The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-07-12

than good. There was = time when.
farmers were scared into rodding their
barns and houses, but Z think they are;
getting over that "-Ptiladelphia Record.
"a strong sentiment has been arons.
ed in Great Britain against the absorp.
ton by the royal exchequer ofimmense
sums for the support of the members OF
the reigning family. Since Queen
Victoria ascended the thronelin in 1887 it
has been calculated that she and her
relatives have received $3.50, 100000 of
the public money. Every time that q
child has been born or married Parlia.
ment has been asked to grant an allow.
ance, and although protests have been
made they have been Intellectual. or
late, however, the opposition to this
extravagance has begun to crystalline,
and proposed grants and annuities have
been largely cut down. With the growth
ofLiberalism there will undoubtedly be
an oyerhauling of the British civil list
that will check drain which is felt by
every subject of the British Empire.
= A new method of furnishing dishon.
est bank clerks is now being tried in q
certain institution of that kind in New
York. Some time ago clerks account
were investigated and he was found to be
several thousand dollars short. To res
move and prosecute the man would have
been troublesome and apt to hurt the
reputation of the bank, so they have
made him stay, as if nothing had hap
pened, but have placed him in such
position that he can take no more, and
informed his fellow clerks of the defal.
cation. He is avoided by the insiders,
and bis position is about as disagreeable
as can we'll be imagined. Constantly
under surveillance, he will work out in
time the amount he has taken, and will
then be discharged.
During the first six months of his
married life his wife always watched for
him and tripped down the street half a
block to meet him when he left the car;
for three months more she met him at
the gate then for six months she opened
the front door for him. and I know al
ways kissed him when he came in. Last
week I went home. with him for dinner,
and we found her reading. q. novel in the
library. I don't believe she would have
lett her chair if he had been alone.
Does he care? Bless you, no! He has
cooled of, too, aud yet they get along
we'll, and I DOM think haveye had any
serious quarrels.. They give good din.
ners, too.-DetroI Free Press.
The Springfield Republican says:
"So far as the tariff issue is concerned
the question rests right here: Can the
people, during four months of discussion,
be led to believe that 10 per cent reduc'
ton of Al per cent tariff effected by
Democrats is free trade while 10 per
cent reduction of "a 46 percent tariff
effected by! Republicans in 1882 is not
free trade? That is stating the case upon
the presumption that the people gener-
ally are most stupidity ignorant" The
question at issue could not be more tersely
stated.
- How women can manage to sit bolt
upright and not change position, look.
ing neither to the right nor left, during q
sermon in church passes the understand.
ing. A man will sit on the picket fence
satfthe AFTERNOON to- see a,balls match, but
I sput him id Church pew for three quar-.
ters of and hour he will wnbble all over
the seat.
I. Certain enterprising capitalists are
erecting mill at Columbus, Ga, for the
Exclusive manufacture -ofSfne grades of
.seersuckers and ginghams. Thesegrades
of goods have not been manufactured In
thelEout retofore, and the result of the
entefpriseEwillssbe watched with interest
bymanufactu urersal over the country.
IL Sinking sMopltaib, located four
miles from Tallulah Falls, Ga; on the
river Chattooga, is great phenomenon
in nsture which scientists cannot explain.
Itsinks imperceptibly alL Lthetime, but on
the occurrence of an earthquake, even in
the femotest partiof the world, ifsinks
instantly from one to six feet.
"A Pittsburg foundry is making for
the American Emensite Company can
non which will be used to demonstrate
the value of that new explosive. The
cannon is expected to throw six.inch
she'll with emensite ten to twelve miles.
The Buenos Ayres Standard announces
that 100000 negroes from the United
States, with capital of $4,000, 900, are
about to emigrate to that Republic and
form an agricultural colony in The
Chaco.
= 1t is said that enough salt tunderlies
the city of Ithaca, N. Y, to supply the
world for century, and that q syndicate
has been formed to build there the
largest salt works in the State of New
York.
j. j. Aubertin, an Englishman, has
Just published in London book OF trav'
Ell dealing with this country. He predicts
that The people of the United States will
soon claruor for king and an aristccra
cy.
= IN one day during the present hot
spell thirty eight persons in New YORK
were killed by the heat The great
northern cities glow like furnaces all
through the summer.
Great men have queer superstitlons.
It is said that the duke of Wellington
would change his line OF march if
yellow dog ran across the pathway OF bis
army. :,
The Mikado of Japan has quite
recently issued an edict forbidding the
playing of baseball in his empire. lie
will make the penalty fit the crime.