The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-07-08

- One some sometimes receives con-
ISOLATION from source wholly unexpect.
ed. Two men were in boat and trying
to cross the rapids. The traveller was
timid in presence of the turbulent wa.
ters, and, clinging to both sides of the
little cookie she'll, said to the boatman iu
trembling tones, "Arn't people sometimes
lost here? 1t seems to me to be very
dangerous" The sturdy ferryman gave
an extra tug at the oars, and then
replied cbeerily, ':Lor' bless you, sir,
never knew man te be lost here,
though I've been on this river off and on
for nigh forty years. Why, only last
month my brother John was drowned
right on this very spot that we are going
over now, but he wasn't lost for we
found his body two days afterward, in
the creek below there"
= According to DR.. Abercrombie, a
gentleman who had been q soldier
dreamed he heard q signal-gun, saw the
proceedings for displaying the signals,
heard the bustie of the streets, the
assembling of troops, etc. Just then he
was reused by his wife, who had dreamed
precisely the same dream with this addi-
tion, that she saw the enemy land and a
friend of her husbands killed; aud she
awoke in fright This occurred at
Edinburgh, at the time when French
invasion was feared, and it had been de-
cided to fire a s;gnal-gun at the first
approach of the foe. The dream was
caused, it appears, by the fall of pair
of tongs in the room above; and the ex-
cited state of the public mind was quite
sufficient to account for both dreams
turning on the same subject.
= Prince William, eldest son of the
Prussian Crown Prince, has just been
solemnly betrothed to Princess Augusta
Victoria. The aged Emperor brought in
the bride, and beamed with qualification
as he presented Bismarck aud other
guests to her. She has great personal
attractions, and is in her twenty.second
year, nearly the same age as Prince Will.
liam. She wore white silk dress and a
hat trimmed with May flowers, with
white vail. A bouquet of ten roses rest.
ed on the breast, and in her hand the
Princess held one of white roses and May
flowers. A six.fold string of pearls, with
golden medallion, was round her neck.
The match is said to be one of mutual
affection rather than of state arrange
ment.
The other evening, while the fast
express train on the Pennsylvania rail-
road was near Birdsborough, Berks coun-
ty, the thick glass of the headlight at
tached to the engine was suddenly
broken. The train was stopped, and
among the fallen glass on the COW catcher
was found dead robin, which is sup
posed to have flown with great force
against the glass in an opposite direction
to that which the train was moving, and
the violent collision broke it. The bird
does not weigh over four ounces.
= There is a great deal of interesting
conversation going over the telephone
wires if you leave the machine open and
listen. The message of a fond mother,
whose cherub had eaten watermelon or
so too much, and gentleman who had
sent home large red.fs for dinner, got
mixed yesterday. First voice-"What
shall 1 do about the baby?" Second
Voice "Scrape all the scales off him, cut
him open and have him dressed nicely
for dinner with caper sauce. Amt he
whopper?" ?"
= The Liverpool inspectors Of explo-
sives report that a quantity of honey re,
Gently came into that port with label
we'll calculated to secure proper handling
for the package. In we'll displayed and
large letters, the caution to porters and
others ran thus: Handle gently as dyn-
amite. A drop of one inch will cause
certain destruction to the contents"
The words "handle gently" dynamite"
and Certain destruction" were, of
course, printed in more prominent type
than the rest, and one can we'll under
stand that little damage was done to the
contents of that package.
= Nature quotes from the Bombay
Gazette an account of remarkable thun-
der storm that occurred at Dharwar, in
March last, during which "hailstones
fell measuring no less than nine or ten
inches in circumference" The thunder
and lightning were terrific, and after the
all of hail, there was q heavy down-pour
of rain. The bulletin Of the Iowa
Weather Service, for April, 1880, re-
ceived since the above was written, tells
of thunder storms during the month, in
that State, where hailstones fell meas
uring twelve inches in circumference.