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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-20
TIE NEW MANITOBA GOVERNMENT.

MINNEAroIIs, Jan 10.-A wnrileg dispatch to The
journal" says The members of the new Government
took their seats to-day, whereuIon Parliament ad
jOurned for month"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-20
NEARLy 4ooo CIIIyEsE FNCULFEI

SHANGHAI, Jan. 19.-While 1000 wOrkmen undc
the command Of several mandarins were making
breakwater to stem the Hoansho floods they were en-
quilted by a sudden rush Of water and only a few
escapcd.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-20
yEWSHOY ms TUE gulIIpOy

On Wednes lay Peter Lunny ak who had bean at
IN, Sewsboys Lodging House at EghthsL and b.
was taken 70 Bellevue Hospital He complained u being
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-20

RAPID RECOVERY OF THE GROWN PRINCE
LONDON, Jan. 10" The Lancet ube medical
Journal has authoritative information TO tbe effect
that the German Crown Prince advances so r,,idlv
toward recovery that he LOOKS forward ia rctnrning
POtsdan in the sping
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-20

SICK and sent 10 Ward 2J or medical Yeter
day q was discovered lailpox and lac
remove ell 10 the North Brother Island Hospital
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-20

HANDOUB ABANDONED by THE sou UDANESE.
SrtEIM, Jaa I0.-Thc SOuGanesc have abandoned
HandOuJ and returned to TOkar seven OF thcif
eaders were Killed i'm the fighting on Tuesday win
1tbcs friendly to the English.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-20

QUEEN ISABELLA TO BE EXILED.
LONDON;Jan 10.-Advices from Madrid say that
Queen Isabella Will soon be cXiled from Spain
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-20

SUCCESSOR OF LORD CHARLES BEREsFoRD.
LONDON Jan. l9--Admiral Sir George Tryon viii
succeed Lord Charles Berosford as Junior Lord o
the Admiralty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-20
CUURCHILL AND BALFOUR.
s.Ip TO BE ON TIE VERGE OF DUEL TO
THE DEATH.

THE CHIEF SECRETARY IN THE WAY OF LORD
RANDoLPH's AMBITIoN-sIR NJ. HicKs-BEACHs
ATuTuDE-MGssRs. GRAHAM AND BURNS
CONVICTED AND SENTENCED AMID
GENERAL APPRovAL-LoRD
c. BEREsFORD AND THE
NAvY-PERsoNAL-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-20

FLAMES IN THE STANDARD OIL WORKS.
At 10 o'clock ias night broke out In the WORKS
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-22
A RAILWAY CATECHISM.

How many miles of railway in the Uni
ted States? One hundred and fifty thou
sand six hundred miles, about half the
mileage of the world.
How much have they cost? Nine bill
lion dollars.
How many people are employed by
them? More than 100000.
Who built the first locomotive in the
United States? Peter Cooper.
How long does steel rail last with aver
age wear? About eighteen years.
What is the cost of palace sleeping
car? About $4,000, or $4,000 if "vesti-
buled."
What is the cost of a high-class eight
wheel passenger locomotive? About $o,-
500.
What is the longest American railway
tunnel? HOosac tunnel, on the tItchburg
Railway (42 miles).
What is the highest road in the United
States? Denver and Rio Grande, Mar
shall Pass, 1882 feet.
What is the higest railroad bridge in the
United States? Kinzua viaduct, on the
Erie road, 305 feet.
What is the longest railway bridge span
in the United States? Cantilever span in
Poughkeepsie bridge, 548 feet.
What is the longest mileage operated by
a single system? Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe system, about 5000 miles.
What line of railway extends farthest
east and west? Canadian Pacific railway,
running from Quebec to the Pacific Ocean.
What road carries the largest number
of passengers? Mahattan Elevated Rail-
road, New York, 1000 day or 1al $685.
600 yearly.
What is the fastest time made by a
train ? Ninety-two miles in ninety-three
minutes, one mile being made in forty
six seconds, on the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad.
What is the fastest time made between
Jersey City and San Francisco? Three
days, seven hours, thirty-nine minutes
and sixteen seconds. Special theatrical
train, 1886.
What are the chances of fatal accident
in railway travel? One killed in 10000
600. Statistics show more are killed by
falling out of windows than in railway
accidents.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-22
THE SENSE OF SMELL.

Apparently developed in much greater
degree than that of horses is the scenting
power of cattle. Most animals seem to
identify their young by their smell. The
barbarous custom still prevails through
out the country of placing the hide of a
buthered calf before its mother to stop her
mournful lowing. 1t would be rating hu-
man acumen rather high to suppose that a
mother could recognize her baby by its
skin, yet COW will identify the bloody
relic OF her offspring and instantly cease
her noisy grief. Yard fed cattle nose their
hay filled racks and bins from the many
varieties of dried fodder and select only
such as will please their palates and nour-
ish their bodies.
Cows eat many kinds of fungi-the COM
mon puffboll when young, mushrooms,
fairy ring, champignon, and some wood
growing toadstools, by which their milk
is much affected but by far the greater
number they pass untouched with con-
temptous sniff. The pig, from the we'll
known and proverbial length of its COM
bination nose, would naturally be expect
ed to have enlarged olfactory sense, and
so it has. When its omnivorous appetite
is considered, and it is remembered that
it seeks the greater part of its food by
to obtain it, where it cannot see and must
detect it by the process of smelling before
it can get it to its mouth to taste it, its
discernment of the edible and non-edible
from the countless things its nose encoun-
ters is, to say the least, highly compliment
tary to that much derided organ. 1t is
said that "learned pigs" (they are worthy
of capitals) are first trained to their card
playing plisments by placing grains
of corn under such cards as they are after
ward by signs instructed to moYe.
The ground mole, with fur covered eyes,
capable at the best of discerning bright
light only, discovers and chooses food in
its subterranean cropping by its long, deli
cately constructed nostrils. Sheep are
even more dainty than cattle in selecting
their nourishment, and, like all other ami
mails, depend almost entirely upon the
sense Of smell. Lambs, after a long sepa-
ration from their mothers, will seek them
out in large herd. But experience goes
to show that sight and hearing are auxili-
ary to scent in some cases, as lambs fire.
quently fail to recognize their mothers
after the latter have been shorn.-[ New
York Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-22
SYSTEMATIC STUDY.

It is the study which man does at his
odd minutes, rather than his study at reg
ular hours of study, which is likely to give
him his superiority as a scholar. And
this sort of study almost any man can find
time for, whatever is his ordinary occupa-
tion. Men nowadays talk Of eight hours
as full days work; but the man whose
daily work is limited to eight hours has
spare time enough for all needful rest and
recreation, and for sufficient study to make
him before long man of marked attain
ments in almost any line of acquired
knowledge. Even if his regular work
covers ten or twelve hours day, he still
has time enough to make steady progress
in various lines of special study. The
men who have made their mark in the
world as eminent scholars, or as students
of exceptional proficiency in particular
lines of research, or as experts in this or
that direction of practical knowledge, have
rarely been men who had nothing else to
do but to fit themselves for the sphere in
which they attained highest distinction.
In most cases they gained their pre-emi-
nence through wise use of the spare time
which they had, above the hours of their
regular daily duties. And there are few
young men to-day so closely occupied at
what they call their regular work, that
they might not find time to prepare them
selves by special study at odd minutes for
place among the profcients in almost
any department of human knowledge. It
is true that they may not care to do this,
that they may not feel like working hard
in another direction after having worked
hard "all day" at that which gives them
their daily bread, or to the doing of which
they are bound in honor. But that is
matter of inclination, rather than ques-
tion of practicability. No man is likely
to make high attainment in any sphere
unless he is willing to do more every day
than "a regular days work." and unless
he is ready to do extra work when he does
not feel like doing anything. This is as
true in the case of one whose regular work
is that systematic study, as of one whose
study is supplemental to work of very
different sort. If, indeed, a young man
can have study as his principal occupation,
he has fine start in the pursuit of knoWl-
edge; but in any case he must work out of
regular hours as we'll as in them, and must
work whether he feels like it or not, if he
would be man Of mark in the line of his
life studies; and the young man who is
ready to do this can hope for high attain.
ment accordingly, even though he is not
privileged just now to give himself Who'll
ly to study
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-22

my side. He had noticed the fallen spruce
and was making for it.
But he paused and gazed at me, ex-
claiming: "Father, what ails you?"
"Bitten!' I gasped.
"a rattlesnake, father?"
"Yes," said.
"Where?"
I laid my hand on my thigh, where I
still felt the force of the blow.
"Let us look. Well cut into it, bind on
a piece of the fat of the dead snake and
then drive for home. Quick, where is it?"
My thigh was exposed, fair and ruddy,
but not mark of the poisonous fangs was
to be seen.
"There's not bit here, father. Not a
sign of one."
Eddie's happy smile of assurance gave
me strength, and my thoughts came to my
aid. I looked where the threads of the
corduroy had been started up into loops
by the tearing away of the snakes fangs,
and saw that it was directly over the OBJ
jectionable pocket. I put my hand into
the pocket and drew forth the only thing
it contained, the broad fiat piece of shingle
with the trout line wound upon it.
The line was new and Of fine white silk,
and we saw upon the silken surface the
stain of the snakes deadly virus but we
saw it more plainly upon the smooth wood.
The teeth had struck through the pants
pocket and three turns of the line to the
wood, and we could follow the yelloWish
green lines where the subtle poision had
crept along the grains of the wood as
though they had been drawn with pen
and ink.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-22
THE INEQUALITIES OF MEN.

NJ. Lapouge, of Montpelier, has recently
delivered before the Faculty of Natural
Sciences in that town series of lectures
on inequalities among men, in the course
of which he said that the political dogma
of equality rests on hypotheses which are
utterly false. He distinguished four social
types among mankind:
i. The initiators, who show mankind
the way into the region of the unknown,
and who 20 in front. Restless and daring,
with an intelligence which is at least equal
to the average, men Of this type 90 not
travel readily along beaten tracks. New
ideas are the breath Of life to them. They
spend their lives in new creations, they
are often wrecked, but the true genius rep
resents the most perfect form of this type.
9. Men of spirit, of intelligence, who, pos
sessing no creative power themselves, yet
carry out and perfect the ideas and dis
coveries of the first type, to which they are
really the complement. 3. Men who, with
much or little intelligence, can work only
with others, who mistrust every new idea
not accepted by all the others, but who
bors adopt it, If intelligent, these men
are docile, but they dislike every change
in routine. 4. Men of this type are not
fit to attain even the smallest step in cul-
ture.
Evidently every man cannot be classed
under one or the other of these divisions.
In human societies clear lines Of demarka-
ton do not exist, but for general purposes
the distinction is sufficiently evident. The
superiority of race or nation depends on
the greater or smaller number OF men OF
the first two classes. The race which is
richest in the first type is the blond
dolichocephalic, and this has been the
case even when the people among whom
he lived were not of this kind. In
Egypt, Chaldea, Assyria, Persia, India,
and even in China, men of this type ruled.
In the Greek and Roman world it was the
same, and it is so still. In our own day
the rank of a nation corresponds with the
strength of the blond dolichocephalic ele
ment. The Gallo and Frank elements
which made France great were of this type,
and it plays the same part in England,
Germany, and America. Near these come
the Semitic and Mediterranean races, who
had reached high grade of civilization
when the blond dolichocephalic peoples
were still savages. The heremaindero of man.
kind must be reckoned the passive races.
The brachycephalic races of Europe, the
Celto-Slavs, rarely produce men of the
first intellectual type. In the social chang
es of recent years brachycephalic men,
who form the lower classes, have been
elevated and brought forward, and herein,
the lecturer thought, lies the great danger
of the future deterioration of the French
MISUNDERSTANDING American.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-22

WHAT 1T REALLY MEANs.-Did you
ever think what it really means to be a
"tramp?" No home, no friends, no work,
no chance, nobody in the wide world to
care whether you live, or die in the gut
ters like dog. No heaven for such vags
to inherit; no decent grave to hide them
out of sight; no opportunity to be any
thing, and no hand stretched out to give
the greeting or the good-by of love. No
body to feel an interest in you, whether
your bones ache from cold or your skin
cracks with fever. No spot in all the world
to call your own, not even the mud where
in your wandering footsteps, leave their
feeting mark; no prospect ahead, and no
unbroken link to bind you to the past.
A name like curse to blight every hope
of manhood, and reputation, like ball
and chain on your leg, to hinder the way
to any good accomplishment. I tell you
when we sit right down to it, and figure
out what it really means to be a tramp. /
guess we will not find it so easy to with
hold piece of bread and cup Of coffee
next time one calls at our door.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-22

GRACEFULNEss-ITs BEST TEACHER
Nature will generally be found to be one
of the best teachers of gracefulness. No
artificial rules can teach US the exact
amount of force requisite for the various
motions and attitudes we assume. The
infant in his innocent glee, and the child
in his bounding sports, are seldom ungrace-
full. 1t is when we contract an excessive
self-consciousness, and think more of the
appearances we make than of the objects
we desire to accomplish, that we become
the most ungraceful.
The shy and bashful man knows not how
to manage his hands and feet, because he
is thinking so constantly of them; but if
he would withdraw his mind from his
own appearance, and fix it upon the best
means of accomplishing his purposes, a
more natural manner would pervade his
actions, and he would lose much of his
awkwardness. The principal reason why
education and culture confer grace of
manner is, that they teach the best way to
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-22

RIVERS SwERvING TO THE WEsT.-It
appears that the western and southwestern
bank of the Rio Grande is the one which
suffers most from the abrasion of the cur
rent Why does the river show this ten
dency to work to the westward? Some
thing like this appears in the case of the
Mississippi. Formerly the river had its
principal debouchmenti into the esea through
bayou Manchac and the lakes. In the
course of time that route was abandoned
for the one now known as the main river,
which is very considerably to the west
ward of the old outlet. In the meantime
the river has shown disposition to trans
fer it's channel still further to the west
ward through the Atchafalaya. Can it be
made to appear from these facts that there
is a tendency in great rivers flowing in
general directions along. meridians of the
earth's longitude to swerve to the west
ward? Can it be held that because the
rotation of the earth on its axis to the east
ward the weight of the water in such lon
gitudinal rivers is thrown by the centri-
fugal force against the western bank so as
to abrade them with incresed energy and
effect ?-[New Orleans Picayune.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-22

A CONVINCING ARGUMENT.-Dr. Vim
cent says that he never denounces people
for playing at cards, dancing and theatre
going, because they are not absolutely,
but relatively wrong. But he leaves the
adoption of these amusements to the judg-
ment of the young people in this way:
II draw a picture of Rev. DR.. John Hall,
Bishop Matthew Simpson and D. L. Moody
sitting down together and shutfling cards
for an evening", dancing themselves red
with half-dressed women, or going to the
theatre. They always seem shocked at
the mere mention of such conduct by such
Christians. But I ask them if they don't
want as good place in heaven as bishop
shall have. And then tell them that if
they can approve of these amusements
in church leaders, then of course they may
ask the leaders to approve the same in
them; otherwise, not" 1t is good put
ting of the issue.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-22
LIFE RECOLLECTIONS.

How many people complain that they
do not succeed in life like others around
them. A large majority regard the attain
ment of wealth as the most satisfactory
reward of life's labors, because they fancy
that this is the key that will unlock all
other avenues to happiness in life. was
conversing some time ago with man OF
wealth, whom Isupposed was really one OF
the haDpiest of men he had worked his
way up in the battle of life to position of
wealth and influences; he had splendid
mansion we'll fitted up for pleasant life.
He said, ut is great mistake to sup
pose that money gives man happiness:
1t is not so. l have got all l need, and
yet | am far from being happy have a
skeleton in the closet that the world does
not see." A writer in New York paper
puts it about right. He says:
"The man who is dependent on his dali
ly earnings for the food he eats and the
clothes he wears, is one of the vast MAORI
ty who are now living, according to an
old-fashoned but very striking phrase,
from hand to mouth a foolish fellow
who fancied that work under want as a
taskmaster was degrading, took great
casion, with his statement that he chose
HIS CtllSlly q VI tSStN
alton, and that he followed it solely for
the benefit of his health. a sturdy me-
chanic in the country remarked that, he,
too, worked at his trade solely to protect
his health. His whole life, he claimed,
had been given to toll for sanitary reasons,
for if he did not work he would starve!
What was true of him is the law of life.
"The desire to do away or suspend this
common law, and to provide for all-re-
naming years, bya gathering of means
that shall make want impossible, thus en-
abling the possessor, as he thinks, to in
sure his needs, without further cost or
trouble to himself, is the prolific source of
discomfort, since there are few who can
crafty it, and when the limit marked at
the outset has been reached, the feeling of
sec1ritv is still az far off as ever. lie who
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-22

Now IS THE TIME.-Just at this time
there are some moral questions being pro-
pounded to our people which must be an
swered. If the best interest of the coun-
try is to be protected it must be by the
united solid forces Of people who claim to
be in favor Of it, and this. s.cannot be unless
religious people will vote despite all to
the contrary in favor of what their best
Judgment tells them is right. We can
never expect legislation in favor of morals
and good government as long as those who
claim to be its friends vote for men who
are opposed to it. .
Consistent legislation is the result of
consistent voting. Let every man think
of this [Lowndesville Advertiser.
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use our powers so as to economize their
force; and leading us out of ourselves,
they rivet our attention on what is before
us, thus working with Nature rather than
striving to supercede her.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-22

GOOD HEALTH AND WoRK.-There are
many persons in the world whose only cap
ital is health. They are engaged in work
lasts they earn a good living. They must
learn how to avoid illness by living in
the rightway. There are others who have
lived wrongly in youth, but have found
out their errors in time to have fairly
good constitution left. These may live to
a ripe old age, BEAUTIFULLY, if they only
take care. There are still others with
everything that riches can give; these
must learn to live rightly, too, if they want
to be we'll. Plain food, exercise, etc., will
enable these to live long, as they are not
troubled by the necessity of work so that
they may live. Wealth comes not from
our income, but from the amount we save
of it; so health comes not from the amount
we have to 90 on with, but from the
amount we save, by not spending it on
tritles which waste our strength and give
us no return.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-22

hE There are men in the world of so
little importance that they have no enc
miles, New Orleans Picayune.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-22

RUBBING OFF RoUGlI EDGEs.-Some
men, fond of reading and of scholarly
turn of mind, make a great mistake in
leading the exclusive lives they do. Every
man is better for associating with people,
and the wise man while never ceasing to
love his books and studies, will find him
self wiser and his mind healthier if he
goes forth into the big world and, so to
speak, gets next to the great popular
heart. When man associates with his
fellow, the rough edges of his nature are
worn off and good deal of nonsense is
knocked out of him.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-22

sa% Be thankful every time friend de-
serts you, and thus forces you to strength
en- yourself.