Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-06-10
Sfraps aud fafts.

- 1nlrCy InOuSanu QOllarS nave Oeen raised
by the actors throughout the country, for a
fund for the family of the late Dan Bryant.
"A little girl at school read thus: "The
widow lived on limbacy left by her rela-
tives." "What did you call that word p
asked the teacher; "the word is legacy, not
limbacy." "But," said the little girl, "my
sister says must say limb, not leg"
- Cortins, the brigand Mayor of Mata-
moras, is said to be organizing gigantic raid
into Texas. He has deied his own Govern
ment, and between the Texans and President
Laredo's effort, it is possible he may be extin-
guished, although he has a large body Of des-
perate men under him.
- An old tale remodeled and improved
by age: 1.-TWO colored men took refuge under
tree in violent thunder storm. Julius,
can you pray" said one. "No, Sam," was the
reply "nebber pray in my life" "Well can't
you sing hymn p Just then the lightning
struck tree near by, shivering it, when the
first speaker exclaimed: "See heah, honey,
mighty suddin, too; s'pose you pass around
de hat
-- The Brooklyn Board of Supervisors,
being partisans of Beecher, are said to be bull
lying the juryman in the scandal trial into
verdict for Beecher, by refusing to take &C.
tion in the the matter Of compensation for
jury service until the trial is over, although
the Legislature authorized them to allow five
dollars day extra. If the jury 60 against
Beecher they will only get two dollars per
diem. 1t is very contemplate trick of the
supervisors.
--S Statistics have been collected in France,
Algeria and Prussia, by which it isshown that
the Jewish race has mean average duration
of life exceeding that of Christians by about
FIVE years. and that this people enjoy greater
immunity from disease than Christian races.
The causes ascribed are the inheritance of
sound physical constitution, and the watchful
care Of mothers over their offspring. The
plaques which have visited various countries
have left them unscathed. Group is said to
be extremely rare among their children, and
they have very little scrofula.
- The "lead" in lead pencils is not lead at
all, though it is called "black lead" The
weight, if nothing else, tells you that. 1t is
mineral, called graphite, (from the Greek word
to write) and is, more nearly related to coal
than to lead. You have learned that both
coal and the diamond are forms Of the ele-
ment, carbon. Graphite is still another shape
in which carbon is found-it usually contains
very little iron. Plumbago is another name
for it. 1t cannot be melted, but at very
high heat will burn The fine kinds are very
scarce.
-- While stopping over night at farm
house in Missouri, traveller was astonished to
see his hostess walk up to her husband about
every fifteen minutes and box his ears or
give his hair pull. In the morning the
guest seeing the woman alone, asked an
explanation of her strange conduct, aud her
reply was: "You see, stranger, me and
the old man has been 6ghtin' for ten years to
see who shall boss this ERE ranch, and | have
jest got him cowed, but if should let up on
him for day, he would turn on me again,
and my work would all 60 for nothing"
-- The decline in grain at Chicago within
the last week is reckoned as follows: On
wheat, cents: corn, 81 oats, 81 barley, IL.
Taking the stocks held in Chicago on the
18th ultimo, these reductions would represent
loss upon these four articles within the week
of about 100000, the penalty Of specula-
tive boarding. Besides this must be reckoned
loss at the rate of S1.45 per barrel on pork,
and IS cents per 100 pounds on lard, on the
stock of provisions, which have been as much
a subject of speculative manipulation as
grain.
- Setting type by telegraph is the latest
invention. The London Times is said to have
the machine, and to be perfecting system by
which the paper will be set simultaneously in
each of the large cities where it has a large
circulation. This will connect the London
offices with Offices in Liverpool, Manchester,
Birmingham etc. and person operating the
KEYS of the machine in London will set the
type there and in all the other Offices at the
same time. Of course the papers will be de-
livered simultaneously in all the cities where
there are branch offices.
-- The ingenious French have contrived
novel way to impress the barbaric mind
NJ. de Brazza, who has charge of the expedi-
ton to Senegal, carries an electric battery in
his pocket, communicating with two rings on
his hand and with apparatus scattered about
his person. When he shakes hands with a
savage chief, that chief will be very much
astonished, for an electric shock will run up
his arm, and he will see lightning playing
about the head of his visitor. Naturally, he
will think he is being interviewed by the dev-
il, and will be readyt to consent to anything
in order to get away.
"Fighting Joe" Hooker takes whack
at Tecumseh Sherman. He says Gen. Thom-
as was the great general of the army, but the
real hero of the war was Farragut. Sherman
he regards as vain and pretentious hum
bug, who has been rewarded far beyond his
merits or achievement Gen. Hooker truth
fully observes that Sherman "made war like
a brigand, while many other generals never
forgot that they we're making war on their
own countrymen," and that some day his
raid through Georgia and Carolina will be
stamped as disgraceful act by the whole
civilized world.
-- The plan of propelling cars, omnibuses,
and veloci pedes by coiled springs, has now
for some time been employed in England, and
it is said, with encouraging results. The mo-
tor used is an arrangement of powerful springs
encased in cylinders like watch springs on a
very large scale. The skill of French ma
chinists in this direction has been called into
requisition, and steel bands capable of being
coiled and of exerting great pressure have
been made in lengths of one hundred yards
each. In Sheffield, some of the steel man
ufacturers have turned out springs fifty
and sixty feet long, and said to be capable of
the enormous pressure Of ght hundred
pounds.
- The sad spectacle of child eight years
old being the means of convicting his father
lao