The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-07-19
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.


A planter in Brooksville, Fla,
cleared $4,000 off cabbage patch Of &
100 acres.
The man who is good natured all d
day does more for the race than he who q
wins battle.
More than million men are en-
ployed by the various railway lines in the
United States.
A 6.year.old daughter of Joseph
Davis, of Wayne County, W. Va, s
weighs 290 pounds.
= There are about 1000 children in
the United States, under IL years old, 6
whose lives are insured.
There is lady in Port Huron who
has had her coffin made and is now have
ing her tombstone prepared.
= 1t has been discovered that the fea
uses only one eye at time, and that he
dies the hardest of any insect in nature. T
= The town Of Liberty, Texas, proudly
claims that sixteen inches of rain fell
there lately in the course of thirty.six
hours.
= An enterprising physician in Auss I
tralia advertises II will pay half the
funeral expenses in cases where I am;not
successful"
"A man who is looking for something
to do rarely finds anything, but if he is 5
willing to do anything be can always
find something.
David Ashley, of Platville, Ne
braska, has just died of hydrophobia
from the bite of a rabid dog received
twelve years ago.
= Frances Cleveland Edwards, the !:
first girl baby born at Thermalito, Cal: s.
has been presented with corner LOT by:
the town authorities.
= Thousands of people are trying the
various anti fat remedies during the
present hot spell. The best anti.fat
remedy is to let it alone.
= The New York Star predicts that &
Cleveland and Thurman will be elected
by the largest majority ever gwen a;s s
Presidentialtic in the United Statess
- Burlington, New Jersey, is tho 4
champion town for widows. There ~
one block that gives shelter to thirty ons 4
of these attractive but dangerous crea:
lures. Z. &
AT Berwyn, Pennsylvania, lightr
ming lifted John Higgins and the lawD
mower he vas using two feetin the air,
and then dropped them withoutiDjury to {
either.
- The watermelon crop Of Florida
sold North this year will amount to over
$50,0OO. From this basis it ought to be
easy for the doctors to figure out their
profits.
"A check fourteen years old Was
cashed the other day at the Alleuton,
Pa, bank. The holder said it had been
all that time in the forgotten pocket; OF
an unused vest.
- In Brazil some of the senators hold
their term for life. One of them has not
shown himself in the senate for forty &
years, and there is now due him back
salary of 100000.
An Alaska Indian, sentenced to-
prison for ninety.nine years for murder, 8
wants to know if the government sis
going to keep him alive long enough TO- !
serve the whole term.
= Cotton caterpillars have appeared
in FIVE counties of Southern Arkansas. &
This is their earliest coming since 1873
in which year they shortened the crop
iu the Mississippi Valley.
= Caterpillers have SO overrun the
County of Kent that the fruit farmens
whose products are all eaten up, areeol.
lecting them and selling them at $40 g
sack as food for pheasants.
- The number of Immigrants who
arrived at Castle Garden in May, Of this
year, was 1870. The number for t1s
first FIVE months this year is 187, ,139,
against 166,09O in the same time last |;
year.
There is man in New York who
eats glass, carpet tacks and live frogs,
and he says that this abnormal desire To-
turn his stomach into junk shop wasS
brought about wholly by the excessive
use of cigarettes. y -
An English writer has discovered
that the devil is eleven thousand years
old. But the old boy seems to be in 8
pretty fair state of preservation, and still
continues to put in his work with neat
ness and dispatch.
There is man living in Atlantis
Ga, 81 years old, who has never taken
chew of tobacco nor smoked cigar;
never was drunk, never swore, and neyst'
married. And yet he probably thinks
that "he knows it all" Notwithstanding. q
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A gentleman who is close observer
informs us that he accidentally came:
across curiosity few days ago. While;
examing some rocks in Fishing creek he
was surprised to find the well.defnedI
imprint offs mans foot upon q rock as
hard as adamant. He says it was as per-
feet fac simile of the human foot as he]
ever saw. When and by whom is wss]
made, are queries too hard to be s0lT
I-Lincolnton, Ga, Ns,os.
M. Jovis, French aronaut, iss
to be building an air ship, in which
proposes to attempt to cross the Atlsnt
from New York this fall. It is to$b3