Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-25

existing of capacity for 100000 barrels
cost S2,OOO,00O, and 100000, has been in.
vested in 1000 miles Of pipe, lines connected
with the wells. The entire investment fol
the existing oil production, including the pur'
chase money of territory, is something over
S100,O00,000, which amount cannot be lessen.
cd much, if any, for as wells cease to pro
duce, new ones have been constantly drilled
to take their place. l". "sf .'& -"
A NEW WRINKLE IN RAILROAD MEALS.
After leaving Vienna yesterday we found q
printed card in the car-in German, French
and English-notifyng passengers that the res
taurants at Linz would furnish dinner in the
cars, at one form (6fty cents) each: that the
dinners would be furnished on trays construct
ed for that purpose, and that the empty trays
would be removed from the cars at I,umbach
at the expiration of forty.6ve minutes. The
guard came in the cars before reaching Kem-
nnelbach to receive orders, which he tele.
graphed from that point to Linz, at the same
time pasting on the window of each section
the number of trays that were ordered for
that section. On reaching Linz, the moment
the car doors were opened, boys, carrying
trays, came alongside and supplied to each
section the number that they found posted
on the windows, and a collector followed
after them to gather in the money. We
found the trays very neat contrivances of Ger.
man silver, with sunken places to hold a flask
of wine, another of water, little salt and pep
per boxes, cup of soup, with top to it; a
tureen, with meats and vegetables, together
with tumbler, knife, fork, spoon and nap
kiDs, and plate of cold ham, with bread &c.
They are called alpaca, or packfong trays,
and are certainly very compact and neat con.
trivances, holding every thing that is on them
firmly. We found the dinner very excellent
and an abundance of it-served up hot and
we'll cooked, even to warm plates and large,
clean napkin. As we few along towards
Lumbach we partook of our dinner leisurely,
and on arriving at that place, in forty.6ve
minutes, the number on the window brought
to our compartment men to remove the trays
and dishes, which we had in the mean time
placed under out seats, as directed in the cir.
cular. As they seldom allow more than 10
minutes at station anywhere in Europe this
is certainly both a convenience and a comfort.
It'is something on the same style as the lunch
baskets furnished at Liverpool to passengers
going to London, with plates, knives and
forks, and bottle of wine, the basket to be
left in the car and returned by the guards
c. c. Fulton- Vienna letter. ,.
LONELINESS OF THE OCEAN.-One who
has never travelled upon the ocean expects to
find it somewhat thickly populated. He
thinks of the vast travel and traffic that goes
over the waters, and he is ready to imagine
that the great deep is alive with this hurry
ing to and fro of nations. He reads of lands
whose commerce whitens every sea, and he is
az ready to think the ocean itself is as full of
sails as the harbor of some mighty metropo.
liz. But he finds his mistake. As he leaves
the land, the ships begin to disappear; as he
goes on his way they soon all vanish, and
there is nothing about him but the blue sea
and the blended sky. Sometimes he may
meet or overtake solitary ship through the
day; but then, again, there will be many
days when not single sail will be seen.
There are spaces, measured by thousands Of
miles, over which no ship has ever passed.
The idea of nations commerce whitening
every sea is the widest fancy. If all the
ships that ever have been built we're brought
together in a single fleet, they would fill but
hands 's.breadth Of the ocean. The space
therefore, that man and his works occupy on
the sea is so small in its extent, that the hold
on it by his power is slight and superficial
Both together are as nothing. The ocean
covers three-tourths of the surface of the
globe and by far the greater portion of this
vast expanse is, and ever has been, entirely
free from mans presence and visitation.
The PLANETS. the most remote
of the planets in the solar system, is about
2,7O0, 100000 miles from the sun. 1t is sup
posed that Mercury has mountains higher
than our Himalayas, and volcanoes in state
of activity. Out of all the myriad light in
the heavens the earth is only visible to the
moon, Mars, Mercury and Venus. The earth
is 749 times smaller than Saturn, and its main
distance from US is over 100000 miles,
Uranus can never see US at all, as it is L.
753, 100000 miles from the sun. The tenn
perature in Mercury is supposed to be seven
times hotter that our torrid zone; therefore,
if it is inhabited it must be by people very
differently constituted from ourselves. 1t
is believed that Venus has an atmosphere
very much like ours, and mountain peaks
Eve or six times higher than the Tenerfe,
the sides bright with flowers and birds of
brilliant plumage The moon never leaves
our globe therefore is called our satellite
Though to us it appears larger than the stars,
it is really smaller than any of them, but
much nearer to US. Astronomers have calcu.
lated that the mountains and extinct volca-
noes in the moon are higher than any on our
earth. If there were any one on the moon
to see it, the earth would appear to them q
magnificent ball. The planets and sun would
move behind it in brilliant succession. Our
globe appears to Mars as the morning and
evening star. ..,. - 81 iE:l
SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA.-Sierra Le-
one. where the Azor first stopped, is a small
country on the west coast of Africa, adjoin-
ing Liberia, and on the north. 1t was es-
tablished by the English, through the father
Of Lord Macauley, as refuge for negroes,
many of whom escaped from the United States.
The capital is, therefore, appropriately named
Freetown. The government of Sierra Leone,
as Mr.. Williams says, is administered by white
officers appointed by the English Government.
Liberia-and that name too suggests free
dom-is also inhabited almost exclusively by
negroes indeed, no one but negro can gain
citizenship in Liberia. The government is
elective, and is formed on the model of this.
The governor is elected for two years; he ap-
points, with the approval of the Senate, his
Cabinet or State officers. Senators are chosen
for four years, and representatives for two.