Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-04

eating the matter found he had three wives,
or rather three women who supposed them
selves his wives. All three were arrested,
but two were speedily released, as our heroine
admitted that she had done the business. The
case of the defense was weak, but after only
few minutes, absence the jury returned with
a verdict of not guilty. The prisoners cOun-
sci asked one of the jurors on what ground she
had been acquitted. ''It served him right"
was the answer.
The INVENTOR OF THE EWHEELBARROw.-
It takes great man to do little thing some
times Who do you think invented that very
simple thing called wheelbarrow? Why, no
less man than Leonardo da Vinci.
And who was he?
He was musician, poet, painter, architect,
sculptor, psychologist, engineer, natural his
torian, botanist and inventor, all in one. He
wasn't a 'jack at all trades and master Of
none," either. He was real master of many
arts, and practical worker, besides.
When did he live?
Somewhere about the time that Columbus
discovered America.
And where was he born?
In the beautiful city of Florence, in Italy.
Perhaps some of you may feel little better
acquainted with him when tell you that it
the grandest pictures in the world-"The Last
Supper, "a picture that has been copied
many times and engraved in several styles,
80 that almost every one has an idea of the
arrangement and position at the table Of the
figures of our Lord and his disciples; though
I am told that without seeing the painting
itself no one can form notion Of how grand
and beautiful it is.
And only think of the thousands of poor,
hard working Americans who really own, in
their wheelbarrow. an original ''work" of
Leonardo da Vinci!
The SAND BLAST Among the wonderful
and useful inventions of the time is the sand
blast. Suppose you desire a piece Of marble
for gravestone you cover the stone with
sheet Of wax no thicker than wafer; then
you cut in the wax the name, date, etc., leav-
ing the marble exposed. Now pass it under
the blast and the sand will cut it away. Re-
move the wax and you have the cut letters.
Take piece of fine French plate glass, say
two by six feet, cover it with piece Of fine
lace and pass it under the blast, and not
thread of the lace will be injured, but the sand
will cut deep into the glass wherever it is not
covered by the lace. Now remove the lace and
you have delicate and beautiful figure raised
out of the glass. In this way beautiful figures
of all kinds are cut in glass, and at small ex-
pense. The workmen can hold their hands
under the blast without harm, even when it is
rapidly cutting away the hardest glass, iron or
stone, but they must look out for finger nails,
for they will be whitfield off quite hastily. Ii
they put on steel thimble to protect the
nails it will do but little good, for the sand
will soon whittle them away, but if they wrap
a piece of soft cotton around them they are
safe. You will at once see the philosophy OF
it. The sand whittles and destroys any hard
substance, even glass, but does not affect SUBJ
stances that are soft and yielding, like wax,
cotton, fine lace, or even the human hand
How MILTON CANE TO WRITE PARADISE
RECLAIMED. 1T was at the time of the great
plague that the poet of paradise Lost'' took
up his abode at Chalfont, and it was through
the instrumentality of common friend OF his
and William Penn's that this retreat was Sc
lected. Thomas Ellwooi, the Quaker had made
Milton's acquaintance in London some years
before, when hunted out Of house and home by
the Bucks Justices, and read Latin to him Ill
his lodging in Jewin street. When the plague
grew fierce in the city, the blind poet be,
Thought him of his one-time Secretary, and
asked him to find him some retreat in his
neighborhood. Ellwood took this pretty
box" for him and it was here that he sug-
rested to him the idea Of paradise Regain
ed.' Milton had handed him the manuscript
of paradise LOST to pass his judgment on.
"Ipleasantly said to him. Ellwood relates in
his Life, "sThou hast said much here of para
disc lost, but what hast thou to say OF para
disc regained?" He made me no answer, but
sat some time in muse; then he broke OF that
discourse and fell upon another subject. After
the sickness was over and the city well cleahsed,
l1.sA
went to wait OH him there, he showed ME his
second poem, called Paradise Regained,"
and in pleasant tone said to me, 'This is
owing to you, for you put it into my head by the
question you put to me at Chafont, which be-
fore had not thought Of"
SWEET MINDED WOMEN.--SO great is the
influence of a sweet minded woman on those
around her, that it is almost boundess. 1t is
to her that friends come in seasons of sorrow
and sickness for help and comfort ; one sooth-
ing touch of her kindly hand works wonders
in the feverish child afew words let fall from
her lips in the ear OF sOrrowlng sister does
much to raise the load of grief that is bowling
it's victim down to the dust in anguish. The
husband comes home, worn out with the pres
sure of business, and feeling irritable with the
world in general but when he enters the cosy
sitting room, and sees the blaze of the bright
fire, and meets his wife's smiling face, he sue
cumbs in a moment to the soothing influences
which act as the balm of Gilead to his wound
ed spirits, that are wearied with combating
with the stern realities of life. The rough
school boy flies in a rage from the tauIts of
his companions to find solace in his mothers
smile; the little one, full of grief with it's own
large trouble, finds haven of rest on its moth
er's breast and so one might go on with i'll
stance after instance Of the influence that
sweet minded woman has in the social life
with which she is connected. Beauty is an in.