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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-12-21
CURIOsiTiEs OF TATsE AND SMELL.

Hunger, which is usually associated with
the 'mouth watering and other palatal indi.
cations, is really located in the stomach, and
can only be appeased by the presence Of solid
matter there. Some tribes Of Indians show
their recognition of this fact by swallowing
earth when debarred from food. In the South.
ern States hunters take with them pills made
of calcined oyster SHE'LL for use in case their
provisions become exhausted while crossing
the prairies the trapper of the far West mix
es hair (which is wholly incapable Of digestion)
with his pemmican on a similar principle, su'
perstitiOusly insisting that it must be the fur
of the very animal from the flesh of which the
compound has been made, to impart its pecu-
liar virtue kamschatdales stir up sawdust to
give body to their tran-oil when they are re-
duced to live on that exhilarating beverage :
and the Cingalhese Veddahs mix pounded
wood-fibre with honey when they can get moth
ing else. Thirst, again, really belongs to the
stomach, in spite of the dryness OF the mouth
and throat which calls our attention to it,
this being engineered by the lack of due fluid
proportion in the contents Of the blood-vessels.
Both human beings and animals have been seen
to drink till they could drink no longer, with
out Stacking their thirst, when the throat was
cut and allowed the fluid to escape. Many an
imals never drink, but absorb sufficient mois-
ture for their tissues from the air or from their
food there is parrot in the Geological Gar
dens in Regents Park which has lived there
fifty-two years without drop of water.
Snakes will 60 year or more without food or
water, apparently suffering no Inconvenience,
and beetle has lived three years without
either.
The taste and smell OF many things are iden-
tical, so to speak so that either sense would
Immediately recognize them, if they had only
been exhibited to the other previously. This
is especially the case with violet, rose, orange,
lemon, and most vegetable essential oils. If
we take one long "sniff'' at the musk-plant,
we cannot detect any odOr init at all on sec
ond inspiration and there would seem to be
something peculiar about the scent of sweet
brier, since it eludes many peoples olfactory
nerves altogether. The idiosyncrasies of ind-
viduals with regard to these two senses are
numberess and entirely inexplcable. Some
faint at the perfume of certain flowers, while
distaste amounting to utter abhorrence of Ger
tain ordinary foods has been known to be he
reditary in families. The reflex. action of
mental association may account for this in
some instances, but certainly not in all. Heat
favors the acuteness of both senses, and cold
blunts it, it being notorious that the delicate
flavor and boquet Of choice wines are destroyed
by over-icing them.-AU the Year Round.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-12-21

MORMON FACEs.-The Salt Lake Tribune,
published in the Mormon country, says: There
are three distinct types of faces, denting
stubbornness, ignorance and superstition. The
stubborn face first strikes the observer. 4
forehead like the end of filbert, crooked m,se
and a protruding lip. Such faces belong to
men who will take the minority side OF any
question and stick to it clean to the grave.
Every town has some odd, cranky character
who is willing to bet two dollars ald a half
that the world is fiat who denies hat water
will seek it's level, and if on jury always
stands out against the other eleven. If he ev-
er has to leave his native town, hewill fetch
up in Salt Lake in the Mormon Church to a
dead certainty. He embraces the faith, con-
tent to know that $3.50 ont of 1000 look up
on it as the grandest sham in tie century.
The snperstitious class have faces # another
type entirely There is strength the stub
born face, but none in the sperstitious.
Their under lip retreats their CHS are hard
ly discernible, and, sitting with ilated eyes
and open mouth, they drink III he flood of
bosh and drivel from the preachers absolutely
believing that the meaningless lanuage is the
divine inspiration of God. ThencOmes the
vast array of ignorant fac-simile rows of
men who look like chimpanzees frn the jun
giles of Central Africa men with title dlmin-
utive noses, big mouths, cunnin! twinkling
eyes and protruding teeth. The fnge Of neck
whiskers about the lower part of t. face COM
pletes the general resemblance tohe baboOn,
which is never lost when viewed bm any di-
rection. front, side or oblque.
These faces only belong to the cgregation,
the tithe-payers. The tithe-eate, who sit
up and do the talking. are of diffent order.
Their faces are stamped with slee, plausible
cunning, and they maintain their ;avity and
decorum with good show of natralness as
they face the poor devils whom tlr have rob-
bed and duped for half century. Cannon is
fine type of the eek-faced apost of fraud
seems the perfect ilnpersonatio of piety
and purity. The cut of his jib, le perfect
brush of his hair and the mild anGentle look
of his eye all indicate the man whe sleek ex-
terror is but mask to cover his al charac-
teristics. The wretches to whom ShypOcrit-
ical sermons are directed drink iIhis plati-
tudes like water.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-12-21

a. We are always more disposed to lau at
nonsense than at genuine wit; becausthe
nonsense is more agreeable to us, being ore
comfortable to our natures /; fools lovely.
and wise men wisdom.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-12-21

ABOUT TIE SUN.-Speaking of the out
flow of heat from the sun, Prof. Young says
1.-THE quantity of heat emitted is enough to
melt shell of ice ten inches thick over the
whole surface of the sun every second of time ;
this is equivalent to the consumption Of a
layer of the best anthracite coal nearly four
inches thick every single second" In regard
to the distance of the sun from the earth, he
says: Though the distance can easily be
stated in figures, it is not possible to give
any idea of a space 50 enormous 1t IS quite
beyond the power of our conception. If one
were to try to walk such distance, suppos-
ing that he could walk four miles an hour, and
keep it up for ten hours every day, 1t would
take sixty-eight and half years to make a
single million miles, and more than siXty-three
hundred years to traverse the whole. If some
celestial railway could be imagined, the jour
uey TO the sun, even if our train ran sixty
miles an hour, day and night without stop,
would require over one hundred and seventy
five years. Sensations, even, would not travel
so far in a human lifetime. TobOrrow the Gu
rious illustration of Professor Mendenhall, if
we could imagine an infant with an arm long
enough to enable him, to touch tue sun and
burn himself, he would die OF old age be-
fore the pain could reach him, since accor-
ding to the experiments of Helmholtz and
others, nervous shock is communicated only
at rate Of about one hundred feet per second,
or sixteen hundred and thirty-seven miles a
day, and would need more than one hun
dred and fifty years to make the journey.
Sound would do it in about fourteen years if
it could be transmitted through celestial space !;
and a cannon ball in about nine, if it were to
move uniformly with the same speed as when
it left tie muzzle of the gun. If the earth
should be suddenly stopped in her orbit, and
allowed to fall unobstructed toward the sun,
under the accelerating influence Of his attrac-
tion, she would catch the center i'll about four
months
AS to the attraction between the sun and
the earth: "It amounts to thirty-six hundred
quadrilions of tons-in figures, 36 followed by
seventeen ciphers. We may imagine gravita-
tion to cease, and be replaced by a material
bond of sort, holding the earth to the sun
and keeping her in her orbit. If, now,, we
suppose this connection to consist of a web of
steel wires, each as large as the heaviest tele-
graph wire used mo 4), then to replace the
suns attraction these wires would have to
cover the whole sunward hemisphere Of our
globe about as thiekly as the blades of grass
upon lawn. 1t. would require nine to each
square inch." There are many other facts
and illustrations as striking as these, and the
chapters on the corona and on the solar prom
inences are fine examples of descriptive wri-
ting;
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The DUTY OF DRESSING WELL.9O not
dsdain dress and the little nicetienf the
toilet you may be a very clever wOm-per-
haps even intellectual; but for all Tt you
cannot afford to be careless in these ltters.
No woman with any sense of selespect
should allow herself to sink into dOW; but
whatever be her trials, veXations, aldisap-
pontments, she should dress as we:as her
position will allow. Do not maginenat we
are advocating extravaganza Oh theontra-
ry. simplicity is cur motto, which, united
to good taste, will be found more ef1tive in
the eyes of husband, father, brother dlover,
than the most costly attire which MILL
ner's art can invent. n simple boin the
hair may look quite as coquettish alfasci-
mating as a diamond aigrette; and action
dress, if fresh and prettily made, msbe as
becoming as silk; indeed. we have Oft seen
a cotton eclipse silk. We mention Tito il
lustrate the fact that riches are little npai-
ed to taste, and that every woman malress
well if she chooses--that, in fact it is heuty
to herself and those around her to DIS as
well as her position will allow. Thoswho
accuse US who write of the fashions, u tri-
Vitality, forget that it is just as easy toress
well as it is to dress badly, and that tGess
out of fashion requires as much eXpenmre
of thought and care as to dress in it.
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. DECEMBER 81, 1885,
lim. On the arrival of the corps, the General,

him. On the arrival Of the corps, the General,
in perfect good nature, said &: "Major----,
thought you had been too long in my family
not to know when it was eight O'Clock. Cap
tain Pease. the father of the stage establish
ment in thu United States, had beautiful
pair of horses, which he wished to dispose of
to the General, whom he knew to be an excel
lent judge of horses. The General appointed
five O'Clock in the morning to examine them.
But the Captain did not arrive with the horses
until quarter past five, when he was told by
the groom that the General was there at five,
and then was fulfilling other engagements.
Pease, much mortified, was obliged to wait a
week for another opportunity, merely for de-
laying the first quarter of an hour.
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FINGER NAILs.-Our finger mai grow out
abont three times a year; theYhould be
trimmed with scissors once week, ,ot so close
as to leave no room for the dirt toather, for
then they do not protect the end ofle fingers,
as was designed by nature, besides, trimmed
too close at the corners, there Hanger Of
their growing into the flesh, causil inconve-
nience and sometimes great pain. he colec-
tions under the ends OF the nails shild not he
removed with anything harder than brush or
a soft piece of wood; nor should t nails he
scraped with a pen-knife or other rtalic sub
stance, as it destroys the delicat of their
structure and will at length give tin an ull-
natural thickness. We are not farably i'm
pressed as to the cleanliness of a rson who
keeps his nails trimmed to the qut, as it is
often done to prevent dirt gatherg there !:
whereas. if a margin were alloWedt would
be an index to the. cleanliness of ie hands,
from which the collections underhe finger
nails are made. Leave a margin, len, and
the moment you observe that these elections
need removal, you may know thathe hands
need washing when they and the na are both
cleansed together. Most persons familiar
with those troublesome bits of sn which
loosen at the roots of the finger MS. 1t is
caused by the skin adherng to the il, which
growing outward, drags the skin alo with II,
stretching it until one end gives ay. To
prevent this, the skin should be looaed from
the nail once week, not with kn or scis
sOrs, but with something blunt sh as the
end of an ivory paper cutter this isest done
after soaking the fingers in warm Ner, then
pushing the skin back gently and silly; the
white specks on the nails are made bEraping
the nail with knife at point here it
emerges from the skin. Biting fife nails
is an uncleanly practice, for thus the1sightly
collections at the ends are kept eat clean !
Children may be broken of such dy habit
by causing them to dip the ends of pr fill
gers several times day in wormwo6itters,
without letting them know the object If this
is not sufficient, cause them to wearcap Oh
the end of each finger until the practi is dis
continued .-HulpS Journal Of Health.
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original 2oetrg.
BY EZEKIEL SMOKER, ESQ.

Written for the Yorkville Enquirer.
THE RECKLESS SPIDER.
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Behold, what comes hereH 1t is spider!
Descending on a thread with lightning speed !;
Indeed, he's bold and daring rider,
And he'll be on me, too, without great heed.
Pufft
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Alice would have been too good-natured to
laugh at me, but l felt sure that, had she
known the state of the case, she would have
entertained, and probably expressed, fears that
over-study had affected my brain-an opinion
that would probably have been shared by all
nersons whose CHARACTERISTIC was common
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-26

and TO the credit OF the roads be 1t said,
in honor of their performance of duty after
they have passed out of public service,
is regarded as wrong and IAN unjust dis
elimination" against the austere individual
who don't happen TO have one but custom
has sanctited all such alleged crimes Ii is
true that thOusand-mie tickets can be with
drawn and railroads be forced to do less
for the cause OF religion, aud the issuing OF
Tree passes can perhaps be diminished but
the dissatisfied man who thinks he ought
to ride cheaper than anybody else, or who
is largely engaged in the influence business
and is not appreciated by the railroads,
will still remain and the wave of excited
popular sentiment wall madly lash the base
OF this capitol at the next session just rs
! they have in the last few days, demanding
A reduction of passenger fare. | doubt,
| however, whether the constitutional views OF
gentlemen can be Sufficiently met to abolish
| the good old unjust discrimination" of one
and onc'htth fare to the democratic conven.
| ton ana doubt also whether ANY railway
corporation, soulless rs they are claimed to
be, will ever be so encased inthe arms Of
self as to be proof against the request fol
II complimentary free tickets for the annual
reunion OF the men who
fought for Texas liberty aud aided
in the formation Of the civil polity whict
created railroad progress and the grand d,
velopment that now crowns the onwar,
march of Texas.
Do railway statistics justify III. eIpect6
ton that the railways of Texas can carry
passengers without loss at 3 cents per mile
invite your attention to the frllorin,
figures compiled from Poor's Railway Man
ua for ISL;
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These figures form some basis for indi.
eating the ratio of increase of earnings
from reduction OF the rate of travel Do
not they indicate that the enforcement
OF passenger rate of three cents per mile
upon Texas railways must result in a scri-
GUS loss, that can only be covered hy the
revenues derived from the Transportation Of
freight?
10 has been the effort of the railroad lines
riIh which we are connected to so adjust
the rates OF freight rs TO aid in the develop
inrnt OF the country, reduce the cost of the
shipment of bulky articles of prime ncces.
atty and products of bulky character and
small value. To do this, additional reye-
nues must be produced from valuable pro
duets and freight to sustain the railroads
In producing these revenues the question
of competition must be considered. and the
rate upon even these articles must be con-
troll ni bY the necessity TO command the
buNA'". The equitable adjustment of
these rae. 10 the necessities 1f revenue, so
~ to not only transport freight at COM
mand hut sl:o foster and establish indus
tries and create new business, requires the
largest experience and sagacious Judgment.
IL viii be conceded by all fair minds that
the railroad is entitled to Il compensation
Tor the transportation of freight and pas
| senEcrs that will sustain the road and pay
reasonable. return on the Investment.
lit has been found difficult in
tue past to do this, it will
be more difficult in the near
future, in view of the construction oil
new lines, and must remain so until the
territory developed by them affords large
| business. The mere existence of y max
mum will not control, if business is infu
enced by competing lines. We're the. max
imum reduced the effort would OF course
be to equali2e losses on iirst-class freight
by an advance in the carriage of lumber
salt, grain, hay, stone and other bulky ar.
ticlcs; but this effort would be but an ex.
pertinent. The present classtlcations have
grown out of the experience of business
and rates conceded have been found neces-
sary to meet the wants of the people.
The following is statement of the trans
portation business OF the railway lines Of
| Texas for the years ending September 80
1850 and 1881, as shown by the comptrol.
rsreport. The mileage is estimated from
the best data ut my commands
| Year pnIiuy Saptapnk isSn
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minor lines, embracing mileage of 6s5.12
miles, and whose entire passenger earnings
in 1880 were but 1921, $50. The cost OF car
rying q railroad passenger in Texas, even
upon the same mileage and amount of
travel, is largely increased from the cost of
fuel, labor and decay arising from climatic
causes. The following statistics of the
Pennsylvania railroad will show what the
cost has been, upon line constructed aud
maintained IN the best possible manner,
ana working on the most economic princi-
pies under the best management
STATEMENT OF PASSENGER BUSINESS on PENN
sYLyANIA RAILROAD SINCE 1865.
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These railroads have been built with the
money OF good citizens and they have all
the rights OF other citizens to the enjoy
ment of their own, and at is nun
damental doctrine that the government
should as lar as possible alb
STAN from engaging in or interfering
with departments of business, and il is not
the duty OF the state to take charge of and
conduct the business of the citizen
Inc theory OF SUMMARY laws has long
been exploded, and believe the only way
to regulate railroads Is by the cultivation OF
a common interest with the people in the
development and prosperity of the country
III the establishment of factories, the im.
portation of labor and capital, and in all
TINS, | think, the railroads have doae theiI
part with most bountiful hand and, o.
evidence OF this, cast your eyes over the
map of your great state, and let the voice
less plains of the far west echo back the ex
ulting sound OF the prosperous million.
east OF the Colorado, | say, look at thu
map, and you will see that the wav,
OF emigration and settlement all over th,
state has followed the tracks of the railway
engineer, and not along your sca.coast o.
even your great rivers. SO, it will Away
be, and to accomplish this the railway com
panies have Invested their millions upoi
your soil and are annually distributing
millions among your people; they are Civ
ing honest and intellectual employment Il
thousands of the youths of the state, ant
our agents are found in every quarter o
Europe distributing information us to tn
| wonderful resources Of the state and in in
duclng emigration. And yet the sorr.
spectacle is presented OF great and pros
porous people, with their state Golfers over
lowing, contributing nothing rs govern
ment to advertise their greatness--yot
turning with hard, repressiyc legislutio
upon those who have done so much, an
are willing to do more, for the greatness
and glory of Texas.
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'H''1'N " h'sohi!-
II Is estimated that the present mileage
OF al leIas railways is about 1850 miles.
The following comparative figures aro
given Of the business of the Houston g
Texas Central railroad for the calendar
years,
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ro,,, r.,.ro, ., lS9; 1sSl.
IONS ri tr,nsnoricd f';;,nW' S,HsbN,l0
Passengers carried u't,9 SSSV..
Operating expenses. ?OOT3.3 gl4l,S5s .,
Eepended for Improve.
mcnt IN excess ofthe
no u,uaI repairs -: lsl,,g"& i,N3,llS 81
Dc c.,,is, III IONS Hgt
increase in uas,cnscrs 9,l2o
carrie, carried ..,,... ...... 9l,7Oi
Increase In operating ~
stpenses ''....,.,.. 1880 q
expended for i'm.
proyemenn .,,..., slssls AZ
Annusl interest ON
I Inow uV'; ", .i.ii,.,, A.. el,r7,965 No
r,;Iw.v. az ~ "I,Ieu mat many OF the
.srn,nss ~ .v.,s, arg compelled TO make
n.vnn5 ~, 1su Vost OF construction
a, ye"" ,a", ,vr when ihey could he built
nv ,L.;. oue uoes tnls FURNISH reason
ioG' 'a'" . sSv,s.mues snsulu be reduced be-
,sro,v n , ,u,Alng polnty IL IL was
nnnn ~" @ u.a reasonable dividend
,n. vn st ~ =, e,rm uleh ,nere would be no
have been made. or nro In o unluehus
pect, IL IN simplv ouss,,an e", ,S pros
.ane,,,,. n nSI. ueo'S, contracted under the
,.,s W law" ~ was the interest OF the
I, .un W. naae .nese railwsys constructed
Those most burdened Win iiesls'ailon.
Of Texas and ar. si eo anI SSSysIGp%cn,
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Passenger earnings of the Texas railways
or tho Nnhr nnllnr SnnlnnlAnr 20 lSsn.

Passenger earnings of the Texas railways
Tor the year ending September 80, 1880
kallroads. Miles Earnings.
Texas & Pacific .,,,..., so $50 10 oi
lnternaiion ltdrcat North'n, 5iilo SOS iO7 20
leNas central. .,..,.,,,. 70 6,76a 81
Gulf Colorado & Santa Fc. 81 io,27s OS
Central n Montgomery, "a LlOi bs
MAahachio Tap,.,...,.. L. s7i o.
Henderson 4 ovcrton' ID iSsS IA
Galveston iIsuston Illcnrn. $3.50 o5,7S b,
texas transportation Co.. 60 "a
NJ, h. I. (eN, Col ....,.. Is i9lSs -
Houston, East \ West Texas. 80 Sll Oh
Gult Western Text Pacific. "A 1886 rs
rast Limo \ Rcd Rvera.. let so seI a
houston Texas Central. D.. S2l.75 Gta,gs -
GEORGETOWN ,,,",..,o., . 6,Ns 20
nunHVlow Sabine valley, IL 40 Is
galveston, Harrisburg & So. 2N5o gls, q. 10
lcNas 4 New orleans ...... lO6 SS6SS pl
Totals paSsi5 4, oso ioi n
me entire passenger earnings Of Texas
railways IN 1850 was Sl,oS9 l0il7, upon a
mileage Of =, iSSl 10 miles.
Inc average passenger earnings per mile
OF Texas railways for iSSO was 81 SIS.
The following statement is given OF com.
parativc passenger earnings, lSS0.
Railroads, o, M,,v. Iu,sv,nse'
All Texas railroads 9iS "a nSn ioi
Nl,Ccntral 4 Hudson River ions G.ti'iGl
N''Wsf .,,al,a tallrnad .,... ollaO i.i3i. ii6
NJ, iaLakr Elite 4 WoN.rn 1910 g6.ilsi
IL will thus he seen that thosc'thrce trunk
ms upon about a. per cent. ofthc mileage
VI leNas railways earned from 81 10 $50 per
cent more from the Transportation OF pas
semgers than the entire system Of reXa.
ras,iwaysi and that the passenger earning.
y, tne New YORK Central & Hudson River.
anu inc pennsylvania railroad combined
uron MILEAGE of Isl miles was 5000.
IA more Than all Texas railways upon a
ullieaIe OF s,tSS miles. The entire freight
anu passenger earnings ofall Texas railways
~ we year 1850, was but Sil,iiS,u90h5, or
out sGBSi65 moro than the passenger
s1rnInss alone Of those two great lines upon
less mileage. The following comparisnn l.
gwen between the passenger business for
i,cu, q the thrce great trunk lines entering
Texas.
Passengers carried aud earnings: