The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-11-29
AM Sorts 81 Paragraphs.


People seldom improve when they
/ hare no other model than themselves to
About thirty:three millions of dol
lara Of fractional silver have gone into
circulation. &
- a little boy was asked if he knew
where the wicked finally went to. He
answered that they practiced law here
awhile, and then go to the Legislature.
a Portsmouth undertaken, being
Sdunned by q man who had very sick
wife: said: Oh, let the account stand.
You'll be wanting something in my line
pretty soon,s if you have good luck. !"
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not
to gain any end or even to deceive their
hearers, but to amuse themselves. 1t is
partly practice and partly habit. 1t re-
sduires an effort in them to speak the
- An exchange says: eve are in re-.
ceipt Of two poems, one on the Throb-
bing Brain, and another on Bleeding
Heart. We will wait untilwe receive
one on the Stomach Ache and publish
all three together"
Talk; about your good boys as you
win but the lad that puts the fire. crackers
IN his. teachers desk and touches them
off when he is going to be asked hard
question, is the fellow that will turn out
in future years to be a self-made man.
Traces of the battle around Peters
burg are in the main obliterated. Only
: q few of the extensive fortifcations are
now visible. The place known as the
Crater is overgrown with young peach
trees that have sprung up from thepeach
stones thrown away by soldiers during
the siege.
Brigham Young once ingeniously
z lput off q simple disciple who had lost
s feg and wanted another supplied by mi
;racnlons growth by saying that he could
command another to grow, of course, but
begged his petitioner to consider how
awkward it would be to walk around
heaven with three legs, while the other
saints .wonld have only two. The credu-
! lous sufferer went away satisfied.
- For bleeding at the nose, the best
remedy, as given by DR.. Gleason, in one
of his lectures, Is q vigorous motion of
the Jaws, as ifin the act of mastication.
In the case of achild, wad of paper
should be placed in its mouth, and the
child instructed to chew it hard. It is
the. motion of the jaws that stops the
flow of blood. This remedy is so very
simple that many will feel inclined to
laugh at it, but it has never been known
TO fail in single instance, even in very
severe cases.
+ 2zssl- A boy tried his first pipe the other
day. When his father came home 10 din
rler he found him braced against bar
rel. with bis legs spread apart, his hands
and lower jaw dropping listlessly, and a
deathly pallor oyer-spreading his face;
/ saJYbat Is the matter with you7" inquired
the amazed parent. "My-teacher is
asickn easped the boy. SWELL, you
mustn't feel so badly aboutit, Tommy"
said the father, kindly. "She will get
well again, without doubt And then,
stepping into the house, he observed to
his wife that he was the most sympathetic
boy he ever saw.
"a good story is told Of a country
merchant who agreed to take q farmers
oats at forty cents bushel if the latter
would let him tramp the measure when
filed. The farmer agreed to it. The
!, buyer paid for sixty bushels, and the
next day went after them. The farmer
filled the half bushel, and then the mer-
chant rot in and tramped them down.
s:Nherenpon the fafmer poured the COM
: messed oats into the bag. The merchant
sprotested, demanded that the measure
5ssbonia Be filed up after tramping. The
farmer informed him that there was no
arreen1ent; Of that sort, but that he might
/ StyamD down the oats to shis hearts Com
tent stter they Were measured