Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-01-18
TO BE CONTINUED.

TO BE CONTINUED.
Wisesllaneol1s 8eadimg.
CURIOUS OLD ALMANACS.
With the beginning of the year we
all betake ourselves to new almanacs.
And these almanacs of ours are very
di. .crent from those of the Fifteenth
or Sixteenth century. Here is the
title page of one of them:
ga Prognossication and an Alma
mack fastened together, declaring the
Dispocission of the People and also of
the Weather, with certain Electyons
and Tymes chosen both for Phisike
Surgerye, and for the husbandmen.
And also for the HAWKING, Huntyng,
Fishyng and Foulynge, according to
the Science of Astronomy, made for
the Yeare of our Lord God NJ. D. L.,
Calculed for the Merydon of Yorke,
and practised by Anthony Askham."
AT the end "Imprynted at London,
in Flete Strete, at the Signe. of the
George, next to Saint Dunstan's
Church, by Wyllyam Powell, cum
privilegio ad imprimendum solum."
Then follows the Representation,
the title page to which is as follows:
"a Representation for the Yere
of our Lord M.CCCCC.L., Calculed
upon Merydyan of the ToWne of An
warpe and the Country thereabout,
by Master Peter of Moorbeeke, Doc
tour in Physicke of the same Towne.
whereunto is added the judgment Of
M. Cornelius Schultz, Doctour in
Physicke of the Towne of Bruges in
Flanders, upon and concerning the
Disposition, Estate and Condicion of
certaine Prynces, Contreys, and Re-
gions, for the present Yere, gathered
cute of his Representation for the
same Yere. Translated cute of Ducth
into Englyshe by William Harrys."
At the end, "Imprynted at London
by John Daye, dWellyne over AL
dergate, and Wyllyam Seres, dwell
lyme in Peter Colledge. These books
are to be sold at the News Shop by
Lytle Londuyte in Chepesyde."
And here another:
"An Almanacke and Prognostica-
tion for the Yeare of our Lorde
MDLI., practysed by Simon Hen
ringius and LodoWdyke Boyard,
Doctors in Physike and Astronomye,
&c. At Woscester in the Hygh
Strete."
And opothor.
ga New Almanacke and Prognos-
ticatiOn, Collected for the Yere of
our Lord MDLVIII., wherein is ex-
pressed the Change and Full of the
Moone, with their Quarters. The
Varletie of the Ayre, and also of the
Windes throughout the whole Yere,
with Unfortunate times to Bic and
Sell, take Medicine, Sowe, Plant, and
Journey, &c. Made for the Meridi-
an Of Norwich and Pole Arctickle
LII. Degrees, and serving for all
England. By William Kenning-
ham, Physician. IMPRINTED alton
don by John Daye, dwelling over
Aldersgate."
DR.. John C. Kuykendal, of York
vile, S. c., is the possessor of
tolerably we'll preserved copy of
"Hodge's North Carolina Almanack
for the year of our Lord 1897, being
the first after Bisextile or Leap
Year, and the 21st-22nd of Ameri-
can Independence; containing the
Lunations, Risings and Settings of
the Sun, Moon and Seven Stars, Solar
and Lunar Eclipses, Remarkable
Days, Festivals, &c. Also variety
Of useful and amusing Articles. CAL
culated for the State of North Car
olina, being precisely adapted to
the Meridian and Latitude of the
City of Raleigh, but will serve with
out sensible error for any of the
States adjacent. BY William Thom-
as, Asst. Halifax: Printed and sold
by Abraham Hodge," This alma
nae contains 4S pages, embracing Sc
lections from London papers of that
day, political, anecdotal, agricultural
and statistical matter. The same
character Of advice and instruction
is given to the farmers that we now
daily meet with in the prints. The
compiler was evidently a political
economist, he giving table show
ing the expenses of the government
for the year 1795 to be 5,4Sl ,349 sin
dollars" and if startled at these
figures he evidently gained courage
in the computation of the limits of
the United States, which extended
from the river st. Lawrence to the
North of Florida at the South, and
West from the Atlantic ocean to the
river Mississippi, comprising $50, ,000,-
900 acres of land. In the statistics
of States South Carolina is put down
thus: Length, 200 miles; breadth,
1875; districts, ; counties, SO; inhab-
itants, 249,073. The humorist of that
day, as now, directed his shafts at the
lawyers and the foibles Of the fair
sex. The following is a specimen
of the wit then INDUCED at the eX-
pense of the legal fraternity:
"An attorney observed boy of
about nine years of age diverting
himself at play, whose eccentric ap-
pearance attracted his attention.
Come here, my lad, said he. The
boy came accordingly, and after chat
ting little, asked the attorney,
what case was to be tried neXt?'
"a case between the Pope and the
Devil answered the attorney
'and which do you think will gain
the action?' Il don't know IRE
piled the boy.) Il guess It will be
a pretty tight squeeze; the Pope has
the most money, but the devil has
the most lawyers.
ENOUGH CHINESE TO INVADE THE
WORLD.-A remark of the czar shows
that he is not ignorant of the Chi
,,aca ouactian Ifaaral11 &C It ralataS to