Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-09

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From the whole country from all the lambs
who want to speculate without being on the
ground. The scalper watches the market on
the spot like cat watches mouse. When
it goes up or down enough points to enable
him to make twenty or thirty dollars upon
the fictitious 100 bales of cotton that he pass
es his life in selling and buying back again, he
closes out the transaction and pockets the
money Some days he wins, some days he
loses, but being on the spot, ready to take
immediate advantage of any chance change in
value, he makes living out of the outside
lamb in the long run"
Popp1Na THE QUESTION -Constitutionaly
timid men might, if necessary, resort to some
such expedient as that Of the youth whose
bashfulnesS would not admit of his proposing
directly to the object of his affections, but who
at length summoned up sufficient courage to
lift the young lady's cat and say PUSSY, may
1 have your mistress ?' To which the young
lady very naturally and cleverly responded ::
''Say yes pussy" BaShfulness on the part Of
lovers, and want of courage in connection with
popping the m0mentous question, have formed
the subject Of many a story. Here is one: a
gentleman had long been paying attention to a
young lady whom he WAS very anxious to mar
ry, but to whom he had never ventured to de-
clare bis passion. When opportunity offered
his courage deserted him, and when he was re-
solved to speak the fair one never could be
found alone or dsengaged. Driven to desper-
alton, he one day succeeded in accomplishing
his purpose in a somewhat remarkable manner
ut \ dinner party. TO most people dinner
party would hardly seem the most suitable Oc-
casion for overtures Of this description, espe-
cially when, as in this instance, the lady is
seated at the opposite side of the table from
her admirer. The latter, however, was equal
to the occasion. Tearing leaf from his pock-
etbook, he wrote on it, under cover Of the ia
ble s'Will You be my wife Write yes or no
at the foot of this.'' Calling servant, he
asked him in whisper to take the slip-which,
of course, was carefully folded and directed
to ''the lady in blue, opposite" The servant
did as requested ; and the gentleman, in an
agony of suspense, watched him give it to the
lady, and fixed his eyes, with badly disguised
eagerness, to try and judge from her express
sion how the quantity made offer was received.
He had forgotten one thing-namely, that Ia
dies seldom carry pencils about them at din
ner party. The beloved one was, however,
not to be batfled by so trifing an obstacle.
After reading the note calmly, she turned to
the servant and said "Tell the gentleman
yes" They were married in due course.
MONEY AND IT'S UsE.-One celebrated
writer gravely exhorts his countrymen, in Or
der to Danish all vice at once, "tO throw their
money into the sea- But is not all this emp
ty cant Is there any solid reason therein ?
BY no means. Let the world be as corrupt as
it will, is gold or silver to blame ? ''The
love Of money is the root of all evil" " but not
| Nbo 20 ,,1t pof lilo II, fha
money, but in them that use it. 1t may be
used well it is fully as applicable to the best
as to the worst uses. 1t is of unspeakable
service to all civilized nations in all the COM
mon affairs of life it is a most compendious
instrument of transacting all manner OF busi-
ness, if we use it according to Christian
wisdom, of doing good. 1t is true, were man
in state of innocence, or were all men FILLED
with the Holy Ghost, )" so that like the infant
church at Jerusalem, 'sno man counted any
thing he had his own," but redistribution was
made to every one as he had need" the use of
it would be superseded as we cannot conceive
there is anything of the kind among the in
habitants of heaven. But in the present state
of mankind it is an excellent gift of God, an
swering the noblest ends In the hands OF his
children, it is food for the hungry drink for
the thirsty, raiment for the naked it gives
to the traveller and stranger where to lay his
head. BY it we may supply the place of a
husband to widow and of a father to the
| fatherless. 1t may be defense for the Op-
pressed, means of health to the sick, of ease
| to them that are in pain it may be as eyes to
the blind, as feet to the lame yea, a litter up
| from the gates of death 1t is, therefore, of
the highest concern that all who fear God
know how to employ this valuable talent that
they he instructed how it may answer those
glorious ends in the highest degree.-Reu.
John Wesley.
THE MAGNETIC NEEDLE.--A condensed
explanation in regard to the needle pointing
| to the northward and southwark is as follows:
The magnetic poles of the earth do not coin
eide with the geographical poles. The axis of
rotation makes an angle of about 230 with a
line Joining the former. The northern mag
netic pole is at present near the Arctic circle,
on the meridian of Omaha. Hence the needle
does not everywhere point to the astronomical
north, and is constantly variable within GER
tain limits. At San Francisco it points about
seventeen degrees to the east of north, and at
| Calais Me-, as much to the west. At the
northern magnetic pole, balanced needle
points with it's north aDd downward in aplumb
line. At San Francisco it dips about sixty
three degrees, and at the southern magnetic
pOlC CllG SOuGll cUu pOluGo uilCCGIJ oOWi' ~
attraction of the earth upon magnetic needle
at it's surface is of about the same force as that
of hard steel magnet, forty inches long,
strongly magnetized, at distance of one foot.
The foregoing is the accepted explanation OF
the fact that the needle points to the north
ward and southwark. Of course, no ultimate
reason can be given for this natural fact, any
more than for any other observed fact in ma
ture.
How THE SNAKE GETS A NEW SUIT
"Some people think that snakes only shed
their skins at certain seasons of the year, "
said the keeper. "That's a mistake If they
are we'll fed and kept right warm they change
their coats about every eight weeks through
the year." ':Does it pain them ?" "Not a
bit of it. You see the skin of snake does
not increase in size as the reptile grows, as
with u.s. While the old skin is getting small
ler by degrees, new one is forming under
meath, and the other gradually gets dry. When
it is ready to shed, it lOosens around the lips,
and the reptile rubs itself against the earth or
the rock in the cage, and turns the upper part
over the eye and the lower part over the throat.
Then it commences to glide around the glass
case, all the time rubbing itself against some
thing until the entire skin is worked off.
Sometimes this takes three days; occasionally
they get rid of the incumbrance in few hours.
l don't believe they have a bit of intelligence.
For all feed them and care for them, they
would as lief bite me as any stranger. can