The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-09-27
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.
The annual consumption Of offeathers
in this country is 100000 pounds. .es,s

J Tr1sEfT
New York to Liverpool. sss
A rise in coffee is reported. Evi':
IDENTIFY boarding house coffee is not meant
that is generally too weak to rise. 81
He that cannot forgive others breaks
the bridge over which he must pass him
self, for every man has need to be for::i
given.
- The papers are again printing sa5
table by which to tell ones age. No:
woman will look at it. She doesn't want
to know how to tell her age, and she
wouldn't tell it if she did know how.
= Texas will furnish this year the
Oldest voter in the United States. His
name is Richard Kidd, and he sis;1 115a
years of age. Mr.. Kidd's mind is clear
and his strength remarkable for one of
his great age. 80
"A correspondent of the New York
Times estimates that at the present rate
of increase the population of the United
States at the end Of the twentieth century
will be /, 1853, ACT, ,942, ' ith ratio Of s3S9lss
to every GAO acres of ground. s
= Paper is now manufactured fronaS
seaweed, according to process recently!
inventedin Japan. The article made :ins:
this way is said to be so strong. as TO be-
almost untearable; is sufficiently trans.
parent to admit of its being used ass
window glass, and takes all colors about
equally we'll. sssl
= Boston has eighty.three miles of
streets, and pays s45o,ooo a year:to keep
them clean. New York has $50 milessofs
thoroughfare, and pays $1,000, 900 sfor..
cleaning them. Philadelphia claims to:
have 3O6 miles streets, and yet only
allows 100000 a year for cleaning them:g
- Chicago Times. SsssssS Sssssss
= There were gooseberries in the! ;!gar:
den, but she was forbidden to pluck them
Pluck them she did. "Why didn't:you;y
asked her mother, "when you were
tempted TO touch them say. Get thee
behind me, Satan ?'n II didD1shesaid !,
earnestly, "and be got behind me asnldss
pushed me into the bush"
Mrs. Cleveland has madelhanya adj;
ditiona to her collection Of petsla Oak
View this summer. Besides a poodle, as
st. Bernard, parrot, canary -bird, KS
calf, two kittens, and COW, she nor, has
tame fox, which was given her ats
Marion, small collection Of white mice;
two rabbits, and eight or nine pigeons:
- An inventive German devised Sas
cofin for the convenience ofthose who:
have dread of being buried alive. Itsisss:
provided with valve, by meanso Of which;
fresh air is admitted in quantity uficients
to support life, and thereis an arrange
ment of wires, by means Of which the
least movement of the body sets an 5elec-s
trio bell ringing. sss:9s.s
Mrs. Margaret Killman, OF ssPross
pect, Me-, who, if she lives until the 2dss
of next April, will be 100 years oil, ;,isss &
still vigorous and able to "walk ont and 3s
visit her neighbors.n She has never
been i'll in her life (; has borne eleven
children, the oldest of whom is IS years
old has never journeyed in cars loss
steamboats,, nor been more than two
miles in stage. OF her ninety.fourrs;;
descendants seventy one are living.
"A remarkable double headed child;
was recently born to French family
named Reoulbault in Manchester, Me-
The heads are both perfect, and arsE
Joined to the body by two short. WeA-5:: s:
shaped necks. 1t uses its mouths and
eyes apparently at will in eating, crying.s
winking and even sleeping. Tia parents;
we're much shocked at the appearance.of
their baby, and went at once to Montreal
to avoid the notice of their neighbora::
The child is likely to live.
The collection of postage stamps
recently exhibited in Boston is said 70 be:
worth nearly 100000. There were sllu; in;;
the collection single atamps valued sat'
s1OO each, and several groups ofssix; were;
placed at $1,000. That the; prices were
not all fancy Was shown BY the offer Of
$50 from dealer for a blue envelope on
which was small stamp marked sBres
men. One group, consisting Of four, o,slIs
government stamped envelopes now,
obsolete, was appraised at s400.
Among the contributions made in:
New York to the yellow fever fund was;
one by Messrs. Amerman & Patterson.
accompanied by this letter "The eng
closed check for $55.57 representa- 9 sum
which vas in dispute between the parties;
whose names appear thereon, and: Il was
decided between them to compromise the
matter by devoting the sum; to the relief
| of the Jacksonville sufferers, as their joint
contribution to such purpose. We there
fore ask you to transmit it to the, proper
authorities for the purpose named ."sss
Emma Bennett, of Oashkosh, Wis,
who has been bedridden with consump.
ton of the blood for nine years, and for.
the last three years paralyzed on one side
of TIE body, on Sunday surprised her
people by singing in loud voice He''
rose, he rose, he rose from the deadss
They rushed from the dinner table into
the bedroom and found the sick girl:sit:
ting in bed, and still singing. She asked
to be helped to her feet and then walked
| across the floor. She said she felt as
though she had risen from the dead
- The ruling passion, it seems; issa
strong in trance as iu death. julius
Thompson, colored, near Waco, Tex, 70;
all appearances, died, was shrouded,i
| cofined aud about to be buried, when'a;
| nuIe team ran awav with q wagon load