The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-04-19

he has never yet seen one with bald
head.
"A German paper says that COM
pany has been formed to manufacture
watches to be run by electricity instead
of q spring.
During the first three months of this
year 5000 more immigrants arrived at
New York than in the same time last year.
There were 2S,945 arrivals in March.
= There has grown up such demand
for alligator skins, and there has been
the big sauriaus of the South are becom-
ing scarce, particularly in Florida.
"A Resolution providing for the sub.
mission to the people Of prohibition
amendment to the constitution was adop-
ted in the New York Assembly Thursday.
The Republicans voted for and the Dem.
ocrats against it.
1t is said that there is postofice
for every 1000 men, women and children
in the United States, and that if the ex-
pense of carrying the mails was paid
directly by the people pro rata, each
citizen would pay an average of IS cents
q year.
The only woman lawyer in Georgia
is Mrs Hamilton Douglas, of Atlanta.
She is graduate of the Law School of
the University of Michigan, and when she
graduated vas complimented by Judge
Cooley on her legal attainments.
DR.. Eli Fay, a wealthy Unitarian
minister, has offered 10 give $500, 900 for
the purpose of establishing college for
the free education of young women in
Georgia. Atlanta is thought to be the
most available place in Georgia, and can
get the college if any steps are taken to
secure it.
= Edward L. Palmer, of New York
city, was arraigned in the Tombs Police
Court in New York City, a few days ago
on charge of vagrancy. Twelve years
ago he was president of bank and street
railway company in the metropolis. He
was ruined by drink and speculation in
Wall street.
"A lover of the curious in number"
has arrived at some interesting facts
about Berlin. The city has 210 miles of
streets, 30 that q person might walk ten
days in the capital without retracing his
steps. Ifthe i 100000 inhabitan is should
march in double file they would form q
line nearly $50 miles in length. Ifthe
citizens should determine to start upon
journey at the same time, all the cars of
Germany would accommodate but two.
thirds OF the number.
- Probably the largest pension ever
awarded to private soldier is the one
the government has just paid to John
Vice, who lives near OWingsville, KY.
He has been totally blind for number
of years, and his pension, s72 per month,
dates back to the first year of the war,
and amounts to $4,000. For all this
time he has been street beggar with q
helpless family. This magnificent pen
sion is beyond his widest dream. Why
has it been withheld SO long is not known.
- The condition of American divorce
laws is disgrace, as we'll as q serious
complication. David Dudley Field, in
an article printed by the American Law
Review, argues that, bad as this state of
things is, it is preferable to any regula-
tive action on the part of Congress. He
says: "We live in danger of drifting into
a consolidation of the States, and the
danger is increasing day by day. For
this reason / would not 60 another step
it that direction, and 30 I would not &C.
cede to the proposal of placing marriage
under the control of Congress-"
Boston has just received from Africa
the largest gorilla ever landed in this
country. His name is Jack, and he is
five feet in height when standing erect
and measures seven feet from the end of
one outstretched hand to the other. He
weighs about 1875 pounds, and exhibits
enormous strength, compared with which
that of a man seems like child's. He
arrived in a large box made of planking
two and half inches thick, and when
being removed from the ship he tore
large splinters from the hard wood planks
with as much ease as child would break
twig.
"A watch dial now being made in the
Waltham works contains, instead of the
usual numerals, twelve small but distinct
silhouette figures representing woman
with very young child in her arms. At
/ o'clock the lady and her little baby are
clearly depicted, the infant being in long
clothes. At 2 o'clock the same figures
appear, but the child is little larger.
Ats o'clock mamma is still there, but
the infant is in short clothes. At
O'Clock he goes to school for the first time.
At 9 o'clock he may be seen with his
college gown and mortar board, and the
happy smile of the now elderly but happy
mother. At 10 o'clock the deathbed
scene, where he parts with his beloved
mother. At IL o'clock he is q middle-aged
man, over whom the SHOWS of many win.
ters have passed. At - o'clock an old
and decrepit specimen ofhumauity pray.
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