Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-11

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the grounds, in order that the people of the
city might enjoy them with their owner. But
the City Council took exception to the dis.
play of the statues, on the ground Of injury
to public morals, and passed an ordinance
ordering their concealment or removal. Day.
light the next morning disclosed 800 laborers
at work, and in short time lofty brick wall
eHectually shut out the public from the most
charming park in Baltimore. The Council
soon rescinded its edict, but Mr.. Winans re-
fused to remove the wall.
A DANGEROUS ITEM.-The Scientific Amer
ican says: "We do not remember in what
journal we first saw the following extract
as an original item, but. since it has recently
been copied without comment by several con-
temporaries, attention should be directed to it.
The article states that "A poison of any con-
ceivable description and degree of potency,
which has been Intentionally or accidentally
swallowed, may be rendered almost instantly
harmless by simply swallowing two gills of
sweet oil. An individual with very strong
constitution should take nearly twice this
quantity. This oil will most positively neu-
tralize every form of vegetable, animal or
mineral poison with which physicians and
chemists are acquainted The idea that sweet
oil will neutralize such poisons as prussic
acid, nicotine, strychnine, curare, and
host of others less speedy in their action, is
almost too absurd to demand refutation. In
some cases, when taken into the stomach in
large quantities, it may serve to involve acrid
and poisonous substances and mitigate their
action, until the arrival of physician with
specifics shall relieve the patient from dan.
ger but it is not to be used in all cases, for
its administration, for instance, Immediately
after the swallowing of corrosive mineral
acid, such as oil of vitriol, would be followed
by most fearful results As the great multi
tude of poisons known to the physician and
chemist are classified according to their varied
mode of action on the animal economy, it is
evident that the method of treatment in
cases of poisoning must likewise vary. There
can be no specific for all. 1t is to be hoped
that no one will be simple enough to try this
antidote; for if he does, the absurd person who
penned the quoted statement may have bu.
man life to answer for"
The PHoNoaRAPH.--Among all modern
inventions, this seems, in some respects, the
most wonderful 1t il developed from the
telegraph and telephone; or, rather, it is a
combination Of the two in an instrument by
which sound may be recorded and locked up,
crystalized, or deposited in such way as TO be
used again and again. The vibrations of
sound, by which words are made are transfer.
red to delicate metallic substance and re.
tained in material form, just as objects are
copied and repeated by the process of photo
graphy. As heretofore ones countenance has
been reproduced by the camera, so now ones
voice is reproduced, and so wonderfully man
nograph, at any time subsequent to it's utter.
ance into the instrument-next hour, next
day, next month, next year, or even next
century The Scripture spoken of one of old
is now to be made literal. "He being dead
yet speaketh." The phonograph is admitted
by scientists to be practical success. It has
been thoroughly tested. 1t is the wonder of
the age Prof Edison will take his place
with Morse and Watt as one of the worlds
famous inventors.
SELF F-EsTEEM.-Don't rob your neighbor
of his good opinion of himself. Crush wo-
manss self esteem, and you make her cross
grained and snappish. Do the same thing
with man, and you only make him morose.
You may mean to create sweet, humble
creature but you will never do it. The peo.
pie that think best of themselves are apt to
be fast. Women grow pretty in believing
they are so, and fine qualities often crop out
after one has been told one has them. 1t on.
ly grati6es momentary spite to force your
own unfavorable opinion of him deep into
another's mind. 1t never, never did any
good All if this world, full of ugly people
and awkward people, of silly people and vain
people, knew their own deficiencies, what
sitting in sackcloth and ashes We should have.
The greatest of all things that man can pos
sess is satisfactory identity. If that which
he calls please him, is we'll with him; other.
wise, be is perfectly wretched. Let your fel.
low beings alone hold no truthful mirror be-
fore their eyes, unless with pure intention to
uproot sin. So may mirror without flaw
never be prepared for you.
ldE l1OUSE Of OlmON ldC 1ANNcn' Au
order was recently issued by the Sultan for
removing the old walls and forti6cations Of
Jaffa (Joppa). In cutting gate through q
water battery at an angle Of the sea wall
built by Vespasian, and directly in front
of the reputed house of Simon the tanner,
the man came on three oval.shaped tan
ner's vats hewn out of the natural rock
and lined with Roman cement, down very
near the sea, aud similar in every respect to
those in use eighteen centuries ago. There
is also fresh.water spring This discovery
at least proves that the house on the rocky
bluff above, and from which steps led down
to the vats, must have belonged to some tan.
ner; and as perhaps not more than one oft
trade would live in 80 small place as Jaffa,
some probability is given to the tradition
that this is the indentical spot where the
house of Simon stood, with whom Peter was
when he saw his vision and re-
ceived the servants of Cornelius.-lhiladeI
phia Paper.
How We CAME BY QUEENswARE.-1n
England the beginning of the pottery manu-.
facture is enveloped in obscurity but for the
last two centuries it has centered in Stafford
shire. A kind of earthenware called DELPHI,
from the place Of its origin in Holland, was
largely made in that district in the seventeenth