Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-16

preternatural strength, and never staggers or
falls except to die. He does not bite man.
kind, but rather avoids society. He takes
long journeys of thirty or forty miles, to vent
his restless desire for motion. When jour-
neying he does not walk or run, but proceeds
in slouching manner-a kind Of trot. His
eyes do not glare or stare, but they are dull
and retracted. His appearance is very char
scteristic, and if once seen can never after
ward be mistaken.
STORY READ1NG.-It is the custom for
certain superior people to sneer at the fiction
in our popular magazines. II never read
stories," say these worthy gentlemen-it is
s,lways the male sex who are guilty of this
ignorance-and imagine that in saying this
they have both demolished the stories and
established their own supremacy. Nobody
claims that story-writing is one of the higher
literary functions, or that story-reading is the
best exercise for the human intellect but
story. writing, nevertheless, has no mean place
in the world of letters, and story reading may
prove very salutary employment for the
most lordly of intellects. There are, of
course, silly stories, but we have also heard of
silly speeches in Congress, dull sermons in
church, weak addresses to jury, bad law
from the bench, false science and wrong his.
tory in the books Story.writing has no ex.
elusive rights in the way of Stiffness and in
feriority and it may be claimed for it, in
justice, that it ought to be judged by its best
fruit, as other intellectual efforts are; and at
its best it is by no means so insignificant as
many lofty critics would make us believe. A
distaste for story-readng more often indicates
defect in character than elevation of taste.
We will forgive the man of science, or the
philosopher profoundly absorbed in his inves-
LEGATIONS, if he disregards these light outcomes
of the imagination, but, with the ordinary
mortal, the disdan he so proudly exhibits
only shows that he is cold and unimpressi.
BILE. Many men of high attainments and ar
duous duties find pleasure and relief in story
reading and this art, when it exhibits felic-
ity of conception, skill in construction, gen.
une touches of Nature in the character
drawing, vivid and picturesque style, has, if
not the highest place among the pleasure.
giving arts at least one only just below it
Appleton's Journal
A New SAW INvENTIoN.-Mr Christopher
j. Wilson. of Macon, Ga, has invented and
obtained letters patent on an improved saw,
which the Telegraph and Messenger thinks
will produce revolution in the world Of me-
chanical process. He has an invention which,
if properly managed, will be very valuable,
and take rank with the first inventions of the
age. The new principle on which his patent
issued consists in 80 arranging the teeth of
the saw that it acts not only as saw, but al
so as plane, and the wood on leaving it Is
in a dressed condition, as if it had passed
through plauing machine, or been dressed
with plane in the hands of an experienced
carpenter.
The saw is arranged with sets of teeth,
three in set, with what is known as clear
ing tooth in front and two cutting teeth in
the rear, one beveled on the one side and the
other on the opposite side, and iu the move
ment or rotation, as the case may be, the
wood, and with it the roughness, is cleared
away and the surface left as smooth as if
planed and ready for building purposes and
the painters brush. Specimens of the work
in various kinds Of wood present the same uni
form surface. The hard yellow pine, the soft
white pine, poplar, in fact, all kinds, are
dressed with equal facility.
Timber dressed with this saw will be more
durable, will present a more regular and &C.
curate surface, economize the raw material,
besides many other advantages too numerous
to mention. Labor will also be tremenduous-
ly lessened and the cost of buildings thereby
reduced. The best mechanics and experts
who have examined tho invention pronounce
it just the thing which has long been needed,
and predict that it will revoutionize the
present method of dressing timber.
NEVER KNOCK UNDER.-No neverl AL
ways rally your forces for another and more
desperate assault upon adversely. If calum-
ny assails you, and the world, as it is apt to
do in such cases, takes part with your tradu
GERS, don't turn moody and misanthropic, or
worse still, seek to drown your unhappiness in
dissipation. Bide your time. Disprove the
slauder if you can if not, live it down. If
poverty comes upon you like thief at night,
what then Let it rouse you as the presence
of the real thief would do, to energetic action.
No matter how deeply you may have got into
hot ater-alwsys provided you did not help
Illc labtleT VI iico w uoot IL, Joui Sooo, IL you
are of the right kind of stuff, is not desperate,
nor is it in accord with the divine order and
sweep of things that life should have no diff.
culties which an honest determined man,
with heavens help, cannot surmount.
TASTE FOR CATTLE.-How much public
taste for cattle varies in the course Of ten
years. Twenty-Five years ago there we're no
other cattle worth having except the Short
Horns; afterward the Devon aspired an
equal scale; then followed the Alderny, then
the Ayrshire, the Jersey, aud now the Hol-
stein is looming up. We suppose that each
race is to be preferred under certain circum.
stances. We doubt if the Alderneys, Ayr
shires aud Jerseys will be displaced for any
other in the long run, though the other may
prove the most profitable in certain localities
For oxen there is nothing to be compared to
the Devon and for the shambles nothing
like the Short Horns.
RENEWED INTERESTS IN LIFE.-A Vicks-
burg wife informed her husband the other
morning that she was working herself into the
grave for the want of hired girl, and, as
he went ont. sbe leaned back and fell to weep