The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-02-09

"A party in Louisville advertises trunks
you can throw out of fourth story window
without injury"
"A little one, after undergoing the unpeas-
ant operation of vaccination, exclaimed: Now
1 won't have to be baptized, will II"
"A Richmond woman asked for divorce,
saying that she has not seen her husband since
he murdered her father.
An exchange says that the reason school
boys delight to dig and explore caves is because
of the recesses there.
- The obse:vant Josh Billings says "Men
seem to me nowadays to be divided into slow
Christians and wide-awake sinners"
- An exchange proposes law to compel
men to vote Better enforce the law which
prevents people from voting more than once.
"A word of kindness is seldom spoken in
| vain. 1t is seed which, even when dropped
by chance, springs up flower.
- One of the neatest toasts ever given
"Woman-the last word on our lips, because it
comes from the bottom of our hearts"
- BY tight squeezing, Massachusetts, young
man got himself into a house of correction.
He embraced an unwilling young lady on the
street.
An Irishman recently soliloquized: "What
waste O. money to be buying mate when you
spind it for rum that hasn't bone in it.
= Mr.. Carver, doing the honors of the table,
said to one of his guests, fashionably dressed
of breast, Miss but do have q little more dress
ing"
- As general rule, the better care man
takes of his body. in feeding it with skill,
clothing it with discretion, and giving it due
and refreshing sleep, the more work he can d.
and higher the quality of his work.
= Snooks was advised to get his life insured.
| "Won't do it," said he; "it would be just my
merely said, "Well, then, wouldn't, my dear"
- An English chemist has been experiment.
ing for the purpose of ascertaining how
much of various kinds of food mus! be eaten
in order to make one pound of flesh. He
pounds of milk, 100 of turnips, so of potatoes,
so of carrots, 9 of oatmeal, I! of barley-meal
and 3! of peas or beans.
- The Governor of Massachusetts, recon-
menLs change in the divorce laws of the
State, so as to put an end to the scandal of
removing to Indiana for the purpose of escap-
ing marriage" Some people will tell you that
it is a greater scandal to stay in Massachusetts
than to remove to Indiana for any purpose
whatever. 1t is probably not true, though.
A lady inscribed on pane of glass in
one of the windows of hotel parlor in Wash
ington, "Mr. =" naming certain member
of Congress, 'has the softest lips that ever
pressed those of beauty" newspaper cor
respondent coming into the room soon after,
and, seeing the declaration, wrote underneath {:
"Then as like as two chips
Are his head and his lips"
- The South has another new agricultural
topic besides the cultivation of tea the cultiva-
tion of the poppy. The experiment which has
set Southern farmers to arguing that the rails
ing of this plant would be extremely pref able,
was lately tried by a Louisiana farmer, who
raised poppies enough on seven acres of ground
to yield him one hundred and forty pounds of
marketable opium. This he sold at an average
of ten dollars per pound.
- The Microscope has found a new field in
the diagnosis of consumption. 1t is claimed
that this disease, if present, can thus be detect
ed, in the excretions from the lungs of persons
supposed to be affected with it. We regard this
discovery as of the utmost importance, for the
ordinary methods of examination often fail to
detect this disease in its early and remedabe
stages
The latest reports from Texas announce
that State to be in IL prosperous condition.
There are at the present time over fifteen
hundred miles OF railroad in operation and in
progress of building, when at the close of the
war less than four hundred and fifty miles
were in existence. Greenhacks are exceptions,
gold and silver being the ordinary currency
Stock-raising and bcefpacking ARE the main.
occupations. New railroads are being laid out
constantly, and some of them are very proita-
BILE.