The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-08-24

2,000 confirmed opium eaters in that citv
= North Carolina now leads ihe South.
ern states in the number Of her cotton
mills. 0''''''
q coiorcd man living in Giles coun.
y, Tenn, is the father of fifty. four chill.
uroh' iorty'nine of whom are living.
= 1t takes the whole Legislature to
change a mans name. A woman can
change hers by the act of single man.
= Near Houma, La, lives n thirtoor
year Old girl who has growing ON her face
light brown beard about two inchcs
long. "e"''
= Statisticans of Texas say her corn
crop this year will amount to l4O0O,OO
bushels This is six times greater than
ever before.
- An eminent German surgeon has
delivered the opinion that Gen. Gariicld's
aeath was due TO the medical treatment
he received.
1t is estimated that every year there
are from ZOO to 500 railroad cmployc,
ki!ied and from 5000 to 10000 injured in
this country.
~ really believe my wife thinks Pm
oniy nall baked" said the sad faced man.
.ior she always gives me a warminr when %
| como home"
Gen. Sam. L. Cary is reported as
saying that "The Greenback party is
dead as a smelt, and there is no unity of
sentiment in it,"
= ~ California young man, liucpinp
MS hgec grandmother, forgot that il
wasn his sweetheart, and broke four or
the old lady's ribs. -
= a country paper speaks of man
who died without the aid of a nhvs;.
clan" and adds that "such instances of
death are very rare"
= a black walnut grove that was
planted by Wisconsin farmer about
twenty years ago OF some waste land was
recently sold ior $4,000.
= Sixteen thousa id men are now em.
ployed in railroad construction in Flor
ldh: Eighty thousand people have set.
tied in the State in the past ten years.
: Ayoung man in Indianapolis, whose
zeal outruns his common sense, has VOW
CD thas he will never vote until his moth.
polln.
= 4 Georgia editor tells lis story
about catfish twenty. three feet long,
which died from swallowing n cnlf tSo
horns proving indigestible. So does tho
story.
=, DO you believe in signs ?"asked
'he shopkceper. well, yes, used to,''
said fogg; but since you placed in your
window, Selling for less than cost, have
weakened considerably"
- There are only GOO persons to encb
physician in the United States. The
doctors should be more careful OF their
patients. First thing they know there
wont be patients enough to 60 around.
= Mamma, what makes angels ?"ask.
Gu II little boy, who had been reading of
the heavenly inhabitants. The mother
glanced out into the orchard, and, with
warming look, so!cmnly replied: "Un-
ripe fruit. my dear"
- An elderly man in Boston is so DO
lite and loving that when he is dining
win young lady of his heart lie puts
syrup on his bald head to attract the
flies and prevent them from annovinp
her,
= When the wife of candidate be.
gins already to pay back ter aud coffee
borrowed six years ago, it may be sct
down ns fixed fact that her husband
Will make the race even if he fails to get
the regular party nomination.-7tru
Syfings.
:. a rich, Wanting and somewhat
brainless millionaire was recently boas-
ting in the presence of the Bishop of
fetersborough that he had given c2,OOO
regularly yearly to the poor. That's
tho largest insurance against fire that [
ever heard or remarked the witty clcri-
cal.
4 member of the Maine Legislature
mao been courting an Augusta girl all
winter, and had taken her to attend the
sessions until she was we'll posted in the
rules. On the last day of the session, as
they came near the peanut stand by the
door, he said to her: "May / offer YOU
my handful of peanuts?" She responded:
move to amend by omiting all after the
word hand He blushingly accepted
the amendment and they adopted II
unanimously.
= 1t is said that fourteen million
bushels of sweet potatoes will be raised
IN Georgia this season, and how TO dis.
pose OF the crop il a problem. Two at.
tempts at solution nre mentioned in the
Atlanta Consultation. One is that freight
rates be made low enough to make Yves.
tern shipments profitable. The total
crop weighs near half million tons,
and to carry such freight should be an
object to any company which could
handle it and take 1t to market where
fair prices are sure to obtain. The other
solution is to use an evaporator and dry
the potato, by which operation only
about 10 per cent. Of the weight is lost.
- In the COURSE Of lecture mt New
Aaven the other evening, upon the Gus
toms and religion Of his race, the Rev.
Thomas s. Dana, an educated Indian.
made this singular statement: "The
Indians never cook anything in tho
house where they live. They cook out
side, and they give as a reason that if
they cook Inside the steam collects in
their clothing and draws the lightning.
Whether this is so or not do not know,
but know thar am Indian w;gwam is
never struck by lightning, and no Indian
has been killed by lightning in n hun
dred years" 1t Is quite possible that
wigwams are seldom or never struck bv
lightning; but why whole race should
be exempt wherever they may roam
simply because their low habitations
don't attract destruction is, to say tho
least. hard to explain.
- We fear the article we published in