The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-09-25
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

- Sweetening ones coffee is generally the
first stirring event of the day.
II An exchange says the best way for lady
to get the fashionable "tangle" on her hair IS
to fill it full of corn-meal and set lot OF spring
chickens to scratching the meal out.
- It is stated at the internal revenue bureau,
by one who is conversant with the matter, that
determined effort will be made at the next
session of Congress to secure the passage OF
law providing for the refund of cotton tax paid
into the treasury.
A correspondent of the Country Gentleman
has discovered that, as law of nature, every
spotted dog has the end of his tail white, and
every spotted cat the end of the tail black. He
says he has examined many dogs and cats in
France, England and America, and always no
ticed the same result.
If geranium branches, taken from luxuri-
ant and healthy trees ust before the winter sets
in, be cut as for slips and immersed in soap
water they will, after dropping for few days.
shed their leaves, put forth fresh ones and con-
tinue in the finest vigor all the winter.
- The Masonic fraternity have under way.
at least 81, 900, 900 worth of new halls, most of
which will be completed this year. The one in
Philadelphia is the most magnificent structure
of the kind in the country, and when furnished
and entirely completed will be worth at least
one million of dollars.
- An old negro woman in Georgia gives her
views on making cotton: "De way dey use to
make cotton in my day was wild plenty O.
hick'ry. Dey didn't need no juanner den. An
if you will des glib me a few niggers and good
hick'ry now, I kin make any Of dis land about
here fetch good cotton dat will beat any of yer
juanner."
"A lady was stopping with her little son at
Chicago hotel, and he was fretful at the dim
ner table until she became exasperated and
said to him in an undertone: "Come with me up
stairs and I will attend to your case" Pulling
back, he blubbered out, in q voice loud enough
to be heard over most of the well-flled dining
room: "Say, Mother, are you going to take
your hand or your slipper?"
- The statistics of the Connecticut Insane
Hospital, at Mddletown, furnishes many inter-
esting facts concerning the causes and cure for
various types of mental alteration. Of the
causes of insanity, i'll health is more potent
than any other; intemperance comes next, re-
| ligious excitement next Men patients are
more easily cured than women, and out of
twenty two patients sent to the hospital tor IN
sanity resulting from the affections, four were
men and eighteen were women.
- One OF the best ways to test SPIDERS
ability to get himself out of a scrape, is to fill
an ordinary wash-bowl with water, take a
stick and place it in the centre Of the bowl,
and reaching some distance above the water,
put a spider on the top of the stick. The in.
sect will get himself away from his isolated
quarters in less than ten minutes, if undis-
turbed, and he won't wet his feet in the transit.
| Try and see how it's done.
A three-rail passenger road has been con-
structed from the base to the summit of the
Rigi, one of the highest mountains in Switzer-
land, by which cara by steam power are taken
up and down several times every day. This
road is not by zigzag course, but as direct as
most railroads are on the level, and is most
wonderful piece of engineering. The trips, it
is said, are made with great regularity, with
many hundred passengers every day during the
summer season.