The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-04-06
VOLUME o---No. 90.
ALI Sorts Of Items.

ALI Sorts Of Items.
"A sermon In four words on the tsnity aa
earthly possessions-shroudsh have no pockets.
IA politician Is man who thinks Of the
next election while stateaman thinm Of tbs
NEXT generation.
Mrs. Grady, of Staten Islands, has just
given birth to four boys. Mother and children
are doing well, but the father is very sick.
We are told there is nothing made in vain,
But how about pretty young girl9 Isn't she
maiden vain?
-Josh Billings insists 'tit Is stadstistikal
fakt, the wicked work harder teW reach hsll
than the righteous do tew git to heaven"
- 1t is the opinion of the doctor that the
lawyer gets his living by plumber, while tho
lawyer knows the doctor get his by pillage.
- 1t may not be generally known that edia
tors get one important item of subsistence at
low price-they get bored for nothing:
- Statistics show that out of more THAI six
thousand persons known to have been struck
by lightning, about one-fourth of that nttnbef
were struck under trees.
"A man who was brought tp at ono Of
the police Offices for asssulting and nearly Ill.
ling woman, excused himself by saying that
he thought it was his wife.
A man was arrested at Rochester, on COM
plant of his wife, for not supporting her.
His reply to the charge was, he was willing TO
support his wife, but was not willing to support
the whole neighborhood and do his own cooka
ing and washing and ironing,
: The London Cosmopolitan proposes tho
following marriage VOW for its lady readers,
when occasion requires 'T will continue to
love my husband so long as he is lovable, hon.
or him so long as he remains honorable, and
obey him 80 long as his commands are Just and
reasonable"
"A Mobile negro, who had twenty cents
worth of powder in his pocket, put red-hot
pipe in there with it. Chow is that for hight"
was the remark of an old seven-up player, -
the form of the colored man became like spsck
in the sky. There is one vacant chair and
vacant hat at his late residence.
- Judge Barnard, of New York, has decided
that if man and woman publicly live togeth.
er as husband and wife, and acknowledge the
marital relations, it Is not necessary that b
formal marriage ceremony should have besa
performed to entitle the rephted wife to all her
legal rights.
"A pedant coming upon youthful angler
sitting on the bank of a stream, thus addressed
him. Adolescence, art thou not endeavoring
to entice the fnny tribe to engulf into their
denticulated mouths barbed hook, upon
whose point is affixed dainty allurementT
NO." said the boy, "I'm 6shin'."
- Tact, says an exchange, is that peculiar
skill, that nice perception, and that ready
adaptation, which secures success. It may be-
improved by observation and experience, bnt
in its essence it is unborn and never acquired
A German infantry soldier, complaining
of the many marches and counter marches 70
which he had been subjected, exclaimed. III
this were done in the cavalry it would be call.
ed cruelty to the animals, and there would be
indignant protests against it, but when forced
upon us poor men it is simply called sendu.
rance ="
"A few days since Waterbury (Conn.)
lawyer returned to the railroad ticket agent at
that place 81, overpaid him in making changes
For moment the agent stood speechlessj
then, as the tears poured down his cheeks, ne
grasped him by the hand and exclaimed \
"Please stand one moment, Sir, and letme look
at you-and lawyer. tooP
"A Kansas City editor, who employs
Chinese laundryman, Is in panic. Hear
him: 'Thsy sent home with our washing yes
terday thing that branches off in two Ways,a
little below the top, like. q railway Junction,
and has puckered frills edged with letting, on
each end of the divide. We don't know what
it is, and we're poor, friendless man, With
OILY our VllLu63 auQ uOu6 Uut tuialuh Wuuio
seek to injure that III
DIR. Dio Lewis, in his new book entitled
"Our Girls" advocates the use Of SUN baths
in summer, saying: zone good bath in the
sunshine is worth more than many baths in
no doubt regarding the beneficial influence of
the solar rays upon the unclothed human body,
but the difficulty is how to get such bath
without being liable to the interference Of tho
police. ~
= The Biddeford, Me-, journal says family,
troubled by neighbor in the same building
borrowing things without leaysi in their absence,
lately tried the experiment Of leaving their
kerosene can filled with water. The lady of
the other part of house, not long after, called
in to inquire where they bought their kefo.
sene, for hers wouldn't burn. She had wastsd
nearly bunch of matches, but could not light
her lampl
The Norchwich Comm B,tllctia tells
pathetic little story about pigeon which De-
came fastened by long string hanging from
its leg to telegraph wire on Main street, ih
that city. Two or three cruel boys wanted to
throw stones at it, but kind gentleman, tell
ing them not to hurt the poor bird, got ladder
and carefully unwound the string and put the
frightened, Auttering little creature tenderly
into his bosom while he descended. The next
evening he remarked that it had made much
nicer pie than he expected.
"A remarkable family in Tennessee Is that
of VIM. B. Walker, who is So years old and HIS
wife II. This aged couple have IA Children,
"a grandchildren, As great grandchildren and
two great great grand-children-in all 1872 de-
scendants. Both are able to superintend do
mestic affairs and as they have lived to ses
their fourth generation, they can truly say,
"Arise, my daughter, and so to thy daughter,
for thy daughters daughter has daughter"
and likewise son. !si:.
SLEEP AS A MEDIC1NE-The cry for rest has
always been louder than the cry for food, not
that 1t is more important but it is eften harder