Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-23

to work tofindthe property, will, if he succeed,
be entitled to the reward, and may even re-
tain the property till it be paid. But if he al
ready has the missing article in his possession
when the reward is offered, or has withheld
the property in the expectation that a reward
would be offered, the rule is the opposite.
THE AIR WE BREATHE.-Our first, con-
slant, and imperative need is pure air. If we
lack this, we have nothing. Upon this vital
point intelligent people are sadly and wilfully
Stupid. A large majority of the cars, theatres,
halls, parlors and churches are dens of poisons.
1t must be strong attraction which can
draw me to public hall. l return from
church sincerely doubling whether I have not
committed sin in exposing myself to poison
Gus atmosphere. The eminent Baudeloque de-
clared it as his conviction that the lack of pro-
per ventilation in our dwellings is the princi-
pie cause of scrofula. lie believed if there be
pure air, bad food, improper clothing, and
want of cleanliness will not produce scrofula
Sir James Clarke expressed the opinion that
the bad air OF our nurseries, sitting-rOOms and
bedrooms produces an immense amount Of
ScrOfulouS disease.
AS a medical man have visited thousands
of the sick, but have never found one hundred
of them in pure atmosphere. Among the
WELL not one in a hundred sleep in a well-yen-
tillated room. The air of our close, furnace
heated houses produces fits in our cats and
dogs, and would kill our horses or COWS in q
few months.
God has provided this immense atmospheric
ocean, hundred miles deep, with it's winds
and hurricanes, an eXhaustless fountain OF
life and health What a shame to our civili-
Ztion that we should eXpend thousands OF dol
lars in erecting splendid houses and so con-
triye them as to compel ourselves to breathe,
instead of the pure air Of heaven, a vile mix
ture of the poisonous eXcretiOns from our own
bodies, and the poisonous gases emanating
from our gas-bumers and fires
FREAKS OF GAMBLERs.-Enoughh has been
said about the superstitions Of gamblers to
fill volumes, but the subject will never be ex-
hausted so long as the passion for gambling
exists. Among the ''Gleanings from Monte
Carlo'' have recently appered the following
instances of the lunacy to which gamblers are
subjected
A we'll known italian Marchesa never sits
down without talisman in the shape of "a
tiny glass bottle hidden in the palm of her
hand, and containing a live insect; and one
of the most indefatigable votaries of roulette,
Paris banker, positively declined, few
months ago, to commence operations, and re-
turned to Nice, because ticket bearing the
number twenty-nine had been given him at
the door in exchange for his overcoat. !
Last winter two habit,es were talking OF q
common friend of theirs, who, one Of them
remarked, was in deep affliction on account of
the death of his only son.
Every sad, indeed" observed the other; III
conclude that you ascertained the necessary
particulars and profted by them ?"
II did and l did not," replied the first
speaker; 'that is to say, found out that the
boy was eight years old, and that he died on
the thirtieth of November, at six O'Clock.
Naturally played pretty heavy on these num-
bers-eight, thirty and six-one after another,
and then what do you think happened ~
"They came up" suggested his friend.
"Not they. That scoundrel of an employe--
the thin one, you know, with the hatchety
face-actually brought up twenty-seven, my
pet number, three times running, and, OF
course, was not on it. Can You conceive
anything more unlucky?"