The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-10-27

When is the wind like newspaper? when
it puffs.
= Chicago has so much Cincinnati whiskey
on hand that she has found it necessary to inn
port number of Cincinnati editors to drink it
out of the way.
What a contrast there sometimes is be-
tween the adjective and its adverb: Reflect,
for example, on the wide difference that exists
between man who is constant in love, and the
man who is constantly in love!
Talk about your mitrailleuse, that dis
charges forty balls at one discharge, there is a
man in Jersey that keeps a laundry, that dis
charged fifty-fve girls at one discharge. He
got some Cinnamon to take their places.
Any gentleman who is unable to keep q
horse can receive all the exhilerating effects of
horse exercise any night, by eating quart or
so of raw chestnuts. Oh, no, he won't have
any nightmare, won't 80.
Poetry is the flower of literature; prose
the corn, potatoes and meat; satire is the aqua
fortis; wit is the spice and pepper; love letters
the honey and sugar; and letters containing
rcmittances the apple dumplings. So says an
exchange.
An old lady of Connecticut, who lost her
purse short time since at New Haven, de-
clared, on its being restored to her. that she
would not attempt to interfere with the reward
which was stored up in heaven for the finder,
by offering him money. >,
= Some years ago the New York Herald
suggested that the public debt be paid by vol
untary contributions from the people. The
scheme, we are glad to say, is about to succeed.
Fifteen cents of the necessary amount have al
ready been received at Washington.
- The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that where business men had on
hand, on the 1st of October, any amount OF
blank receipts with two cent stamps imprinted
thereon, they can be allowed to exchange them
for equal value of revenue stamps of any de-
nomination they select This action is caused
by the law, which went into effect on the LIST OF
October, abolishipg stamps on receipts.
He who cannot find time to consult his
Bible will one day 6ud that he has time to be
sick; he who has no time to pray must find
time to die; he who can find no time to reflect
is most likely to find time to SIN; he who can
find no time for repentance will find an eter-
nifty in which repentance will be of no avail
he who cannot find time to work for others
may find an eternity in which to suffer for
himself
"A gentleman was seated with other per-
sons in room where country girl sat bolt up
right and utterly silent. Silence indeed tell
upon the entire party, and the gentleman first
alluded to said, in which ne supposed TO De an
almost inaudible tone of voice:
lawful pauseP
"T guess Mister" exclaimed the indignant
country lass, jumping up, you'd have awful
paws too if you had to do the scrubbing that L
does" =,
- Hon. Thomas Ewing, of Lancaster, is said
to be the oldest living Ex-United States Sena-
tor having entered the Senate in 1881. he was
born at West Liberty, Ohio county, Virginia,
twelve miles northwest of Wheeling, Decem-
Der %, 1889; consequently he is nearly eighty
one years old. He came to Ohio, when child,
his father first settling at the mouth of Olive
Green Creek, near the north line of Waterford
township, this county, whence he moved, in
1898, to the present township of Ames, in
Athens county-CSncinnati Times.
1t is generally believed that the Govern
ment holds the Arlington estate, by the Con-
fiscation Act, which if true, the property would
now revert to the widow of General Lee. The
property was left by Mr.. Custis to Mrs Lee
his daughter has a life interest, and at her
death to Gusts and Fitz Hugh Lee, grandsons.
The taxes being unpaid, during the war, it be-
came the property of the United States, by the
tax purchase, and is now held by the tax title.
Effort have been made to redeem it, but with
out avail The best part of the estate is now
covered hv the National cemetery