Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-02

and travel long journey to reach them. The
pressure exerted by the superintendent water
at great depths is so great as to be almost
beyond conception. 1t amounts roughly to q
ton on the square inch for every 1000 faith
oms of depth-about 106 times as much as
the pressure to which people are subjected
from the atmosphere on land. At the great
est depths the pressure is about four tons
and half Nearly all over the ocean the
temperature at 500 fathoms is as low as 20
degrees F., and this is the case even immedi.
ately under the equator in the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans. Below 1000 tathoms the
temperature is never more than few degrees
above freezing point.
NO PENSION WANTED.
He didn't look bit like patriot as he
stood rubbing his back on a corner wall, but
it isn't everybody who can tell patriot at
FIRST sight. They were talking about pensions,
and all at once he woke up and said:
"Was 1 in the army? You bet | was !!
Didn't have charge of one of the big guns
in the trenches at Yorktown? Didn't stand
in the mud all day and sleep in a pond at
night, and wasn't it that which twisted my
legs out of shape with the rheumatics? And
yet have I applied for pension? Has any
one seen me insidiously y stretching forth a
hand to grab at the vitals of this distressed
country. Not stretch-not grab"
No one had anything to say, and presently
he went on:
"In the army-humph! Who saved the
day at Malvern Hill? Who killed seven
teen of the enemy with his own hand? Who
was decorated with sixteen medals and cross
by General Mcclellan? And yet does any
assassin charge me with making midnight
visits to pension agents to swear that the
hardships of the tented field have left me
with only one lung and no liver at all !?
Hang a soldier who wouldn't sacrifice his
liver for his glorious country"
He burned up five or six matches in a vain
effort to light the stump of a cigar and then
growled out:
II may look seedy now, but who led the
Second corps at Fair Oaks? Who captured
three flags from the enemy with his own
hand? Who was shot in four places and left
for dead? And yet do 60 whining around
after the financial vitals of this glorions repub-
lie? Not whine? When l reach out my
hand and ask Uncle Sam to come down, it
will be when l have forgotten the teach
ings of patriotic mother and the bravery
of veteran father!"
"Were you wounded ?" inquired one of the
group.
"Was oh, no I didn't get hit seventeen
different times in three years. l am not
carrying half an acre Of scars down to my
grave to attest my devotion to my country
And yet what man dares charge me with
desire to skulk into the barn and rob the
treasury COW of her feed-the feed she needs
for her daily existence ?"
won't you show US some of your scars !"
inquired two or three at once.
"No, sir! I never show 'em except at re-
unions There is no reunion here. This is
simply gathering of two bummers, politi-
cian lame man and soldier who has
been in forty.six different battles, received
seventeen wounds and doesn't want pension.
You wouldn't know the scar of cannon
ball from that of an old woed.saw, and you'd
60 off and say got run through threshing
machine! 1 am now going inside to drink
alone to the prosperity Of this great glorious
Union, and it, won't do any Of you any good
to stand around the door !'-Frss Press.
CHECKING PERSPIRATION.
A Boston merchant, in "lending hand"
on board of ship on windy day, foun6
himself at thee Of an hour and half pret.
ty we'll exhausted and perspiring freely. He
sat down to rest. The cool wind from the
sea was delightful, and engaging in CONVEX
sation, time passed faster than he was aware
of. In attempting to rise, he found be was
unable to do so without assistance He was
taken home and put to bed, where he remain.
ed two years and for long time afterward
could only hobble about with the aid of
crutch. Less exposures than this have, in
constitutions not so vigorous, resulted in in:
fammation of the lungs, pneumonia" " end
ing in death in less than week, or causing
tedious rheumatisms, to be source Of torture
for lifetime. Multitudes of lives would be
saved every year, and an incalculable amount
of human suffering would be prevented, if
parents would begin to explain to their chill
dre1, at the age Of three or four years, the
danger which attends cooling off too quickly
after exercise, or work, or play, or Of re-
naming exposed to wind, or Of sitting at
an open window or door, or Of pulling of
any garment, even the hat or bonnet, while
in heat. It should be remembered by all,
that cold never comes without cause, and
that in four times out of FIVE, it is the result
of leaving off exercise too suddenly or Of
remaining still in the wind, or in cooler at
mosphere than that in which the exercise has
been taken. The colder the weather the
more need is there, in coming into the house,
to keep on all the clothing, except india
rubber or damp shoes, fer several minutes
afterward. Very few rooms are heated high
er than sixty-fve degrees when the thermom-
eter is within twenty degrees of zero, while
the temperature of the body is always at
ninety eight in health so that if man
comes into room which is thirty degrees
colder than his body, he will rapidly cool off,
often too much so, if the external clothing
is not removed. 1t is not necessary that the
perspiration be visible; any exercise which
excites the circulation beyond what is natu-
raj causes proportional increase Of perspi-
ration, the sudden checking of which induces
dangerous disease and certain death every
day.-HaHs Journal Of Health.
ELI PERKINS ON PUNCTUATION.
One half of the. mistakes in kilograms re-
suit from bad punctuation. The operator
always runs the message straight along, put
ting in neither capitals nor punctuation
marks.
The other day a Chicago newspaper re-
ceived this telegram which, without any