The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-06-21
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.
The first postof1ice was established

ALI Sorts Of Paragraphs.
- The first postofice was established
in 1916.
"A headlong man is net q nan with
q long head.
- Revised Provsrb-Where there's 9 {
will there's a lawsuit.
= The king of the Belgians manages
to live on s660,O00 a year.
= California papers are boasting OF
strawberries eight and nine inches IN
circumference. d
Woman is the Sunday of man. Not
his repose only, but bis joy. She is the
salt Of his life.
- Nearly twenty three hundred miles:s s:
of railway were laid in the United States
during the first FIVE months of this year.s5
"A woman in New York, seventy
years old, died recently from the bite Of
cat that attacked her while she WAS st Z
prayer.
"A maid ofhonorin Queen Yictoria's
household recsives salary of 81 BOO o
year, and her presence is required only q
twelve weeks annually.
The man who will break one of
Gods commandments habitually and
continually, if you will turn him loose. &
will break them all.-Reu. Sam Jones. g
4 For the past ten months the railroad
accidents in this country have averaged {.
one for every FIVE days, and two thirds
of them have been the result Of careless y
ness.
The fastest run on an American rail. .
road was made on the Philadelphia and
Reading Road, wben.a train ran 90 miles
in SO minutes. One mile was made ir
46 seconds.
- In each minute in the United
States, night and day, all the ar;round,
.twenty-four barrels of beer have. to go
down 1906 throats, and 4 800 bushels Of
grain have to come to bin. 81
= The latest "victim of tobacco 10
a sad case. he is seventy years old, has
smoked for sixty years, and last week he
married woman forty years his senior.
Tobacco smoking affected his brain.
In India the finest grades of cigars
can be bought for half cent apiece, and
cigars are considered rather expensive
luxury at that. In that country man
who has ten cents in cash is looked upon
as comparatively well-to do.
"A guide who has conducted masy
bridal couples through the Capital at 1
Washington declares that they are his
best customers, because "ifa man is ever
going to throw away money on his wife,
it's when he's first married."
:. One ofthe longest wedding journeys
known has extended six years. The
happy couple visited Europe, Asia and
Australia, Japan and other islands, and
a part of Africa. The tour cost about
seventy five thousand dollars.
"A young woman, living at the place I
de Ia Nation, Paris, has just adopted a
novel mode of putting and end to her
day. She filled her small bedroora with
flowers, and when her mother went to
call her in the morning she found her
dead.
In New York 5000 woman earn
their living as typewriters. Itisa bust.
ness or profession in every way suited
to women, and it is to be hoped that mem
will not rush in to crowd them out of.the
field. Let the men do the heavier work.
Give the women chance.
= The slaughter of the birds to deck
woman's headgear may be Judged when
one London dealer says that last year be-
sold two hundred thousand small birds
of every possible kind and color, from
the soft gray Of the wood pigeon to the
gemlike splendor Of the tropical bird.
- Ten Presidents have been renoni.
mated for Office, and of these only three
were defeated, the unlucky ones being
the two Adamses and Martin Van Buren,,
Therecord nowshows that there have been
eleven presidents -enominated, and there
will be no change in the number defeat,
ed.
- The wonderful extent to which I'M.
migration to this country has reached is
shown in tie fact that in 1920 there were
but 5000 arrivals, while this year will
show nearly one million. The total i'm.
migration to this country since 1920
amounts to nearly 100000 people, and
the effect Of this wonderful foreign Inc:
crease in our population has bsen as
great on ourselves as on them, in that
many of our institutions have been made
to conform largely to their idess, and
others are still undergoing change in that
direction.
Mrs. Maria E. Beasley, of Philadel:
phia, has made fortune from the most
remarkable invention which the mind OF
woman ever conceived. In 1884 Mrs.
Bessley took out patent for q machine
| for the construction of barrels. Up to-
that time barrels he'd been made almost
altogether by hand. The machine is
worked by three men and turns out more
than 600 completed barrels day. Mrs.
Beasley was born in North Carolina Of
wealthy parents. She possesses wonder.
full mechanical genius. Her first inyen-s
tion was machine for hopping barrels. 1t
will hoop 1,700 barrels day, and is used
by the Standard Oil company.
- The great million.dollar fire 10
RnfaIo nm February /. which DESTROYED