The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-08-23
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

Toronto, Canada, with loO,OUO Ein::y3
habitants, has no Sunday paper, no open
saloon, nor street cars on the Sabbath.
"A Chicago man sold a lot within
the city limits the other day for $4,000
The lot was originally bought of the same
man for SIS. ~
Counterfeit one dollar silver certif:ss
Gates have made their appearance. They
are quite skilfully executed, and are sas
dangerous counterfeit.
Edison is now the father Of bunc.z;
ing baby, and it is aaid that he is trying
to invent an electrical contrivance for
making the infantile yell self feeding. B
"A woman in jersey City has been
arrested forty. eight times for wearing
male attire, and has been discharged each {
time because there is no law against it:
Sunday schools are increasing rap.:as
idly in this country. Last year thes
American Sunday School Union organiz:s
ed 1902, with 6,S26 teachers add 54,129Ss
scholars.
Watermelons for the Christmas DIM
ner are not an impossibillity. It is said
that they will keep perfectly il: put away
in NOW of well cured hay, free from
dampness. ~ z
II Mr.. Sim, of Royston, Ga, dreamed
the other night that he had shot q burr:
glar, and awoke to find that he had shot
himself, and vas minus finger by the
operation.
-"Now, Tommy" said the teacher, sifs
there are seven peaches on tbetable and
your little sister eats three and you eat:
four, what will be left 2" The stones,,s
replied Tommy. -;
= Man is awfully smart in sonnet things;
but nobody has ever discovered one that
could jam a hat pin clear through his;
head and make it come out on the other
side, as the women do. s:;sss;
"A colored preacher near Macon, Ga.,s
has committed to memory the entire
Bible. A few years ago he was unable
to read, and claims that his knowledge
has been revealed to him in q vision. .ss ss
Farmers within radius of three
miles Of Perham, Mimi, during fourteen
days recently caught and killed 5000
bushels Of grasshoppers, for which the
county paid a bounty of 81 a bushel.
- The money that Andrew Carnegie:
pays out every month in wages to the
employees of his vast iron and steel mills
would, if converted into silver dollars,
amount to 10000 pounds, or eight tona.s
- The Leavenworth Times says the
corn is so tall in Kanses that strangers
on night trains, looking out on the corn
fields by moonlight, talk Of the dense oak;
and maple forest they are passing
through.
"A peculiar deposit which resembles
clay in pliability, but when exposed to-
the air becomes as hard as granite, has
been discovered at the base Of Bear
Mountain, near Taylorville, N. q. Blocks;
of it have been dug out ard used for all
the purposes of stone with success, and:
it is proposed to build houses of it. .s
"A contest has lately been carried on
in the columns of the New York World
for the honor Of being the youngest
grandmother in the country. Ithas been
shown in the letters Of contestants that's
woman who is grandmother at theages
of thirty.two is not by any means an un.s::
usual parsonage in that country. s5
"A queer incident took place at A.
Lowers house at Griffin, Ga. "A colony
of black bees had been living peaceablys
near tribe of Italian bees for years until
few days ago, when the black bees:
attempted to rob their yellow neighbors.5
A fierce fight was the result, in which
hundreds Of the black robbers weres
killed. a:ssss.
"A writer 10 the New York Sun sets
the total expenses of running presiden.,
tial campaign in all the States in this
country at s2o,Ooo,oo0. This is road
figure. of course, and it is presumably
based on figures furnished by each party
organization for its opponents. How else
such big figures could have been arrived
at only campaign romaucer can guess:
at. KS
Quite number of prominent Re-
publican manufactures have recently
left that party and Joined the Democratic
hosts. Mr.. A. B. Ferquhar, the great:
agriculture. implement manufacturer of
Pennsylvania, has declared for Cleveland
and Thurman. He is one of the largest
employers of labor in that State and says.
he is for tariff reform, as none but mon0:.s
polists want protection. rs IS
An old bachelor in Oakland, Cal.,I
being well conditioned, welded. After g
week he and his wife agreed to a divorce.
They had not quarreled, but in his single
days he had kept bachelors hall, and still
insists upon doing all the housework,
because he likes his own way best. As
the lady understood that part of the work
to be in her contract, she is detetmined.
to dissolve partnership which promises
her life of inactivity.
"A family on South Main street,
Waterbury, Conn.,, who recently los: q
daughter by death, had pet family cat,
which came to them when nearly full
grown. The cat took the most remarka.l
BILE fancy to the young lady that died.
and was never so happy as when perched'
upon her shoulder or sitting upon her
lap. Each morning when the feline was
admitted to the house it instantly started;
in search Of Libbie, aud when found;
would express his joy by various demon,
strations. The young lady was taken: