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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-10-27

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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-17

The ART OF SEwING.-The art of sew
ing has been known from a very remote
period, as is shown by the fact that bone
needles have been found among the oldest
remains of the Swiss lake dwellings, and in
the caves of France and Great Britain
which were frequented by man during the
reindeer age. Some of those early needles
were perforated in the middle-which was
the thickest part-and others were pierced
at the larger end.
A French cavern has yielded needles
much superior to those of the ancient Gauls
and to the ivory needles of the modern Es-
quimaux, especial skill having been applied
to the boring of the eyes, which must have
been done with fine flint drill.
The Swiss lake dwellers used linen thread
or bark fibre for sewing, and made gar
ments from woven fabrics of linen and
bark as we'll as from the skins of animals.
The cave people employed thread made
from split tendons and perhaps strings of
gut, and the fineness of some of their nee
dies has suggested the probability that they
performed some more delicate work than
the sewing Of skins.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-17

WHAT Is MADE FROM PAPER.-One Of
the most remarkable uses which paper has
been put to of late years is the manufacture
of zylonite, a substance which, at the will
of the manufacturer, may be made in imi-
tation Of horn, rubber, ivory, tortoise-shells,
amber and even glass. The uses to which
zylonite are adaptable are almost infinite,
but perhaps the most extraordinary is the
manufacture of cathedral windows. The
discovery was made about fifteen years ago,
but it is only within the last two years that
q company has been formed for its manu-
facture. The basis Of Zyloniteisa plain white
tissue paper made from cotton or cotton and
linen rags. The paper is treated first to
bath of sulphuric and other acids, undergo
ing chemical change. The acid is then
carefully washed out and the paper treated
with another preparation of alcohol and
camphor, assuming an appearance very
much like parchment. 1t is then capable of
being worked into plates Of any thickness,
rendered almost perfectly transparent, or
given any of the brilliant colors thatsilk will
take. 1t is much more flexible than horn or
ivory and less brittle. Combs or other arti-
cles made in imitation Of tortoise-shell are
said to be so perfect in appearance as to de-
ceive the eye of the most practiced work.
man in that substance. The difference in
the material can be detected only by tests.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-17

ECCENTRIC PEOPLE.-Half the people
who are called eccentric deserve to have a
much worse epithet applied to them. Here
and there man or woman is found whose
oddities Of opinion and erratic conduct are
genuine, and the outcome of some real in
born twist in their mental and moral dlspo-
sition. Such persons are generally tolerable,
and sometimes very likable, their idiosyn-
crasies serving as a gentle entertainment
rather than as an annoyance to us. We feel
that they are quite unaware OF their own
queerness, which is the result of a native
ncapacity to comprehend the ordinary con-
ventions of society. But there are other
people whose eccentricities are not, or ought
not, to be endured. They are not innocently
ignorant, but wilfully disregardful of reign
Of law in the social world. The worlds
judgments are no doubt superficial and
therefore very commonly defective or false !;
but the worlds conventions-tha is, its
rules tacitly agreed on for the preservation
of the order and decency of social inter-
course-are on the whole respectable and to
be observed. But the unendura bic "eccen-
trio" prides himself upon beinga law to HIM
self in these matters. He likes to know
that his acquaintance are saying of him,
"Oh, that is Mr.. BIS way, you know. He
is not like other people; he always does and
says just what he pleases." And the nota-
BILE fact is that so many persons are imposed
on by this absurd affectation that they will
let certain behavior pass for independence
and originality which is nothing but simple
rudeness, the expression of egotism and ILL
brceding.-JWy atlantic.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-17
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THE BABY'S PRAYER

THE BABY'S PRAYER.
She knelt with her sweet hands folded;
Her fair little head bowed low;
While dead vines tapped at the window
And the air was thick with snow.
Without, earth dumb with winter;
Within, hearts dumb with care;
And up through the leaden silence
Rose softly the baby prayer.
'sBless all whom love, dear Father,
And help me be good" she said.
Then, stirred by a sudden fancy,
She lifted the shining head.
Did she catch on the frozen maple
: Some hint of the April green,
Or the breath of the woodland blossoms,
The drifts Of the snow between?
"The beautiful trees" she whispered,
"Where the orioles used to sing;
They are tired Of the cold, white winter,
Oh! help them to CROWN spring;
And the flowers that 1 loved to gather,
Lord, bring them again in May,
The dear little violets, sleeping.
Down deep in the ground to-day
All! earth may be chill with snowflakes,
And hearts may be cold with care,
But wastes of a frozen silence
Are crossed by the baby's prayer;
And lips that were dumb with sorrow
In jubilant hope may sing;
For when earth is wrappedi in winter,
In the heart of the Lord it's spring.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-17

ly-closed crate they were carried from one
farm on Long Island to another twenty
miles away. They could not possibly see
the landmarks along the route taken. But
they found their way home again, and, as
their wings were clipped, they had evident
ly walked the entire distance. Judge if the
farmer did not feed and care for his return
ed feeble quacl1ing friends.
How animals get home becomes more
difficult to answer when one reads about a
kitten six days old, taken from one part of
London to another, which got home safely,
escaping the countless dangers of crowded
streets, or Of another youthful cat carried
in flour bag across the bush in Australia,
and that turned up at its birthplace the next
morning, or of similar instances which
might be multiplied ad intinitum. 1t is a
puzzle that theories do not elucidate, and
that every fresh illustration deepens.-Lnter-
Ocean,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-17

WHY EYES SHINE.-Dr. Swan M. Bur-
net says in Popular Science Monthly: Place
a child because the pupils of children are
large,) and by preference blonde, at dis
tance of ten or fifteen feetfrom lamp which
is the only source of light in a room, and
cause it to look at some object in the direc-
tion Of the lamp, turning the eye you wish
to look at slightly inward toward the nose.
Now, put your own eye close behind the
lamp flame, with a card between it and the
fame. If you will then look close by the
edge of the flame covered by the card into
the eye of the child, you will see, instead OF
perfectly black pupil reddish-yellow-
circle. If the eye happens to be hyperme-
tropic, you will be able to see the red reflex
when your own eye is at some distance to
one side of the flame. This is the true ex-
planation of the luminous appearance of the
eyes of some animals when they are in COM
parative obscurity. 1t is simply the light
reflected from the bottom of their eyes,
which is generally of a reddish tinge on ac-
count of the red blood in the vascular layer
of the choroid back of the semi-transparent
retina, and not light that is regenerated
there at all. This reflection is most appa-
rent when the animal isin obscurity, but the
observer must be in the light and somewhat
in the relative position indicated in the
above described eXperiment-that is, the
eve of the observer must be on the same
line with the light and the observed eye.
The eyes of nearly all animals are hyper
metropic, most of them very highly SO, so
that they send out the rays of light which
have entered them in very divcrging man.
ner.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-17

REGULARITY OF HABIT.-One of the
most difficult of all the minor habits to ac-
quire is that of regularity. 1t ranks with
that of order. GA place for everything and
everything in it's place" is not more impor-
tant than "a time for all things and every
thing on time" The natural inclination of
most persons is to defer until the last posi-
BILE moment or to put off till another time,
where this can possibly be done. Yet hab-
it's Of regularity contribute largely to the
ease and comfort Of life. A person can null
tiply his efficiency by it. We know persons
who have multitude of duties, and who
perform vast deal of work daily, who set
apart certain hours for given duties, and
are there at the moment and attend rigidly
to what is in hand. This done and other
engagements are met, each in order, and
vast deal accomplished, not by strained eX-
ertion, but by regularity.
The mind can be SO trained to this and
that at certain hours in the day it will turn
to particular line Of duty, and at other
hours to other and different labors. The
very diversity is restful when attended to
in regular order. But let these be run to-
gether, and the duties mixed, and what be-
fore was easy is now annoying and oppres-
sive. And the exact difference between
many is Just at this point. There are those
who confuse and rush and attempt to do
several things at once and accomplish little,
while another will quietly proceed from one
duty to another, and easily accomplish
vast amount of work. The difference is
not in the capacity of the two, but in the
regular methods Of the one, as compared
with the irregular and confused habits or
the other .-PhHadelphiG Call.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-17

STORIES OF THE BAR.-At dinner given
by the late Judah p. Benjamin to Mr.. Ev-
arts, Benjamin mentioned, apIopos of the
Interruptions of Judges, that in an argu-
ment before the House of Lords, a very
learned member of that body, having ire
Of his With the ejaculation "Monstrous !'' on
Which Mr.. Benjamin tied up his papers,
bowed and retired. The noble lord subse-
quently sent public conciliatory message,
and made every possible reparation. Mr..
Evarts capped this story with one from this
side of the water. A lawyer who had often
been interrupted in a difficult case stopped,
and, facing the bench, said: 81 have told
YOUR HonOrs that this is a puzzling case,
and l am afraid it will be made even more
so if your Honors put questions more puz-
Zlng than the facts Themselves
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-17

WIPING OUT A REGIMENT.-Any time
during the war, after the beginning of 1868,
it would have been hard to find a regiment
in the field numbering it's full complement
of one thousand men. There were many
having strength of not more than three
hundred and fifty or four hundred, particu-
larly on the Confederate side. In various
severe encounters regiments were decima-
ted, and in some cases lost half their
strength, but it was rarely that a body was
50 completely wiped out that there was
ant Hills, La, a Texas cavalry regiment,
numbering three hundred and forty-eight
men, were seen forming for a charge against
Federal brigade of infantry. The latter
had good cover and were fresh. The caval-
ry had to dash across a field to reach the
line, and before they came the commander
of the brigade passed along behind his two
lines and ordered his men to hold their fire
until the word was given. Each pair were
instructed to fire at one cavalryman-or,
rather, one at the man and the other at the
horse. The cavalry made the charge in one
line, but it was so much shorter than the
front of the brigade that three fires could be
concentrated The Confederates came for
ty even front until they were within one
hundred feet of the line when all the mus
kets rang out together. One volley was
enough. That regiment was so nearly blot
ted off the face of the earth that only four
of it's members returned to the Confederate
lines. Over two hundred horses were kill.
ed outright, and at least another hundred
wounded. There were not ten wounded
men to pick up. Every Federal had a dead
aim and close target.-M. quad.
BSg" 1t may be interesting to beer drink
ers to learn that excessive indulgence in
hoor topIc to hoo rt 1iSpoSo
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foreign Correspondence.
LETTER FROM BELFAST.
THE PAN-PRESBYTERIAN COUNCIL.

Saccinct and Iateresti,0 Sketch of the Religious
Alliance ,,o,u In Session, at Belfast.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-17
INHABITANTS OF THE BLOOD.

One of the great facts of the outer world is
the perpetual circulation Of water, and the
absolute dependence on it of every living
thing. This water passes up from the vast
invisible ocean below to the vast invisible
ocean above, thence down in showers and
back in rivers, brooks and rills, to whence
it came. So the whole animate world is
equally dependent on an analogous circula-
tion of blood from the heart, through large
streams and microscopic rills, to every part
and point of the body, and back again to
the ever-heaving heart through similar
streams and rills.
This blood is the water Of life to the body,
containing within itself, in due proportion,
all the elements of the latter for its upbuild-
ing with power to rid itself Of all waste
matter and to renew itself perpetually.
Yet, as the ocean and rivers support
life of their own in the fishes that swarm
them, and in the plants that grow on their
beds, SO, in some sort, it is with the circu-
lating vital fluid. Countless microscopic
plants live, multiply and die within it in
endless succession, without disturbing the
health of the body while others may from
time to time gain admittance, bringing
disease with them.
Even the former, it is now believed, may
lose their harmless character in certain NOR
bid changes in the blood. The great life
current may also become 'stOcked-"aS we
say of rivers and lakes-With microscopic
animals.
Says DR.. Cobbold, F. R. S.: ''There is no
class of creatures, from the mollusc upwards,
in which parasites may not be found in the
organs of circulation" True hGmatozoa
(blood animals) have been found circulating
in the blood of frogs and fishes, and even in
the heart of the former. DR.. Manson dis
sected some thirty to forty magpies, and in
every instance found quantities of them.
The hearts of cetacea (of the whale spe--
cies), seals and dogs are sometimes found
stuffed with worms. One-third Of the pa
riah dogs of India are believed to contain
hematozoa; and so, according to Cobbold,
do ninety per cent. of all the adult horses
of Europe, and probably every full-groWn
ass in Great Britain. One-third of the
natives of Egypt are similarly affected.
Whether the health shall be injured by
them depends mainly on their number
and the general condition of the health
otherwise.
1t is a singular fact that some of these
hematozoa live in the circulating blood
during the waking hours, and retire to the
tissues during sleep.-Youth's Companion.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-17

BUSTING ROOMS.-DuSt contains poison
Gus substances which are injurious to the
lungs and prejudicial to the health, and af-
ter every room has been swept it should
be removed by taking dampened cloth and
wiping off every corner of the chairs, tables
and book cases, and every bit Of carved
work. Our sleeping apartments are so often
filled with dust that they are sitting to one
who is accustomed to well busted and
well-aired chamber. The maid will proba-
bly, hasten through the work of cleaning
and sweeping rapidly without the aid Of
tea leaves, or bits Of wet paper, or very
fine shavings moistened to keep the dust in
allegiance until it can be removed, and often
the opening of one window will be thought
all-sufficient, while two are most essential.
Then let the dust have at least fifteen or
twenty minutes in which to settle, and
carefully wipe away every particle, shaking
the duster out of the open window now and
then. The bedsteads should be wiped off
with damp cloth, and the carpet Under
the bed be thoroughly swept. The pillows
and bolster should be aired at the windows
and if the bed car be thrown on top of
clean veranda rooI in the sunshine, so much
the better.
I took a Bit of dust off the top of my
bookshelf the other day, moistened it with
a drop of water, and examined it under my
microscope, What do you think found?
Dirt? Yes. plenty of dirt. There was the
debris of lick and stone pounded and
ground by h >rses and wagons from the pave
ment. There was dried epithelia from
plants, minute specks of wood, hairs, parti-
cles Of Gotten, Woolen and linen from the
clothing, piece of dead fly, and millions of
micrococi, which in a little while began to
expand and wigge about full of life. These
living organisms, for aught L know, may
have been the germs Of disease, such as
measles, diphtheria or consumption. If we
dust room with duster, they rise in the
deal of harm. For this reason it is better
to wipe them up and do our busting in the
way we have described.-DiO LelCis.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-17

SUICIDE AND SLEEPLEssNEss.-Tbe cir
cumstances attending the recent death of
the Dean of Bangor-albeit they are infin-
itely distressing-present no novel features.
The reverend gentleman, according to the
Lancet was man of considerable intellect
ual "poWer," which is the same thing as
saying that he was constitutionally liable to
intervals of mental depression. All highly
intellectual men are exposed to this evil.
a pendulum will always swing just as far in
one direction as it does in the other. Great
power of mind implies also great weakness
under certain conditions. The marvel is
not that great minds occasionally become
deranged, but that they so often escape de-
rangement. Sleeplessness means not mere
ly unrest but starvation of the cerebrum.
The brain cannot recuperate, or, in other
words, it cannot rest. PhysiolOgi re-
cuperation and rest are the same thing.
Sleep is simply physiological rest. The on
ly cause for regret in these is that the blum
der should ever be committed Of supposing
that a Supplying drug which throws the
brain into a condition that mimics and bur-
lesques sleep can do good. 1t is deceptive
to give narcotics in case of this type. The
stupor simply masks the danger. Better far
let the insomnious patient exhaust himself
than stupefy him. Chloral, bromide, and
the rest of the poisons that produce SEM
blance of sleep are so many snares in such
cases.
SIeeplessness is malady of the most for
midable character, but it is not to be treated
by intoxicating the organ upon which the
stress of the trouble falls. Suicide, which
occurs at the very outset of arrangement and
is apt to appear sane act, is the logical is
sue of failure of nutrition that results from
want of sleep. 1t is curious to note how a
sleepless patient will set to work with all
the calmness and forethought of intelligent
sanity to compass his death. He is not in
sane in any technical sense. He has no de-
lusion. He does not act, or suppose himself
to act, under an "infiuence." He simply
wants to die, and perhaps, not until after he
has made an attempt to kill himself will he
exhibit any of the formulated symptoms OF
mental disease.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-17

aSg" 1t may be interesting to beer drink
ers to learn that excessive indulgence in
beer tends to heart disease.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-28
The ornamental spending Of Money

This sudden accession of wealth has
greatly affected manners. The ornamental
spending of money requires an education
of several generations. and wealth has of
late years come by millions to people I'M
accustomed to the spending Of money.
Lavish display has naturally been the re-
suit, and wasteful, almost criminal, indul-
gence has become the habit of whole classes
criminal because false fashion is set up
by the example, and is forced on those
upon whom it bears hardly If you dine
with young man at his club or young
officer at his mess, for example, this false
fashion demands that he should give YOU
champagne to drink, and so entails upon
him an expenditure of generally double his
days pay. EXtravagances, however, are
common TO all generations, and generally
right themselves in the long run. There is
nothing new under the sun Chaucer de-
claimed against the extravaganza of ladies'
long skirts, and if we spend more money
upon sparkling wines than we are justified
in doing We have at all events improved in
other ways. A three-bottle man is more
rare now than q black swan, and the con-
tinual - nipping" of fifteen years ago has
given place to more wholesome habits. We
are luxurious, perhaps, but our luxury has
brought with it refinement that is having
very beneficial effect on the national
health.-[All the Year Round.
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REGISTRATION
Naturalization!

Rooms OF REPUBLICAN COUNTY COMMITTEE,
SACRAMENTO July n, 1881
The attention of voters is called to the i'm
portanCe Of
Registration and Naturalization.
No man will be allowed to vote at the election
this Fall unless he has received his naturaliza-
tion papers at least NINETY DAYS prior to the
day Of election. The latest date, therefore. in
which naturalization papers can be taken out,
to entitle the holder to vote, is AUGUST ), 1851.
Republicans throughout the county should give
this immediate and constant attention, that
there may be no votes lost.
Section l of Article II. of the State ConstitIl-
ton, says: Every native male either of the
United States; every male person who shall have
acquired the rights of citizenship under or by
virtue of the treaty of Queretaro. ana every
male naturalized citizen thereof, whoshall have
become such ninety days prior to any election,
of the age of twenty-onc years, and shall have
been a resident of.the State one year next pre-
ceding the election, and OF the county in which
he claims his vote ninety days and in the cleo
ton precinct thirty days, shall be entitled to
vote at all elections which are now or may here
after be authorized by law"
No person will be allowed to vote whose name
is not upon the Great Register of the county
ton. Persons removing from other counties
into this can procure transfers, and should do
so without delay, as the time is short.
WIN. J. DAVIS, Chairman.
NORMAN S. NICHOLS, Secretary. jy2i-istd
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-28

THIS WEEK FOR BARGAISs.-Aftera corps
of men for days hard labor, we can say
that now the great bankrupt stock of
0'Neil & Stuart is all marked in plain fig
ures and ready for sale this morning at s
o'clock. To-day and tomorrow five cases
remnants of all kinds, such as flannels,
muslins, shirtings, dress goods, etc, etc
New display of hosiery, fans, purses, skirts,
buttons, etc. Red House
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DIED.

Near Gait, July 16-Infant son of Mr. and Mrs
Goodenow.
Woodbridge, July 21-John Rutledge, native
of Virginia, 50 years
Near Lockeford, July 12-Sallie Avesta daugh-
ter of C.. L. Montgomery, 10 years and I
. months.
Yreka July 23-Annie Laura Truitt, year and
% days.
Mokelumne Hill, July 2i-Belle Swindlehurst,
q years.
Msrysville. July 26-Patrick Brophy, 60 years.
Sonora, July A-"Old Pancho" los years
Sonora, July 25-G. W. Evans, IS years
Weayerville, July lS-Robert Emmett Blackwell
% years, months and IS days.