The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-04
VOLUME IX.---NO. %.
ALI Sorts Of Paragraphs.

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A nice little boy said he liked "a good
rainy day-too rainy to go to school, and just
rainy enough to 60 fishing"
= Why does the "girl Of the period" make
the pest housekeepers7 Because she makes so
tntch hustle about little waist. 80. a4-
- Life is like theatre-during the play
over We mingle in the common stream and 20
home. -
- My dear" said husband to his wife, on
observing new red striped stockings on his only
heir, why have you made BARRIERS poles of our
child's legs? Because he is a little shaver"
was the neat reply.
- In nine cases out Of ten, whatever IL may
be called, the ultimate cause of suicide is in
digestion, diseased liver, or some other physiA
cal arrangement. No healthy person ever cut
his throat because things went wrong o's98'
= According to a writer in the Popular
Science Monthly, a house should be so placed
that the direct rays of the sun can have free
admission into the living apartments, because
the suns rays impart healthy and inyigora-
ting quality to the air, and stimulate vitality of
human being as they do those Of plants, and
without sunlight human beings, as we'll as
plants, would sicken and die. The aspect,
therefore, should be southeast. p! 0Fi
- There were tooth carpenters in those
days. for in Egypt mumnies have been found
with teeth filled with gold, and in Quito skel4
eton has been discovered with false teeth Sc
cured in the cheek bone by gold wire. In the
museum at Naples, among some of the surgi.
cal instruments discovered at Pompeii, there is
fac-simile of Sims speculum. In the ruins
of Nineveh, Layard found several magnifying
glasses.
- Hon. James B. Beck favors the rereal of
the late salary law, with provision directing
the excess of the present compensation over
the former pay received by any member since
the 4th of March last to be deducted from any
future payment to be made to such member,
and this repeal to be made applicable to all
persons, including the President, who were
benefited by the salary act.
- A lot of minstrels went to town not far
from Boston and advertised to give perform
ance for ''the benefit of the poor-tickets re-
duced to ten cents" The hall was crammed,
The next morning committee of the poor
called upon the treasurer of the concern for
the amount said benefit had nctted. The treas
urer expressed .astonishment. II thought"
said the chairman of the committee "you ad.
vertised this concert for the benefit of the
poorp Replied the treasurer: didn't we
put the tickets down to ten cents SO that the
! poor could oil come z!
- One of the victims of the yellow fever at
Shreveport was the Hon. Samuel Peters, MEN,
Der to Congress elect from the Western district
of Louisiana. He was cashier of the Freed.
mems Savings Bank of the above mentioned
city, and had the funds of that institution
under his his control. The dreadful disease
carried him off so suddenly that he had not
time to give any directions concerning the
affairs of the bank, and he died without maxi
ing known the combination" on which the
safe was locked The books show that there
are $4,000 in the safe, but there are no mer-
chants in that part of the country that can
open the safe without destroying It,
- "How do you get on H' said loving New
York wife to her husband, a merchant, the
other day. ooh I shall weather the storm,
but I wish had only few hundred dollars
more. 1t would be very convenient, to say the
least" Don't you wish you had married
rich wife? ?" said she, in tessing way then
rising and going to her room she returned with
rather more than the amount required In
United States bonds. "Why, where in the
world did you get this p said the bewildered
husband "Well, my dear, you went to
champagne supper seven years ago, and on
your return home, finding navigation around
the room rather difficult, deposited hat, shoes,
gloves, and a large roll of bank bills on the
carpet. put it away, and waited three weeks
for you to inquire if had seen it. When
finding you were ashamed to do so, invested
it; and here you have it,"