The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-08-09
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SCRAPS. Facts and Fancies.

Scraps, Facts and Fancies.
"A Troy negro recently fell from a
third story window to the pavement ana
saved his life by striking head first
1t is better to love the person you
cannot marry, than to marry the person
you cannot love.
-aMr. swipes, I've just kicked your
son William out of my store" Well Mr.
swingle, it's the first bill you've footed
this many day"
"A peddler5 st Cedar Falls, Iowa, as
sumed female apparel, and went lound
selling the ladies corsets and such things,
fitting. them, and soforth. The ladies did
not learn that he was man until he was
gone.
A spirit merchant in Killarney, Ire
land, has announced that he has on sale
small quantity of whisky which was
drank by che Prince of Wales when at
Killarney.
They have big snakes in Texas. One
ofthem measuring fourteen feet and sevon
inches in length, entered house near the
bay shore at Galveston, and, finding a leg
of mutton, swallowed it.
There are good many people in the
world who spend half their time in think
ing what they youzd do if they were rich,
and the other half in conjecturing what
they shall do as they are not.
"A young girl of st. Louis recently
married to. win bet she had made Of
twenty dollars. Husband proving lndif-
ferent she has applied for divorce.
A young lady said to her beau as she
held pot of hot water in her hand,-
nPromise to marry me or I'll scald 5ou."
-@Throw the water" he replied, " I had
rather be scalded once than every day in
my life."
The Rev. Paul Hamilton, an English
clergyman, on receiving the presentation
to the church and parish of Broughton,
near Edinburg, recently preached fare
well sermon to the ladies of Ayr; and, not
alittle surprise of his audience, gave out
his text: "And they fell upon Paul's neck
and kissed him."
"A crowdwas attracted to Jones wood,
N. J., on the 4th, to witness man drive
six trained geese, harnessed to wash-tub,
across the river. A paddle was used to
steer the tub and also to tap the geese on
the head when disposed to leap out of
harness.
The following letter was written
by father to his son in college:
"MY DEAR SoN-I write to send you
your new socks which your mother has
just knit by cutting down some of mine.
Your mother sends you ten dollars with
out my knowledge, and for fear you would
Rot spend it wisely, I kept back half, and
only. send you FIVE. Your own mother
and I are we'll, except that your sister has
got the measels, which we think would
spread among the other girls if Tom had
not had them before, and he is the only
one left. Ihope you will do honor to my
teaching, if you are donkey, and your
mother and myself are your affectionate
parents"
There is a woman residing out West
who can plow, fish, nurse and sing all at
once. She yokes the oxen to the plow,
then slowing her twin babies in corn
basket, supends it to tree; attaches the
COW bell to the end of her fishing rod,
which is forced into the ground at the
waters edge, she then drives the team, and
every time she comes opposite her ba-
bies the serial cradle receives a send,
which keeps it vibrating until she per-
forms another circuit around her Gland"
practicing in the meantime various pieces
of sscaed music; and ifa thoughtless fish
swallows her baited hook, the obedient
bell informs her, when she sails across
the field and straitway hauls the victim
ashore.
INCREDIBLE MEANNEss.--An incident
of the Portland fire, illustrating a very
small soul, is told by The Press of that