Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05
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TIGHT SHoEs.-The wearing of shoes which
compress and distort the feet is slngularly
injurious custom. Suppose said that nine
tenths of the feet were rendered misshapen
by the boots and shoes worn, the statement
would seem extreme, but it would be within
the truth. The pointed boot or shoe is the
most signal instance Of a mischievous lnstru-
ment designed for the torture of feet. In this
shoe the great toe is forced out Of its natural
line toward the other toes, giving reverse
curve from what is natural to the terminal
part of the inner side of the foot, while all the
other toes are compressed together toward the
great toe, the whole producing wedge-like
form of foot which is altogether apart from
the natural. Such foot has lost it's expanse
of tread such foot has lost it's elastic resist
ance; such foot has lost the strength OF its
arch to very considerable degree such
foot by the irregular and unusual pressure on
certain points OF it's surface has become hard
at those points, and is easily affected with
corns and bunlons. Lastly, such foot be-
comes badly nourished, and the pressure exert
ed upon it interferes with it's circulation and
nutrition. 1t ceases to be an instrument upon
which the body can sustain itself with grace
life while in mature life and in old age it be-
comes foot which is absolutely unsafe, and
which causes much of that irregular hobbling
tread which often renders so peculiar the gait
of persons who have passed their meridian.
It sometimes happens for time that these
mistakes in regard to the boot and shoe are
increased by The plan of raising the heel,
and letting it rest on raised impeachment OF
pointed shape. Anything more barbarous can
Scarcely be conceived. By this means the
body, which should naturally be balanced on
a most beautiful arch, is placed on all inclined
plane, and is only prevented from falling for
ward by the action of the muscles which coun-
terbalance the mechanical error. But all this
is at the expense Of lost muscular efforts along
the whole line of the muscular track, from the
heels actually to the back Of the head-a loss
of force which ~ absolutely useless, and, as
have known in several cases, exhausting and
painful. In addition to these evils arising
from the pointed heeled boot, there are yet two
more. In the first place, the elastic spring OF
the arch being broken by the heel, the vibra.
ton produced by it's contact with the earth at
every step causes conclusion which extends
along the whole of the spinal column, and is
sometimes very acutely felt. In the second
place, the expanse Of the foot being limit.
ed in the seizure of the earth by the foot
is incomplete both in standing and in walking
so that it becomes a new art to learn now
to stand erect or walk with safety.-Har.
per's Weekly.
BELLs.-The history of bells is full of ro'
mantle interest. In civilized times they have
been intimately associated, not only with al
kinds of religious and social rites, but Will
almost every in Dortant historical event. Thell
influence in architecture is not less remarkable
for to them indirectly we probably owe all the
most famous towers in the world. Bells early
summoned soldiers to arms, as well as citizens
to bath or senate, or Christians to church
They sounded the alarm in fire or tumult, anC
the rights of the burghers in their bells were
jealously guarded. Many bloody chapter IN
history has been rung in and out by bells. On
the third day of Easter, 1882, at the ringing OF
the Scilian vespers, 5000 French were mas
sacred in cold blood by John of Procida, who
had thus planned to free Sicily from Charles OF
Anjou. On the Oath of August, St. Barthol
omew's day, 1877, bells ushered in the massa
ere of the Huguenots in France to the mum
ber, it is said, of 100000.
Bell founding attained perfection in Holland
in the sixteeth and seventeenth centuries, and
the names Hem6rry, Dunery, and the Van del
GhenS stand as the princes of the art.
Bell rigging by ropes is still popular art in
England. Thefirst regularpeal of bells sent tc
England was in 1856 by Pope Calixitus III. tc
Kings college, Cambridge, and was for 30(
years the largest peal in that country. At the
beginning of the sixteenth century sets of eight
bells were hung in few churches.
The great bell at Moscow, Gar KOlOkOl
which, according to the inscription, was cast
in 1913, was in the earth 103 years, and was
raised by the Emperor Nicholas in 1886. II
seems never to have been hung orrung, having
been cracked i'm the furnace. 1t stands on a
raised platform in the middle of square and
is used for chapel Itweighs 44O, ,OOOpounds
height, 10 feet inches ; circumference, IL
feet inches; thickness, 2 feet; weight OF
broken piece, II TONS The second Moscow
bell, the largest in the world in actual use,
weighs 129 tons. The great bell at Pekln
weighs So tons; Nanking, % tons; Ormutz
II tons; Vienna, II tons; Notre Dame II tons
Erfurt, one of the finest bell metal, IL tons.
The Kaiserglocke of Cologne cathedral, lately
recast, (1975) weighs twenty-five tons.
The SAND BLAST.-Among the wonderful
and useful inventions of the times is the sand.
blast Suppose you desire to letter a piece of
marble for gravestone; you cover the stone
with sheet of wax no thicker than wafer,
then cut in the wax the name. Now pass it
under the blast, and the wax will not be in
jured at all, but the sand will cut letters deep
into the stone. Or, if you desire raised letters
a flower e.. other emblem, cut the letters, flow
ers, ETC., in wax and stick them upon stone
then pass the stone under the blast, and the
sand will cut away. Remove the wax, and
you have the raised letters. Take a piece OF
French plate-glass, say two feet by six, and
cover it with fine lace; pass it under the blast,
and not thread of the lace will be injured,
but the sand will cut deep into the glass when
ever it is not covered by the lace. Now re-
move the lace and you have every delicate fig
ure upon the glass. In this way beautiful fig
ures of all kinds are cut in the glass, and at a
small expense. The wOrkmen can hold their
hands under the blast without any harm, even
when it is rapidly cutting away the hard stone,
but they must look out for their finger nails,
for they will be whitfield away quite speedily.
If they put on steel thimbles to protect the
nails it will do but little good, for the sand
will soon Whittle them away; but If they wrap
piece of soft cotton around them they are
safe You will see at once the philosophy of
it. The sand whittles away and destroys any
hard substance. even, glass, but does not ef-
feet substances that are soft and yielding, like
wax, cotton or fine lace, or even the human
hand.
eB~ The greatest merit of great many peo-
pie is that they do as other people do. Such
persons cannot tolerate any departure from
established modes of action. They move round
and round in d circle, and because they keep
moving as it is somewhere observed, they
fancy they are making progress and they are
never reminded of their error even when