The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-04-25

- The torpedo has been heretofore
supposed to be the most formidable
weapon in msrine warfare, but if the e1-
pectations of the designer, N. Olivier, of
Paris, of tie new submerged vessel are
realized, it will far surpass the stationary
torpedo iu efficiency. This boat can either
float on the surface, or, by means of an
arrangement of wings or fms at the bow,
be made to descend under water to any
required depth. Provision is made for
the respiration of the occupants, who can
guide it at their pleasure. Such craft
would be able to approach an ironclad,
fix its torpedo, and retire unsuspected,
without presenting any vulnerable point
to the enemy's fire, even if observed.
Should this invention be found capable
of executing all that is claimed for it, no
doubt it would prove a terrible foe to the
large armor-plated ships which have cost
such largo sums of money.
Several children were feeding pet
bear with corn at Austin, Texas. An
ear was dropped out of the reach of the
bear, and little girl handed it to him.
The bear sportiyely pulled her to him,
when house dog, believing the child
in danger, sprang upon the bear. Bruin
then carried the child to the further part
of the hogshead in which he slept, and
returned to fight the dog, under the i'm
preston that the dog would hurt the
child. A party of darkies tried to pro-
tect the child from her other protectors,
but the little one did not escape until
her mother had killed both bear and dog
with musket.
- The other night q colored man on
his way home spied something which he
rhought to be ghost. The ghost stood
exactly in the middle of the road, and
he decided to investigate, and poked at
| it with stick. The next instant he
was knocked twenty feet into mud hole.
Moral-Never poke stick at a large
white mule when his back is turned.
Most of the great European powers
ere governed by persons advanced IN
years. Gortschakoff, the real ruler of
Russia, is 80 years old; Bismarck, of
Germany, is 6S; Marshal MacMahon, the
President of France, is nearly 10, and
Lord Beaconsfeld, Prime Minister of
England, is in his 73rd year, and his
rival, Mr.. Gladstone, only four years his
junior.
- The executive mansion at Frank
fort, KY, is a rickety old edifce, built in
1908, and two of the workmen engaged
in its construction, Metcalf and Letcher,
afterward occupied it as Governors, the
former working on the masonry, the
other carrying mortar in hod for the
tricklayers.
Governor Hubbard, of Connecticut,
varies the usual formula for fast day
proclamations by asking the people of the
State to indulge in little real fasting,
in order "that they may know how hun.
ger tastes to those who in these sharp
and pinching times suffer hunger"
"Children and fools always tell the
truth" Bachelor Suitor-"So, sister
and mamma speak of me sometimes, do
theyw Darling Pet eyes. Sister says
you are too ugly, and your nose is too
big; but mamma says that's what she is
to lead you BY"
"A candid Kentucky editor advances
the suggestion that special tax of 81 on
each pistol owned in the State would
beat the bell punch plan for taxation all
hollow. He wants to tax'em by the bar,
rel, instead of by the drink.
AT q printers festival lately the fol-
lowing toast was offered: "Woman-
Second to the press in the dissemination
of news"