The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-06-07
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

Never worry over trouble. The
trouble itselfis misery enough.
Gentleness makes children endura.
BILE, women loyable, and, men admira,
BILE.
Statistics show that 2s2, ,1sO persons
in New York City cannot speak Eng;
lish.
What is that which We wish for,
and when obtained we never know We
have it? Sleep. -.5;
= The House Congressional appropri.
alton bill on military affairs amounts to;
the sum of $54, ,2S0,799.
There are two hundred starch fac-s
tories in this country, and they ymanufac.
ture about twelve thousand tons Of starch
yearly.
"A lady nho died at Marseilles 70.
quested that her heart might be placed
in the tomb Of her second husband, but
her body in her first husbands tomb in
America.
= Pretty girls, it is said, have no.
trouble in getting married. The trouble
usually comes later, when the too fond
husband discovers that beauty won't,
keep the pot a.boilingor the grocers bill:
from increasing in length with every
passing hour. g
: The three Willard brothers, proprie,
tors of the we'll known Willard hotel in
Washington, are among the wealthiest
men in the capital. Joseph is said to be
worth s1S,OOO,OoO alone, and Caleb and
Henry are not far behind him in wealth.
They were once porters together in q
hotel that stood on the site of their pres.
ent hostelry. II
= Soldiers in the Russian army are
said to be cured of intemperance bys'a
curious and heroic method. The inc
briate is locked up and given only food
boiled in his favorite spirit and water
He soon becomes horribly sick, but Is;
kept on this dict until the very sight; s;ors
scent of spirit creates in him an inextin.
guishable loathing for it.
- California, if the insanity Of her
people continues to increase at the ratio
of the past tweuty years, will have one:
third of her population in the asylum by
the end Of the century. There are now
two large asylums and the state is build,
ing third. Of the. incurable insane
very few are women. Forty men to four
women die insane. Thirty.three per cent
of the California lunatics are.made so by
drink.
In addition to the various other
manufactures from paper, varying from
car wheels, -four barrels, and culinsryll
utensils, it is proposed to make bottles
which it is said can be made lighter and
cheaper than from glass. In view of the
recent rise in glassware, the cheapening
will;be very acceptable to purchasers,
and peculiarly so if the material can be
made applicable to lamp chimneys, in
which the rise has been fifty per cent?,
while the fimsiness: of the glass is.
almost worthless.
Mr.. Wiley McGill, of Webster:
county, owns mule which evidences his
appetite for spring chicken Ly deypuring
all that come within his reach. He has
eaten so many that for two or three years
past it has been necessary to keep strict.
watch on him whenever he is in the lot,
and especially at feeding time. When
the chickens gather around the stable
trough, as is usual with them, the mule.
will drop his corn and fodder any time
to catch nice tender chicken, and ",
has become an invariable rule of all
around Mr. McGilps premises to first see:
that no chickens are about the stable
before he is fed, for it is certain death
for them to go about the trough. This
unnatural freak is not only youched for
by Mr.. McGill himself, but is substantia-
ted by his neighbors. Da,o.aa. Gar,
Journal.
of all the incidents connected with
the recent floods out West perhaps mons.
was more thrilling than that related Of
the father who "was on the levee working
with other farmers when the embank-
ment gave way. Mounting his horssa6
had mad race with the advancing wa.
ters for his home, where his three little
children were sleeping. Reaching there
lust as the water struck the house, he1
placed the children in wagon, and
started for che bluhs. The rapidly adj.
yancing flood aoated the wagon bog,
from the wheels and two of the children
were drowned, John-S saving himself
and his little daughter. The child is all
he has left of happy home and q farm Of
200 acres" This pathetic story from real
life might furnish the theme for com:
| uanion poem to Miss Ingelow's well
known " High.tide on the coast Of Lin.
colushire.
At Helena, Ark, there is a wonder.
ful colored man named Mack Hamilton,
who has been making show of himself
| on the streets of that town. Some OF his
feats consist ofeating large quantities oi
porcelain and glasswithout any delete
rious effects. His appetite is always in
good order, and for dime he will eat
enough to convince the most skeptical
that there is no trick about it. Healse
drinks as much as gallon of water at 9
time, and then with a motion of his righ,
arm-such motion as is given to 1.-THE
handle of pump when pumping-ths
water comes out of his mouth in stream
as clear as when first swallowed. az
also is able to drink boiling water and
eject It by meaps-of this pump.like pro