Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-08-27

and full OF hght-all premOnltOry symptoms
of insanity. When a stranger in Columbia
during the war inquired of Mr.. PettigreW
the way to the lunatic asylum, he directed
him to the State House, where the LeglsIa-
ture was in session, with the remark !:
"They are all as mad as March hares there,
every devil of them" m."-Ben. Perley Poore.
JUDGE LYNCH."-The origin of this
term has been variously accounted for.
Some say that in the early days of Virginia
it became the practice in the western part,
now the Piedmont districts, to refer all legal
controversies to the foremost men in those
parts. One of these, by the name of Lynch,
became quite celebrated for the good judg-
ment and justice which he showed in these
unauthorized judicial functions, and was
known as Judge Lynch. His name was ca
silly transferable to the methods he had
adopted. Others claim that Mr.. Lynch, the
founder of Lynchburg, Va, is ansWerable
for the name, though in just what manner
the authorities do not state. Another derlv-
alton comes from one Lynch who was sent
to the American waters to suppress piracy,
and he is thought to have had authority
from the home government to punish sum-
marily these rovers of the high seas with
out any formal legal trial. Still others state
that its origin is due to James Fitzstephen
Lynch, the mayor of Galway, Ireland, in
1893. This man traded largely in Spain.
On one occasion he sent his son thither to
purchase cargo of wine. The young Irish
man managed to get rid of the money with
which he had been entrusted. He ran in
debt for the cargo to Spaniard, whose son
or nephew was to accompany him back to
Ireland for the money due on the wine.
The young scapegrace caused the Spaniard
to be thrown overheard to conceal his own
defalcation. Great honor was paid the sue
cessful young merchant.
The old saying that murder will out prov
ed true in his case. A sailor upon his dying
bed confessed the crime. The young man
was tried before his own father, convicted
and sentenced to be hanged. The familyand
friends determined to preventive execution
if possible.
The father, like the old Roman Brutus,
determined that his sons life should pay the
penalty of his crime, and seeing that he
could not carry out the sentence in the usual
way tried an eXpedient. He took his son
up winding stairs to window overlook
ing the public street and with his own hands
fastened the rope about his sons neck to a
staple in the wall, and himself acted as exc
cutioner.-Cg Cleveland Plaiadedter.
COLOR BLINDNEss.-Colo blindness, like
other defects of vision, affects people in diff
ferent degrees of intensity, and liz myopia,
or short sight, it is frequently hereditary.
1t often becomes more pronounced in after
life, or when the near point OF vision begins
to recede.
Among the more highly educated of all
nationalties the average number OF color
blind is per cent, an average in excess of
that of all other classes. A man may have
good eye for form and outline, and yet be
partially or wholly blind. TO select an in
stance from among many is difficult, but
one impresses more than than the rest-that
of Wyatt, the sculptor, who at the outset of
his career was known as remarkably good
draughtsman. He naturally took to paint
ing, but, as his pictures were observed to
present curious incongruities of color, that
involved him in grievous difficulties, he
with much reluctance was obliged to aban-
don the brush for the chisel He was al
together unable to comprehend the nature
of his defect-indeed, refused to believe that
he was color blind. So of men who have
attained to eminence in the world of letters,
and whose writings betray evidences OF
meagre color vocabulary. A striking eX-
ample of this occurred in the person OF An
gus B. Reach.
He was unable to recognize difference in
color between the leaf, the flower, and the
fruit OF plants ana trees: HIS want OF per-
ception of color was wholly unknown to
and unrecognized by himself, until we sat
together at the table of Paris restaurant.
He, wishing to finish his letter to the Chron-
icle newspaper, requested the waiter to bring
him some ink. AS it often happens, under
similar circumstances, the ink was brought
in wineglass. Reach became absorbed in
his subject, while I, seated opposite to him,
observed him alternately dipping his pen
into his claret glass and into the ink glass.
l frequently checked him, but presently to
my surprise he took up the ink glass and was
about to drink, when I demonstrated, and
he then said he could see no difference be-
tween the color of the ink and the wine.
On subsequently testing him discovered
that he was completely color blind.
Homer certainly labored under physi-
cal defect of vision, and this fully explains
the limited use of the terms he employed to
express his sense of color, and to which Mr..
Gladstone has drawn attention.-JOWnal Of
Science.