The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-07-22
"A Young lady has o sunday.school

between seven and nine years. Recent
ly she requested each pupil to come on
the following Sunday with some passage
of the Scripture bearing on love. The
lads heeded the request, and in turn re-
cited their verses bearing upon that pop.
ular topic-such as, 'Loye your enc.
miles," ""Little childen, love one another" "
etc. The teacher said to the boy whose
turn came last, "Well, Robbie, what is
your verse;" Rising, he responded,
'Song of Solomon, second chapter, fifth
verse; 'Slay me with Aagons, comfort me
with apples, for / am sick Of love- ;"
The shortest and most profitable
railway in the world is probably to be
seen at Coney Island, the Marine Rail
way" connecting the Manhattan Beach
Hotel and the Brighton Beach Hotel.
1t is 1000 feet in length, is laid
with steel rails, and has a handsome
little station at each end. Its gauge
is three feet. The cost of this miniature
road, including stations and equipment,
was SGT 900. The operating expenses
are $50 day, and the average receipts
are $3.50 day the entire season. 5000
being sometimes taken in. The fare
charged is FIVE cents. The property
paid profit last year of 500 per cent. on
its cost.
- When a good man dies, the first
question asked is, "Who will take his
placer" Even bad men will wonder who
is to carry on the work of very good
man or woman. Did you ever hear that
same question asked when q very bad
man dies? Or even when selfish, hard.
hearted person drops ont of the way, no
one asks as to the person who is to take
his place. Yet there seems to be persons
always on hand ready to take the place
even of the worst men. The highest am
bition of a young person should be to fill
we'll the place of some good man or wo-
man who has gone before.
- From an Ellenton, S. Co., subscriber
we learn that the following occurrence
took place: A country doctor across the
river presented his account to a patient
who had been quite i'll but was now well
The ex-patient listened atteDtively to the
account being read by the medical man
as follows: For medicines, so much fol
visits, 80 much. Finally, with an air O.
generosity and candor, he says: "Well
doctor, I have no money now. but will
pay you for the medicine next Fall the
visits I will try and return. ."-Augustc
Evening Ne,os.
- Dr.. Childs threw chair at his wife
at Hanover, N. H., and she Indignantly
left the house. The neighbors could moi
find her the next day, and, surmising
that she had committed suicide, search
was made for her. The weather was in
itensely hot, and several of the industri
Gus party were Frustrated. That night
when exhausted by their long tramp
through woods and streams, they learned
that she was safely hidden with family
close by. Then she had oHy in earnest
to escape lynching.
- Tire best engraved portrait evel
made of Gov. William Allen, Of Ohio
was the one generally used in bis last
campaign in that State. 1t WAS cat on 9
saw blade, in the Ohio Penitentiary, BY
Charles Ulrich, a convict. Ul-ich is one
of the most skillful engravers in the
country, but he has used his ability
mainly in the work Of cuunterfeiting
Having plenty of time to spare nprisen
he made this picture from photograph
- Sunday morning Brown told his
wife that he did not feel able to 90 to
church, but that she might take the chill
dren and 20, while he would see if he
couldn't walk off the deathly feeling:
that came over him. The programme
was carried out, aud Brown came home
feeling very much BETTER; but now his
wife is anxious S6 Know why he had four
angle worms in bis coat pocket. Some
women make themselves disagreeable by
being 80 inquisitive.
- Syria's first railway has just been
finished and is l-tracked tramway on
the American plan. The cars external.
" are like our street cars, with an iron
staircase and seats on the top for IL. BuI
within there is a compartment for met
and another for women in which no man
is allowed whether it is empty or not
and even the conductor collects his fare
of the women through a hole in the
door.
- In 1860 it took passenger five
DAYS to 20 from New Orleans to New
York, making nine changes, and many
of these changes necessitated a long wall
from depot to depot. In 1869 it tool
four days. with two or three changes il
1878 three and half days, one change
and now in 1880, man can 80 in sixty
hours and forty.five minutes, one change
Scene: White Sulphur. a gentle
man to Kentucky belle: "WiIl yo!
allow me to introduce my wealthy friend
Mr.. H., from New York ?" Kentuck.
belle THANK you, no; we are in yer.
easy circumstances at present, and if hi
wealth is his principal claim to distinc
ton do not care 70 meet him."
- A woman hearing the sufferings o
our Pilgrim fathers celebrated, popped
up and Inquired: "What of our Pilgrim
mothers? What of our Pilgrim mothers
They had to- bear all this and the Pill
grim fathers besides"
One Of she managers of huspita
asked an Irish Nurse which he consid
cred the most dangerous of the man.
cases then in hospital. "That, sir" sait
Patrick, as he poinsed to case of sur
gical Instruments on the table.
A WISCONSIN farmer twenty.thre'
years ago planted piece Of waste land
unfit for cultivation, with black walnu
trees. The trees are now frnm sixteen t
twenty inches through, and have beer
sold for s27, 900.
Shriner's Indian Vcrmifuge destroyed
and expelled worms thirty years ago
We guarantee it to do the same to-day
to the satisfaction of every one who use:
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