The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-07-20
A Hibernian orator. speaking of suicie

"A Hibernan orator, speaking of suicide,
said: The only way to stop it is to make it q
capital offence punishable with death.
MANY child sings 81 want to be an an
gel who would be more satisfactory if he
wanted 70 be good boy.
- CARLYLE SAYS: Make yourself good
man, and then you may be sure that there is
one rascal less in the world"
- He that studies books alone will know
how things ought to be; and he that studies men
will know how things are.
"A Georgia man incurred the derision of
his townsmen by shooting at his wife twenty
seven times without hitting her.
- A Wisconsin postmaster has written to
Washington for "some eternal reyenu stomrs,"
saving lie has 'seyeral cols for them"
= 4 kiss is the alnIs which cnriches him
who receives without impoycrishing her who
gives. >.
! = 1t is unjust to blame a man who doesn't
advertise because his prices are high. He has
TO make them high because his sales are so
small.
y Young ladies should bear in mind that
Diana, Duchess of Nalentinois, celebrated
beauty in an age of beauties, preserved her
GOOD looks by washing her face in rain water,
and taking outdoor exercise in the morning be-
fore the dew had left the ground
"A remarkable preacher was that who
called upon his congregation to be thankful
that Providence should have placed death at
the end of life and not in the middle, so that
we might have all possible time to prepare for
it.
"A Dutchman was relating his marvellous
escape from drowning, when theirteen of his
companions were lost by the upsetting of a
boat and he alone escaped. "And how did
you escape their fate?" asked one of his hear
ers. ri did not go in tie pote," was the Dutch
mans placid reply.
A story is going the rounds of an old col
ored man who was left in charge of a telegraph
office in New Orleans, while the operator
event out to see man." A 'call" came over
the wires, and Uncle Pete shouted at the in
strument rs loud as he could, Ode operator
isn't yer?" The wire ceased instanter.
- The Cincinnati Gazette thin ks that the
great need of the country is not schools OF the
fine arts, but of the mechanic arts; schools to
train boys and girls to earn a living. The
great educational problem is how to direct
school education to the great necessity of labor
And one of the greatest labor problems, is,
how shall the rising generation learn the trades
they must follow for Il living?
- The Newbern IN. C) Republican is au-
thority for the statement that one Edward
Brown, of Pitt County, was lately found in a
settlement made by himself in dense thickct
near river, whittier he had fled during the
rebellion, fearing that he would be drafted into
the army The party which caught him chased
him to his hiding-placc, when he showed light
and swore that he would not enter the army.
When told, however, that the war was over he
10, "
undoubtedly were Ku Klux of the high-handed
sort. During the eight years of his hermit life
he had forgotten much of his mother tongue,
hardly retaining moro Of it than TO swear
with.
: In recent speech at the Cooper Union,
in New York, Mr.. Peter Cooper, its founder,
gave expression to some sound ideas about the
accumulation of property, which we COM
mcnccd TO the attention Of our readers. He
said that he had learned the lesson that 'thc
hand of the diigcnt makcth rich," and pro-
cccdctl TO ascribc the possession OF the wealth
he owned primarily to the habit. OF patient in
lustry which lie had formed at the outset of
his career. From his early youth he had avoid
ed. he affirmed alcoholic liquors and the incur
ring of debt, and he had always made ita rule
to cndcavor to keep a little ready money on
hand. In addition he had cssaycd to advance
himself in knowledge, and asserted that it was
in the efforts that he was compel ed to make in
this direction in his youth that he formed the
resolution TO found al institution at which the
young people of the working class could ac;;
auirc that acquaintance with their business and
with science which is absolutely indispensable
10 success in life He paid m exceedingly y
warm tribute to his wife who, he said, had been
industrious, diliecnt wise. faithful and allec-