The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-03-13
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ALI Sorts of Paragraphs.
= What grows bigger the more you contract
| it7 Debt.
= Hotel keepers are people we have to "pnt
}sup with"
/. - Heart disease is becoming the leading
national ailment,-
= When may ship at sea be said not to be
on water? When she is on fire.
= Nine months of the year in Nebraska IS
Summer, and the rest is mighty late In the
| spring.
If a ventriloquist throws his voice away
from him, how can he expect to carry on his
profession
i Use turpensine freely down the back as
soon as the first symptoms OF menlngltls are
manifest.
The bed to be avoided next to an onion
bed, is probably the bed of the river-unless
one is partial to sheets of water.
- Barnum is trying to secure, for his show,
man who does not blame his wife for every
thing that goes wrong about the house.
= New Orleans newsboys increase their
profits by selling old newspapers to colored
members of the Legislature without being de-
tected. =,
| - When children are blessed with correct
and wholesome examples, they need not read
1
proper.
ces for advice, to relatives for nothing, and you
will always have supply specially OF advice
and nothing.
A prophet aas been travelling in Kentucky
announcing the destruction of the world in
| 1873. He pays his own expenses and asks Tor
no contributions.
| "A sweet little boy, only eight years old
bless its little heart-walked into the scene OF
teachers examination at Oswego last week,
and bawled out: "Annie, your Teller IS down
to the houseP
= After the fifth year it is a good rule for
parents to count.their children's teeth occasion,
| ally, and when more than five teeth are found
on either jaw, they may know that the last one
belongs to the second set.
"A police officer in LOWELL Mass, who got
drunk and assaulted his wife with revolver in
each hand, knocking her down eight times, is
spoken of as "a very respectable man." They
have strange standards Of responsibility In
Lowell.
An old Palmyra Indiana, farmer, lately
perdicted that deer would be as plenty as sheep
in that vicinity this winter. This gave an
impetus to the ammunition trade, until some
one searching after mutton ascertained that
there were only two sheep in the county;
= The first cotton mill ever established in
the Northwest was opened in Jonesville. Michl-
gan, few days ago: The occasion was cele-
brated by ball and banquet, which was at
tended BY 600 persons. The company has
capital Of 100000, and is engaged in the
manufacture of brown sheetings.
= Monticello the estate of Thomas Jefier-
son, subsequently owned by Commodore Levy,
and by the lattes bequeathed in trust for farm
school for the orphans sons of warrant officers
in the navy, is row in litigation at Richmond,
between the State of Virginia as trustee and
heirs of Commodore Levy.
For preserving hams and shoulders, take
ground black Fepper--a quarter OF pound
will do for two hundred weight, though little
more or less will do no harm sprinkle hrst
with pepper until black, and then salt in the
usual way. This method of preserving meat
adds much to its flavor.
- "What's the matter with Augustus 2"
| asked one friend of another. "He's gone in
sanep "Bless mel how happened that 2"
"Why, you see, he parts his hair in the middle,
and the other day he happened to get five more
hairs on one side than on the other, and the
inequality overthrew the balance of his BRAIN"
= 1t would be very encouraging to the Good
Templars, to be informed by the local papers,
that the city of Columbia had 100000 gal
Ions of water on hand" if it were not strong
indication that che people of that city had en-
tirely abandoned the use of that fluid as bev-
erage. For washing purposes, however, we be-
lieve it is still used to limited extent.
"A Western paper has the following:. "a
lady writes to know if it is proper-it it is lady
like-to retaliate by squeezing back when q
man squeezes her hand. Well, you might
squeeze easy-jrst enough to let him know that
YOU are not disposed to be mean about it. But
don't turn round and ask him, How is that
for high p or he might think you too forward"
= Dennison, Texas, was wilderness five
months ago. Now it has apopulation OF forty
| FIVE. hundred; aouses are going up IN all dl-
rections; its streets are one hundred feet wide;
hotel containing one hundred rooms is nearly
completed, and shere are three banks, an opera
house, and an immense freight depot.
- DR.. J. S. Barnwell, Of Beaufort, S. G., is
now visiting the Northern cities for the purpose
of bringing the gacts Of the advantages of seri-
! culture before the manufacturers interested in
silk, with view of establishing silkworm
nursery at Beaufort In colonial times this was
q business of great profit in South Carolina.
Mr.. E. n. Davis, Mississippi planter,
having large tract of unproductiye land on
his hands, did not sit down and bemoan the
hard times and growl at the negroes, but quiet
ly divided it up into small farms, erected little
comfortable holses on each, then secured
twelve families from North Carolina to occupy
them, and already is rejoicing in the success OF
his experiment.
General Colston, formerly of the Confed-
crate army, and at present in charge OF mill.
tary school in Wilmington, has been offered
by the Khedive of Egypt charge of the Militia
ry Academy at Cairo, and, besides, place on
the staff of General Stone, an old Federal
soldier who is serving in that country, the two
positions being worth about four thousand dol