Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-20

gradually-and the cutlcle becomes thlcken-
ed, and circulation is impeded, and hence
the pain. Cutting the hard and thickened
cuticle restores the circulation, and gives re-
lief for the time, only to be aggravated
again by friction with some surface. Heavy
leather is the best remedy for corns, and for
this reason, having a greater power of re-
sistance, the wearer is at once made aware
of the pressure on any particular part of the
! foot, and he instincflvely throws them off,
| when q finer texture would delude him into
wearing them, until the gentle pressure pro-
duces a corn. Firm, pliable leather, with
sufficient toe room, and to know "Where the
shoe pinches," is the panacea for corns.-
London Free Press.
THE LAST OF Moon NHoAXEs.-Scientific
circles in England have just been electrified
by paper read before the North British
Microscope Society by M. Carbonet, one of
its members. NJ. CarbOnet is, as our readers
will recollect, the Frenchman who, during
the siege of Paris, invented the new system
of micrOphOtOgraphy Since the war he
has resided in Yorkshire.
The paper sets forth how of late years his
system has been utilized by astronomers to
make special inspection of portions of plan
cts. A powerful telescope with the eye
glass and tubes removed, leaving nothing
but the barreland object glass, is focused up
on the planet, and photograph camera so
placed as to take the picture. This photo
is by Carbenet's system, reduced to micro
photo, which reduces it to speck upon the
glass plate. This microphoto is then exam
ined with powerful microscope, under
which the point in central focus becomes
magnifed far beyond the deliverance of the
original telescope fully equipped.
Now, curiously enough, while the system
of microphotography led NJ. Carbonet to his
new discovery, it forms no part fit. He
devoted two years to having glass photo
graph plate eleven inches square made free
of blemishes, of exactly uniform thickness,
and both surfaces made microscopically pol
ished planes. Upon this he had the usual
instantaneous photo of the moon taken
telescope. Then he submitted this photo
(not its micro) to his binocular microscope,
lensed up to $50 diameters objective adjus,,
table diaphragm B-eye-piece periscopic d.
Of course this brought under inspection
only speck of the photo; but this speck
was circle of about one quarter OF mile
in diameter of the moons surface. M. Car
bonet spent night after night examining the
photo, of course changing the position of
the glass being examined, until hypher-
asthesia of the retna supervened. His ex-
aminations, however, were perfectly con-
elusive.
The surface of the moon, upon which any
thing presenting yards square surface can
be distinctly seen, is perfectly bare, having
the appearance of the naduUaises te,ries in the
Modoc region. Not vestige of vegetation,
of animal life, or Of any kind of structure,
can be dscerned. No water nor any signs
of an atmosphere can be found. Of course,
then, the moon is untennated by any species
of human life, and is (or has the appearance
of burnt up planet After the reading of
the paper, the members present satisfied
themselves of the truth of these results by
personal examination of the focused plate.
ABOUT BARBECUEs.-Th kind of feast
which we call "barbecue" had an origin
that was anything but festive, if we may
Judge by the derivation of the name which
comes from the West Indian word barbacoa,
meaning the furnace or CRATE formerly used
by the Caribs for tOrturing their prisoners
of war. AS introduced into Southern and
Western, and more recently into the Mid
die States, the barbecue is very innocent
and wholesome amusement, the only VIC
tim roasted being fat OK. The primitive
Southern method of performing this gigan-
tic culinary feat was to suspend the carcass
on rude spit over pit filled with live
Goals. But we live in an age of progress,
and the art Of barbecuing has not remained
Stationary. The mountain of beef is now
dealt with in thoroughly scientific man.
ner-cooked by machinery as it were.
There's vast oven a sheet-iron, not unlike
the peanut-roaster Of the sunny Italian on
the street-corner, only about 200 times as
large as that interesting invention, being
ten feet long, nine high and four wide.
Lengthwise through this oven runs an iron
cylinder upon which is secured, with skew
ers and chains, the dressed carcass of the OK.
An animal which tips the beam at, say,
1,4O0 pounds sin his Clothes" weighs 500
on the spit, and is calculated to satisfy the
appetites of 5000 beef-eaters. Whether he
does or not, we are less positive. -Four fur
naces of glowing Goals are placed on the
ground at the four corners of the oven, and
Underneath the OK are four large pans to
catch the drippings. The delicious contents
of these pans is from time to time dipped
out with long ladle and poured over the
Brobdignagian roast by one of the sable
chiefs, while another slowly turns the spit
by means of gigantic crank. TO have the
OK sdone brown" six or eight hours are
required, and the roasting is usually done
during the night. When the cooking is
finished the huge carcass is gaily decorated
with rosettes carved out of vegetables, and
StreWn with mowers. IL IS IneH pOIHe IL
triumph to the banquet table, to be greeted
with cheers by the eXpectant guests, and a
flourish by the band. White-aproned cary
ers, armed with keen knives, make vail
ant onslaught, supplying plate after plate
with rare, JUICY slices of roast beef in all its
glory. Beer casks are broached The foam
ing tankard hanks the smoking plate. The
feast goes merrily on, and ere long the skel-
eton of the once stately prize OK is reduced to
condition similar to that of the mastodonlc
relics in a natural history museum.-Ffank
LeSlie'S Illustrated.
BRAVE SAM HOUSTON IN ALABAMA
The fire of the Indians was deadly, and
thus muzzle to muzzle the combat ragged
for some time. Houston's major, l.. P.
Montgomery was the first man on top
of the works, where he was instantly kill
ed. Young Houston, who had a short time
before been promoted to ensign, seeing his
major fall, sprang at once to the spot and
received a barbed arrow in his thigh. With
the arrow still in the quivering flesh, the
young ensign calling on his men to follow
him, leaped down into the mass Of Indians,
and by his vigorous strokes soon had a
space cleared around him.
The works were soon carried, the Indians
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