Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-06-30


replied ~ have two wives. When I awake
in the morning, one brings me my slippers,
the other my ablution bowl, and by these
wives attending to my wants together, Lam
enabled to be off earlier for prayers than if
1 had only one wife," The poor man re-
solved to profit by the advice. He got him
another wife, and in a few days discovered
the real secret of the early devotee, viz, the
war between the two women made very
early morning prayers at the mosque a
blessing.
SILHoUETTEs.-Until Daguerre made his
discovery, the wealthy had their minia-
lures painted on ivory, but the cheaper
portraiture invenced by silhouette was very
common. Profile cutters, as they were call
ed, were found in all cities and large towns
while others went about the country from
house to house, SO that it was rare to find a
sitting room in any decent house that did
not boast of a framed silhouette, one look
ing to the right and the other to the left.
There were different ways of arriving at
the same result, but the work was chiefly
done by cutting the profile out of white
paper, which was backed by a piece of
black silk or black paper neatly mounted.
To insure success it was necessary to have a
steady hand and a correct eye; with these
qualities one could cut a likeness in a few
seconds. There were also several mechani-
cal co%ntrivances for producing silhouettes,
one of which Sam Weller doubtless had in
his minds eye whensm inditing his val
entine to Mary, he likened the growth of
his love in its rapid operations to the "pro-
feel machine" which "does finish a portrait
and put the frame and glass on complete,
with a hook at the end to hang it up by,
and all in two minutes and a quarter"
APPLYING A MADsToNE.-Mr. J. H.
Blackwell, of Reidsville, was bitten by a
mad-dog some days ago. Mention was
made of it in this paper. He was bitten by
his own dog the morning Of the 9Th instant.
He applied the Sam Pointer maidstone to
the wound the evening of the 9th. At the
first application the stone did not adhere
very ~tenaciously, but at the second applica-
ton, about two hours afterwards it stuck
very rapidly and remained sticking tight
ly one or two hours, when it fell off. The
pores of the stone were filled with a white,
frothy substance. The stone was put in a
vessel of water, slightly warmed, when a
green, greasy-looking substance arose upon
the surface of the water. The stone was
taken out of the water a few minutes after
wards, and was apparently as free from any
foreign substance as before it was used.
The natural color of the stone is black; one
side of it being hard, solid and glossy, while
the other side is dull-looking and porous.
The stone was afterwards applied at in
~tervals, each time the adherence to the
wound become weaker and weaker, until
finally it refused to stick at all. The stone
did not became discolored after the first ap-
plication. This stone belongs to Sam Poin-
ter and George w. Barnett, of Roxboro,
Person county.-Ra1eigh (N. CO. Observer.
A RELIC OF THE MIDDLE AGEs.-"An-
DORA" is an independent State in the Py-
renees, adjoining the Spanish province of
Leredo. It is not dependent upon either
France or Spain and has been self-governing
since the time of Charlemagne. The great
monarch recognized the Andorrans because
they helped him against the Moors. This
little State has an area of about 600 square
miles and an estimated population of 1000.
Those who indulge in dreamsa as to what the
future may bring forth, believe thatit is the
fate of modern Europe to break up into
small communities which will be self-gov-
erning locally while acknowledging a CEN
trail authority, which would dominate the
Western World. The most perfect form of
Democracy known to ancient or modern
times, was the New England town meeting.
The neighbors in the local cities met and
managed their own affairs. This seems to
be impossible in densely populated cities.
But the dream of all consistent Democrats
is that the authority of the central power
should not interfere with the s~elf-govern-
ment of the different localities. These pig
my governments, like Andorra and Monaco,
which have come down from the Middle
Ages, are types of the decentralized govern
ments of the future.-FTom DemorestS.
A SUBSTITUTE FoR IVORY.-An extern
sive industry has arisen in France to supply
an artificial substitute for natural ivory in
view of the growing insufficiency of the
latter to meet the demands of art and in
dustry. The majority of the products FORM
erly employed were obtained by injecting
white wood with chloride of lime under
strong pressure. At the Amsterdam EXhib-
ition, however, almost all the products had
been prepared with the bones of sheep and
waste nieces of deer and kid skins. The
bones are for this purpose macerated and
bleached for two weeks in chloride of lime,
then heated by steam along with the skin,
so as to form a fluid mass, to which are add
ed a few hundredths of alum; the mass is
then filtered, dried in the air, and allowed
to harden in a bath of alum, the result be-
ing white, tough plates, which are more
easily worked than naturalivory.
DON'T BE TOO F1NE.-Dr. Thad Davidson,
in his new book foryoung men, "Forewarn-
ed, Forearmed," hits out at the slime young
man" in this style: "He admires a scarf
or a breast-pin, and, as he must have it.,
he purchases on credit, and ten to one, be-
fore he has money to pay, the one is thread
bare or the other is lost and so he grudges
payment and is tempted to evade it. Thus
the mischief grows. Don't seek to be too
fine. Be manly enough to appear just as
you are. Be content to begin life at the
beginning, and wait as others have lone
before you, till your income warrants this
or that unnecessary indulgence. 1t is an
awkward-looking arrangement When a