Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26
Sftaps aud fatts.


-- If in instructing child, you are vexed
with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have
never tried before, to write with your left hand
and then remember that child is all left
hand.
No Chinese medical student can secure
a diploma until he can prove his ability
to saw mans leg off with hand-saw and
whittle out wooden leg to replace the lost
limb.
- The fastest time ever made by rail
way train was on Sunday last on the New
York Central Railroad. The New York
Herald's lightning train on the Western end
of the road ran seventy miles in sixty minutes.
- When Massachusetts man walked
seventeen miles to see man hung, and the
prisoner was respited, the disgusted traveller
sat down in fence corner and hoarsely in
quired if this country was drifting back to bar
barism.
- The latest movement in Washington,
of peculiar kind looks to the removal of
all the dead Presidents from the various
places of interment through the country and
the re-interment of their bodies in expensive
mausoleums at Mount Vernon, around the
tomb OF Washington.
- The cotton year which ends Septem-
ber /, will show receipts at all the ports of
about 3,485,00 bales. The exports for the
year have been 100000 bales, against g.
$4,000 bales last year. The visible supply
of American on boths sides of the Atlantic
is 954,642, bales against 910,502 last year
at this time.
- They know how to utilize matters in
Iowa. A man there recently obtained d.
vorce from his wife, and Immediately hired
her for his cook. Both paties are happy.
He lives much more reasonably, and she says
she can now have an occasional new dress
and little money in her pocket-book.
- The largest library in the United States
is the library of Congress, which contains
274,000, volumes next in order is the Boston
Public Library, with 273,000, while the
Harvard University Library with $4,000,
and the New York Mercantile Library, with
155,120, are respectively third and fourth in
point Of size.
- There are at present two thousand men
and six hundred horses and carts engaged on
the construction of the Southern Pacific rail-
road in the teegraphic pass. The work to
be done is of the heaviest description of grad.
ing and rock cutting. In one place in the
pass the road winds around among the noun
tains for seven miles, whilst actually making a
direct distance of but little over one mile.
- The irrepressible Gilmore proposes to
celebrate the Centennial by having 100000
persons sing the one hundredth psalm in
honor of our one hundredth anniversary.
Mr. Gilmore evidently has never heard the
old story of all the inhabitants Of the earth as
semoling on given day and agreeing to
shout at given moment. Silence reigned
supreme. Everybody held his tongue to
hear the rest
- Voltaire said: "The more married
riage renders man more virtuous and more
wise. An unmarried man is but half of a per-
feet being, and it requires the other half to
make things right, and it cannot be expected
that in this imperfect state he can keep the
straight path of rectitude any more than a
boat with one oar can keep the straight
course"
A case has recently occurred at Goshen,
Massachusetts, that seems to confirm the pop
ular belief that beech trees are never struck
by lightning. A beech and maple standing
near together, with branches interlocking
each other, received an electric bolt from a
passing cloud, which shattered the maple and
passed into the earth through PROSTATE hem
lock tree lying near, which was stripped of
its bark nearly the whole length. No trace
Of the lightning was left upon the beech.
- There are two churches in this coun-
try which are arranged with tubes for the
convenience Of deaf people, namely: The
First Church of Nashua, New Hampshire,
and the Presbyterian Church at Freehold,
New Jersey. In the latter, number of pews
are connected first by flexible tubes, then by
tipapipes about an inch in diameter, running
down through the floor, and connecting with
a kind of funnel, terminary just in front
of the Bible. The plan works we'll. Any
tnsmith can put in the arrangement
What is that which has three feet but
no legs, is all body but no limbs, has no toes
on its feet, no head, moves great deal and
never uses its feet for that purpose, has one
foot at each end and the other in the centre
of its body? This is queer creature in
some respects, and is very popular among
the ladies and some men. 1t never walks out
but goes with one foot where its head might
be, dragging the other foot behind. These
feet have nails but no toes, no heel and no
bones in the foot? A yard measure.
"A circular having been sent to General
Fitz Lee, Of Virginia, soliciting his endorse
ment Of movement in favor of Hon. N. P.
Banks, of Massachusetts, for President, and
Hon. L. @. G. Lamar, of Mississippi, for Vice
President in the next coming Presidential
campaign, the general has written reply
in which he says: 81 feel it my duty to say,
that should those gentlemen be the nomi-
nees of the National Democratic Conven-
tion for the high Offices you desire them to
fill, it will give me pleasure to vote for them,
and to aid in an humble way to secure their
election"
- 1t is said that Governor Allen, of
Ohio has strong faith that he is to be the
next President. In response to the prediction
of a friend that he would be the next Demo-
cratic candidate for President, he is repre-
sented as saying "Well, sir, it would be just
my luck to be elected" When reminded
that he was once "bullionist" and favored
specie payments, he recalled vision of his
early days, and relieved himself of the charge
of inconsistency in this fashion: II would
be in favor Of specie payments now, sir, if
it could happen as it did one day when was
in the Senate, and the secretary of the treas
ury placed notice on each of our desks that
he had paid the last dollar of the public
debt"
"A dispatch from Benton, Franklin coun-
ty, Illinois, gives the following ku-klux story
Ten disguised men have been whipping