The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-05-30
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

with counterfeit silver dollars.
- The name Oklahoma, Chickasaw
word, means beautiful land"
- The fruit crop of Kansas this year
promises to be the finest ever known.
- The arrests for iutoxication in New
York city averaged over 1000 week last
year.
"A saloon keeper in New York Leg
islature gives his vocation as an under
taker."
A train of twenty-five cars. loaded
with bananas, recently left New Orleans
for Cincinnati.
"A bottle of beer burst aud blew away
part. of..;a'.Tacoma wv. T.)sman's;skull
His injuries are probably fatal.
= The African Methodist Church has !
10000 churches, 10000 ministers and
contributes 2O0O,O 600 annually orchurch
work. y
= Miss May Davis, au Oregon girl only,
fifteen years old, can crack walnut with
her teeth or lift a barrel of flour with her
hands.
- The fleece of ten goats and the work
of several men for half 8 year are required
to make cashmere shawl a yard and a
half wide. 5l=f
"A ton of rope made from the hair Of
deyout women Of Japan has been used in
building s4,o0O,OOO temple to Buhada
at Kioto.
= Probably the youngest commercial
traveller in this country is Frank Wade,
aged 12 years, who represents Buffalo
oil company
Daniel Lambert, the largest man
known 10 history, measured 9 feet 4inches
around the body, 8 feet inch around the
legs, and weighed 739 pounds.
-AIawrenceville, Ga, cyclone carried
part of q fence twenty feet and set it :
down again just as it had stood, every
rail from the ground up in its,place.
A Lsary, Ga, man wondered why
his 6pe COW suddenly ceased giving milk,
until one day the milkmaid found the COW
lying down while pigwasi sianasst1ie ieusly
helping himself. IVA
= 1t is expected that the total cost Of
the Paris exposition will be about ten
million dollars. Most of this is contrib
uted by the government, and the city of
Paris pays nearly all the rest.
"A Western undertaken has had a
large tent made. Whenever he has q :
funeral on a rainy day he will place the :
tent over the grave, SO that the service
may be held with but little inconyeni-.
ence. E{s32 ;,ss! ]:
Judge J. q. CASTOR, of Aleriweather,
Ca, has jumped across thirteen foot
gully every birthday of his life for many
years. The other day be was Is years
old, and he made the jump withsperfect
ease. 49,. ~.
- The receipts Of the foreign missions I
of the southern Presbyterian church du.
ring the year just closed were S96. poo,
an advance of $4,000 on any former year.
seventy.three missionaries are in the
field. .sl
The greatest snuff taking country in
the world is France, though it shows g (
decline in the habit. In 1869 the con-.
sumption WAS 100000 pounds, or seven
ounces per head. Now it ID FIVE ounces !
per head. 49, 49,
America publishes more newspapers I
than all the rest of the world combined.
Last year its 17,l07 periodicals printed I
the enormous number Of 1885, ,556, 500
enough to supply every soul on earth I.
with two newspapers.
= By the admission of the New
States the government is obliged to pur.g
chase eight thousand national flags with
forty.two stars apiece. The United States
Bunting company, of which Gen. Butler
is owner, will, it is said. be $4,000 richer
by the transaction.
"A San Francisco doctor delivered a.
lecture the other night before the Cooper
medical college, in which he entered into !
an eloquent defense of the pun from a.
medical standpoint. BE claimed that it
produced laughter, which i, autsgonistic
to nearly all disease.
- The bones of a mastodon were un:ss
earthed on the farm of @, @. Tremble, 8
near Windfall, Ind. One Of the teeth s
was seven inches long and six inches in
diameter, and a tusk of the monssrous
animal measured nine feet. Wien the.
air struck the bones they crumbleS ssS
pieces, and but few of them were saa
Tho largest brick yard in the United
States is being built at Chicago, and the
bricks will be as hard as granite and as !
heavy. This new brick yard is creating
quite 8 sensation in architectural and
building trade circles They bear 9
crushing strain of 35,O0O,ooo pounds per
square inch. The works will cost $3.50 g
600.
An employment which would seem
perfectly delightful to small boys is tast-
ing molasses. The molasses faster fire.
quently has twenty or thirty samples TO
experiment upon, taking care to swallow
as little as possible. It is said that only
q msu with sweet tooth and clear head
can bear up under the strain of the occu-s
patton.
"A citizen of Moncton, n. B., called
doctor to extract two teeth for hiss:
daughter. The doctor requested the man
to look after his horse while the operation 8
was being performed. He charged afs
cents lhalf price) for his services, wheie
the citizen turned pale, but quickly recos
ering himself, put in counter claim q,
twenty-five cents for holding the horse
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