The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-05-24
All Sorts. or Paragraphs.

= lTos,ctcr, the patent medicine man,
carries %:775o0oo life Insurance.
- 1t is exactly lo7 years since Tic first
Sunday newspaper was published.
"A convention Of persons who wear
glass eyes IS 10 be called 70 meet in Mil
wankce
: Tie average rate Of baatisms in the
Protestan, ohurc,lc, Of Japan IS about
100 month.
= Tie Congressional library building
at Washington will cover 1l,0O0 square
feet, more than two and half acres.
A lot in Denver, Col, that was pur.
chased BY an carly settler 70. s. and q
revolver sold the other day for slO,.
coo.
= It speaks wei! for the colored people
of Georgia when it is stated that they pay
taxes on about $9,OOO,00O worth Of prop
crty.
= The King Of Spain is IS months old,
ard has salary of 81, 100000, with pros
pect OF raise as soon as the business
will warrant i.
The Bank Of England is the most
extensive banking institution in the
world. It employs over l,o00 clerks, and
its buildings cover eight acres.
= AT present there are over 100000
people out Of employment in the United
States. In New York alone there are
G7, 600 men and $4,000 women who are
idle.
The Supreme Cour. Of the United
States has decided that no State has the
right TO tax railroads, express and tele.
graph companies ,!lat do business in more
than one State.
= One rich man wea.s poor clothes
because he is rich and c:n co anything,
while poor man wears fine clothes be.
cause he is poor, and wants to create the
impression that lie is not.
- The statement is made that no less
than six species OF North American birds
have become extinct during the last ten
years, and il i, claimed tha. English
aparrows were the main cause.
- On the back Of & five dollar bill re.
ceived by Greensboro, \. c., merchant
the other day the following was written:
"This is the las. OF forty thousand dollars.
Beware OF women, wiue and fast
horses"
: Nearly all Of tie United States
Senator's are large men, their average
weight running close 20 $50 pounds.
Their entire weight according to sta.
tis,ical correspondent, IS nearly l4,00O
pounds.
: An exchange tells Of an apple tree
in Yedkin County y. c., which bears
irui, regularly every .-";lr and las never
been known TO bloom. The apple grows
Of from soft skoo. o. sprig which
springs from the large branches.
A Witty writer has observed, with
much truth, ;hat eG,;y man is. in a sense,
:lrae different lnen. In Tie frs: place,
he Is tic mar ne think. himself to be;
in the second place, he is the man other ?
persons think him to be; and, finally
he is the nan that he really i.
= The Prosperity RtPoyttt says, "We
know family in Edgefc!d which can
boast 0: representing in nama, an insect,
q bird and quslrupsl Thc mans
name i' Jay, his mofiiin law's name is
Roach, and his grandmother; name is
Leopard-ail living iii the SAME house"
A New York business nan has a
novel method Of refreshing his memory.
When lie has something important to
attend TO the next day, he writes himself
g postal card, reminding him OF the mat
ter, aud, finding tho card among the mail
the next morning, attends to it tie first
thing.
- 1t Is stated by tie Director OF the
Mint ;ha. whenever 100000 in gold
coins are handled at least s. is lost by
abrasion, even when the greatest care is
exercised. At the annual settlement and
other counts the weighing of the bul.
lion and coin requires DO less than eight
landings. OF course this loss is irrepa.
rable.
The Georgia State Temperance
Convention, before adiourn;ng, passed
resolutions to make general prohibition
contest in tie elections Coz the Icgisla.
.ure this fa'l. Prohibition candidates
will be nominated in every counly pledg.
ed to vote &c. q statutory prohioitory law
instead of leaving the question to the
vote Of the people.
= In Wayne county, Ga.: postoflice
on the Big sandy river, lives Joseph
Davis, who has daughter aged six years
WHO weighs $50 pouad. This is the larg.
est child for its age known in the world,
is perfectly healthy and as intelligent as
the average child. The parents are of
average weight, the mother Weighing but
30 and the father 1870 pounds.
A boy about ten years Of age, living
1T Martins Mill, Tenn, has acquired
mania for eating flies. ard will turn away
from the dain.iest dishes fer this, his
fayorite diet. lie eats them, he says, be.
cause he loves them, and resorts to all
kinds of schemes to catch them. He
says bis little brother likes thcm Us veil
as he does, but is too lazy to catch them.
Il could gaze at the moon for hours,
iIr. Sampson" she said, in Il voice full
of sweetness and pneumonia. 81 never
tire oft" "Ah." he responded, "would
that l were the man in it - YES" she
assentcd softly. and Why, Miss Clara"
he asked. getting ready TO take her hand.
Because, Mr.. Sampson" she said, shyly