The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-09-14

"A writer on school discipline says =
"Without a liberal use of tho rod it is impossi-
BILE to make boys smart"
= An exchange says old age is to be respec-
ted. That depends whether it is applied to the
human race or to poultry.
"A guest at western hotel, finding hair
in the butter ordered the waiter to bring him
some "bald-headed butter"
"A Washington correspondent announces
that in that city you can get dozen cucumbers
and the cholera morbus for ten cents.
"A learned man has said that the three
hardest words to pronounce in the English lam
gauge are, II was mistaken"
Running accounts will run away with
PERSONS credit more rapidly than anything
else.
"A Western paper accuses contemporary
of "dirty meanness," and remarks: 1--WE want
him to understand that two can play at that
game"
"A LAWYER once wrote "rascal" in the hat
of brother lawyer, who, on discovering it, en-
tered complaint in open court against the
tresspasser, who, he said,. had not only taken
his hat, but had written his own name in it.
"A holy life is made up OF number OF
small things. Little words, not eloquent spec
ches or sermons; little deeds, not miracles, not
battles, nor one great heroic act or mighty mar
trydom, make up the true Christian life.
The following speech is attributed to q
member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania :
q, know wimen, Mr. Speaker l say it to no
disrcspect; know 'em have had heap to
do with 'em. They'er useful class, and-yet
with the best of 'em you may have trouble"
"A funny branch of the law had an Office
next door to doctors shop. One day an ell
derly gentleman of the old fogy school blum
dered into the shop. "Is the doctor in ?"-
'Don't live here" said the lawyer, Ooh |
thought this was his Office" "Next- door"
"Pray, sir, has the doctor many patients p "Not
living" The old gentleman told the story in
the vicinity, and doctor threatened the lawyer
with libel.
"A colored member of the Legislature of
Texas was met upon the street with large roll
of greenbacks in his hand, and cackling so loud
that he attracted the attention of the by-stand-
ers, who said to him: "What are you laughing
at, Jim?" Jim replied, HYou see that money!"
eyes" "Well, Boss, 1 just got that for my
vote; Ise been bought four or five times in
NV life, but dis is dc fust time l ever got de
cash myself?"
"A splendid story is told of Marshal Nc
Mahon when colonel. During parade he
had an alteration with an officer in the ranks,
who refused to obey him. McMahon finally
threatened the offender, and the latter, drawing
pistol, took deliberate aim and fired. Fortu-
nately, the cap snapped. Without the slight
est sign of fear, cool and impossible, McMahon
said, "6ive that man fifteen days in the guard
house-for having his arms out Of order?'
- The Brinly Plow Factory, in Louisville,
KY, manufactures twelve hundred plows per
week or fifty-sevcn thousand six hundred in
one year. The value of their annual product
amounts to two hundred thousand dollars, du
ring which time there is consumed seventy-fve
thousand feet of lumber, one hundred and fifty
tons pig iron, twenty tons of wrought iron
and eighty tons of steel.
The Chicago Republican says there has
been a recent judicial decision touching the tax
upon scgars, making it a penalty of fifty dollars
not to destroy the box after the segars have
been taken thcrefrom This applies not only
to the regular dcaler ia the article but to the
consumer; and the individual who has dozen
empty segar boxes kicking around" his house,
or in the possession of his children, had better
put his foot in thcm or institute savings bank
in order to meet the penalty. since the law does
not excusC ig1oranCe