The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-05-22
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

1t is sometimes preventative against
bleeding at the nose to keep out of other peo-
ple's business.
- The way to make mustard plaster, is to
mix up the mustard with the white Of an egg.
The result will be plaster that will draw but
not produce blister, even upon the skin OF an
infant.
Some people are never contented. After
having all their limbs broken, their heads
smashed, and their brains knocked out, they
will actually go to law and try to get further
damages.
Mrs. Stowe thinks, "with suitable instruc-
ton, alligators may yet be seen in the Leglsla-
ture. They certainly would not be more grasp
ing and voracious than many in the situation |;
and there is a fine openness about their man
ner of doing things that is prepossessing." Ah,
if we could only have them IN Congress, half
and half
"A rusty looking agriculturist entered a
newspaper Office recently, and, after looking
around earnestly enough to elicit an inquiry as
TO his business, said: aIt wasn't nothir much ;
but he had left g big cucumber here in the fall
for q, notice, and thought as how he was in
town, he might run in and get it, if he was
through with it." -
- Charles Kingsley says: eff you wish to be
miserable, you must think about yourself, about
what you want, what you like, what respect peo.
pie ought to pay to you, what people think OF
you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You
will spoil everything you touch you will make
sin and misery for yourself out of everything
God sends you you will be as wtetched as you
choose"
- President Grant, who declined to take q
tour through the Southern States on account of
official engagements, has been off 8 pleasure
excursion to the Rocky Mountains longer than
it would have required to taken run through
the South. Having given that excuse for not
visiting the South, he ought to have had the
decency to have stayed in Washington.
= At hotel, short time since, q girl in
quired of gentleman at the table if his cup
was out. mo" said he, "but my coffee is"
The poor girl went away considerably confused,
but determined to pay him in his own coin.
While at dinner the stage drove up, and several
coming in, the gentleman asked: "Does the
stage dine here 2" 'tNo, sir" replied the girl,
in sarcastic tone, ''but the passengers dop'
Quill pens which a few years ago were
despised as being of the old-fogy order, are
coming into favor again. This is partly owing
to the very inferior quality of many of the
kinds of steel pens to be now in the market,
and partly to the fact that most writers like to
snow GnaC .Lney are BOunu upOu tn3 SuOSo.
- Dom Piatt, contemplating the possibility
that Captain Jack will exterminate the Amerir
can people at the rate the very one-sided Modoc
war is going on, throws a sop to that ferocious
chief by saying that he desires it to be distinct
ly understood, before this thing goes any fur
ther, that Captain Jack has always been his
first choice for President.
Dress is mystery because it is natural
adjunct Of that greatest of all other mysteries
the mysterious woman. All women are mys-
terious, more OF. less, but we love them better,
and they love themselves better, and are more
amiable when conscious of pleasant presence
by the help of dress and culture; they know
that men who have great ambitions, and can
win fame, bow before them as worshippers.
The Boston Globe is of opinion that the
day is coming very soon when the West will
make its own shoes, cotton and woolen goods,
and nearly all articles of manufacture which
are now sent out from New England. The West
and the South ought to manufacture all the
articles named that they need. Instead of
sending raw cotton to New England and buying
goods manufactured there, the South should
send the article in its manufactured state, and
thus enrich our own section.