Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-04-05


Just then an old rampageous sheep
| Who had been feeding near, sir,
Squared off, and like a ton of bricks
| He took me with his head sir;
landed in pond, chuck full
| OF frogs and filthy water,
And then she stood and larfed, and larfed,
That Widder Spriggins' Daughter.
rather guess crawled out quick,
| Picked up my hat and mizzled,
While loves bright torch so lately lit,
| Out in that frog pond fizzled.
Well, she was married yesterday;
A lawyer chap has got her;
So, I'll forget, if not forgive
The Widder Spriggins' Daughter.
WHEN AND HOW TO USE SPECTACLES.
But in general it happens that people do
not know precisely the time when spectacles
become necessary. Many persons imagine
there is certain period of the human life
when eyeglasses are required, which has Civ
en- rise to that pernicious plan of many self
styled opticians to prepare spectacles for eve
ry age, which they, of course, dispose of to the
ignorant and inexperienced. As soon as a
man of fifty years of age, for example, has
through any circumstances forced his sight
for few days, he begins to imagine he must
have spectacles. These he obtains, asking for
and trying to obtain the best for his particu-
lar age; and after short time he probably
arrives at the conclusion that he can see bet-
ter without them. The fact is that some men
of seventy, or even eighty years of age, enjoy
their eyesight as we'll as at any period of their
lives, while their children and perhaps grand
children cannot do without eyeglasses. The
time when this beneicent and blessed inven-
ton of the great Roger Bacon-of the go
called "dark ages"-is needed, depends not
only on the special conformation of the organ,
but on the care that has been taken of it
the proper use, or the abuse-the neglect of
nice attentions in washing, etc., or the msfor-
tune of compulsory work too many hours, over
very minute or shining articles, and with in
furious lights. The simplest rules of ascer-
tanning the need of eyeglasses are, first, to
note if you are obliged to remove small print
or small objects further than usual from your
eyes in order to see them distinctly ; secondly,
if you find yourself involuntariy moving
nearer to the light than usual with you in or
der to read letter or book; thirdly, if very
small objects appear confused after you have
looked at them for any length of time fourth
ly, if the eyes, after little close attention to
anything, become so fatigued that you are
obliged to turn aside to give them relaxation ;
and, lastly, if the sight on first awakening is
very weak, and does not recover its customary
degree of force until some time after. As for
the choice of eyeglasses, here are few gen.
eral rules to begin with In the first place,
good glasses ought never to magnify the OBJ
jects very much, but merely to show them to
US clear, simple and exactly such as they are.
Even in the exceptional cases. where rather
strong magni6ers are needed, the proof when
they are too strong will be when you are
obliged 10 bring the object much closer to the
eye than sound sight requires-in brief, ev-
cry person ought, general speaking, to be
able to read conveniently with his spectacles
at the same distance he was accustomed to
when his visual powers were perfect. All
eyeglasses should be formed of pure glass.
There should be no specks, rays, globules, or
other imperfections. Mr.. White Cooper says,
"There is common prejudice in favor of peb-
bles, and they certainly possess two advanta.
geous qualities hardness, rendering
it difficult to scratch or break them and clear
ness, never becoming dull from moisture" I"
Surely these are important advantages, and
they are considered to be cooler than other
glasses. The on y thing against them is, they
cost so very much more than all other glasses.
But good and true glasses should be in all
their parts of an equal thickness, in proper
ton to their convexity, as we'll as of an equal
form. Another test of true eyeglasses is by
holding them obliquely over print, all of the
letters of which will preserve their true char
acter if the glasses are correct. 1t must new.
er be forgotten that the frame in which eye
glasses are set must be exactly suited to the
wearer, because the breadth or narrowness Of
the upper part of the nose-in fact the space
between the two eyes-differs 80 much with
different people that the centres of the glasses
and the centres Of the eyes are sure not to
agree unless properly adjusted For this
reason, if there we're no other reasons, it is
best to have spectacles made expressly for
you by qualified optician. With the ven:
ders of cheap spectacles Ito suit all sight"
this is never considered, because the wholesale
manufacturer makes them to a common stan
dard to suit all noses, and not the nose of any
"particular fellow" Frames that maintain
their position by pinching the nose should not
be used.-Fraser's Magazine
WHAT MONTH WERE YOU BORN INs
We extract the following from an old pa
per. 1t is, to say the least, very amusing
production
January-He who is born in this month
will be laborious and lover of good wine !;
lie will be complaisant, and withal, very