The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-05-31
All Sorts of Paragraphs.
: The Sultan of Turkey gets $780,.

The Sultan of Turkey gets $780,
900 per annum.
The latest idea in New York is q
butterfly show, at which 100000 speci.
mems will be exhibited.
The sugar crop of Cuba, owing to
prolonged drought, will show a yield Of
ten to twenty per cent below that OF last
year.
"A German doctor who has investi.
gated the subject says that mans heart
is two square inches larger than a
woman's.
The Bank of England is the most
extensive banking institution in the
world. 1t employs over 1000 clerks, and
its buildings cover eight acres.
The floods in the Mississippi are
slowly sbatiug. 1t is estimated that the
damage to crops is 100000 and to
personal property, &C., 100000.
= Mr.. W. Y. Rally, of Kingston, Ga,
has duck with four wings and four feet
and two backs all attached to one head.
This is wonderful freak of nature.
The man who drinks much should
eat heartily, says medical authority.
This is all very we'll, but the man who
drinks much can't get anything to eat.
The colored people OF this country
have medical college and college Of
dentistry. This year ten students grad
uated at the medical college in Nashville
and three at the dental college.
- The National Bureau of Engraving
and Printing is engaged night and day
in printing one and two dollar silver
certificates and to date has finished $685.
100000 of ones and s17,ooo,ooo of twos.
= Who says that advertising does not
pay? A Chicago burglar overlooked
$50 in bureau drawer, and the papers
so announced. he returned the next
night and not only secured it, but suit
of clothes besides.
A California Judge bas sentenced
Simon Hamburg to fifty.three years. i'm.
prisonment or q fine of $4,000 for
swindling an Oregon farmer by selling
him property, the titles of which Ham.
burg knew to be defective.
-In 1880 there were in the United
States, in round numbers, 100000
voters. Of this number, 100000, or
oue.ffth of the whole number, were
illiterate. One in every group of five
could not write his name; one in every
ak could not read his ballot.
Henry w. Boyd, of New York, was
a model husband. He thought as his
wife needed money the best thing he
could do would be to commit suicide,
and he therefore cut bis throat. His life
insurance amounted to $4,000. His
bereaved ones are not inconsolable.
"A Buffalo man hung his watch at
night over pan of dough in the kitchen,
aud the next morning it was missing.
he Of course thought it had been stolen,
and was considerably surprised at supper
time to see the lost timepiece roll out of
a loaf of bread his wife was cutting.
A Florida radish is one of the phe.
nomena commented. on by southern
exchange. 1t is said to weigh four
pounds, and to measure six inches in
diameter at the largest point. The body
proper measures thirteen inches, and the
tap root is thirteen more, making its total.
length twenty.six inches.
= The amount of liquors consumed for
thirteen years in the. United States, from
1860 to 1872, inclusive, was 2,O00,7G2,O66
gallons. The cost to the consumer was
$3.50, ,161,S05. If put in wagons-ten
barrels to the wagon-they would extend
1850 miles, nearly twice around the
earth, or half to the moon.
= The largest trees in the world are
the sequoia Gigshtis Of California, found
on the western slope of the Sierra Neva-
da. Some are over thirty feet in diame=
ter, and $50 fee: high. Dancing parties
have been held on sawn trunk and al
man on horseback has ridden -erectI
seventy. five feet through hollow trunk
= The Bible contains &C books, 1,1Sa
chapters, 31,173 verses, 1882 words
9,5s6,4S9 letters. The middle verse i
the 9Th verse of the 18th Psalm. Th&
longest verse is the 9th verse of the Stt
chapter Of Esther. The shortest verse "a
the 35th verse of the 18th chapter of ST
John. Ezra, 7th chapter, 21st verse
contains all the letters of the slphabd
except j.
The young ladies Of Oak Ridd
Institute, Guilford County, N. G. ha
recently organized q debating society ar
their first contest was over the question
"Resolved, that women folks have more
sense than men" resulted in the afirma.
tive, one young lady establishing the
fact that solomon's reputation for wisdom
was altogether due to the advice given
him by thousand wives.
A gentleman in Atlanta, Ga, is pf7
culiarly afflicted. One of his eyes is dar.
blue in color and the other is light
gray. In the daytime-from sunrise to
suuset-he cannot see anything out of
the blue eye, but sees distinctly and vel
with the gray eye; and from~sstaiHnssett
sunrise he cannot see anything with tho
gray one. His hearing is similarly
affected. He can hear only on the side
thus be can hear with one ear during the
daytime and with one ear during the
night. He never discovered this until
recently.
= The late cold snap has played havoc
with the tobacco outlook in Kentucky,