Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-01-07
TO BE CONTINUED. !

The position of Third Assistant Treasur-
er of the United States is a very important
one, and John Bigelow, who was nominat-
ed by President Cleveland to succeed Hon.
Thomas G.. Acton at New York comes, into
a position which will yield him $4,000 per
annum. John Bigelow was born at NAL
den, Ulster county, n. Y, in 1877, and grad
studied law in New York City with Rob-
ert Sedgwick and in 1880 was called to the
bar. He employed the time not taken up
with his profession, in literary work, and
through his productions became acquainted
with prominent Democrats. Mr.. BigeloW's
first official appointment was as Inspector
of Sing Sing prison in 1914. In 1850 Mr.
BigelOw became part owner OF the New
York Ereni1lg Post. In 1861 he was made
consul to Paris and upon the death of Will
liam l.. Dayton, in 1865, was made Minister
to France. In 1870 Mr.. Bigelow revisited
Europe and resided in Berlin for three
years. Returning to America in 1873 he
was appointed by Samuel j. Tilden as one
of the members of the commission 10 IN.
vestigate the management of the canals OF
the State and in the fall Of the same year
was elected Secretary of State of New York.
Since retiring from that Office he has held
no official position. Among his literary
works are "Jamaica, in 1850" "Wit and
Wisdom OF the Haytians," "Life of Frank
lin," "Writings and Speeches of Samuel j..
Tilden," etc, etc.
How RUSSIANS KEEP WARM.-The Rus
slams have great knack of making their
winters pleasant. You feel nothing of the
cold in those tightly built houses where all
doors and windows are double, and where
the rooms arc kept warm by big stoves
hidden in the walls. There is no damp in
a Russian house, and the inmates may dress
indoors in the lightest garbs, which contrast
oddly with the mass of furs which they don
when going out.
A Russian can afford to run no risk of eX-
posure when he leaves the house for walk
or drive. He covers his head and ears with
fur bonnet, his feet and legs with felt boots
lined with wool or fur, which are drawn
over the ordinary boots and trousers, and
reach up to the knees; he next cloaks HIM
self in a top coat with a fur collar, lining
and cuffs; he buries his hands in a pair OF
fingerless gloves Of seal or bear skin. Thus
euuipped. and with the collar of his coat
raised all around so that it mutfleS him up
to the eyes, the Russian exposes only his
nose to the cold air; and he takes care fire.
uuently to give that organ little rub to
Keep the circulation going. A stranger VINO
is apt to forget the precautlOn Woulu oIteh
get his nose frozen if it were not for the
Courtesy of the Russians, who will always
warn him ifthey see his nose "whitening,."
and will, unbidden, help him to chafe 1t
vigorously with the snow.
HUMILITY Humility has this consoa-
ton. 1t finds that the greatest minds have
had the least conceit; that Shakespeare bent
down from the imperial height Of his in
tellect to be taught bya clown, to be in
formed by a milkmaid; that Socrates in
his his celebrated voyage in search of knowl-
edge with his perpetual question concerning
the cause of things, found that knowlege in
a workman's shop which he could not find
amongst the school of professors or philos-
ophers that Newton compared himself to
child who, playing on the seashore, had
picked up a shell here and stone there,
and knew no more of them. The bullet of
steel is worn smooth and polished when it
has passed through the gizzard of an os-
trich. The most conceited young prig who
ever lived will find his level when brought
to the rude experience of the whole world.