Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-10-20


learned that his royal mistress was dead,
and Elizabeth granted Mrs. Mottershead
pension of f40 year for the part she
had taken in the transaction, sum that
would at least represent 5000 of our money.
SENSITIVE ANIMALS.
A gentleman who recently made trip
on horseback through the mountain re-
gion of the West, evidently made an OBJ
servation which was to him discovery.
In writing an account Of his journey, he
says: 1.-THE behavior of our saddle horses
was very amusing, and showed the prairie
life plainly. The moment they felt the
cold storm they turned their backs around
toward it and dropped their heads, and
took no little urging to induce them to
proceed, as at each gust they would whirl
their tails toward it as if turned by
crank"
The writer seems to have thought the
conduct of his horses peculiar to those
bred upon the prairies. 1t was, however,
just what any horses would do under the
circumstances, no matter from what part
of the world they were brought. 1tshoald
be known to all drivers of horses with
what reluctance these animals face storm
or even chilling wind. 1t may be quite
stormy day, when it would be positively
cruel to 20 over the road in the opposite
direction.
1t is convenient to know this habit of
the horse in case an animal has strayed
away during a storm or high wind. 1t
will be found to have gone in the direction
of the wind.
The habit of the sheep is just the con-
trary. This animal steadily faces the
storm, holds its head we'll up, and is in
clined to move forward. No domestic an
imals give their keepers so much trouble
by wandering off in stormy and bolster
Gus weather as do sheep but the shep-
herds are saved much of the trouble they
might have in finding their flocks by MAX
ing search in direction against the wind.
This instructive action of horses and
sheep is common to all breeds, and is in
herited from their undomesticated progen-
itors. Whatever may have been the ori-
gin of these habits, we can turn knoWl-
edge of the facts to good account in giving
our horses more rational care and treat
ment.-Y Youths Companion.
LUCKY H1Ts.-It would be stupid
misreading of events to say that the IA
NOUS duel to which David owed his rapid
rise was single lucky hit-a chance shot,
in which success redeemed what would
otherwise have been fOOlhardy adven-
ture. Men rarely owe their success in life
to chance shots of any kind. But they
often do take their start from some single
act which serves to disclose what man
ner of men they are, and to fOretell to the
sagacious what their career must prove.
1t was not in reality the singers skill,
which aimed cool and fair at the giants
forehead, when an older hand might have
swerved for fear-nOt that alone which
revived the decaying ardor of Israel,
bound Jonathan to his friend in lifelong
admiration, and made David the hero of
! the war. He became the man he was
| Just because he carried this same devout
reliance upon an arm unseen into all his
affairs, acted ever as in Jehovah'S sight,
and knew himself to be by day and night,
beneath Divine protection. The quail
ties which made him the conquerOr Of
Goliath were the qualities which made
him the founder of the Hebrew empire,
and the type as we'll as ancestor of the
Messiah.
SOME REMARKABLE FEATUREs.-lt is
a remarkable but invariable feature of
mild earthquake shock that they are felt
by some persons and not by others in the
same situation This is true of persons
who are on the same floor of the same
building. Andit is sometimes the case
that persons in the top of high building
have let the shaking pass unnoticed, while
persons in the lower stories of the same
building have rushed out Of their rooms
in terror. 1t would be interesting to
know whether some persons are consti-
tutionally more sensitive to earthquakes
than others, and whether quick observa-
ton of seismic disturbance is a matter of
intelligence or merely of the nerves-Neao
HdUea Ne,cs.
WONDERS OF TH.E WORLD.-The seven
wonders of the world in ancient times
were the Pyramids of Egypt, the Pharos
of Alexandria, the walls and hanging gar
dens of Babylon, the temple of Diana, the
statue of the Olympian Jupiter, the mau.-
sOleum of Artemisia, and the Colossus at
Rhodes. The seven wonders of the world
the steam engine, the spinning jenny, the
telephone, the phonograph, telegraph and
electric light. The sO-called "seven Won
ders'' of the ancients were mere trif1es
compared with those of the present time.
The whole put together would sink into
! insigniicance could their builders have
seen a lightning express train at full
speed.
eap Hidden in the swamps of Livingston
parish, Louisiana, is a hamlet with pop
ulation of 800 souls, where until fifteen
years ago not word of English was spo--
ken or understood 1t is a settlement of
Acadians who displaced the Spanish
founders of the village, and to-day are