The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-11-11
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

"A man has been arrested for taking
things as they come.
No young lady is so honest that she
will refuse to hook dress.
"A cheap way to get an overcoat this
season is use the one left over from last
year.
- Wedding journeys are, according to
late fashionable intelligence, out of
style.
are becoming very fashionable in New
York.
- Darwin now says that all men were
once plants. There are still great
many small potatoes.
That wri1cr does the most that gives
the reader the most knowledge and takes
frcm him the least time.
- "A modern essayist defines gossip to
be the putting of two and two together
and making FIVE of them.
We hate some persons because we
do not know them, and we will not know
them because we hate them.
There is danger that the spelling dis
order will break out all over the land
with the return of cold weather.
- A maiden's heart is like hotel bed
you may never discover the previous
occupant, but you may be sure there has
been one.
The proposed new constitution of
North Carolina prohibits marriages be.
tween blacks and whites to the third
generation.
An Alabama paper complains that
between chicken cholera and protracted
co!ored meetings, the poultry raising is
seriously depressed.
= It was Voltaire who said:-"t is
more easy to write about money than to
have it; and those who have it laugh at
those who can only write about it."
= From the number of trimmings now
put on ladies' dresses it is reasonably
predicted that the coming winter is to be
an uncommonly hard one--for husbands
and fathers.
Jones says his wife isa mind reader.
As he was crawling up to bed the other
night she yelled out, "There, you're
drunk again." and that's just what he
thought himself.
"A mother can't understand how it
is chat her girls can play croquet for half
day and not feel tired, and yet if one
of them is asked to wash the dishes she
reaches for the camphor bottle.
George Gill, who recently died near
Hanover, Pa, is supposed to have been
the oldest vegetarian in the United States.
He eschewcd a meat diet, 26 years ago,
and has led the life of hermit ever
since.
Little Julia, Just five years old, be-
ing cautioned by her little brother against
eating too much for supper, and being
told she would have the night mare, wan
ted to know where the night mare stayed
in the daytime.
"A Wisconsin editor illustrates the
prevailing extravaganza of the present
day calling attention to the costly baby
carriages in use now; while, when he
was baby, they hauled him around by
the hair of his head.
"A lady, whose family was very
much in the habit of proposing conun-
drums, was one evening asked by her hus-
kband in an excited tone: "Why are all
these doors open?" "I give it up" in
stsntly answered the lady.
"A three-year-old boy asked his
mother to let him have his building
bricks to play with; but she told her
darling that it was Sunday, and therefore
not proper for him to have them. "But,
mamma, I'll build a church" He got
the bricks.
= An Illinois editor boasts of being
the proud possessor of several ears OF
Egyptian corn that are quite curiosity
Hasks not only enclose the ears, but the
kernels themselves are each covered with
musk, the same in texture as the out
side husks.
= An extremely well educated bird, a
species of canary, Of a dark, mottled color,
is exhibited by San Francisco China
man. At the word of command it selects
out of a series of envelopes those contain
ing cards which have the day of the
month and the hour of day, rarely, il
ever, making a mistake.