Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-01

VENNOR'S PROGNosTICATIONS FOR THE
| SUMMER AND FALL.-Henry G. Vennor, the
Canadian weather prophet, in forecasting the
weather of the. coming season writes as fol-
| lows:
''Out of thirteen long range and general
predictions which have given forth and caused
to be published in the leading newspapers of
the day and in my yearly almanacs, between
the years 1875 and 1882, only two have been Sc
riousy tout" or aStray, with respect to the
summer season. Having said this much in re-
spect to former forecasts, desire now briefly
to give a short but comprehensive outline OF
what in my humble opinion, are likely to be
| the most remarkable features OF the Summer
and Autumn of the year 1882.
Frst-A season that will merit the designa-
ton of cool, to cold and wet, generally. Not
| that there will not be terms of Summer warmth
and even intense heat for periods, but rather
that these last will appear in the retrospect as
of comparative insignifcance, or as the excep-
tion to the general rule.
SecOnd-The season will be marked by not
only great precipitation, but bya mugginess OF
atmosphere, generally caused by The reeklng
condition of the earth and the long cOntinu-
ance of clOuded sky. This will result in pc
riods of extreme sultriness and heavy weather,
during which the thunder and hail STORMS will
occur. In other words, the Summer will be
the reverse of clear and dry.
Thirl-There is likelihood of June and
August frosts in Northern, Western and South
ern sections, and a general cold wave may oc-
cur towards midsummer.
Fourth-The Autumn mouths will continue
moist September will probably give rain and
floods in Western Canada, and in western and
southern sections of the United States. DC
tobqr will be much the same, with early cold
and snowfalls. November will begin the Win
| ter of 1SS2-S3-a Winter likely to be memora-
BILE on account of it's exceptionally heavy snow
| falls and very cold weather, over the whole
! Northern Hemisphere. That a cold and wet
Summer is invariably followed by cold and
stormy Winter, is truth now so well proven
and borne out by the testimony of past records
that we cannot lightly put it aside and, if we
have good and sufficient grounds for predicting
the former, as we most assuredly have at this
time, it is but right that we should warn the
people of the latter in good season.
Fifth and last-The approaching season Will
probably be the first of a couple OF wet SUM
ners, and as 1882 is, so is 1888 likely to be-
But here we must stop for the present.
A New THEORY OF CoNsUMPTloN.-Mod-
.ern research in physiological science has tend
ed strongly toward the belief that the COM
mon eruptic or splenic fevels-such as small
p0X and typhoid fever-are caused ny growth
within the body Of small parasites, generally
termed JacuH. A young German physician,
who made himself famous by his investiga-
tions in this line, has been studying tubercu-
lar disease, and has made the very important
discovery that the tubercles OF consumption or
the lungs and c0gnate disease OF the liver ana
kidneys are infested with and produced by
these same Jocif. He moreover finds, by
experiment Oh various animals, that these
parasites may be communicated by lnocula-
| ton into perfectly hcalt y organs, showing
that a diseased condition of the system is not
necessary to their growth. 1t has been pretty
generally believed before that this disease is
communicable, but DR.. Koch establishes this
belief bevond doubt that the matter elected
by diseased lungs SwarmS with JdcilH, which
are virulent after being kept dry for rs long
as eight weeks, while the matter expectorated
from lungs in a healthy condition contains no
parasites These minute bacilH, he points out,
may float in the air like dust, and many doubt
less produce disease in lungs which inhale ar
infected by cOnsumptiTe patients. Ii IL IS
true, us he asserts, that One-seventh or the
human race die Of tubercular diseases, DR..
Koch's Investigations should receive the most
profound and grateful consideration, because
llCS pOllll w a. lClllCuy iNi "ASto
of consumption. For vaccination III the dis
ease of smallpox is simply an introduction
into the human system of the parasite which
produces the disease, in form so modified by
circulation in the animal that it prevents an
infection of the more virulent form; in the
same way it is hoped that the Jucillus tuberc,t.
7osis can be so modified by cultivation that
consumption may be prevented by lnoccula'
ton with it. In Il letter to the London Times,
which is reprinted in the New York IriO'mf
for Mays, Prof. Tyndall gives and discusse::
the results of DR.. Koch's researches, and
calls attention to their great Importance
FA1TIIFULNESs TO EMPLOYERs.-The is
no greater mistake Il young man can commit
than that of being indifferent to the interests
of his employer. 1t must be admitted that
there are circumstances under which it would
seem almost impossible to feel an interest IN
an employers s,husiness but, for all that, it is
worth trial Be faithful i'll small things, be
attentive to your duties, shirk no employment
that is not dishonorable, feel that your EN-
ployer is fairly entitled to every minute of time
which you have agreed to give him for stlpu'
lated remuneration. The wages may be small,
too small but if you have contracted to work
for a dollar week., when your work is worth
ten, stick to your bargain like man until
your term of service has expired. 1t may
seem very hard, but it will inStill the great