Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-03-19

Jesse Seligman, of the banking firm of j.
d w. Selgman & Co., praised Mr.. Cleve-
lands letter very highly. It was, he said,
led to expect when he had a conversation
with the President elect a few weeks ago.
The letter was clear, outspoken and manly,
and indicated that the writer was man
who would administer his office for the
good of his country, placing national above
party welfare. He had heard only high
commendation of it from men of different
political situations.
THE PROCESS OF CALICO PRINTING
The process of calico printing is of very
ancient origin, and it is believed to have
been first known in India. 1t was certain
ly carried on in that country and in Egypt
as early as the first or second century, but
the art was not introduced into Europe un-
til the seventeenth century. The early
method was to do printing by means of
blocks on which the designs to be transfer
red to the cloth had been engraved IN relief,
dipped in dye stuff and then pressed upon
the material by hand. Later, presses for
this block printing were invented, anu the
use of several blocks was introduced, so en-
graved as to fill each others vacancies and
| put several colOrs in the pattern. copper
| plate printing was invented in England
about ITO, in which the designs were cut
into plates, the color filled into the sun ken
parts of the engraving and the cloths print
ed by being pressed upon it. The inven-
ton led to the introduction of cylinder
printing, and as one man with cylinder
machine can do as much work in given
time as 200 men could by the old method
of block printing it can be easily seen that
this sort of business completely revolution
lied the business of calico manufacture.
The cylinders are of copper and the design
is engraved upon their surface. They are
from thirty to forty inches in length, and
four to twelve inches in circumference. A
separate cylinder is required for each color
or shade of color to be used in printing the
cloth, and in fine intricate designs as many
as twenty cylinders are sometimes used.
These are set in a strong frame against the
face of a large central drum, made OF iron
folds, between which and the cylinders, the
calico is printed as it passes. The color is
spread upon the cylinders as they revolve
by contact with another roller, which dips
into trough containing the coloring matter
properly thickened. This roller is made of
an absorbent, elastic material, similar to the
roller used in linking printing presses.
Each cylinder thus receives its proper col
or, and imparts it revolving, to the calico
press between it's face and the fixed drum.
A sharp blade of metal, pressing against the
copper cylinders, removes all the superfiuous
color from its surface, so that only the de-
sign cut in the metal is imprinted in clear
outline upon the cloth. The employment
of number of rollers to make one design
is attended with much difficulty, as in
passing under them the cloth is in danger
of being displaced and the regularity of the
print destroyed. But when everything is
exactly adjusted the work goes on with
beautiful precision, and the printed calico
is turned out with great rapidity: AS the
cloth leaves the printing machine it is
drawn over rollers through hot air cham
ber, by which it is thoroughly dried, and
the colors become fully set.-Later- Ocean.
The INNUMERABLE CARAVAN.-"The
sanitarians have taken the wrong view as to
the requirements of the dead" said Mr..
Duncan, of Trinity Cemetery, New York,
to Mail and Express reporter. "People do
not always use figures to calculate on the
subject. They see the dead hurried to the
grave in large numbers, and think the Gem
eteries will all soon be filled up. Now, if
any one will take the trouble to go into fig
ures, he will find that all who have died
since Adam, according to our present chro-
nology, could easily have been buriedin the
State of Texas and leave room to spare, even
after allowing every person single grave.
The population of the world is estimated at
about 1,5OO, 100000, but for the purpose of
this question we will call it 1000, 100000.
The average life of humanity is 25 years.
The world is supposed to be 5000 years old.
This would give GOO 100000 900 deaths in that
period, allowing that there were as many
persons on the earth in the year one as we
have estimated for the present time. Now,
the average space taken up by dead body
is five feet by two, or ten feet square. That
would give about 100000 burials to the
square mile With this round calculation
less than 100000 square miles would be re.
uuired to bury all the dead from the time of
Adam, even allowing there were as many
people living on the earth as now, which it
is positively known could not be the case.
AS Texas has surface of 237 900 square
miles, you see my argument stands good,
and that the alarm is not well founded"
PREPARATION FOR LIFE.-If man does
not exist solely for his profession, neither
does he exist solely for and unto himself.
He is under certain obligations to his fami-
ly and to his fellowmen, he has domestic
and social duties, and to fulfill these Alright,
amid the ever-shifting conditions of life,
requires the keenest powers of observation,
of Interpretation, and of Judgment. And
aIthOI1ph destruction as surely awaits the