Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-03-19
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The above is the manner in which the
late David Dickson, one of the most sue
cessful farmers and one of GeOrgia's richest
men, saw fit to dispose of his large estate.
The principal heir is colored woman,
Amanda Eubanks, whose share in the es-
tate is said to be fully 100000. Why the
deceased made so extraordinary disposi-
tion of his property in favor of negroes in
preference to his white relations may be
imagined by the public, but is we'll known
to those who live here. People who lived
contiguous to the lands of Mr.. Dickson held
but little neighborly intercourse with him,
and his large wealth failed to gain for him
their social consideration. It is stated that
he made no bequests of public charitable
character, but nevertheless the public will
have the lesson of his life and of his death,
for its enlightenment, he being dead, will
receive it's charity Columbus, Ga., Times.
FORM BLINDNEss.-Said a prominent ar
tist of this city the other day in the course
of a conversation 81 have during many
years Of art teaching and in various other
ways, encountered peculiar form of visual
defect which is akin to color blindness. In
stead, however, of being insensible to diff
ference in color, these people appear to have
lost if indeed they ever possessed the
power of perceiving clearly defined forms
form blindness, in other words. l have
sometimes placed objects in the shape
of hexagons, or octagons, or decagons, or
even so common shape as pentagon, or
five pointed star, before these pupils as
test and almost invariably they were unable
to distinguish one form from another, even
when with careful distinction the differences
were explained to them. Then, again,
have tested them by asking one to draw
figure with a certain number of sides, and
the result in this case would be the same.
A request to draw decagon would bring
forth figure whose shape has never been
and never could be named, and if asked to
draw square the result would be a rhom-
bold, or some fearful atrocity of angles and
lines. 1t was very amusing. This fact is a
curious one, and I do not know whether it
has ever been treated scientifically or not.
There certainly seems to be good field for
scientific investigation in this strange defect,
and / suspect that the trouble would be
found to be very near to that which causes
color blindness, if ever it is investigated"
WHO WAS DRIVING ?-One of the pref
tiest conceits in Uncle Remus' new book is
put into the mouth of an old negro driver,
who had run away from his master and
could not be caught; but an old lady bought
him, because he had saved the life Of her
son, and he surrendered himself and became
faithful servant.
When his old mistress came to die her
wandering mind dwelt upon the negro who
had served her so faithfully. She fancied
she was making journey.
"The carriage goes smoothly along here"
she said. Then, after little pause, she
asked, "is David driving" and the weep
ing negro cried out from q corner Of the
room:
"Tain't po' Dave, mistress! De good
Lord done tuck holt er de lines"
And so dreaming as little child would
dream, the old lady slipped from life into
the beatitudes, if the smiles of the dead
mean anything.
THE EARTH's HIsToRY.-In a recent lee
ture DR.. P. H. Carpenter, of Eaton College,
England, mentioned the case of Greenland
as an illustration of the manner in which
the earth's history is read from fossils,
those remains of by-gone life which in the
middle ages were regarded as "sports Of
nature" Fossils Of four climates, all warm
er than the present icy one, are found in
that country. Remains of the oak and ma
pie tell us that the climate was once very
similar to that of England to-day, and the
coal, found lower down, shows that some
thing approaching tropical heat prevailed
at an earlier period. The fossils of certain
sea creatures appear on the land, and that
Greenland once lay beneath the sea and that
its water was temperate, while the coral,
obtained still lower down, must have grown
when the waters were still warmer.
TIJE ST.TESM NSIJIp Of TO.DAv-Tha