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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

FoRETELLING THE WEATHER.-When
distant objects stand out very clear in the
atmosphere storm is near. If there isn't
any cloud in the sky it may mean more OF
a storm than if the clouds are plentiful.
When the stars are numerous and bright
that's sign of bad weather before long. If
you see shafts of red in the east just before
the sun rises, there's going to be wind soon,
perhaps the next day. When the swallows
fly high it is clear weather. If they fly low
look out for rain. If pigeons hang around
the coop it means rain; ifthey fly away and
fly great deal the weather will be dry for
at least day or two. Of course, mean
we'll fed pigeons. A starved bird will look
for something to eat, rain or shine.
If male cat stays in the house of his
own accord, at night, look out fora storm in
less than twenty-four hours. If she cat
washes her face before breakfast it's a sign
of rain. The average dog will come in un-
der shelter six hours before rain, no matter
how clear the sky is. If the pains Of glass
in your windows are cool when the weather
is warm rain isnear. No matter how warm
you may be in the city on summers day
if you can breathe freely the weather will
continue clear; if you feel as if you needed
air, or as if choking, you can be sure of rain
in short while.-Brooklyn Union.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

COFFEE LoRE.-Coffee comes to us laden
with the fragrance of Oriental bazars and
the romance of the Arabian Nights. Its
early history as an economic product is in
volved in considerable obscurity, the abb
sence of historical fact being compensated
for by an unusual profusion of conjectural
statements, and by purely mythical stories.
Throwing legend aside, the use of coffee
seems to have been introduced from Ethio-
pia into Persia from the latter country at the
beginning Of the fourteenth century. Not
withstanding that its use as a beverage was
prohibited by the Koran, it spread rapidly
through the Mohammedan nation, and it
was publicly sold in Constantinople in 1554
1t easily found its way from the Levant to
Venice, where coffee-houses were establish
ed as early as 1918. A Jew named Jacob
opened the first coffee-house in England,
selling it as common beverage at Baliol
college, Oxford, in the year when the long
Parliament met.-F2oral Cabinet.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26


WEAR AND TEAR OF GoLD.-The annual
loss of gold by attrition, shipwreck, fires,
etc., is very small, not quite two tons, OF
e28O,OOO. According to Jevons, gold coin
loses two per cent. in one hundred years
that is, el4O,OOO per annum on the actual
amount, 36,OO0,OOO. The loss by ship
wreck can not possibly be higher than one
sixth Of the ratio of loss in sea borne mer-
chandise-say e2 for every $1,000 shipped,
and as the quantity Of sea borne gold in
1S71-6O averaged f5O, 400, 900 per annum, the
loss by shipwreck would be f1Ol,OOO If we
a total wear and tear of f2sO,OOO, or two
tons, the existing stock being trit1e under
II, 200 tons. Mccullough used to reckon for
jewelers., loss, wear and tear, ETC., about !
per cent, which would be nearly f4,OOO,OOO
a year of our present stock.-Contemporary
Rerier.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26


THE PAY OF CONGRESSMEN.-Th talk
about $4,000 year as pay for member Of
Congress not being sufficient for his support
is ridiculous. If the pay was less there
would not be so much gluttonous living and
immortality in Congressional circles at
Washington.
In 1916, the great Statesman, John c. Cal
houn, came near being turned out of Con-
gress by his South Carolina constituency be-
cause he voted fifteen hundred dollars as
annual pay to a member of Congress. Even
Mr.. Calhoun's brother-in-law opposed his
reelection to Congress because he had voted
for salary of $500. What would the
old-time Statesmen like Calhoun, Webster,
Clay, Benton, Dickinson, aso Marcy, ana m
others, say now, to $4,000 salary, and also,
about $1,000 extra in the way ofperquisites,
such as stationery, pen-knives, tooth-brush-
es, cologne, &C., now grabbed by members
Of Congress.-MarloHeD Democrat.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

ALWAYS LATE.-Half the valne of any
thing to be done consists in doing it prompt
ly, and yet large class of persons are almost
always more or less late. Their work is
always in advance Of them, and so it is
with their appointments and engagements.
They are late, very likely, in rising in the
morning and also in going to bed at night !;
late at their appointments also. Their let
ters are sent to the postoffice just as the mail
is closed. They arrive at the wharf just as
the steamboat is leaving it. They come
into the station just as the train is going
out. They do not entirely forget or omit
the engagement or duty, but they are al
ways behind time, and so are generally in
haste, or in hurry, as if they had been
born a little too late and were forever try
ing to catch up with the lost time. They
waste time for themselves and waste it for
others, and fail of comfort and influence
and success which they might have found
in systematic and habitual punctuality. A
good old lady, who was asked why she in
variably was SO early in her seat at church,
is said to have replied that it was her re-
ligon not to disturb the religion of others.
And if it were with all Il part of both cour-
tesy and duty, not to say religion, never to
be unpunctual, they would save time for,
as we'll SIS annoyance to others, and aid
themselves to success and influence in a
thousand ways.-HOUsehOn.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

ARCTIC ENPLoRATIoNs.-Fr 1896 to
1857 there were 134 voyages and land jour-
neys undertaken by governments and eX-
plorers in Europe and America TO investi-
gate the unknown region around the north
pole. OF these sixtythree went to the
northwest, twenty-nine via Behring Strait,
and the rest to the northeast or due north.
Since 1857 there have been the notable ex~
peditions of DR.. Hayes, of Captain Hall,
those of Fordenskjold, sent by the Swedish
Government, and others sent by Germany,
Russia, and Denmark three voyages made
by James Lamont, of the Royal Geograph-
ical Society, England, at his own expense;
the expenditures of Sir George Mares, of
Leigh Smith, and that of the ill-fated Jea'1-
cite; the search expeditions of the 1igress,
the Jluaiata, and those sent to rescue Lieu
tenant Greedy further, all the expeditions
fitted out under the auspices of the Polar
expedition-inw which the Greedy expedition
was included-and number of minor
voyages, making total of some sixty ex-
ploring jorneys in these twenty-seven years.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

SILENCE IS GoLDEN.-Silence is golden
sometimes. Especially is it golden when
you are conscious of. irritated nerves, and
your temper is in the condition which
invites the last feather and rejoices to be
broken under its weight. The most amia-
bly, disposed people have their days of dark
ness; their moods when nothing looks
bright; their seasons of Inconsistency, when
ing disagreeable.
If you and I are sadly aware that we are
not in angelic temper, that we are fretted
by petty things, and ready to quarrel with
our nearest and dearest, in danger of say
ing sharp and bitter things, prompted by
to-day's misery which tomorrow we shall
repent of in sackcloth and ashes, there is
one safeguard within our easy reach.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

SKULLS OF CRIMINALS.-The AnthrOpo-
logical Congress, at Rome, will have a Gu
riOus feature in collection of 700 skulls of
criminals, numbered and classified. To
these will be added the photographs of3 1000,
and the brains of more than $50 convicts,
thousands of autographs, poems, sketches,
and special instruments, the work of crimi-
nails, an album containing a record of 200
observations, physical and moral, on 500
criminals and on 300 ordinary men. There
will also be graphic maps of crime in Eu-
rope, with reference to meteorology, food, d,
institutions, suicide, etc. ;; tables of the stat
ure of criminals, in relation to the length OF
the arms, and of crime in towns compared
to that in the country. NJ. Bertillon will
exhibit the graphic curves of 5000 recidi-
vistes examined in twelve parts of the body
and the practical results obtained. Photo
graphs of Russian political and other crimi-
mails, especially of those from Moscow, and
wax masks of large number of celebrated
criminals, will also be exhibited. All the
nobilities in the science of criminal anthro-
pology will take part in the Congress.
York Post.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

a QUEER COLONY.-A correspondent
says that nine miles from Walla Walla,
Washington Territory, is situated a colony
of Davste Mormons. They call their Or
ganiZation the Kingdom Of Heaven on
Earth. They believe that spirits return and
take upon themselves new bodies, and that
the spirits Of Jesus Christ, John the Reve-
latOr, John the Baptist, st. Peter, and about
half the other apostles, King David, Moses
the Lawgiver, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
returned, been born over again, and that
they now have those sacred children in that
colony, and are only waiting for them to
world. They have sacred corral in which
these children play, which none can enter
without taking off their shoes. Davis has
a daughter about nine years old, who, it is
claimed, is the great eternal mother of spir-
its, and is to be mated, by her father, to her
brother in flesh. Davis claims to have the
power over life and death; that he and all
who believe faithfully in his doctrine may
live as long as they please. Members of
this colony do not shave or cut their hair,
and seldom combit. They hold their prop
erty in common, but Davis holds the deeds,
titles, etc. They do not believe in marriage,
but are to be mated by Davis to suit himself.
Davis is Welshman, and the rest of the
colony are EnGllSll, lflSll, ScOlCll, Scalullll-
vians, and few backwOOds Americans.
TAKING MEDICINE.-Let it be remem-
bered that it is not the medicine advised by
the educated physician which has done the
world so much injury, but it is the physic
which the people swallow on their own re-
sponsibility. When narrow-minded per-
son gets sick, he "calculates" the saving it
will be to him to give twenty-five cents for
a box Of pills, instead of ''employing ply
sician," besides avoiding the discomfort of
"a course of medicine" as it is called. This
answers for a while in many cases, but it is
ultimately disastrous, and health and life
are the fearful forfeit. A gentleman had
been dyspeptc, and hearing that a prepa-
ration of soda was "good for dyspepsia" he
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

THE DREAD NAME OF CANCER.-A ply
sician, writing in the Medical Rerie,O about
cases of cancer, says: 81 cannot bear to say
cancer to these patients. If they are told
that they have cancer they 60 down hill
rapidly. Some years ago l was asked to
see a case in this city. The doctor said to
me, "This is sensible Christian lady, and
1 think if you find cancer it would be
best to tell her so. She took the announce
ment very calmly at the time. A short
time afterward l saw the physician and
asked him about the lady. He said, She
is dead. She had been going around the
house, but after she knew that she had a
cancer she never got out of bed, and went
down hill rapidly 1t is cruel thing to
do, so never do it if you can avoid it,"
MANS ANCEsToRs.-D Mortillet declares
that there issufficient evidence to show that
animals, less intelligent than man, but more
intelligent than the existing apes, lived
during the tertiary period Of geology. The
anthropethique, or apeman, was an ances-
tral form of historic man, whose skeleton
has not yet been discovered. This assertion
the French Association for the Advance
ment of Science, and from the discussion
which followed it appears that the opinion
is almost unanimously shared by the scien-
tific men of France.
sas- A noted statistician, Edward Atkinson,
insists that there is abundance of room yet
in this world. The 1,4O0,OO0,00O persons
supposed to be on the globe could all find
easy standing room within the limits of
field ten miles square, and by the aid of a
telephone could be addressed at one time
by a single speaker In a field twenty
miles square they could all he comfortably
seated.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

THE 'POssUM ON JUDGMENT DAY.-A
planter owned slave who was an inveter-
ate 'possum hunter Away back in 1888
there was a most remarkable meteoric
shower, popularity known as "When the
stars fell" Uncle Nose was out in a
hurricane track, where the logs lay thick
indulging in his favoriie pastime. His boy
Jeff was carrying the pole on his shoulder.
Uncle Nose gazed up in mute astonish-
ment, as the blazing stars went shooting
hither and thither, stretching their fam
ing tails across the horizon in an awe in
spring manner.
Then he stampeded. He would run a
short distance, fall over log, and then get
on his knees and pray. Then he would
make another dash, trip over decaying
branch, and begin praying again. JEFF
scrambled after him, still holding on to
his 'possum. All of sudden Nose re:
membered that it was Sunday night, and
he prayed louder than ever. jeff called
"Daddy what mus do wild dis 'ere pos
sum?
"Great Lord % massy! Jeff! Yo' got
dat possum yet! Turn i'm loose! let i'm
60, yo' fool nigger! De worP am commin
to an en-, and wen de Lord Ak ME wot
mean by huntin' 'possum on Sundy night
doan yo' know doan want dat 'possum tc
pear in Judgement agin me ?"-lfacon TEL
egraph.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

A SKETCH OF GIBRALTAR.--Mili
discipline is here the great order of the
day. Never for one moment can you for
get the ruling spirit. You dare not pro-
duce pencil and note book till your sketch
ing pass is duly signed and countersigned,
and even that is only given for limited
period, and with the proviso that you must
make no drawing of any fortitication (as if
you could omit the one characteristic OF the
place.) At every turn you come on new
batteries, great guns and mortars, with their
thousand hard, black eyes, keeping watch
and ward. Deaths playthings everywhere,
the very gardens yielding only grapeshot
and other Dead Sea fruit.
Beside the graceful flower vases are heap
ed up great pyramids of cannon balls; fix
ed bayonets CLEAN beneath the spiked
aloes; tall plumes of grasses wave over
plumed bonnets, and scarlet blossoms re-
solve themselves into tartans as first one,
then another well-knoWn regiment march
es down with pipes playing, on the parade
ground in as picturesque a spot as you are
likely to find, and Spaniards and Moors,
Jews and BrittOns are among the specta-
tors, to say nothing of Rock scorpions, as
English children born on "Old Glib" are
called.
Doubtless, also, the Barbary apes are
looking down on US from their hauntsamong
the cliffs, where they still find a refuge,
being protected by stringent laws. They
are tailless, of course, as their name i'm
plies. Poor, humble-looking creatures, yet
more precious than all their long-tailed
brethren, inasmuch as they are the sole
representatives of the monkey tribe still
existing in Europe.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

mind has been much aStOnlShed and Devil
dered during the past few weeks by the re-
ports, through the general press, of certain
experiments on TRANSMISSION of blood said to
have been carried on at Denver, Colorado.
The popular mind has been astOnshed and
bewildered many times before now on the
subject Of transfusing restoratives into the
circulation of men and animals. The opera
ton starts, indeed, in mystery. 1Eson, the
father of Jason of the golden fleece, becom-
ing infirm, Media, after drawing the blood
from his veins, refills them with potent
fluid, and the old man so runs the fable,
reiuvenates. Libayius of Halle, in the
early part Of the seventeenth century, i'm
proves on this fable by suggesting the actu-
al TRANSMISSION of blood. Sir Christopher
Wren, in the eighteenth century, gives the
idea in a more distinct form; and Richard
Lower, Edmund King, and Denis, actually
bring it into practice, with such effect that
the world, startled by the first results and
filled with admiring wonder, soon turns
round, in disappointment at failure, and
lets the pope prohibit the operation IN all
parts where his mandate was law. Over
and over again the wonder has, neverthe-
less, revived. Early in this century, Prof.
Harwood, of Cambridge, revivified pOin-
ter that had been bled, as it seemed, to
death, by transfusing into it the blood from
a sheep. Later in the century DIR. Blundell
made some remarkable experiments pre-
cisely similar in character, and now we
have the same retold in a new dress, either
by repetition of mere narrative or by repeti-
ition of feXperiment-whic it is difficult as
yet to say. Of the report going the rounds
of the press it is quite impossible, at present,
to speak with any certainty Ldn-
ret,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-26

THE VALUE OF a WIG.-The hair of
which wigs are made is collected by special
drummers in Germany and France. Eng
land and Belgium are but poor markets for
hair, not because of its scarcity, for both
English and Belgian women have the finest
heads of hair in the world, but because they
will not sell it. When collected it is put
through cleansing process severe enough to
fetch the dirt out of an elephants hide, and
then dried several times over. The best
hair-dressers never buy hair from the head
or from private hands. TO this rule, how
ever, there are two exceptions. Perfectly
white hair is so rare that it is grabbed ca
gerly from any source, and liberal price
given for it. Natural curling hair is also
of considerable value. a good wig of white
hair costs about $40, and 0his is a secret of
the trade and can only be told in whspers)
the material of which these wigs are made
is clipped from the festive goat, and never
from the human head. n peculiarly soft,
silky kind of snow-white hair originates on
the angora rabbit. A perfectly white and
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07
Fish in Monterey Bay.

A notable fact in connection with the
counting up of the years products is the
unusual quantity of fish and marine an
imas with which Monterey Bay has
bedh crowded during the entire season.
School after school of herring. sardines,
smelt and other small fish have swarmed
the waters, breaking the nets of the
fishermen and furnishing food to swoop-
ing clouds of sea-gulls. The larger food
fish-rock-cod, barracuda, founders,
skate, etc.-have been taken in the
greatest abundance and in the last few
weeks whales, large and small, have
spouted and plunged and floated, to the
delight of all admirers of these great
marine mammals. Latterly great
schools of seals and sea-lions have vis-
tied the bay. and last night bevy Of
seals came in around the piers and kept
up constant barking like so many dogs
after chicken thief. This morning
they kept well in shore and saluted
everybody they saw with friendly bark.
Whalers report an unusually severe sea-
son in the north, and this cause, COM
bined with bountiful yield of their
food supplies in the way of sea vegeta-
ton. has probably sent them to the
friendly feeding grounds or waters Of
our bay. -safla. Cruz sarf
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-02-07
WELLS.
Advice to Farmers on Securing q Good
Water supply.

Advice to Farmers on Securing q Good
Water Supply.
The well of the house should be situa-
ted near the kitchen door. Don't place
it few rods away simply because
'sgrandfather" or somebody else had
well at that distance. Remember, this
age has done away with the 'old oaken
bucket" and thirty-foot sweep. If a
suction pump is to be used, then place
one IN the kitchen sink, extending the
pipe diagonally or on curve to the
water in the well. 1t win usually be
found economy to have pump of some
sort in the same well out of doors.
1t sometimes happens that when a
well is dug the water is found to be clear
and of good flavor, but soon after being
stoned up disagreeable taste is detect
ed. This is often thought to be caused
by new vein of water discharging into
the well, but nine times in ten the cause
could be traced to the dissolving or
chemical action of impurities in the
stone composing the wall. This trouble
may usually be removed by pumping the
well dry two or three times at intervals
of several days.
For wells less than twenty feet to the
surface of the water, a rubber-bucket
chain pump is perhaps best, the action
of the chain passing rapidly through the
water thoroughly aerating tia point of
no small Importance. But there is
great liability to freeze unless the well
is protected, making the use of an anti
freezing pump or windlass almost a ne
cessity. In an article Of such universal
use as pump or water-drawer inn
provements are looked for, and are made
every year by the hundreds, as the Pat
emit Office record shows. But somehow
they fail to present points of value OF
sufficient Importance to induce their uni-
versal adoption. Nearly every farm has
relics of some inventors scheme for
raising water. But for shallow wells
the general verdict is that the old-fash-
toned wooden or chain pump is the best.
Where great amount of water is to be
pumped, especial for stock or irrigating
purposes, power of some kind should
be employed, the cheapest of which is
the windmill. Hfavorably placed. they
readily raise water from deep wells
L. D. Saork, in ~ Y. Examiner.