Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-12

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full of tiny eyeless fish.
The avenues in the cave will Measure in
all probability about seven miles, so that
may be fairly considered another rival
to the Mammoth, and certainly n ofthe
MANY great cave wonders of Kentucky,
the country of caves. The ave is about
thirty-seven miles southwest Of Louisville
and seventy miles from the Mammoth
Cave.
SETTLING A RAILROAD LOss.-"I was
attorney for the - railroad twenty years
ago." said a Detroit lawyer yesterday,
'sand one day went out to settle a loss with
a m She and her husband had been
struck at a crossing and while she was
badly hurt, he was killed outright, and the
horses and buggy smashed to pieces. They
had the dead wood on us for SIS, 900, as the
engineer did not signal the crossing. l
went out to make an offer of about ST. ,OOO.
The widow was not able to set up and l
stopped at a store in the village and bought
some oranges and lemons and took them
When we finally got around to the
matter of damages she said:
eyes, it is a sad thing, and the railroad
was to blame, but I don't want to be mean
about it. I suppose the president and all
of 'em are worried most to death, and L
suppose T could stop all the cars from run
ming, but T want to be just. Your bring
ing up that fruit proves how kindhearted
you all are, and if you could afford to give
made her accept $1,000, and took her
the money myself. When she received it
she asked:
won't the road be crippled ~ ss: Z
ooh ! no."
Cars run just the same'"
eyes"
"And none of your folks are mad at
me?"
mo" :
"Well, then, I'll take it, but if the road
get hard up and want to borrow,
it'll find me ready to end."-Detroit Free
Press.
LOCKED UP FOR COMPANY.-Among
the strange fetiches that survive among a
race otherwise civilized and refined is that
Of the parlor and best bedroom. These are
the largest, coolest and pleas
ATTEST rooms in the house, fitted with the
most attractive furniture, carpets, and pic
tures-and locked up for company. Was
ever such folly? A man who affords him
self an agreeable apartment puts himself
out of it and will not let himself in unless
the clergyman is there, or unless somebody
from 4 distant city or another
street.
It is better to turn the juvenile popula-
ion of the house into the parlor, to wear
the best carpets to shreds, to leave finger
marks on the mantel piece, to let them
Jump on the bed in the best room until it
has no more spring in it than a restaurant
,hicken-it is wiser to do this than to close
and sanctify these apartments, involving
them in solemnity, dampness and a stutfy
smell. Open the blinds and windows and
let the light and air in let the children in,
too, and live there yourself. Don't have
things too fine to use. If you W a piece
furniture that you think is too good for
you, and that you find you can't live up to
It, give it to a museum and have it put in
glass case, or, better, give it to a friend
who is not afraid of it, brooklyn Eagle.
BLACKBEARD, THE PIRATE.-Not far
from St. Simmons, Ga, is an island called
The name, it is said, origin
ated from a pirate called Blackboard, who
long ago inhabited it with his crew of des-
perate men. A long, black beard, flowing
to his waist, gave the pirate his name.
When the government dispatched vessels
with money to pay off the men sent
%colonize the State, these pirates would
lie in wait to secure the treasure at any
cost. Some years since a colored man was
blowing on this island, when his ploW-
share turned out 1000 in Spanish gold.
A crafty white man told him it was too old
to be good, and that he would give him $3.50
for it. The offer was accepted, and when
it was beyond recall, the poor fellow found
out that he had been swindled. Even
now on the %neighboring island of Jeckyl
the trees are often found nOtched, and the
people suppose that these marks denote
the place where the treasure booty of the
old pirate is buried. Blackboard did not
live to be very old. A vessel coming by
attacked by the pirate and his men,
when the captain of the beseiged vessel
fired upon him and killed him.-[Chicago
Herald.
RIVERS SWERVING TO THE WEST.-lt
appears that the western and southwestern
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 debouchmentintot the sea through
Manchac and the lakes. In the
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 a disposition to trans
fer its channel still further to the west
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
Can it be held that because
the rotation of the earth on its axis is to
the eastward the weight of the water in
such longitudinal rivers is thrown by the
centrifugal force against the western bank
so as to abrade them with increased ener-
gy and effect?-[New Orleans Picayune.
nag If a man is good for anything in this
world he will die leaving a large share of
his planned and attempted work untinish-
ed. Whether he dies early OF late, it will
make no difference at this point. The
more he does, the more he will see that
needs doing, and that he thinks he can
have a part in. If he should live a centu-
ry it would be still the same. Let no man,
therefore, worry over the fact that he may
die before he has finished the things he
has in hand to do. If he shouldever come
to the point where he has nothing more
that he wants to finish before he dies,
he would already have lived too long.
~ Wood wall paper is cut to the thick
ness of paper, and by a peculiar process is
stuck on the paper, which serves as a pro-
against the influence of the walls
the granting and color of the wood. So
delicate is the machinery for forming the
veneer that 200 leaves may be cut out of an
inch square of maple wood, and 125 out of
wood of open grain, such as oak and nut