The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-03-15
All Sorts OF Paragraphs.

The Forty.seventh Congress is
numbered sr'"ng the things that were.
| =, New York City has ten thousand
drinking saloons, and 1t is proposed bv
the temperance people to have the mum.
Der reduced to 1000.
- When rich Chinaman wants wife
ho buys one. Rich men in China appear
10 nave Just rs many privileges as rich
widowcrs in America.
- Different people see different things
differently. This is not strange, but it is
very strange how differently different
people see the same thing.
When tho hen with chickens at.
tackled the small boy in his mothers
yard, the hen informed him that she had
been laying for him some time.
). Ii. Plummer, Of Brattlesborough,
"a, mas rose bush ninety years old,
from which more than two bushels of
buds had been plucked last season.
Fifty. thousand pairs of shoes daily
are made in the prisons of New York.
The outside manufacturers claim to be
unable TO compete with the contractors.
a correspondent: asks: "Do ca
nary bir4s like fish," Well, we can't
tell whether they do or not but thew
manage to catch little perch every day.
= The New York Commercial Adrerti.
ser suddenly remarks that "The man
who bangs his hair hasn't enough sense
to blow out his brains, even if he possessed
any"
- A conceited young fellow said to
inir partner at reception: Don't you
think, miss, my mustache is becoming ?"
10 which she replied, "Well, sir, they
may be coming, but they have not yet
arrived"
-, Highly sugar. coated: A New
York divorce lawyers advertisement
reads: "Hymeneal iucompatibilities as
specially, carefully adjusted. IT'S slay-
cry to detain tho hand after tho heart
hath fed"
~ planter near Memphis has n dog
which, with only two ysars' practices
crows like rooster, raising his head at
the outbreak Of the melody and lowering
it as the sweet sounds die away, lust as a
rooster does.
-, good looking girl, whose lover
asked her in the tenderest tones why IL
was that she was so magnetic, explained
The phenomenon by informing him that
her mother and father were both tele.
graph operators.
= colored debating society in New
berry. County last week discussed the
question, (Which is of more benefit to
the country, the lawyer or the turkey
6uzzard 7" The question was decided in
favor of the buzzard.
Congressman Evins, Of this District,
was one Of eight men who had manliness
enough TO vote no" on the resolution of
thanks to keifer, the depraved and
drunken speaker of the House. Several
Republicans refrained from voting.
a young man who undertook to
trace his family back two centuries.
struck the penitehtiary before he had
exhausted q century, and concluded to
stop. He feared he would collide With
gailows before reaching the objective
point.
A Charlotte minister went out to
marry a runaway couple on Monday
night, AS they stepped forward before
he had 40 gloves, and stepped out to buy
pair. He has not been seen or heard
of since.
= The Edgefeld lfonitor saws: We
see it stated that the Barnweli Sentinel
was robbed of several loaves of bread the
other day. It 10 lust auch Reckless and
improbable statements as this that brings
the press of the country into disrepute.
| Who believes the ::Barlwell editor had
severa! loaves Of bread at one and tho
same time.
One act of Keifer's is eliciting a
good deal of criticism. Just before ad-
journment it il said he asked for the
resignation Of Mr.. Tyson, one of the
official stenographers of the House, and
appointed his nephew. Benjamin Gaines.
to fill the place. The position paws
5000 year; OF course there is moth.
ing for stenographer to do, now that
Congress has adjourned. When the new
Congress meets Mr. Gaines will, of course,
step down and ont, but he will have
S4,26o that Tyson ought to have.
= The influx Of Chinese into Mexico
10 the wake Of American enterprises has
aroused the. fears of the natives, and the
press are unanimous in asserting In the
strongest language that If foreigners
think they can buy up tracts of land end
import the Chinese .barbarians to. Guilt
vate 1t, they most certainly mistake the
character Of the people ofMexico.. Such
operations will lead to bloodshed. Mex.
leans say that no race of 'barbarlans shall
rob them of participation in; tke fruits oi