Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-12-18
EX-EMroEss EUGENE.

Ihe ex-Empress E,,genie is another one
have right to look with S,mnassion mas l, She
passed through Paris the a%ber % dav and and
spent most Of her time while here IN the
house of DR.. John Evans. The 1ector was
in the Tuieries he saved her life Win a
bowling mob Of crazy communists We,
seeking it; it was he who brought her safe
ly to the channel coast and bargained with
a British tar for her safe conveyance to the
protecting shores Of old England, and he
has remained her friend ever since. Peo-
pie before whom she once played so promi-
nent a role have almost forgotten her. II
tied danes and men of high degree, who
owed everything to her during the empire,
now pass her by on the other side of the way
when she re-appears in Paris in her wild
owls weeds. She is not the handsome wo-
man now she once was her hair is gray
and her form begins to bend. | have no
wish TO say anything against woman, and
least of all, against one who has had so
many great griefs, but it does seem to me
that the ex-Empress would do well to avoid
these frequent and useless visits to Paris.
visits for which there is not the shadow OF
an excuse, and which are not at all in keep
ing with the dignity Of a dethroned SOW
ereign.
What an abyss lies between the past and
present of this woman who fifteen short
years hgo was the mistress of France!
Two days ago 1 saw her driving down the
Champs Elysees in a modest coupe, unnotic-
ed and ignored by the passing crowd; fifteen
years ago she never appeared in public eX-
cept when escorted with imperial pomp,
escorted by richly dressed chamberlains,
guarded by numerous police, and cheered
by the adniring throng: Then when her
cOrtege entered the palace enclosure the
guards turned out to pay her imperial hon
ors. Now, in the same palace, or what IS
left of it, the Crown jewels, which then
adorned her brow are being exhibited to
the public prior to passing under the auc-
tioneer's hammer What strange memo
ries must fill the mind of this woman when
ever she re-vists Paris-memories of her
first interview with Louis Napoleon, under
the watchful eye of a long headed mother
whom history has carefully consigned to
oblivion Of the splendors of the wedding
ceremony at Notre Dame, and the mocklng
smile with which the Prince Napoleon, a
glass screwed into his right eye, handed the
wax taper to her and his cousin of the re-
construction of the old imperial court, of
the gorgeous festivals, of political Journeys,
among them the one to assist at the open
ing of the SueZ canal, which was for her and
for the empire veritable apOtheOsis and
at which all the crowned heads of Europe
paid her the homage due to her beauty.
GOOD RULES FOR WINTER.-The fol-
lowing rules, published in the Farm and
Freside, are worth needing by those who
believe that an ounce ofprevention is worth
a pound of cure:
Never lean with the back upon anything
that is cold. Never begin journey until
the breakfast is eaten.
Never take warm drinks and then imme-
diately go out in the cold.
Keep the back, especially between the
shoulder blades, well covered; also, the
chest we'll protected. In sleeping in cold
room establish the habit of breathing
mouth open.
Never go to bed with cold or damp feet.
Never omit regular bathing, for unless
the skin is in active condition the cold Will
close the pores and favor congestion or
other diseases.
After exercise of any kind never ride in
an open carriage or near the window ofa car
for moment; it is dangerous to health, and
even to life.
When hoarse, speak as little as possible
until the hoarseness is recovered from, else
the voice may be permanently lost or diff
culties of the throat be produced.
Merely warm the back by a fire, and new
er continue keeping the back exposed to
heat after it has been comfortably warm.
To do otherwise is deblitating.
When going from warm atmosphere to
o cooler one Keep the mouth closed, so that
the air may be warmed by its passage
through the nose ere it reaches the lungs.
Never stand still in cold weather, especi-
ally after having taken a slight degree OF
exercise, and always avoid standing on ice
or snow, or where the person is exposed to
a cold wind.
THE DENSE Foes OF LONDoN.-Strangers
visiting London who ascend the monuments
and steeples of that city toward midday
and after, for the purpose OF looking abroad
over the vast and teeming city, generally
find that they have had only their labor for
their pains, for the vast cloud of smoke has
by that time assumed such consistency that
it either completely hides or dims the view
of the panorama beneath them. Those who
are posted in the matter do not try the
experiment.
But when a real London fog is "on" moth
ing at all can be done in that city in the
way of outside sightseeing. The streets
and stores are lighted up with gas at mid
day. The police grope their way about
with lanterns strapped to their belts. The
coaches and cabs light up. Pedestrians feel
their lives. The accidental death rate of
that city is greatly increased. During one
of these dense, acrid fogs which settled down
upon the city this winter a London paper
said that it was "qute possible judging from
past experience that to-day's fog may cost
US as many lives as Te-el-kebir," and that
the fogS of December may be fatal to as
many subjects of the Queen as the whole Of
the Egyptian campaign. IL such fOgs as
these traffic on the Thames is entirely sus-
pended, travellers on the parks lose their
way, conductors of Omnibuses walk in front
of their horses with lanterns, all the rail
way trains are delayed, and fog signals are
heard exploding in all parts of the city.
AN EARLY Misunderstanding
centuries before Christ, Numa left writings
upon the papyrus, whence our name, paper,
is derived. This plant, which was revered
as sacred by the old Egyptians, grows
abundantly in shallow streams and marsh,
es in upper Egypt and Syria. Bruce found
it growing in the river Jordan, and noticed
a curious fact, that it always presented the
sharp angular side Of its pear-shaped stem
to the swift current. The stem is eight or
ten feet high, two inches in diameter, and
crowned with fringe of hair-like leaves,
which circle blossom of slender Spikelets.
Beneath the brown sheath which envelopes
the root-stalk Of this dark-brown plant lie
other sheathS which are very transparent.
These, when split into thin leaves and dried
in the sun, were glued together, and form
ed the roll of papyrus, on which many Of
the ancient writings have come to us. This
paper was both flexible and durable. Speci-
mems from Pompeii can be seen in the muse
UNI at Naples. In the fifth century papyrus