The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-01
The women of America expend
sS,000,000 annually for paint and dpowder

/ ss,ooo,oo0 annually for paint and dpowder
for their faces.
= The oldest and largest tree in the
world is chesnut near the foot of Mount
Etna. The circumference Of the main
trunk is 2l2 feet.
= II costs $4,000, 600 to run Presi.
Dental campaign. If you see Belva
Lockwood trapsing around in an old
bonnet next summer you'll know the
reason Why. ..,;s ;4.,
More than a sixth part of thelland
of: the globe and nearly q. sixth part of
the population of the world are under
the control of Great Britain. Russia
ranks second in territorial extent aud the
United States third.
= The richest widow in this country;
il not in the world, is Mrs. Moses Taylor,
whose fortune is estimated at $40, 600, 900.
She lives in New York, Long Branch
and several other. places as the mood
strikes. her.
Smith is a mighty mean man, I say"
exclaimed jenkins, warmly, "Why,
what has Smith ever done to you p asked
Blenkinsop, surprised. "Beta me $l9 I.
couldn't hit a barn door with q revolver
at FIVE PAGES" said Jenkins angrily.
'sTsunted me into taking him up. Got
me to put up the money. Measured off
the five PAGES in the presence of a lot of
witnesses. Gave me q revolver. loaded
and then set up the barn door edgewise." !"
-tSonaerUiLLe Journal
a curious case has just been de.
cided upon appeal in Scottish Court.
a young Woman brought an action Of
breach Of promise against young man
who admitted having been engaged to
her. His defence was that she objected
to his smoking and finally said: "Choose
between your cigar and me-" He made
the choice promptlyin favor of the weed,
and when she sued him the Judge held
that by offering the alternative she was
responsible for the swain g aesertion, and
the Superior Court sustained the decision.
Royde Sanders, q little daughter Of
MI. j. J. Sanders, who lives near Low.
rysville, is perhaps the best cotton picker
in the State OF her age. She is seven years
old and picks 100 pounds of cotton readi
ly any day, and one day last week she
picked 104 pounds. She has picked this
season over 1900 pounds Of cotton
Many able bodied men; cannot pick :;
hundred pounds Of cotton in day. Can
anybody in the Stale bring forward q lit.
tie girl or boy, the age of Boyde. that can
beat her picking cotton p Chester Bulie.
tin. ! n
- There was a circus at Chestertown,
Maryland, one day last week, and with
it were seven elephants. Their car was
run alongside locomotive. One of the
elephants put his trunk out through 8
creyice 10 the car, reached over to,the
tender of the locomotive, lifted the lid of
the water tank and helped himself. The
:other six elephants did the same, and in
short time the tank was dry. The train
bands did not see the performance, and
only when the engineer tried to start bis
engine did he find that the water was
gone. ~.
There hundred miles an hour is the
proposed speed for the electric postal rail
road of the future. An experimental
line has been erected at Laurel, twenty
miles from Baltimore. A compromise
between the pneumatic tube and the
ordinary railroad carries miniature
train OF two cars, solely for mails and
light parcels, without any attendance.
The road has three rails, one above the
car for carrying the current, and two.
below which carry the cars. The, cars
are built Of sheet iron and are two feet
square and twenty one feet long. Speed
will be regulated and power or brakes
applied BY electricity solely. If the
experiment at Laure, succeeds, it is
stated that similar roads will be laid
between Baltimore and Washington and
elsewhere. ~"
- Included in the mineral resources
of Utah, apart from its precious metals,
are deposits of alum. some recently dis
covered veins of which are eighteen
inches thick and several hundred feet
in length, of dazzling whiteness and great
purity. Beds of nitre are also, found
sufficiently pure to readily fuse when
thrown on hot GOALS: As is nov we'll.
known, the Great Salt Lake Is an
immense, limitless magazine Of salt, that
can be readily obtained in any desired
quantity by the simple process of evapo-
ration. From this lake vast quantities of
sulphate of soda are also secured, blown
on shore at certain temperature by the
winds, where hundreds of tons are often
piled up in q single night, that can be
utilized in the cheap production of sal
soda and carbonate Of soda.
= Work on the great bridge which is
to span the Mississippi River at Mem.
phis, Tenu,. has been commenced. The
bridge proper ls on the cantileyer plan,
and will consist Off channel span 77Q
feet in length. This is said to be the
longest single span of the kind in the
world, and its construction is difficult
piece Of engineering. The bridge will
also have two spans, each 820 feet In
length. The bridge will be thirty four
feet In width and while only one railroad
track will be used atpresent, the strength
of the bridge will be such that two tracks
can be laid. The plans already contem.
plate wagon road for vehicles. The
bridge will be approached from the west
over an iron treatle $500 feet in length
and an embankment of 1900 feet in
length. 1t will be approached from the
east over an iron trestle 1000 feet long
and oyer an enbankment. The bridge
will be seventy FIVE feet above high
water mark. The estimated cost Is
$2.200,000.