Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-09-08

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THOMAS A. BENEDICT.
New York is certainly getting her share
of the administration patronage. The
latest appointee is Thomas A. Benedict,
who succeeds S. p. Rounds as public print
er. The Office of the public printer is
very important one and the printing offices
at Washington are the largest in Ameri-
ca. Enough work is done there to stagger
the force of even the largest journals of
the country. 1t is true that at the time
of Mr.. Benedict's elevation he was Depu-
uty State Comptroller of New York. He
has also been engaged in journalistic work,
and in this vocation gained the knowledge
which will enable him to successfully
fill the important position that President
Cleveland has rendered him. 1t is said
that the disappointed ones who sought
the Office are many and that by Benedict's
appointment the Executive has made
many enemies. Much of the work done
is destined for the waste basket, and stren-
uous efforts to reduce the expenditures are
to be made. The number of copies of
each bill is to be reduced and when we
consider the vast number of bills passed
this will cause great saving. Mr.. Thomas
A. Benedict has for some time past been
connected with the politicians of New
York city and to their influence mainly
does he owe his present appointment.
WHERE PERFUMES COME FRoM.-Our
fair readers may be interested to learn
where for the most part, the flowers grow,
the sweet perfumes of which are found in
those pretty flagons on their dressing
tables. The chief places of their growth
are the south of France and Piedmont,
namely: Montpelier, Grasse, Mines, Nice
and Cannes. These two last especially are
the paradise of yioets, and furnish year
ly product of about thirteen thousand
pounds of violet blossoms. Nice produces
a harvest of one hundred thousand pounds
of orange blossoms, and Cannes as much
again, and of 4 finer color-fve hundred
and fifty pounds of orange blossoms yield
ing about two pounds Of pure Neroli oil:
At Canness the acacia thrives well, and
produces yearly about nine thousand
pounds of acacia blossoms. One great per-
fumery distiller at Cannes uses yearly one
hundred and forty thousand pounds OF
rose leaves, thirty thousand pounds Of ies-
samine blossoms, twenty thousand pounds
of violets and eight thousand pounds of
tuberoses, together with great many
other sweet herbs. The extraction Of the
ethereal oils--the small quantities of which
are mixed in the flowers with such large
quantities of other vegetable juices that it
requires about six hundred pounds Of rose
leaves to win one ounce of the Ottar of
roses-demands a very careful treatment.
The French, favored by their climate, are
the most active, although not always the
most careful, preparers of perfume. Half
of the world is furnished by. this branch of
their industry.
UNLEAvENED BREAD OF THE PASS
"Pesach" festival or Jewish
Passover is the only festival in which
"matzos" is the one bread allowed. The
bread is sunleavened ,and there are now four
cities in America with unleavened bread
York, New Orleans Chica-
20 and Cincinnati. In order to supply
the demand these bakeries begin baking
two months before the beginning of the
Passover. The matzos look like the or
binary hard-tack, except that they are
foot square. They are made of flour and
water, and contain no other ingredients.
After the flour has been kneaded into a
stiff dough, lump of it containing about
fifty pounds is placed on a great block of
wood and pressed into thick sheet with
q great beam which is fastened to the
block at one end by an iron link and
staple. The sheet is next placed under
an iron roller, from which it emerges into
a long ribbon. 1t passes through several
rollers until it is thin enough for baking:
1t is then stamped and cut into unbaked
matzos, which are placed upon wooden
tray having a long handle and deposited
in an oven. In three minutes they are
done, white and crisp.-MiHing World.
BRAIN Work FOR OLD FOLKs.-Jane
Welsh Carlyle said she always liked to be
learning something another language or
that required study and effort,
because she never felt 80 young as when
she had dictionary before her and was
as energetically as she did at the
age of 12 or 15.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton said that
it was her fathers habit to read novels in
his leisure hours, because he believed
that constantly mixing in thought with
the affairs of young people kept hlm
young. I, myself, knew an aged ply
sician, retired from active practice, who
spent almost his entire time in reading
novels. He said he forgot all about be-
ing old the moment he got started into
a love story, which helps to prove thar old
age is largely matter of bellef.-Boston
Globe.
NATURE Is ETERNAL.-Mand dies, but
nature is eternal. The seasons keep their
appointed time, day returns with its gold
en- splendor, and night with its eloquent
mystery. The stars that lit the ghastly
battle field of Troy, rough with the dead
bodies of ancient heroes-which shone on
the marble streets of imperial Rome, and
on the sad eyes of Virgil-sleep in the liv-
ing glow of inspiration. The watch fires
Of the angels which, through centuries of
devastation and change, have still burn
ed on increasingly, speak to US as they did
to Dante, Shakespeare and Milton, and of
the divine glory, the omnipotence, the
everlasting beauty and love Of God.
6sn The question is frequently asked
how to remove fy-specks, dust, smoke,
etc., from ofkpaintings without lnJurlng
them. The following is recommended,
it may not suit all cases, and is
1t best not to be used by the amateur with
)ut caution. Put into two quarts of strong
we half pound of Genoa soap, rasped
very fine; let it simmer on the fire for
half an hour, then strain it through a cloth.
Apply the preparation with brush to the
picture, wipe it off with sponge and ap-
ply the second time, which will remove
Ill dirt. Then with little oil, warmed,
'ub the picture and let it dry.