
q Much to her joy, she was told that her SOM
n had to visit tho very town where it was loca- !
Htcd; and five. gallon kcg, and strict injunc-;
* ton were laid upon him to bring back some,
Sof the water.
II The keg was put into the phsctor, aud i,
E3s!pping under the seat, was overlooked, The
Hbusincss was urgent, and took some time to-
Hpcrform it, and the water was quite forgotten.
s. He had got near home in the evening, when,
Eknceiing down under the seat for something,
Hhc felt the keg. To go back was not to be
Hthought Of, aud to admit his stupidity was
%impossibc
u He therefore drew his horse. up by wall,
Ancar which vas an old well from which the
Hfamily had drank for a century, and filling
Athc keg, went home.
\ The first question was, "Did you get the
Hwater?"
d "Ycs," said he, "but hang me if can sec
Hnny difference in it from any other water"
and he brought in the keg
n n glass was handed to the invalid, who
Edrank it with infinite relish, and said she was
Hsurprscd at her sons not seeing any differ
Mencc. There was certainly medical taste
Habout it, and it did not fill her up as other
N water did, which she had always heard of
n Emineral water.
y Her son hoped it would do her good and
10y the time the keg was exhausted, she was
aready to give certificate Of the value of the
d water, it having relieved her of all her all.
& Hmcnts
nsB- Two mon passing out Of town on the
MGavcston road were struck by the beauties
Hof Lawrence.
"Whose place is that?' said one of them
b "That is the ordly residence of Major
/ Gen. A Reynolds. 1t cost $4,000.
81 What is his business 2"
y Indian agent"
n What is his salary, and how long has he
Mhcld the office p
b Two years, at fifteen hundred dollars ,
.Hyear."
p ola what did the honest fellow do Will
mtho rest Of his salary ~
Started his brother and two other homes
men in the newspaper business to denounc
o#corruption."
u EB- The playcdout Beau Hickman, VIII
cHearns a. precarious living by teaching shodd