Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-09-28

TAKING RISKS ON THE LovERs.-The busi-
ness of marriage insurance is now carried on
very extensively in some Southern States. 1t
does not seem to differ much from the business
as recently conducted here. 1t does not spec
ulate in the lives of the insured, but only in
their capture and enslavement in the bonds
of wedock Instead of devising ingenious
schemes for putting them out of the way, its
object is to put them in the way of each 9TH
er. Its subjects are not the aged, the enfee-
bled or the moribund, but the prettiest, cheerl-
est and brightest girls to be found. Like
every other variety of insurance, it's chief
feature is the element of uncertainty on which
it's business is based.
An engaged young lady is considered to be
one of the most uncertain of all human beings.
1t is on the probability of her fultilment of her
engagement to marry that the insurance COM
pany takes it's risk. She may greatly admire
the man to whom she has plighted her atfec-
| tions. and his loving admiration of her may
be Just as great And yet there are so many
possible mishaps and so many interruptions OF
the smooth running of the course of true love
that risk Of insurance may safely be taken
in many an instance where two loving souls
have taken to calling each other sweet names
and vowng undyng affection.
The plan of the marriage insurance com
panies is to issue policies on young ladies who
are engaged to be married and whose term of
engagement is to last some months. The
longer the term the more numerous are the
circumstances which may tend to break the
engagement. If the young lady becomes a
bride within certain appointed time, the
amount of the policy on her is paid to the
holder of it. An outsider may, if he please,
gamble on young lady's chances of matrl-
mony In some cases u number OF risks are
taken on the same girl by her friends and ac-
quantances.
There are, as in life insurance, good risks
and poor risks. A snappsll and petulant girl,
with Il dash of vixen in her make up, is not
half as likely to hold out as the calm easy
going maiden whose cheerful good nature
rises superior to difficulties, and who laughs
off the petty Sights and mistakes which peo'
pie of less happy disposition would construe
into personal affronts Marriage insurance is
not to be commended. 1t has been broken up
in PENNSYLVANIA rs vicious Yet in some sec
tions it is lively and promises to become a
leading social industry. Philadelphia 1inles
BALLOONING.-We are now within single
year of the centenary of the first balloon,
which WAS sent up on the 9TH OF June, 1888
by the brethers Montgolfier. Their balloon
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lowing August, M. Charles employed hydro
gen gas for tie same purpose. In September
the Montgolfers attached a card to fire
balloon, and placed in it the first aerial travel
ers-a sheep, cock and duck. The cocks
leg was broken by kick from the sheep, but
otherwise the Strangely-assortedt trio sustained
no injury. In October the first human aero
naut, NJ. Francois Pilatre de Rozer, who was
afterward killed in an attempt to cross from
France to England, made his first ascent II!
"captive' fire balloon tethered to the ground
by ropes In the following months accom-
panied by the Marquis d'Arlandes, De Rozlel
ascended in free fire balloon; and ten days
latter NM. Charles and Robert ascended IN d
free balloon inflated with hydrogen gas. The
first balloon was sent up from England about
the same time, and in February, 1854, the
first which crossed the channel, while in
August of the same year the first human as
cent from British ground was made by Mr.
Tytler Thirty-seven years elapsed before
there was any definite advance on the achieve
ments of the first two years of aeronautics
but in 1921 Mr.. Green showed that hydrogen
might be replaced by ordinary coal gas, and
that balloon might he inflated and dispatch
ed wherever there was a gas manufactory
capable of supplying the necessary quantity
| London Times.