Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-02-10

A GREAT TELEeRAPH1c MoNoPoLY.-The
New York Times of Saturday says new
scheme of telegraphic monopoly has been per-
fected. A new company has been formed by
the consolidation of all the American COM
panies owning or controlling cable connec.
tions with other countries, under the title of
the American Telegraph and Cable Company.
Gen. Eckert is the president On Wednes:
day last the certificate Of association was filed
in Albany This sets forth that the company
is organized for the purpose Of "owning, con-
structing, purchasing, leasing, or otherwise
acquiring, using, operating, and maintaining
land and submarine line or lines of electric
telegraph, partly within and partly without
the limits Of the State of New York" The
capital stock Of the company will be $4,000
900, with power to increase the same, and the
term of the association is fixed for fifty years.
The new company proposes, with the co.ope.
ration of the consolidated Western Union
Company, mot only to increase the existing
cable facilities between this country and Eu-
rope and to extend southwark the cables which
now connect this country with Cuba and the
West Indies, so as to secure the great coffee
trade of the United States direct telegraph
ic communication with Brazil, but also to- lay
cables under the Pacific ocean from San
Francisco to Honolulu. From Honolulu one
cable will be laid under the North Pacific to
Japan, connecting there with the cable from
Itoki to Shanghai, in China, and another un.
der the South Pacific, by way of Ellice's Isl.
ands and the Friendly Isles, to New Caledonia,
and thence to Brisbane, in Australia, where it
will connect with the Australian and New
Zealand cable system in one direction, and
with the Australian and Straits system in the
other direction"
A FATAL HAB1r.-The capacity of the
chest may be diminished by the habit ofstoop.
ing, or by the abominable practice of tight
lacing. The grace of the wasplike form in
woman is almost always gained at the expense
of the lungs The tight belt and the armor
above it fatally compress the air-cells, and
forbid all easy union of the acid of the air
with the currents of the blood. The lung
need not be enlarged from its natural size, but
it cannot spare one inch Of the space that it
naturally fills. Anything which thrusts it
away from its proper dwelling, where it has
room and freedom, is bad and dangerous.
Consumption is the proper sequel of the
corset. They 60 with each other as harvest
follows sowing A quick eye can tell the in
ternal state of the breathing organs from the
form of the fashionable woman, without any
auscultation or percussion, any inspection or
palpitation. And no absurdity can be worse
than for one who binds the ribs in steel to in.
Aation and long inspiration as the preventive
of disease. A lung that is compressed cannot
take in as much air as one that is free, and
the attempt to 6ll it over full only strains and
pains its delicate cells. The lung is not to>be
treated like bale of cotton and any wound
to its elasticity provokes its decay. The war
of hygiene upon tight waists must be positive,
pitiless and unceasing, for fashion is in moth
ing more destructive to human life than in