The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-31
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Facing brings an "absence Of ideas"
Unfortunately and ill-fitting dress is no
proof of their presence. French author
esses like Nine. de Sevigne and Nine. de
Girardin, it appears, always preferred
wearing rabe de chambre or-some loose
\ flowing garment when engaged in liter.
tars work. Tho unquesiionnble proof
Ehat tight laciug is Il sacrifice of lime:
comfort to outward show is to be found
in the fact that all women who lace tight
not many do nowadays-looser their;
stays when they have serious work in
hand. :,
Statistics having proved Chicago. TO-
be the true Porkopois. Cincinnati is
looking about tor some Gdistmctinn to- re;
place the porcine laurels she has lost,
and some enthusiastic citizens think they
have found it IN the census. Careful
computations .how that the centre Of
population of the United States is now
Located within about: five miles of the
Cincinnati city limits. Accordingly it is
proposed in that enterprising community
to anticipate the action of natural causes,
which are steadily moving that central
point toward the big Music Hall, BY an
nexing few miles of territory.
= William Wheeler, Curtis Hinman
and John Oatman, bfsSonthbIry,r Conn.,
started out, according to their own story,
on. the ,morningrOf February Sd, with
four dogs, and had gone about one mile
Observation-Disclosures dogs
started up with a terrible bowling, and
the hunters followed them three. quarters
of mileI when theys;came onstosthejn.
To theirsurprise ytheys had driHens some
foxes into large cave in huge ledge of
rocks. They determined to smoke them
out, and went to work and built up a
large, ,6re:s They moked out thirty foxes,
ana BY gun and dog secured twenty.three
of them; seven escaped.
One of the great secrets of Mr..
Blaine's popularity is that he has long
memory, for names anddeeds. A gentle
man connected with journalism during
the war was introduced to Mr.. Blaine
thirteen years after he lad written an ac-
count of battle in the Far West. He
was greatly astonished to find MIR. Blaine
drawing him aside with the remark,
tsYou are the man have been wishing
to see for years." and then asking him if
a trivial incidentrmentioned in the &c.
count as published was strictly true.
The implied doubt conveyed no affront; !;
the Young man was too much Aattered by
the fact that Speaker Blaine had remem-
bered-himas' thesauthor of the story to
feel the slightest insult. 49,.
= The Iowa City Republican has un
earthed very peculiar case Of Tanner.
ism. Nothing like>it has been heard 'uf
in this country before. The fact that the
lady referred to is we'll known in the
community, and that the most reputable,
physicians of Iowa City have examined
her case, leaves NO, doubt. as TO- the. .,accu-
racy of the following statements Miss
Hattie Deul hag not taken Il g m9rsel; ;of &
food for twenty-five days, nor has She
spoken a word for three years. She
abstained from food on the ground that
lit was her religious duty to do so, and
from talking for the same reason. The
persuasion of friends is useless, and she
is slowly wasting away. Miss Deul-is a
maiden lady, ifty.two years Of age, and
has always been highly respected.
= English wives, high and low, keep
household accounts in way that would
surprise many American women. Every
penny spent in the house goes down in
the ''housekceper's book" with which
every mistress of the house is provided.
Every biltsis. filed away carefully when
receipted. .@In fact a perfect system, of
order prevails, which enables every man
to know exactly what it costs. him to
keep up his home. In that country
every expenditure is made to bear its
proper relation to the income received
House rent must be only such percenb-
age, table outlay so much, servants wages
so much, children's schooling SO much.
aims. giving so much, and if at the end
of a year it is found that the income has
besn exceeded these people Immediately
proceed to reduce items in every depart
ment The general style of their living
remains about the same, but it is neces-
sarily not quite so genuine.-Nev York |
Hour.
"A curious controversy has arisen in
Philadelphia az, to what constitutes re-
spectability in numbers where church
effort is concerned. In 1873 old Mr.. Ma
calister died, leaving a bequest for the
establishment and erection of Presby-
terrian Church at tTorresdale, which is one
of tha Northern suburbs ofthe city. The