The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-03-19
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We like hot weather. It's such a good
excuse for being lazy:
= A gentleman afflicted with an impediment
in his Speech, was one day looking at the
Siamese Twins when they were on exhibition.
After examining them for some time in silence
he turned to the Snowman and inquiringly re-
marked. "B-b-b-brothers, presume"
A very charming daughter of one of the
"solid men of Boston," being at ball few
evenings since, was solicited by a combination
ofmoustache, starch and broadcloth for the hon.
or of her hand in dance, to which solicitation
she returned an affirmative answer. In sub
seouent conversation, the aforesaid inquired her
fathers business Gle is wood-sawer," she
replied The fellow sloped, feeling that he
had let him down foot or two by the associa-
tion The lady's father was wealthy dealer
in mahogany, which occasionally has to be
sawed.
A message from the President has
brought before Congress an important measure
for the preservation of our forests. at the
Portland meeting of the American Association
for the advancement of science, that body
empowered committee to memorialize Con-
gress on this subject. The memorial recon-
mends the appointment of some man OF ap-
proved scientific acquaintance with the subject
as commissioner of forestry. His duties
will be to investigate the consumption, impor-
tation, and expectation of timber, the means
for its preservation and renewal, the influence
of forests upon climate, and the experience of
foreign countries in these matters.
-Ames, the new Governor, so-called OF
Mississippi, has the honor of being Beast But
lers son-in-law, and also of having been elected
to his present position by the almost exclusive
votes of the negroes of that State. But both
he and his wife have "soured' on the "man
| and brother since the election, and especially
since the Madame's last reception. The
NJ and B and his numerous wives and children
peryaded the executive mansion to such nu-
merous and odoriferous extent that the Mad.
anne couldn't stand it, and now the story goes
that Ames has broken up housekeeping and
gone to boarding in order to escape any further
infictions of the same sort.
1t is not the man who sticks close to his
own business, makes money, boards it, or spends
| it upon his Immediate family that is blessing
to a town. But it is the man who devises new
enterprises, lays out new schemes, opens new
streets, builds houses, gives employment to
| laboring men and women, starts young men in
business, and feels interested in other peoples
business as we'll as his own. He who helps a
poor man to obtain work, or poor woman to
support herself, or young man to start IN
good business, bestows more favor and does
more good than he would if he went round
with purse of money bestowing gifts. 1t is a
hundred times better to help people into some
business that will enable them to support them
selves than it is to give charity to those out OF
employment, and indulging idle habits
= A bill has been introduced into Congress,
with view of seeking statistics on the question
ofintemperance as affected by legislation. 1t
provides for the appointment of commission
of five in each State in the Union, who are to
continue in Office not to exceed one year, and
serve without pay, in gathering statistics
They are to report on the quantity ofspirituoHuus
and malt liquors used the effect of the traffic
on the wealth of the community; what effect
| prohibitory or license laws have in checking
the consumption, and how this compares with
others on this subject. Also, whether the
prosperity of the most prosperous counties is
due largely to temperance, and whether theil
temperance is due to legislation on the subject
| The tidal wave of temperance sweeping ovel
the North has, evidently, set Congressman te
| thinking.