Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-30

dulge himself with penny loaf made of
wheat flour, he searched for 1T for some
time but could not procure piece Of wheat
en- bread at any shop in town."
At the period Of the revolution in 1859,
the quantity of wheat grown in England
was estimated at IA 900, 900 bushels, or about
three bushels to each of the population,
the product of wheat in England and Scot
land was estimated at 100, 100000 bushels.
In 1880 the area of wheat growing in the
United States was 35, ,43O,333 acres and the
yield was ass, ,483,137 bushels, or thirteen
bushels per acre. The value of the crop was
estimated at 1882, ,456, ,293. The increase in
production between 1870 and 1880 was near
ly sixty per cent.
DOG TEAMS OF SIBERIA.
Engineer Melville, of the lost Jeanette,
in his book describing the search for Com
mander DeLong, thus tells how the native
Yakuts cover long distances by aid of dog
teams: There are interesting descriptions
of the huts Of these Yakuts, their mode OF
life, their food and manners, which are too
"highly favored" to quote. Their mode OF
conveyance by dog teams is worth a few
words "There were eleven dogs in our
team, the largest weighing about forty-five
and the lightest about twenty-five pounds,
and they make the icy air resound with
their discordant solos and chorus. seated
myself sideways on the sled with my feet
trailing on the ground or snow, allowing
room in front for Vassilli. Composing him
self he seized the great iron-shod staff with
which he guides the sled dogs, and when in
| ill-temper beats them, too, and grasping the
bows of the sled gave it gentle sway, shout
| ing the while to the team. Away we went
with the dogs in full cry, all yelping, snap
ping, biting and seizingeach other from be-
hind, those in front turning round to fight
back until some were drawn off their feet
and dragged along at a fearful rate; Fasili,
yelling at the top of his voice, coaXed, scold-
ed and anathematiZed, by turn, until at
length, by dint of twisting and rolling over,
the team became entangled into one living
mass of vicious flesh. TO pacify and disen-
tangle the crazy CANNES, Vasilli leaped upon
and the only establishment to me was how
the brutes could live under such q heavy
basting. 1t is true, some of them, after re-
ceiving severe blow on the small of the
back, did drag their hind legs for few
minutes, but in the end it did not seem to
check their desire to bite and fight. Yet
they were considerably more tractable after
their first beating, and ran along at a more
even pace, following the leaders, who in
turn are guided and governed by Nasilli's
word of command.
"Directly the dogs had outived their eX-
element and settled strictly to their work,
they looked beautifully picturesque, with
| heads down and names and tails up and
wagging, while only an occasional yelp burst
| from their ranks as they scudded along the
ravines and over rivers, taking the top OF
| the hard snow at about six miles an hour.
After run of an hour or less the dogs are
usually brought to stop and permitted to
rest whereupon they stroll around and rub
the rime out of their eyes and ears, and
from their heads, and then stretching out,
lick their paws, which soon become very
sore from travel. A team can seldom en-
dure more than ten days continuous work,
for, no matter how we'll fed, the feet wear
out and bleed, and the dogs are shortly 81
enfeebled as to be almost useless. A native
will not willingly drive his team two days
in succession, the custom being to travel one
day and rest the next"
FRIGHTENING CHILDREN.-With pain
full frequency we hear of cruel 'practical
jokes" perpetrated upon little children
Again and again comes to us the old story
of child frightened into convulsions by a
playfelow who ''only wanted to have a
little fun" One would think that incidents
like this had been enacted and told with
CHASTITY iteration often enough from genera
ton to generation to warn off the most in.
corrigible fun-lovers and fools from the per-
il0us ground. The progress of the Witless
plot is generally the same up to certain
point. There is neither originality nor
variety in the favorite mode Of execution.
1t sounds trite in the telling. A figure
wrapped in the conventional sheet lurking
in the dark corner; a spring upon the un-
suspecting victim, selected because he is the
most timOrous or delicate OF the family or
school; dismay, shrieks of anguish blent
with goblin laughter-then difference in
the ending. Sometimes no apparent harm
is done, unless that one childi made more
vOus system is unbalanced so far that a
swoon, or as in the case before us, convul.
sions ensue. Once in awhile the innocent
subject of practical joke pays for his tor.
mentors prank with his reason or his life
In less fragrant manner incalculable mis-
| chief is done in many nurseries by tales OF
ghosts bogies the black man who comes
down the chimney to catch children who
will not go to sleep quietly, etc. The moth:
er is culpable who, when she finds her child
unduly timid, does not watch narrowly for
indications that the nervous organism OF
her offspring has been tampered with, and
VINO, SnOulQ neT Suspicious oe coulllhleu,
does not follow the clue to its source and
Danish the criminals from her household
Bo6yhood.
WHAT 1 SPONGE Is.-"It is only the
skeleton of sponge that is commonly
used in removing dirt" Prof. Bickmore
says. "a substance that in the animal
sponge is analogous to the finger nails of the
! human hand. The sponges are found in
various portions of the world, gathered in
masses below the surface of the water. The
youthful sponge first makes its appearance
! ON the outer border of the adult in the