Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-10-04

more wonderful things have happened than
that One of the the first things that Con-
gress will do will be to make four States, if
not six out of Texas.
Thus, it will be seen, Ben Hill could elect
the next President, perhaps, with still less
help from the North than he calculates now
will be necessary.-Chieago Times
HOW POSTAL CARDS ARE MADE.
The paper upon which postal cards are
printed comes in sheets about twenty-five
inches by twenty-eight inches in size, and is
packed in boxes containing about 1000 sheets,
and weighing $50 pounds each. After the
boxes are unpacked the first thing in order is
the printing. This is done by two Hoe CYL
inder presses, each of which prints fifty cards
at single impression. The printed sheets
are then placed in racks and allowed to dry
for two days, in order to prevent any blotting
or DETACHMENT. Now they are ready for the
cutters, of which there are three, at present.
By the first, which is rotary cutter, the
sheets are divided crosswise in ten strips, con-
tanning four postal cards each. The sheets
pass in through this machine as rapidly as
one can follow another The strips are
then collected in packages Of one hundred
each, the edges are made exactly even,
and the packages are then placed on the
iron tables Of the cutters, which sever
them in the opposite direction. Of these cut
ters there are two, both known as the Gran.
ston "undercut." Ten packages of one hum
dred sheets each, after leaving the the rotary
cutter, are placed in the "under-cut," lever
is pulled which sets the machinery in motion,
and Up comes heavy knife with 9 diagonal
motion, and there are four hundred postal cards
complete in twinkling. A bit of brass is
removed, allowing the uncut packages to be
moved up a proper distance under the knife,
and the process is repeated. The cards are
then taken in punches convenient to be han.
died, and the edges are carefully brushed TO
remove all dust and feather" They then
pass into the hands of eighteen girls, by whom
they are counted out into packages containing
twenty-five cards each. Twenty packages
are placed in pasteboard boxes, which again
are packed in wooden boxes containing from
1000 to $4,000 cards apiece.
The presses are now printing about 1000
900 cards day. The contract requires that
100000 cards shall be made in day if the
demand is so great. ~
It is not expected that many visitors will
enter the rooms in which the cards are made,
but precautions are taken to prevent the loss
or abstraction of cards. Every sheet printed
is registered by the press, and the company is
compelled to give an account of every one
If few cards were lost it would cause con-
siderable trouble, although the loss might be
trifng. Any cards that are spoiled in the
cutting, or defaced in any way, are retained
and destroyed by the government inspector.
Two sToR1Es.-A gentleman, just return.
ed from over the Canadian border, tells these
stories He was in the hotel general.accom-
mediation room when two veterans of the (ho-
tel) bar, laying schemes for drink, began to
tell stories to each other for his benefit.
"These are awful hard tines. said one. II
never saw such times before, except when I
was in Ohio, an then I was hard put to it to
git along. Nothing to do. I had yoke Of
steers, but they want earnin' nothin'. But
lived right on the road the Western emigrsnts
went over every day. So I dug hole in
that road at the foot O. the bill, near my
house, turned livin' spring O. water into t,
and made good mud.hole. Well, when the
emigrants came along, every day there would
be one or more teams git stuck in my mud.
hole, an they would see my steers standin'
out doin' nothin', and they would send up
and git me to come an help 'em out; and I
alwuz charged as much as FIVE dollars lift.
Well, KEEP that mud.hole right up in coed
repair, till I made twenty-five thousand dol
lars out ont, an then sold it for three thou
sand dollars an moved up here"
Story number two was the other Munchau-
sens compsnion.piece for the yoke of steers
"When was a.choppin'-I could chop
some, you know-an' folks used to ask me
how much I could do in day. Have you
ever tried it? says they. No, never, says
I; never but orss, an that wasn't really q
try "You see, jest to show 'em what
could do, got up one winter mornin' afore
light and ground up my axe sharp, O, Jest as
sharp, an went into the woods An I chopped
like sixty till about three o'clock in the af:
ternoon, when I thought it was as much as
could pile afore sundown, an I went to pilin'.
Well, when I had it all piled up it measured
twenty.seven cords. An then I knew some
thin was wrong, for knew at the rate I bad
been chopin it oughter to be more. So
went back, and began lookin' around to see
what the trouble was An there, right at
the fust tree I cut in the mornin', was my
axe-head. You see, the thing was loose an
slipped off, an had been chopin all day
with the bare helve."
The OLD BACHELORS LATTER END.-Let
US glance at the latter scenes. Even he has
his day. When people find that he will not
marry, and that be is getting on in years, they
gradually "drop him." He ceases to be asked
to parties, and naughty beauties turn up their
noses when be supplicates for their favor. He
may not lose caste at the same time that the
bloom of youth is robbed from him but when
he begins to enter upon the regions of the sere
and yellow leaf, his fstterers drop away. He
sees younger rivals upon his heels, and has to
make room for them. The old ties that rem
dered life dear to him snap, one by one, and
none form to take their place. Not being en-
gagged in any work of usefulness, he has to fly
to bis club for companionship, and he has no
difficulty in discovering that the "friends''
whom he makes there do not care straw
about him. People feel that he is, in some
respects, social failure, and they feel, fur
ther, that it is his own fault. They laugh at
him because he is vain and selfish, and con-
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