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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-30

THAT'S WHERE SHE MADE MISTAKE
A ludicrous scene was witnessed on Rensse-
lear and Saratoga train the other day. A
newly.married couple entered the car and
took seat. The husband wanting to smoke,
left his wife and went into the smoking.car.
The bride began to doze, and while she slept
crowded, quietly took seat beside the young
wife, Shortly she began to nod, and doubt.
less imagining that her husband was still in
the seat, gently reclined toward the stranger,
and soon her head fondly nestled on his breast
At this juncture the husband entered. He
stood in mute astonishment in the aisle until
the lady awoke, and, realizing the situation,
drew back in amazement suffused with bushes
Stranger explained, husband was satisfied,
and wife tried hard to appear unconcerned.-
Troy Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-30

DoDGE.-An Irishman took the contract
to dig a public WE'LL When he had dug
about twenty-five feet below the surface, he
came one morning and found it caved in, filled
nearly to the top. Pat looked cautiously
around and saw that no one was near, then
taking off his hat and coat he hung them on
the windlass, and crawling into some bushes,
he waited the result of events. In short
time the citizens discovered that the well had
caved in, and seeing Pats hat and coat they
supposed that he was at the bottom Of the
excavation. Only a few hours of brisk dig
ging cleared the loose earth from the we'll.
Just as the citizens had reached the bottom
and were wondering where the body was, Pat
came walking out of the bushes, and very
good.naturedly thanked them for relieving him
Of sorry job. The tired diggers were dis
gusted, but the joke was too good to allow
anything more than a hearty laugh, which
soon followed.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-30

CONFIDENCE OF CATTLE-A Massachu-
setts farmer'says: my cattle will follow me
until leave the lot, and on the way up to the
barn yard in the evening stop and call for a
lock of hay" Smithson says there is moth
ing at all remarkable about that. He went
INTO barnyard in the country one day last
week, where he had not the slightest acqualn-
tauce with the cattle, and an old bull not
only followed him until he left the lot, but
took the gate off the hinges and raced with
him to the house in the most familiar way
possible. Smithson says he has no doubt that
the old fellow would have called for some
thing if he had waited little while, but he
didn't want to keep the folks waiting for din
ner, so he hung one tail of his coat and a
piece of his pants on the bulls horns and
went into the house.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-30

A PERSISTENT CUsroMER.-Buy any but
ter here2" said a country customer, who
walked into dry goods store in certain
city, and looked much like character who
knew great deal more Of himself than he
cared to tell.
"No, SIR" replied the merchant, 1--WE don't
wish to buy any"
"Want to buy any eggs" =,
"No, sir I've keep a dry goods store here"
$50! Wa-al, then maybe you'd like to
buy some chickens-fat as pigs, and mighty
sight nicer, too?"
"No, sir; I tell you we don't deal in any
thing but dry goods
"Couldn't sell you nice fat shoulder of
pork"
II tell you, sir, we deal in dry goods exclu.
sively here" -,
"Wa-al, whatll you give for dried peaches"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-30

ba% The French seem to be fond Of horse
flesh, as no less than FIVE thousand horses are
annually eaten in Paris.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-30

FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
The New York Nation condenses from an
ENGLISH scientific periodical some interesting
speculations of DR.. Alfred Russell Wallace OF
the probable antiquity of the human species.
They may we'll startle, it says, even those VINO
have long since come to the conclusion that
5000 years carry us but small way back to
the original home. In fact, DR.. Wallaces
5000 years are but as day. He reviews the
various attempts to determine the antiquity
ofhuman remains or works of art, and finds
the bronze age in Europe to have been pretty
accurately fixed at 5000 or 1000 years ago,
the stone age of the Swiss lake dwellings at
5000 to 1000 years, "and an indefinite ante
rior period" The burnt brick found sixty
feet deep in the Nile alluvium, indicates an
antiquity of 10000 years another fragment
at seventy-two feet gives 10000 years. "a
human skeleton found at the depth of sixteen
feet below four hundred buried forests puper-
posed upon each other, has been calculated by
DR.. Doaler to have all antiquity of $4,000
years. But all these estimates pale before
those which Kent's cavern at Torquay legitl-
mates. Here the drip of the stalagmite is the
chief factor of our computations, giving US an
upper floor which divides the relics of the
last two or three thousand years from de-
posit full Of the bones of an extinct mammalia
and glutton indicating an artic climate.
Names cut in the stalagmite more than
1000 years ago are legible-in in other words,
where the stalagmite is twelve inches thick
and the drip still very copious, not more than
q hundredth of foot has been deposited in
two centuries-a rate Of five feet in 10000
years. Below this, however, we have thick,
much older and crystalline Ii. e., more slowly
formed) stalagmite, beneath which again, Tin
a solid breccia, very different from the cave
earth, undoubted works of art have been
found" Mr.. Wallace assumes only 100000
years for the upper floor, and 250,OO0 for the
lower, and adds 100000 for the immediate
eave.earth, by which he arrives at the "sum
of half million years that have probably
elapsed since human workmanship were
buried in the depths Of Kent's Cavern.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-30

A STORY OF ROBERT EMMET.-There is
a story told of this young patriot in early life
that proved his secretive power and resolu'
ton. He was fond of studying chemistry,
and one night late, after the family had gone
to bed, he swallowed large quantity of cor.
rosive sublimate in mistake for some acid
cooling powder. He Immediately discovered
his mistake, and knew that death must shortly
ensue unless he instantly swallowed the only
antidote-chalk. Timid men would have
torn at the bell, reused all the family, and
sent for a stomach.pump. Emmet called no
one, made, no noise but stealing down stairs
and unlocking the front door, went into the
stable, scraped some chalk which he knew to
be there, and took sufficient doses of it toneu-
tralze the poison.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-30

SALT IN S1cKNEss.-Dr. Scudder remarks:
II am satisfied that have seen patients die
from deprivation of common salt during
protracted illness. 1t is the common i'm.
preston that the food for the sick should
not be seasoned, and whatever slop may
be given, it is almost innocent of this es-
sential of life. In the milk diet that l re-
commend in sickness, common salt is used
freely, the milk being boiled and given not;
And if the patient cannot take the usual
quantity in his food, I have it given in drink.
This matter is so important that it cannot be
repeated too often, or dwelt upon too long:
The most marked example of this want OF
common salt have ever noticed, has been IN
surgical diseases, especially in open wounds:
Without supply Of salt the tongue would
become broad, pallid, puffy, with a tenacious,
pasty coat, the secretions arrested, the circu-
lation feeble, the efusion at the point Of inJu-
ry serious, with an unpleasant watery pus,
WHICH at last becomes mere sanies or ichor;
A few days of free allowance of salt would
change all this, and the patient get along we'll.
LABoR.-Itisa mistake to suppose that Ia
Dor is an unpleasant condition Of life. 1t is
matter of experience that there is more real
contentment in attending to any kind OF
occupation than there is in looking for
some occupation. Attend, therefore, to your
business as being worthy Of all your at
tention. Working men are apt to consider
that their occupations alone are laborlous,
but in that matter they are mistaken. Labor
of mind is generally even more fatiguing than
labor of the body, and it is quite erroneous to
SUPPOSE that others do not work as we'll as we
do, simply because their work is different diff
from ours. Labor is the earthly condition of
man, and until the nature of man is changed,
the want of something to do will produce all
the horrors of ennui. Gambling and other
reprehensible dissipations are all owing to the
fact that human nature cannot support
state of idleness. To live without a purpose,
is to lead very restless life.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-30

OUR RICH MEN-Marshall 0. Roberts is
the possessor of s4,000000, or s5,000,0O0,
and yet until he was twenty-five he had not
S10O he could call his own.
George Day, at forty.6ve, was common
day-laborer on the docks, and at present
counts his fortune at something like sl0,-
100000.
Alexander T. Stewart first bought few
laces at auction, and opened his way to sue
cess in little dingy shop on Broadway, the
site of his present wholesale establishment.
Daniel Drew, in early life, was a cattle
driver, at the munifcent rate of rs cents
day, and he has driven himself into an estate
valued a from s25,000,000 to s3O,000,O0O.
Robert L. and Alexander Stuart, the noted
sugar re6ners, in their boyhood, sold molasses
candy which their widowed mother made, at
a cent stick, and to-day they are probably
worth s5,OOO,OOO to s6,O00,000 each.
Horace B. Clafin, the eminent dry goods
merchant, worth, it is estimated, from sl2,.
100000 to SIS 100000, commenced the world
with nothing but energy, determination and
hope, and see how he has invested them!
Cornelius Vanderbilt commenced life with
an old pirogue, running between Staten Is
land and New York, 'and carrying garden
stuff to market With 5000 or $500 raised
from that source, he entered upon steadily in
creasing enterprise until he accumulated the
sum of S5O,000,000.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-30

EDGE TooLs-A correspondent of the
Detroit Tribune says, eff an edge tool is so
hard as to crumble, grind it on dry stone
until the edge turns blue it will then cease
to break, and the temper will generally prove
to be about right. Scythes and axes are
sometimes too hard at the edge, but if treated
in this way will give no further trouble"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-30

A SINGULAR FREAK.-A well-known veal
thy Partisan has had himself painted by an
eminent artist GAS he was" As he is" and
Gas he will be-" Gas he was" represents him
at the age of twenty-five, a poor wretch in
ragged garments, with his toes peeping out
through the holes in his shoes, Sinking, half
famished, by the side Of the wall: "As he is"
figures him fat and jolly as an alderman, and
we'll dressed, with gold chains decking his
waistcoat, and diamond rings blazing on his
fingers. And GAS he will be" he is made
hideous corpse. Not the least singular fea.
ture of this singular freak, is the fact that he
has the paintings hung in his dressing-room.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-08-27

A couple of impressible, romantic
young men of Idaho City, lately made
the same sort Of mistake that hunters
have been known to make in shooting
the tame ducks and chickens of farm.
yard for wild game. The romantic
young men were out repairing their
fumes, and apparently keeping their
eyes open all around them for advent
ures. Near by where thu young men
were busy with their hammers and saws
q hardy old minner had quartz lead
He had not been working in it for .
long time, and II was supposed had
abandoned it. The Young men did not
know anything about their neighbor,
and probably cared less. Looking over
toward his old tunnel in the hillside
they saw beautiful vision, which stir
red their romantic natures to the very
depths. 1t was young girl, apparently
fourteen or fifteen years of age, standing
on a grassy knoll calmly summing her
self, barcfooted and bare-headed, with a
mass of rich hair floating round her like
a robe. They could not see whether she
had any other robes on or not. From
their distance they thought she hadn't.
She was evidently wild girl. They
hoped so. They resolved TO find out
They dropped their hammers and saws,
and crept up slyly upon her with all the
young romance of their natures deeply
stirred. They had the "buck fever"
worse than ever any amateur deerhun-
ter had 1t when taking his first shot 1t
would be the biggest kind OF thing in
the mines if they could catch wild girl,
and capture her alive. They hoped and
crept on toward the grassy knoll where
the wild girl was basking in the clear
sunlight Of Idaho. The time and place
came when they could creep concealed
no longer. She was there still. They
must make bold dash. They broke
out from under cover and ran toward
her at the top of their speed. She broke
and ran too, and she screamed and her
hair flew in a frothy torrent down her
back, OF course she was wild girl
She suddenly disappcared-going in her
hole perhaps-poor timid thiDg-wild
as deer or grizzly. The young men
ran on in the fever Of their chase, and
plunged headlong into the mouth of the
old quartz miners tunnel. There they
saw sight that made their blood curdle
with terror, and their romance sick a,
the stomach. 1t was the beautiful wild
girl swooned in the quartz miners sin
envy arms. 1t was her father He laid
her gently down upon the gravel. The
young men were too much blown to ex-
plain them selves, and the old quartz
miner deliberately knocked all the ro-
mantle nonsense out of them, and kick
ed them back to their fumes. They
have not gone wild-girl hunting since,
and don't believe there is any such game
in the woods.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-08-27
A Thrilling Incident.

A singular and thrilling incident oc
CURED on the eastward bound passenger
train. recently, two miles east of Rose
creek, near Winnemucea, Cal. The
train was on heavy down grade, going
at high rate of speed, making up tor
lost time, when the engineer, Nick Cole,
thought he saw an obstruction on the
track a few yards ahead. The locomo-
tive whistled down brakes" the lever
was reversed, and every effort possible
was made TO stop the tram, which WAS
under tremendous Roadway As the
tram approached the spot the object
proved to be human being lying with
his body directly across the track. The
man-for man it was-was alive, fully
conscious of his mortal peril, but unable
to move from his position He had
pulled out his handkerchief as a signal,
however, and was waving it with his
hand Thanks to the Westinghouse
brakes and other means used, the train
was brought to a stand still when within
a few yards of the helpless man The
man was found to be paralyzed, and was
picked up, placed on board the train
and taken to Winnemucca, where he was
provided for at the hospital He states
that while walking along the track he
fen down completely paralyzed in his
limbs and body, and could not move
himself an inch. When he saw the train
coming he expected to be crushed to
death, and his feelings were too horrible
to express. He screamed. threw his
hands up frantically, and waved his
handkerchief.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-08-27

The other morning at Saratoga,
while everybody was rushing pell-
NELL over ito the races, crowding
every vehicle from hay-team to a
lundauiet with wild mass of human
ity. Colonel Alexander quietly took a
crowd Of children down to see "Edu-
Gated Ben" the miraculous pig.
Among the children was little Freddy
Wall, who has always been troubled
because he had no little sister to PLAY
with. When he asked his mother to
get little sister she always put him
off with:
Eyes, Freddy. when children get
cheap III buy you little sister. You
must wait"
So to-day when Mr. jarvis read
these red letters on Educated B.n's
tent
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-08-27


In Switzerland the Government,
which controls the telegraph system,
has introduced an excellent plan Of
facilitating intercourse between bust
ness men at points distant from
each other. It permits parties at
different stations to carry on a con-
versation, charging for the service
not according to the number Of
words, but according to the time con-
sumed. Such plan adopted in this
country would be Of immense value,
as every one who has occasion to
transact business by wire knows how
difficult it is to do SO in consequence
Of the rigid regulations aud clumsy
method Of business of the telegraph
companies.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-08-27

China and Japan are at the pres
ent time standing in chip-on-the-
shoulder relation to each other, with
a prospect of war. The trouble is
about the Island of Formosa, from
which China demands the withdraw
al of japanese troops within ninety
DAYS, with the threat that in case OF
non. compliance war will be declared
Japan, however, proposes to hold the
disputed ground, though all heathen-
dom is made to resound with the
clash of arms thereby. About next
Nov. look out for bloodshed between
the great powers OF the antipodes.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-08-27

A FATAL SPRING.-About one half a
mile over a mountain from Bartlett
Springs there is what is called the Gas
Spring. This is probably the greatest
curiosity of the mountains. The water
is ice cold, bubbling and ioaming as If
boiled, and the greatest wonder IS the
inevitable destruction of life produced
by inhaling its gas. NJ live thingfs to
be found within circuit of one hundred
yards near the spring. The birds, if
they happen to fly over it, drop dead
We experimental with lizard on its
destructive properties, stretched dead in
few minutes II will kill human be.
ing in twenty minutes. We stood over
it about five minutes, when dull heavy,
aching sensation crept over US, and our
eyes began to swim. The gas which es
capes here is the rankest kind of car
bonic acid, hence Its sure destruction of
life; also quenching Of flame ns,antan-
cously.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-08-27

Mrs. Mary Feely, of St. Louis,
travelling on the Vandalia train,
though she put her pocket book in
her stocking, was robbed of it. her
hose being cut open while she inno-
Gently slumbered.
The editor of the Paducah Ken.
tuckidn having accepted a nomination
for the office of Coroner, saws that
many years experience within the
precincts of Cairo renders him an ex.
cellent Judge of a dead man.
A prominent public officer in
Nashville has this notice posted up
"Don't open this door"-under which
some wag wrote the query. why
and another responded, because you
can't; it's locked"
Now is the chance for a scientific
man. Let him tell the people in
Minnesota what useful and valuable
article can be made out Of grasshop
pers. Petroleum was scorned as a
nuisance for hundreds of years.
"Deserted by all except his aged
bobtailed dog, his life went slowly
out as the shadows of the setting sun
crept over the front of Darling's
grocery" is the way they express
themselves in Georgia.
A male plaintiff in a breach OF
promise suit in London has obtained
one farthing damages; which shows
how much less value is set by iuries
on the loss of prospective wife than
Of a prospective husband.
1t was considered deed of mag
nanimity for San Francisco street
crowd to allow Chinaman to depart
with his life, after having killed two
immense dogs that had been set upon
him by some Of its members.
A rather unique wedding occurred
at Camp Brown, Wyoming, lately, a
young man named Gibson marrying
squaw twelve years Old. The mar
ria9e was solemnized "amid an extra.
ordinary exuberance of spirits"
Reason enough there was for his
doing it-Georgn Falkenstein, we
mean, who committed suicide at
Pittsburgh, Pa, the other day: for he
is described as ga foreigner, unmar-
RED, respondent, homesick and full
IF drink" Poor fellow!
It would seem that Tilton has
'eally determined to embark in a suit
It law against Beecher. The alleged
seduction Of his wife having occurred
our or FIVE years ago, the public
will think that it has taken
im = very long time to discover that
is honor has been outraged and that
9 has "cause Of action" ;
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-08-27

Moved by the absolute want Of the
people in the grasshopper portion q
K0ssuth and other counties in that
region, the Algona Republican has
been for sometime advocating that
ana extra session Of the Legislature
~ called to provide relief. The sug-
rostion gained considerable strength
n int locality, and Governor Car
reater ii seems was advised with on
fhe question. For in the last issue Of
~ Republican, we find . report Of
the proceedings Of public meeting
1t which the following letter from the
Governor was resd:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
DEsMoINEs, July 20, 1874.
Col. r. H. SPENCER, Algona, Iowa:
Dear Sir:-Upon my return, after
. few days absence from the Capt.
tol, l seize the first opportunity TO
write to you in answer to your letter
OF recent date, |, of course, have no
means at my disposal to aid the des-
titute in your county any more than
such donation as | will gladly make
as Z citizen. have been trying to
think of some satisfactory and CON-
prehensive way which we may adopt
TO relieve the destitute in you coun-
ty, and others which have suffered
the like calamity. The grasshopper
scourge is of course temporary and
may never be repeated after this
year, and it seems to me if the county
authorities would take hold of the
matter and look up the absolutely
needy and do something towards sup
plying their immediate necessities in
such way as may seem proper and
possible, that this, in addition to such
private contributions as may be OBJ
tanned from generous hearted people,
will carry them through until another
harvest. / should not hesitate, if the
counties should involve themselves
to some extent, in doing what seems
to be demanded by humanity, TO ask
the next Legislature, and urge upon
it, to devise some method III mea-
sure to indemnify the counties.
will endeavor to visit your county and
others which have suffered with You,
but / cannot do so Immediately. In
the meantime please suggest the
theory Of this letter to some Of your
citizens and let me know what they
think. Yours very truly,
G. G. CARPENTER.
The Republican says that, acting
on the suggestion Of the Governor,
the meeting decided to put the mat
ter in the hands Of general commit
tee Of FIVE, they to request the co OPP
Grafton Of committee from each civ
il township, such committee to be APP
pointed by the people of the several
townships.
The course indicated by Governor
Carpenter Is undoubtedly the true
one. There is feeling of genrrou>
sympathy with these afflicted people
throughout the State. That this is
so, the best evidence in the world
was given last winter. The same
feeling still remains. And while pub
lie sentiment would he against the
calling of an extra session, of the leg
islasure, and the expense of such ex-
ira session, there is clearly feeling
on every hand that SUBSTANCES and will
help carry out the course suggested
by the Governor Meantime if pr-
vate subscriptions shall again become
necessary, there need be only call
made to have it generally and gen
erous!y answered --.Stdte Register.