The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-09-06
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girl about his undying love. -
1t is curious fact that one out of
every nine persons you meet on Broad.
way, New York, is q Hebrew.
= In seven years the value of the pro-
ducts of South Carolina has increased
from s72,0oo,ooo to s101, 100000. ssI s
1t is time to tie a string to your !:
false teeth. Last year there were sixty Y
cases in this country Of plate swallowing. 8
= I. requires push to succeed in bust:
ness, whether it be running q newspaper,
keeping country store or wheeling 9 $,
baby carriage.
-"I say, old man, can you tell me q
where is the frat present mentioned in I.
the Bible?" "Give it up" "Wby, Eve
presented Adam with Cain, stupid. -"
There are four hundred million cig:s
arettes used in this country annually.
The undertakers, doctors and officers Of
insane asylums have great reason to be 4
thankful. s, SIS,
A genius has invented a fatiron,
and has utilized.the principle Of fexpan.
sion of metals by heat SO that q little {:
bell rings when the iron is hot enough to- &
iron clothes with.
There are good many persons at /
the seaside resorts who would be athome
if their debts were paid, and great
many who are now at home could then {
afford to go to the seashore.
- Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, well knoWnink
Georgia and throughout the South, !, is now
living in New York, and has charge Sofs!
George Monroe'a two papers, for which,
she receives salary of ST, 900 q year. d
"A city young man MIC, while sums
mering in the country, fell in love With q
pretty dairy.maid, proposed and was
rejected, told his friends when hereturn:s
ed home that he only got one milk
shake" while he was away.
"A Texas merchant wrote a letter 1:
Northern firm ordering some goods.
After finishing he attempted to read it,
but owing to the hieroglphic style Of his
"fst" he gave it up saying, "Waab bIllss
send it on any way, they are better ,achol:
ars up there than I am" sgsi ;sss;
: Six-Killer is tie name of an. Indian
who lives in the Indian Territory. The
other day q reporter, curious assto the
redskins name, asked him: if he had
killed six men, to which he replied that
he killed seven, but one of them was g !.
newspaper reporter, which he did not
count.
= There are 100000 freight cara on:
the various railroad lines in this country
of which $4,000 are the property Of the
Pennsylvania Central road. They range
in value from $500, the cost of construct
ing. fat car, to $1,500, the amount
expended in building the average refrig-
orator car. sssss 81
= Mrs. Leland Stan ford's jewels are
valued at round million. Her diamond
necklace is the finest in the United States;
and possibly in the world. Itcost $74, ,0009
and consists OF large, "blue tint" soli.S
tsires. Besides this she has several pairs {
of magnificent solitaire earrings and
enough of other precious stones to fill as;
quart measure.
- The railways of Dakota and Mime:
sofa will haYe their hands full for theN
next few months. The st. Paul Pioneer
Press estimates the wheat crop of Mime
sofa and Dakota this year at 100, ,000, ,00Oss
bushels. Allowing an average OF. 400
bushels to the car, this will represent no 4
less than 25o,0oo car loads, or 1888 trains
of thirty cars each. s.
- The Chicago Tines recently sent .
female reporter over the city to find out
how much the working girls were paid
and how they were treated. The dis
closures made are shocking in the:
extreme. The average slave on aSouth.ss
ern plantation before the war was infin:g
itely better off than the working girlsiof:
Chicago are to day. 5
Charles Rowan, while digging 81
post hole on his farm in Illinois the other
day, struck a pint bottle of whisky
twenty. seven years old, as shown BY date
figures blown on the glass. Charles took
seat in a shady corner of the fence and
opened his find, and when his wife came.
there to look for him he couldn't tell as
post hole from hole in the sky.
= Forty.one years ago young man of
Rhode Island asked a young woman Of
the same State to marry him. She said I.
mo" The young man went about his
business, but he kept his eye on the
woman, and from time to time renewed
his suit, she refusing offer after offer. he
persevered, and his constancy was re-:
warded a short time ago, when she
accepted and married him. He was then
72 years old and she 81. e:
"A special from Little Rock, Ark
to the st. Louis POst-Dispatch announces
the death under peculiar circumstance
of Rev. Jesse Pratt, the oldest Baptist.
minister in Arkansas. His son, j. r.:
Pratt, vas on trial for assaultiug q awo.,!.
man, and the father expressed the hope
that he would die before the verdict was
rendered. He expired FIVE hours before
the jury came in, sentencing his son 70
FIVE years. imprisonment. Grief az
shame killed him. ESs.
More than half of the people Of tnal
United Statesmen, women and children:
wear shoes that come from Boston,
That is the headquarters Of the boot and.
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