Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-02-12

a reporter, after the preliminary brushing
he began by rubbing the leather with wet
cloth. When asked what it was for, he ex.
planned: "When 1 began this business
said the operator, pausing moment TO cast
an admiring glance at the high, aristocratic
arch of the newsgatherers instep, 81 used
to keep on rubbing the oil into the leather
until a man told me to stop. l thought
they'd know when they had enough and
wanted to give satisfaction. Some of my
customers complained that the oil soaked
through their boots and saturated their
socks. l thought perhaps had been put
ting on too much oil, but the same fault was
found in several cases where | had been
more careful. Finally an old shoe maker,
whom I knew, came along, and asked him
what 1 ought to do to save my trade. He
told me never to oil shoe until had wet
it first. The reason was that the water
would penetrate the leather, and, remaining
there, keep the oil from soaking through.
Besides the water would soften the leather
and open it so that the oil would do the
leathermore good. Ny trade has prospered
ever since.
~ was oiling man up one day and he
asked the same question you did. When L
explained the reason he said that was on the
same principle as that of painting kerosene
oil-barrels. told him thought they were
painted blue just to look nice. He said it
was to prevent the barrels from leaking.
During long voyage or long Journey Dy
rail, sometimes half barrel would leak
through the pores of the wood and evapo-
rate. So some sharp fellow began to study
some way of preventing such loss. He first
painted the barrel blue on the outside and
then filled it with water and allowed it to
stand until it had soaked up all it would.
Then the oil was put in. The water kept
the oil from soaking into the wood, and the
paint on the outside kept the water from
coming out. He got patent on his discov-
cry and now he sits in his office and draws
his royalty of one cent on every barrel made
to hold kerosene oil for Shipment Chicago
NeWs.
BEARDs-Most of the fathers of the Church
wore and approved the beard. Clement, of
Alexandria, says: mature adorned man,
like lion, with beard, as the mark of
strength and power" Lacanthius, Theo-
doret, st. Cyprian are all eloquent in praise
of this characteristic feature, about which
many discussions were raised in the early
days of the Church, when matters of discip-
line engaged much of the attention of its
leaders. TO settle these disputes, at the
44-it was enacted 'that cleric shall not
cherish his hair nor shave his beard"
Bingham quotes an early letter in which it
is said of one who from a layman had be-
come a clergyman: "His habit, gait and
modest countenance and discourse were all
religious; and agreeably to these, his hair
was short and his beard long," A source of
dispute between the Roman and Greek
Churches has been the subject of wearing
and not wearing the beard. The Greek
Church has adhered to the decision of the
early Church, and refused to admit any
shaven saint into its calendar, and thereby
condemning the Romish Church opposite
conduct.
H9 Perhaps not one in hundred can tell
otf-handed why point 32 degrees below
| freezing point on Fahreneit's thermometer
! is called zero. For that matter, nobody
knows. The Fahrenheit scale was intro
duced in 1920. Like other thermometer
scales it has fixed two points, the freezing
point or rather the melting point of water.
Centigrade and Reaumer scales call the
freezing point zero, and measure there
| from in both directions. Fahrenheit kept
the principle on which he graduated his
| thermometers secret and no one has ever
discovered it. 1t is supposed, however, that
he considered his zero-32 degrees below
freezing-the point of absolute cold or ab-
sence of all heat, either because, being about
the temperature of melting salt and snow,
it was the greatest degree of heat that he
could produce artifcially or because it was
the lowest temperature of which he could
find any record. The grounds on which
Fahrenheit put 1S0 degrees between the
freezing and boiling points are likewise
unknown.-Macon Telegraph.
How MEALS ARE SERVED IN New Or
LEANs.-Few set tables. You are served in
the morning before you get out of bed with
where in the world, and some bread or
little Creole pie-crust cakes. There is no
trouble aboutyour meals. There isa restau-
rant on every corner or so, or you can have
your meals served hot, and on the most
reasonable rates. AS a general thing, how
ever, they do not "go in heavy" for break
fast there. Your coffee is supposed to salts
fy you until midday, when you take slight
lunch at some saloon. About in the even
ing you sit down to the big meal OF the
day. Supper there is none, unless you drop
in at the theater, after which you eat some
thing light. Thus, at least, you will find
the natives doing, and those who have been
visiting New Orleans each winter for years
will tell you that it is the most comfortable
way to live there and best suited to the eli
mate
say A controversy has lately arisen, or
more correctly has been revived, concern
ing the material of the breastworks of Gen.
Jackson's army at the battle of New Or
leans. Col. V. G. Dahlgren, in letter to
New York paper, insists that the breast
works were constructed of cotton bales.
The New Orleans Tmes-Democrat contra
diets him, maintaining that it was ascer-
tained, several days before the battle that
cotton bales were unsuitable on account of
their liability to ignite, and were, by Gen.
.Jackson's order, removed, and that the bat
tie was fought, on the American side, behind
works composed solely of the sacred soil of
Louisiana. Both parties to this controversy
agree that Gen. Jackson defeated the ene-
my, and is hero in good and regular stand
ing in the Democratic party.
WHAT GIRLS SHOULD LEARN.-To sew;
to cook; to mend; to be gentle; to value
time; to dress neatly; to keep secret; to
be self reliant; to mind the baby; to avoid
idleness; to darn stockings; to respect old
age; to make home happy; to catch hus-
band; to hold her tongue; to make good
bread; to keep a house tidy; to be above
gossiping to control her temper; to take
care of the sick; to sweep down cobwebs; to
marry man for his worth; to be a help
mate to her husband; to keep clear of flash
literature to take plenty of active exercise;
to see mouse without screaming; to read
hearted and fleet footed; to wear shoes
that won't cramp her feet
SUNDAY IN PARIs.-Sunday is the great
day in Paris. On this day all the theatri-
oaI uatinees take Mace On Sunday after