Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-06-28

1OrQ SuCn luxury, SeuluS was lequlleu W
bring the ''divine restorer' within the reach
of all the multitude. He was found in
certain doctor named Guilliard, who pro-
posed to provide "an excellent substitute"
for the real nectar by cooking fat fowl in
little aromatized water, and selling the
6oualon as "divine." At that time the
privilege Of cooking and serving rdgoms
was reserved for the trdite,trs, or licensed
victualers, and that of providing set din
ners was secured by charter to the corpora
tion of the rotisse,rs. But the new sellers
of the restaurant divine" were free lances,
bound by no particular rule, and they more
over claimed to have more select set OF
clients than the common eating-houses.
Consequently the restaurants, as they came
to be called, soon achieved an extraordinary
reputation, and at length their proprietOrs
found it necessary to combine with their
old profession that of trateaUs, which word
was in the process eclipsed by the more
new-fangled term resta,rateT.
A REMARKABLE CALCULATION.-A Gu
rous illustration has been afforded by the
New York Journal Of Commerce.. 1t takes
up an utterance of the Rev. AdriOndak
Murray, who said in recent lecture:
"Now the population of the earth is l,0O0,-
600, ,OOO and a generation dies every thirty
years. Inevery thirty years, then 900 ,OOO,--
600 human beings 60 out of the world and
O00,O00,0OO come in. Forty years ago the
church taught that the world was 5000 year,
old. She doesn't to-day pretend to guess
within 1000 years how old the world is.
Very we'll. What has been the population
of the world since the race began? Who
can estimate the number? BY what arith-
metic shall you compute the swarming mil
lions? Take the globe and flatten it into
loi, hxyf tIy.f
it accommodate fraction of the human
beings that have lived upon it's surface?
Where is the locality ofthe Judgment to be,
then? Can it have a locality"
To this the Journal replies: "NoW make
the widest conceivable estimates. Suppose
that the human race has existed on this
earth 1000 years, that the population has
never from the first day been smaller than
this estimate for the present time namely,
1000, 100000. For the sake of easy calcula-
ton, instead of the estimate of thirty years
to a generation, call it three generations to
a century There will appear to have been
5000 generations Of 1000, 900 each, who,
being assembled, require standing room.
For crowded meeting OF men, women and
children, it would be ample estimate togive
each two square feet of room. A square
mile contains, in round numbers, 25,0OO,O00
square feet, and 12,5OOOOO persons could
stand on it. Therefore, eighty square miles
would hold a generation, and 1900 times
that space would hold the population of
10000 years. That is to say, A0, 900 square
miles would contain them, and gathered in
parallelogram, they would stand in a
space 600 miles long by 400 broad. They
could easily be accommodated in one or
two of our States.
"Dead and buried, side by side, they
would require five times their standing
space, or 1say) 100000 square miles, and
the United States has ample wild. lands, as
yet unwanted and unocupied, to give them
innate how many thousand years of gener-
ations could find graves in this country
without crowding each other. Whoever
will may imagine the population assembled
in circle, or in a vast theater, with floor
above floor, each floor diminishing the sur
face area Of the building. twill do people
of vivid imaginations good to reduce such
imaginations to the facts Of figures, and any
school girl can do it,"
WATER AS DRINK.-Many persons drink
ordinarily as little water as possible, and
none at all at meal times because they sup
pose that water dilutes the gastric juice.
Experiments, however, show that the di-
luton does not diminish the power of
the gastric juice and further, that water
alone as we'll as solid fOod aWakens its
secretion. A paper read by DIR. Webster,
of Boston, at meeting of a learned med
ical society, took the ground that water,
used moderately at meals, is beneficial, and
that large class of persons drink too little.
The result is, if too little water is drank
especially if the person eats heartl!y-the
perspiration and the kidney secretion are
!,,;s nt tho waste
of the system, which can be removed only
in state of solution, is not eliminated with
sufficientregularity and the system becomes
gradually clOgged by it. The accumulation
is slight from day to day, but in time un-
pleasant symptoms are developed. These
SYMPTOMS are of an infinite characteristics
comfort, even pain, sometimes in one place
and sometimes in another constipation and
unhealthy hue of the skin. "Patients, said
DR.. Webster, "who drank no more than
pint of water day have told me that they
were not thirsty. They were surprised
when told to drink more. Those who have
followed this suggestion in the course OF a
week have developed this thirst, and drank
as much as three pints of water day." We
may add that water taken into the stom-
ach is at once rapidly absorbed by the
blood vessels. A bowl Of well-seasoned
broth, as first course, is specially helpful
to the above class of patients. A large
quantity of ice water is harmful to any one.
THE EARTH's CRUsT-Mr. Robert H.
Ward considers that the assumption is
fallacy that all but the crust of the earth isa
mass of liquid fire. One of the results OF
the Challenger and other explorations of
deep ocean, he says, is to determine that the
water towards its bottom is freezing cold.
Considering that the ocean covers nearly
three-fourths of the entire globe, this
fact does not support the theory Of central
heat accompanied by radiation. The cold
est water, it is true, usually sinks by its
greater weight toward the bottom, and that,
| It NAV be said, accounts for its GOODNESS but
on the theory of radiation the water of the
ocean has been for long geological ages sup
ported upon the thin crust of the earth,
| through which the central heat has been
constantly escaping, and yet it is still OF
| freezing coldness. Experience would say
| that the heat cannot have escaped through
the water without warming it, because the
capacity of the water for heat is greater
than that of any other substance. We can
no more, he concludes, imagine such ra-
diation and consequent accumulation of heat
! in the ocean without the natural result OF
great rise in the temperature, than we can
believe in kettle resting for hours on ahot
fire without the usual result of boiling wa
ter!
OLD AGE.-The brain in old persons, after
the age of 10, diminishes both in bulk and
density, and thus becomes lighter. Its ca
pacity for continuous hard work is thereby
fessened as really as is that of the body for
muscular labor.
AS an old man, however, has the accumu-
lated knowledge, skill and practical expe-