The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-05
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

Ali Sorts of Paragraphs.
= It often happens that life is exceed
ingly comfortable to, those who expect.
but little, and yet get all they can.
- Some hygienic writer says: Let
your children eat all the salt they want"
Bless you, it isn't salt they want-it's
sugar.
The letter was to his mother: "Dear
Ma@Send me clean pair of socks and
something to eat; also, clean handker-
chief and something to eat"
- A Kentucky editor remarks tha at
ninety-nine out of a hundred people
make great mistake when they cut off
dogs tail, in throwing away the wrong
end.
"Why, my dear fellow whispered
"a Eiend, 81 didnot know youwere SO
lbadk mafHeated3fh the aaan:. ssNor I
eithsr,m sobbed the victim, a'tiH I heard
my lawyer tellin' the jury all about
"A New Bedford justice Of the peace
recently married couple in what is sup
posed to be. the quickest time on record.
t'Did you come to bemarried :" he asked.
eyes" ;"Go out, you are married" and
they went out wonderiDgly. ''''
THE Missouri Senate. has passed a
bill offering $4,000 reward for the dis
covery, of a sure. cure for hog-cholera.
Such handsome prize should certainly
stimulate the faculties of scien6fcs men,
iespeciallgthose who are practical farm
-. David Dudley Field doesn't like t9.
bacco. Entering committee room the
other cay he found reporter smoking.
"Young man." said he, "throY away that
cigar; smoke is offensive to me. I'd Just
as soon man would spit in my face as
to smoke where ] amS2- ..s-
THE best solace ,fo5r the aesponding
patriot now may be expressed in. the
words Of the mighty Daniel 'Webster:
"FelIow-citizens, you have waterfall a
hundred and fifty feet high. No people
with waterfall a hundred and fifty feet
high ever lost their liberties"
=; By. the, new Liquor law recently
passed BY the Maine Legislature, hotels
are not allowed to publish wine lists Oh
their bills of fare. In consequence Of
this act, the bills of fare of Portland hd-
tells have gone into taourniug, being
heavily bordered with black.
- If green leaf of some sort be
wrapped around the stenIo ofa cabbage or
other plant at the time of transplanting B
it will effectually protect it from cut
worms. The leaf should reach little
below the surface of the ground and eX-
tend. 'nptthe STALK, ans inch or more. It
will not injure: the plant
The Brattleboro (N.- C.l Adrande
says: "Our devil says that the first 'ra-
turning boarG of which be hasany recoE
father. The :three-father, son. and
shinigite- Used to hold frequent committee
meetings in the back shed, but the I'd.
turns came in so sWiftlysthat affair count
was, inpracticable." SOD .'aH e'ihn:
q An old; German, buried his Wife and
was telling a sympathizing neighbof. Of
her SD decease. His friend inquired. if
the late lamented ."was resigned to her
fate" M..Resgnedw exclaimed the hon
est Teuton, !fsmeiR, Gott, ,bshe had to be.p
This little story is called to mind by THE
newsthat Elihu B.aWashbarne, :our, Min
istefto Paris, has resigned. : 80.
49,. Allston, a wealthy and .rchildless
Midower Of Brooklyn, after detailing nu-
msfoasv bequestsEto bisTrs}a6Ees af the
North, in a. second codicil provides liber-
ally for the widow and Children of John
Ashe Aliston,. of Charleston, S. c., and
3thelHit1DM and mhil lh1sniaf; thealatslGov.
R. F. w. Allston, q, Georgetown, S. c.,
and for other relatives IN the South.
Soap suds may be used With great
advantage for manuring grape vines.
The effects of soap suds On other plants
are remarkable. A cypress vine that had
remainedistationary for d fortnight, when
about two inches high; immediately be-
gan growing after, being Watered with
soap suds, and grew about six inches in
FIVE days.
"a hint to,laRy people When your
nefghbor is sick, if you would do your
friend d Kindness, be helpful TO the doctor
and q blessing TO society, just stay at
home until you are sent for; keep out Of
the sick room unless the physician asks
you to aid him in treating the case. If
this one rule was usually observed, cpl
denies and contagious Diseases would be
easily held in allegiance. ..;g |
The constitution of Massachusetts,
disfrauchises, PERSONS dependent onrpubI
lie charity, but the law has been for a
long time almost dead'letter. tits now
proposed to revive it. The pauper- vote
is used in country towns by 'oyerseers of
the poor to perpetuate themselves and
their friends in Office. g. It is alleged that
there are not less than 10000 voters re-
ceiving public aid in. Massachusetts.
- A meek boy was trudging along to-
ward school house the other morning,
and was met hN his schoolmates returning
with their books under their. arms, A
chorus Of catrcalls and shrieks rent The
air, and hats were thrown up; and heels
kicked ditto. Il. HWhat's up?" inquired
the lone boy. 't"No' schoolp howled the
mob; teachers sickm And another
pecan Of praise ascehded from their uni
ted voices as they all turned the corner
on the i,Inp.