The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-03-20
ALL Sorts of Paragraphs.

- a monster III uulndu loIui styS tudt tlo
only time that woman does not exaggerate IS
when she is talking of her own age.
= A publisher gave very good reason for
pre1erring deceased authors for living ones. lie
said that the CORNER never kept him waiting
for copy. - - .-
the oldest times in Louisiana, when man had
a law suit, he used to hire lawyer; now he
has to hire judge."
= A coroner's jury in Missouri recently gave
an intelligent and explanatory verdict thus:
eve find that he came to his death from calling
Bill Jackson liar"
A Western paper laments because of the
prevalence of the idea that it is more respecta-
Bile to sell shoes for $40 week, than to earn
S25 by making them.
When an Arkansas sheriff has warrant
to serve on desperado, he finds the only Prac-
tical method in first to shoot him and then
serve the warralIs on the body.
A party Of young men in Macon have
gone to keeping house on the cooperative plan.
Domipoes for breakfast, seyen7pp fortdinner,
and draw poker for lunch.
The Chicago Journal gives the following
warning Look out for Mrs. Snyder, of Cleve-
land; she has;4ifled two husbands, and is
roaming aroundstEs country for third.
= Sydney Smith once commenced charity
sermon by saying: "Benevolence is senti-
ment common to human nature. A never
sees B in distress without asking @ to relieve
him." fE7 M AtTE
So Josh Billings says: '"Yu kant find kon4
tentment laid down on the map; it il an i'm
aginary place not settled yet; and those reach
itssoonest who ttrow away their compass and go
it blind.
The people of Florida are making the
palmetto quite source of wealth. Thousands
Of dollars worth Of goods are being manufac-
tufed fromtbis material, which is adding great
ly to the prosperity and business sof thbt State.
-4 young but impecunious widow in Ian
caster, Pa, makes no secret of her feelings to-
wards rich bachelor who owns large farm
in the vicinity. She says she loves the grennd
he walks on, and perfectly adores the house he
lives in. .45...il; ...,s1.se ,.i4 gl..iee -iifai
"A ten-year-old, boasting to schoolmate
of his fathers aecomplishnehts, put it thus:
"My father can do almost anything. He's
q notary public, and he's an 'pothecary, and
can fill teeth, and he's hoss doctor, and he
can mend wagons, and things, and he can play
the fiddle, and les a jackass at all trades"
- The curse off our country is the bitter
partisan spirit taat prevails in one andial par
ties IF men would Be looked at for their
actual worth, and be weighed according to
their deeds, and not judged by their political
opinions, it would be better for the county.
Let us take o man as we find him, and Judge
him accordingly. ~ d. ~
{. = Here is arother one. Of those sdelighbfa
facts of science: Feeling is much slower
sense than sigat. i. If man had an. arrflong
enough to reach the sun, and were to touch
that body with che tip of his finger, he would
c.-1 A>k~ n
he would be desd before the sensation, arIiyed
One of tsle Ohio papers tells about q
brave little boy outI there who found q broken
rail on the railroad track, and preceiving the
peril in which the train would be- PLACED if it
should come dashing past without warning, set
out on the fence for five long hours in the bitter
winter cold, in order that he might carry the
first news of the accident to his father, who is
local editor of a paper published in a neigh
boring village. ~ .l.,,r 1a.
= From letters received in Washington, it
appears that there is no doubt of money being
used in the late Senatorial election in, Florida,
not, however, to any very large amount. The
sable legislators of that State are not very
high-toned in .egard to prices. According TO
the investigation ruling rates we're .'suit of
store clothes" big silver watch, or enough to
pay for a buggy ride. z i.f-,s.,s
= The magnitude of the Illinois railroad
system can be understood when it is considered
that now only seven counties, Jasper, Crawford,
Calhoun, Hardin, Pope, Massac and Franklin,
out of the 102 counties in the State, are not
touched by railroads. Even in the seven
counties mentioned, railroads are already pro-
jected, so that it will be but short time until
every county in The State will be reached by rail,
= l-ek
miles of road.
= i Ever since agriculture has been practiced
SCOT has been known to be valuable manure,
and yet in the nineteenth century there are re
hundreds of farmers who cannot be persuaded
to believe this. 1t is really as valuable sgu-
ano. Take hogshead of water, and dissolve
in it twelve quarts of SCOT, and you will have
splendid liquid manure for plants.
- We don't think that we ever met with.
more melancholy. story than this, ofsa young
couple n-Hardin Co., Ohio. They being very
much enamored of each other, protracted
their sitting to late hour, and falling asleep
before the stove the poor young wotnan,s dress
took fire, and she was fatally burned. We
usually like startling and remarkable para
graphs, but really we hope that this one is not
founded on fact. .;.--e.,,ss---
- There is story afoat about German
gentleman in Berks county, who buried his
wife, and married again in about ten days
The young men of the neighborhoodF deter
mined to signify their disapproval of such
breach of propriety as this speedy marriage;
so, while the wedding feast was in progress in
the house, they called and gave the parties a
calathumpian serenade. After awhile the
groom appeared at the front,door. andi @hsD
silence had been obtained, he said, in depre-
catory tone: II say, poys, you ought to pc
ashampt of yourselves to pc making all dis
noise, ven dere vos funeral here so soon. 1t
amt right" The band then adjourned.
= Ossawatanlie, Kansas, has come down to
us linked with the name of old John Brown,
though he is supposed to be some distance
from there at tie present time, as he has kept
marching on" at desperate rate ever since he
died. The place, however, has entitled itself to
new distinction. by lynching the most desperate
horse thief to be found on the border, one
George Ellis He fought 6ercely, but was
h hat h,o hand