Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-04-03

brains to work. The high tide of the appli-
cation of brains to labor is found in the ope-
ration of one of our grain elevators, which the
lecturer characterized as an instance of the
"Yankee skulking the final curse Of getting
his living by the sweat of his brow"
The Europeans, he said, were much more
polite than Americans. Ask New Yorker
the way to Wall street, and he will send you
to place hotter than the Fourth of July.
Ask an Englishman, and it is chance if he
don't send you to the same place. Ask
Frenchman the way to salon, and he will
direct you with the greatest PARTICULARLY;
Ask German the way to place, and he will
60 with you. In Europe, the man who trav''
els is a curiosity. This fact explains Mon
tesquie's remark that "Paris is France" Pa
ris pulls down king, and the matter is &C.
complished before Marseilles hears of it. In
Europe almost every thing is governed by
economy. The lecturer was once Instructed
in Italy by an officer of the English navy
how to save a cent. The next place where
we see Europeans is at the church, the doors
of which are always open. In the churches
there is no hateful sristocracy of pews he
had seen the blood royal of Naples kneeling
side by side with the ragged lazzaroni-both
equal before God.
In the matter Of aims giving the Europeans
are far superior to US. In America we waste
more than Italians eat, and dyeti in that country
he had never seen beggar turned away from
house or store without having something
given him as testimony that better of owed
something to worse off, Women's work in
Europe is somewhat multifarious. They do
two-thirds of the work-draw wagons, propei
boats dig, plow, and, in fact, perform all
kinds of1abor. A brother of the last Empe.
ror of Austria, who married his wife in the
Tyrol, married her because she harnessed
horses so we'll. It has been said that the word
home is not to be found in the French language,
and consequently we imagine they have not
homes there. The lecturer had seen houses
in France in which might be found FIVE or six
generations of the same family.
The prejudice against color, 80 strong IN
America, has no place among Europeans At
St. Peters, in Rome, Mr.. Phillips heard a ser.
mon delivered in most melodious voice, and
when he moved toward the priest to note his
personal appearance, he was astonished to
discover that the speaker was negro. This
struck him so forcibly that he exclaimed. IL
must be 1000 miles from Boston" Laugh.
ter and applause. '..- ... ...- ..'
PAGAN1N1.-In 1908 be obtained from the
Grand Duchess leave to travel His fame
had preceded him. Leghorn, where seven
years before he had forfeited his famous Strad.
ivarius, and won Guarnerius, received him
with open arms, although his appearance was
marked by an amusing contretemps. He came
on the stage limping. having run nail in his
heel. At all times odd-looking, he, no doubt,
looked all the more peculiar under these cir
cumstances, and there was some tittering
among the audience. Just as he began, the
candles fell out of bis desk-more laughter.>
He went on playing, the first string broke
more laughter. He played the rest of the
concerto through on three strings, but the
laughter now changed to vociferous applause
at this feat. The beggarly elements seemed
Of little consequence to this magician. One
or more strings-it was all the same to him.
Indeed, it is recorded that be seldom paused
to mend his strings when they broke, which
they not unfrequently did. Whether from
abstraction or carelessness he would allow
them at times to grow quite ragged on the
finger board, and his constant practice Of
plucking them, guitar-like, with the left hand,
as we'll as harp.like with the fore.fnger of the
right hand, helped, no doubt, to wear them
out rapidly.
At Ferrara both he and his violin met with
different reception. A singer had failed
him, and he had induced danseuse who had
a pretty voice to come to the rescue. Some
graceless fellow in the audience Kissed her sing
ing, which caused Paganini to take revenge
little suited to the occasion. In his last solo
he initiated the cries of various animals, and,
suddenly advancing to the footlights, caused
his violin to bray like an ass, with the excla.
nation, "This for him who Kissed |" Instead
of laughter, the pit rose in fury, and would
have soon made short work of him and his
violin had he not escaped by back door. 1t
appears that the country folks around Ferrara
called the town people whom they hated,
"asses," and we're in the habit Of SINGING
out "hee.haw!'' whenever they had to allude
to them; hence the angry reception Of Paga-
minis musical reparte.-Good Words.
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