Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-08-14

would insist that the bride cake should be Of
the ancient sort. 1t might add to the serious
and sacred character of the occasion.
WHAT is IN THE bedroom f-If two per-
sons are to occupya bedroom during 9 night,
let them step upon weighing scales as they re-
tire and then again in the morning, and they
will find their actual weight is at least pound
less in the morning. Frequently there will
be a loss of two or more pounds, and the av-
erage loss throughout the year will be more
than one pound-that is, during the night
there is loss of q pound Of matter which has
gone off from their bodies. partly from the
lungs and partly through the pores of the skin.
The escaped material is carbonic acid and de-
cayed animal matter or poisonous exhalatlons.
This is difused through the air in part, and
in part absorbed by the bed clothes. II q
single ounce of wool or cotton be burned in
room, it will SO completely saturate the air
with smoke that one can hardly breathe,
though there can only be an ounce OF foreign
matter in the air. If an ounce of cotton be
burned every halfhour during the night, the
air will be kept continually saturated with
the smoke unless there be an open door or
window for it to escape Now the sixteen
ounces Of smoke thus formed is far less pol
| sonous than the sixteen ounces of exhaiatlon
from the lungs and bodies of the two persons
who have lost pound i'll weight during the
eight hours of sleeping, for while the dry
smokers mainly taken into the lungs, the
damp odors from the body are absorbed into
the lungs and into the pores Of the whole body:
Need more be said to show the importance OF
having bedrooms we'll ventilated, and thor
oughly airing the sheets, coverlets and mat
tresses in the morning, before packing them
up in the form. Of a geatly made bedf
ATTACHMENT TO THE NEwsRAPERs.-The
strong attachment of subscribers to well con-
Quoted newspapers, is fully confirmed bypub;,
fishers. "Stop my paper"-words OF dread
to new beginners in business lose their ter.
ror after paper has been established for
term of years. So long as paper pursues
Just, honorable, and judicious course, meeting
the wants Of its customers in all respects, the
ties of friendship between the subscribers and
the paper are as hard to break by an outside
third party as the link which binds old friends
in business or social life. Occasional defects
or errors in newspaper are overlooked by
those who have become attached to it through
its persual for years.. They sometimes become
dissatisfied with it on account of something
which has slipped into its columns, and may
stop taking it but the absence Of the faml-
lar sheet at their home or place Of business,
for few weeks, becomes an insupportable
privation, and they hasten to take it again,
and possibly apologize for having discontin-
ued It. No friendship on earth is more con-
slant than that contracted by readers for
journal which makes an honest an earnest
effort to merit their continued support
Hence conscientiously conducted paper be-
comes favorite in the family.
SPEAK SHoRT.-An aged minister said to
young brother, "Speak short. The breth-
rem will tell you if you don't speak long
enough" The counsel is good, good tor
speakers and good for hearers, good for wri-
ters and good for readers Length without
breadth and thickness is very poor recomnen-
dation in sermon,a prayer, or newspaper
article The power of condensation, abridg-
ment, and elimination of useless matter is
greatly to be coveted. When man has i've
minutes in which to speak, he will usually
consume one or two of them in telling the
people what he is going to say, or in inform
ing them that he has "been thinking" of
something which he proposes to relate If
men who have something to say would say it,
if those who have had thoughts would speak
them, and those who had something to write
would write it, omitting prefaces, introduc.
tions, and useless and unrneaning remarks,
much time and space would be saved with
no loss to any one. But how hard it is to be
brief. 1t takes gallons of sap to make sin-
gle pound of sugar, but the sweetness pays for
the condensing. A little word said and re-
membered is better than any amount of wea.
ry, casual talk, which men endure and gladly
forget Tile Christian.
n0- 1t has been reported that ifa single grain
of wheat produces fifty grains in one years
growth, and these and succeeding crops be
planted and yield proportionately the produce
Of twelve years would suffice to supply all the
inhabitants of the earth for lifetime. In
twelve years the single grain will have multi
piled itself 244, ,14O,6 ,625, 100000 times.
HIS MEDIcINE.-An old bachelor being
ill, his sister presented him with a cup Of
medicine. "What is it p he asked. She an.
swered, elixir athmatic; it is very aromat.
ic, and will make you feel ecstatic::" "Nan-
Cyl" he replied, with a smile, "you are very