The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-09-19
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

New York real estate, we'll located s::
doubles in value every eight years.
Cold baths are now said to be effca-
cious in the cure of typhoid fever.
Mrs. Kesterson, of Fulton, KY, has;
FIVE sons, and the birthday of esch is July
20.
One man in west Australia owns,
and controls nearly 100000 acres of q
land;
Proctor Knot, the famous gelding Il
who Won the Futurity stakes last year,
was sold at auction on Monday for$17,
100. 4s.
No country in the world produces
and consumes so much leather IN proper
ton to its population as the United 9
States. q q
Nearly 100000 acres of land in
the United States are owned BY men
who owe allegiance to other goyern- q
ments. 80 7;
An Oregon girl wrote to Anna g
Dickinson once. asking chow to get
q husband 2" and Anna replied "by the &
hair ?"
w. r. shadman, of Glynn County, /
Ga, has three acres of olives. His is be-
lieved to be the only grove east Of the
Rocky Mountains. 8;
A countryman on being charged by e
rampagious bull, held his wife firmly
in front saying, "staud steady, Maria
he can't toss both of us" -
"A man in Astonville, Pa, is said to q
be afflicted with twenty.seyen diaeases.s
After he reads patent medicine almanac
he will think he has the other 2, ,000, IS
43.
= One of the "surs cures of consump.
tion" sold in Philadelphia was analyzed
the other day, and found to consist
ofrum, molasses, and extract Of gdaude-
lion. e,
= 1t is stated by one of the guides at s
the Capitol, in Washington, that 15s
brides an hour is the average number Of 4
visits to the statuary hall each day Of theA
year. g
A man in Abbeville County has cot-a
ton SO large that after picking it.orer shess
is going to have the stalks hauled toa
saw mill and have them sawed into
planks.
"A man at Waynesboro, Ga, owns IS
COW which develops the most furious,
kicking propensities just on the full ofthes
moon. At other times she is as gentle as .
o lamb.
The wheat crop of Minnesota and
the Dakotss, it is reported, will reach !
S5,ooO,Ooo bushels, and may 60 as high as
6O,OO0,00O. It will be the best crop har.
vested in six years.
= Corn is king in this country. The
crop this year will bring to its producers
s7,OoO,OoO, It is both bread and meat, 3:
and there is a good deal of drink init all
so, we've heard tell.
1T is aaid there are fully 5000 ste.s
nographers in New York City=-ln 1S4055
there were not more than dozen comps.s
tent stenographers in the United States;;S !.
now there are 10000.
"A celebrated Samoan beautyis Mra.
Forsythe, an American widow thirty.sixs
years old, who owns 100000 acres of
land. A widow with that amount of. \
property must be charming indeed:
-T The Yorkville Enquirer, Of the 28th
ult., says that on q wager of five dollars,
Gus. Witherspoon, colored, ate z dozen 3
eggs, between 9 a. m. and three P. n: 4:
The eggs we're fried. he won his BET,
butw as dead in two days.
"My DEAR" said dying husband
edo you thing you will marry again when
I am gomez" "I don't know, John, re-:
piled the lady with burst Of tears. g
haven't given the matter very much
thought as yet"
- Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, a lecturer
on household economy, declares that over
$5,00O,0O0 is spent uselessly for bluing in
the United States every year, and that q
million families throw away from $25 to :.
s1OO apiece in soap grease In the same
period. II \
- 1t requires tons upon tons of powder.
and shot to keep the rice birds from the
rice on the plantations in the lower part
of this State. On the largest plantations {
there are regular "bird minders" who do;
nothing but shoot these birds. The birds
sell readily in Charleston at from so cents
to one dollar dozen. u;
"A party of fossil hunters are having
good luck in the North Fork county of
Oregon. They have found the bones Of
small horses with three toes TO each foot,
rhinocerous skulls and other bones that
show, as they think, that Oregon had q.
tropical climate before the glaciers came
down from the north and covered the land
| miles deep with snow.
- The manager Of the Texas peniten.s:
tiary claims to have not only made the
convicts under his care selfsupporting,
but to have turned into the State profit
| of sS5, 900 after paying all costs of food,
| fuel, shelter and clothing, or $500 profit.
for each convict employed. The result
was largely obtained under excep:
;tionally favorable conditions in raising
sugar cane and rehliug its juice.
Miss Jahanna Kembler,l q belle Of:
Paradise Valley, New, kas set out for
Paris. She rides any animal. that wears
| hair and hoofs, aud cares no more for q
saddle than does wild Indian. She is.
as much at home on the side of agallop-4
| ing steed as on his back. With her