Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-09-25
Straps and fafts.


the county which will give the largest major
ity.
- A passenger train made the run from
Baltimore to Washington, a few days ago, in
forty-four minutes-nearly mile a minute.
~ One young lady at Saratoga created a
sensation by wearing diamond buckles on her
shoes. She was awfully careful about hol-
ding up her dress when the walking was wet
or dirty.
- Two young ladies of La Crosse were
standing by the side of ditch thirteen feet
wide, which they din't know how to cross,
when their escort said "Snakes!' and they
cleared it at bound.
-- An exchange says the best way for
lady to get the fashionable "tangle" on her
hair, is to fill it full of corn and meal, and
set lot Of spring chickens to scratching the
meal out.
- Trouble is apprehended in all the New
York public schools this fall, in consequence
of the new law, which makes it criminal
offence to refuse admission to colored appli-
cants. Heretofore colored children have
had their own schools.
-- The managers of an Illinois county fair
have naturally reused the wrath of all the ma
irons in tho ueighborhond by appointing
committee of bachelors to award the premi-
ums in baby show. The women say if their
rights can't berecognized here, they will stand
no show at all.
"A correspondent of the Country Gen.
tleman has discovered that, as law of nature,
every spotted dog has the end of his tail
white, and every spotted cat the end of the
tail black. He says he has examined many
dogs and cats in France, England and Amer
lea, and always noticed the same result.
-Glass bonnets have appeared. They
are formed Of tissue woven by fine glass
threads, and may be said to be the glass Of
fashion fitted to the mould of form. Ladies
who wear them must deny themselves the
pleasure of criticsing their neighbors, on the
principle that it is dangerous for those who
live in glass houses to throw stones.
- That "honesty is the best policy" may
be exemplifed by the following little incident:
\ man at Belmont, NO., sold to a mill ow-
ner saw log which proved to be hollow
As he sold it for a sound log, he voluntarily
went and gave back the price, and hauling it
to his own yard, chopped it up for 6re-wood
In this operation he found ten S. gold pieces
which somebody had secreted in it.
There is a Rabbinical tradition that
when Noah planted the vine, Satan attended
and sacrificed sheep, lion, an ape and a
hog. These animals were to symbolic the
gradation of inebriety. When man begins
to drink, he is meek and innocent as a lamb,
then becomes bold as the lion his courage is
soon transformed into the foolishness of the
ape; and at last he wallows in the mire like
hog.
II One of the most remarkable cases Of
"back pay" occurred recently in New York.
One of the "old.schooP subscribers of the
Kingston Journal was thirty-one years in ar
rears for his paper. Last week he called
upon the editors of the Journal and paid up
"like man." and, remarking that he might
not be around again very soon, he paid his
subscription ten years ahead, and another for
his mother for twelve years ahead.
- Brick Pomeroy, while making speech
in Texas, was asked by a listener, "What
has the Northern man done for Texas?' To
which he replied, "Taken the weeds out of
your fence corners, raised vegetables, plan
ted fruit trees, built your largest and best
houses, imported your finest and best horses
and cattle, erected nearly every machine shop,
foundry and mill that you have among you.
They have minded their own business, and
have not disturbed large audience by asking
foolish questions. They have striven by hon
est industry to keep out Of the sheri6's hands
and thirty feet ahead of the tax collector"
- A dispatch says: "Mr. Donaldson says
it will be impossible to repair the injuries to
the bursted balloon. The Messrs. Goodsell
have offered to begin, as soor as possible, the
construction of a new balloon, to be made of
silk, provided he would endeavor to make the
trip to Europe in it. He has accepted the Of
fer, and those interested will meet on Tuesday
to make necessary arrangements for the con-
suction of a new balloon. He says he will
begin Immediately, and everything will be
done to hasten its completion. 1t will prob
ably be ready for him about the middle of
October. The car, life-boat and scientific in
struments which have been provided will be
used"
- The question Of what constitutes a bank
rupt has just been settled by Judge Drum
mond, of the United States Circuit Court of
Illinois. In case just concluded, Judge
Drummond decided that any man who, with
out any legal reason, refuses payment on his
paper for two weeks, may be under the law
adjudged bankrupt. He must satisfy the
court that he is justified in Withholding the
payment His mere caprice or unwillingness
to pay will not prevent his being adjudged in
solvent, if the refusal to honor his promise to
4, L., i
cision, if concurred in by other authorities,
vii! have the effect Of Fastening settlements
in time to come.
"A rare arithmetical performance has
been for some weeks matter of interest in
the Hebrew Educational Society school of
New Orleans. The problem set before the
pupils was to multiply nine by nine, eighty
one by eighty-one, and so on, using each sue
ceeding product as its own multiplier, repeat
ing the operation nine times After a few
steps the work becomes stupendous and dis
couragng. A handsome prize had been of.
fered to the one who should first accomplish
this feat of multiplication. The girls showed
more perseverance than the boys in working
at this problem, and finally, after many
weeks of patient labor, young girl compile
ted the task. The work comprises 263 nu-
neral compounds and 10000 figures, and
the whole covers four or FIVE square yards of
paper.
The Germans have invented new
sausage skin. They take an ordinary piece
ofwhite blotting paper and dip it in sulphu
ric acid. 1t instantly becomes like parch-
ment, and it makes skin for Bologna saus-
sage almost precisely like the real thing.