Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-09-05
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Misfellaneuns @eading.
WoMAN.-We look upon the man as a
representative of intellect. and the woman as
the representative of affection ; but each
shares the characteristic of the other, only in
the man one predominates, and in the woman
the other. We know woman as aAectionate,
as religious, as oracular, as delighting in
grace and other possessed tastes. In all ages,
woman has been the representative of religion.
In all countries it is the women who fill the
temples. In every religious movement the
woman has been an active and powerful part,
not only in those in the most civilized, but
in the most uncivilized countries: not less in
the Mohamedan than the Greek and Roman
religions. She holds man to religion.
There is no man so reprobate, so careless of
religious duty, but that he delights to have
his wife saint All men feel the advanta.
ges that abound in that quality of woman.
My own feeling is that in all ages woman has
held substantially the same influence. [ think
that superior women are rare, as superior men
are rare. | think that women feel when they
are in the press, as men of genius are said to
do among energetic workers-that they see
through all these efforts with finer eyes than
their noisy masters. / think that all men in
the presence of the best women feel overlook
ed, judged and sometimes sentenced. They
are the educators in all our society. Through
their sympathy and quickness, they are the
proper mediators between those who have
knowledge and those who want it.
SOMETHING ABOUT YoURsELF.-Supposing
your age to be fifteen years, or thereabouts,
you can be figured up to a dot. You have
100 bones and 500 muscles; your blood
weighs twenty-five pounds; your heart is
nearly FIVE inches in length, and three inches
in diameter; it beats seventy times per min
ute, 4,200 times per hour, 100000 times per
day, and 80,722,000 times per year. At
each beat little over two ounces of blood is
thrown out of it, and each day it receives
and discharges about seven tons of that won
derful fluid. Your lungs will contain a gal
lon of air, and you inhale %, 900 gallons per
day. The aggregate surface of the air cells
of your lungs, supposing them to be spread
out, exceeds 10000 square inches The
weight of your brain. is three pounds; when
you are man it will weigh eight ounces
more. Your nerves number 100000 900 or
more. Your skin is composed of three lay
ers, and varies from one eighth to one fourth
of an inch in thickness. The area of your
skin is about 1,700 square inches, and you
are subject to an atmospheric pressure of fF-
teen pounds to the square inch. Each square
inch of your skin contains $500 sweating
tubes, or perspiratory pores, each of which
may be likened to little drainingtile one.
fourth of an inch long, making an aggregate
length in the entire surface of your body of
POI 1855 feet, or a tile-dtch for draining the
body almost forty miles long.
WOMEN Who CAN Do NoTHING.-A New
York letter says: One of the worst features
of these cases of destituton is the great num-
ber of women who can do nothing in particu.
lar-educated, accomplished, refined, but IN.
able to earn living at anything anybody
wants done. The number Of these cases is
frightful. The other day young woman
who had lost her husband and been swim
died out of her little property by lawyer,
applied for work. She could speak three
languages and teach four; she could teach
music; she could copy letters, direct envel-
opes and entertain company, sing-she had
never made bread nor even her own dresses,
and could not read aloud so that anybody
would care to listen to her. She had good
nature and an extra boarding house finish,
but there was nothing of practical, available
training between the upper and the under
side of her equi pment. And her case repre-.
sents that of hundreds Wendell Philips
the a-Bostnn girl -graduata,
who could not even read to his wife, could
be matched by thousand cases here. The
girl of the period is not selfsupportiug
commodity, and it 80 happens that vast
number of the men of the period show no de-
sire to pay her board-bills and furnish her
with pin money.
A NOVEL PARDoN.-The Governor of
Iowa pardoned man who had been sentenc-
ed to State prison for ten years, on the con.
ditions that he should, during the the re.
mainder of his term, abstain from the use of
liquors as beverage; that he
should exert himself for the support of his
mother and sister; and that he should not be
during the term of the sentence cf
any violation of criminal law. The act of par
don provided that, as to the first and second
conditions, the Governor was to be judge,
and that, in the event of the violation Of eth
er, he should have the right to remand the
prisoner to custody for the remainder Of the
term Of his sentence. The prisoner accepted
the conditions and was released Subse
uuently he fell into drunkenness, and the
Governor ordered his return to State prison.
The question as to the validity of this proceed.
ing came before the Supreme Court of Iowa,
and it was held by the Court that the Govern
or had the right to grant conditional pardon,
and upon the failure of the party to fulfill
the conditions specified to replace him in
the position in which he would have been but
for the pardon.
NICKNAMEs OF THE STATEs-The Detroit
Free Press asserts that the following list of
nicknames, as applied the different States, is
"entirely correct"
Arkansas, Toothpicks; California, Gold
Hunters; Connecticut, Wooden Nutmegs;
Delaware, Muskrats; Florida, Fly-up.the-
Creeks Illinois, Suckers Indiana, Hoosiers;
Iowa, Hawkeyes; Kansas, Jayhawkers; KEN
lucky, Corn Crackers; Louisiana, Creeowls
or Creoles; Maine. Foxes Massachusetts,,
Bay Staters Michigan, Wolverines; Missis-
sipp, Tadpoles; New Hampshire, Granite
Boys; New York, Knickerbockers; North
Tuckoes, Tar Boilers or Tar Heels;
Ohio, Buckeyes; Pennsylvania, Leatherheads
or Pennamites Rhode Island, Gunfnts;
South Carolina, Weazles; Tennessee, Cotton
Mines Texas, Beetheads; Vermont, Green
Mountain Boys; Virginia, Beadies or Bea-
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