Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-12-20

TIE FIRST TWENTY-FOUR O'CLOCK: A
peculiar clock, which makes the hours from
| | to a. has recently been completed by
Wilmington, Del, manufacturer. The new
time-peace is of kind soon to be adopted
by several of the railroads. The most con-
spicuOus innovations are in the marking
upon the dial and in the movement OF the
wheels which run the hands. The minute
hand, instead of making twelve revolutions
to every revolution of the hour hand, as in
the ordinary clock, makes twenty-four rev.
olutions while the hour hand passes around
once. The figures upon the dial are mark
ed in Arabic, instead of Roman numerals
They are from one to twenty-four inclusive,
the spaces between the figures thus being
only half as great as those on the dial of the
ordinary twelve-hour clocks. The minute
hand, therefore, marks the half minutes as
we'll as minutes. The railroads proposing
| to adopt the new system as standard
will prepare new time tables, upon which
the distinction between trains marked a.
m. and those marked p. M, which is often
overlooked by careless travellers, will no
longer ppear.-Chicago HerdH.
| OYSTERS IN ANCIENT TIMEs.-FrOm the
oldest times the oyster has been in demand,
and in the shel-heaps of our country and
the remains of shells. Nitelius was sup
posed to eat 200 oystersa day. Calisthenes
and Caligula were both fond of the savory
mollusk, and Seneca and Cicero were also
lovers of them. Lucullus so appreciated
them that he had sea water brought to his
villa from Campania and bred them for his
friends and to the Roman, Serg us Grata, is
due the origin Of the oyster park. Louis
| IN. feasted the famous doctors of Sorbonne
once Il year on an oyster supper, ana invest
| ed his cook with an order Of nobility for his
skill in preparing them. Cervantes, though
he satirized Oyster-men, was fond Of their
wares: while Marshal Turgot, Rousseau,
Helvetius, Dderot, the Able Raynal and
Voltaire, were all noted for the number of
oysters they ate at a sitting, the first named
considering 100 as fairappetizer, while DR..
Gastaldi, the famous epicure, was equal to
forty dozen at sitting. Philadelphia Times.
THE AMERICAN CAMELS.-The camelS
now running wild in Arizona were bought
by the United States Government IN ASIA
Minor. There were seventy-siX camels IN
the first "cOlony.' They were at first en-
ployed in packing between Fort TETON and
Albuquerque, in some Instances carrying lOO
gallons of water to the animal and going
nine days without water themselves. Tlr"
ing of the camels, the Government con-
demned them, and they were sold at Benicia
to two Frenchmen, who took them to Reese
River, where they were used in packing
salt to Virginia City. Afterward the ami
mails were brought back to Arizona, and
for some time were engaged in packing ore
from Silver King to Yuma; but through
some cause or other the Frenchmen became
disgusted, there being no market for camels
lust then, and turned the camelS loose upon
the desert near Maricopa wells, and to-day
they and their descendants are roaming
through the Gala Valley, increasing and
multiplying and getting fat upon the succu-
lent sagebrush and grease-wood with which
the country abounds.