The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-12-05
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
- The lace trade of France gives EN-.

= The lace trade of France gives em.i
ployment to nearly 100000 persons.
= The new Chinese consul at New
York city rejoices in the uame of Shame
Fun. s.
The average number of fires in New
York city is $500 year, about seven 9
day.
= Santa Cruz. California, reports q
13 months old baby that can swim like 8
duck.
= Turkeys arc the most innoceDtof.
birds. The most silly woman in the world,
can stuff one.
= Some girls are go devoted to Tempe
rance principles that they won't wear
tight sleeves.
- The Irish potato crop of the United
States is estimated at 100000 bushels
more than last year.
= The taxable values of the Southern
States this year show a total increase of
$500, 100000 over 1883.
Take pleasure in your work. A task
which appears distasteful at first sight.
soon becomes pleasure 8
- The good that men do may be In.
tered with their bones, but the cofinsIof
some men are not crowded. ~
= William Sprague, war governor Of.
Rhode Island, and once worth.S10, 0,0oo,-
600, is now living in poverty.
The death rate on the earth is calcn-
lated to be 81 in minute, or.40,2O an
hour, 96,4so day, 35,215,2oo.a year.
= The wheat crop of the United
States, this year is about 4S5,O00,0OOg
bushels, an increase of 100000 over.
1883.
-Myriads Of cases of rheumatism and 3
neuralgia have already succunbed to that
wonderful remedy, Salvation Oil. Price;
only 25 cents a:bottle. .sss. 81.
"A woman in Missouri boasts that she
has been led to the altar ten times. No
one need offer to lead her again. She
knows the way blindfolded.
- It is again reported that theresisl.
much suffering, and danger of actual
starvation, in Stevens county, Kansas, on.
account of q failure of the crops.
1t is estimated that human life has
been heightened 25 per cent. during the
last half century. The average life Is now
40 years. This shows progress in civili.
zation..
According to an official statementIa
the contributions tor the relief o.. the:
Johnstown sufferers aggregate s., 500, ,000.i
What national exhibit of national be-
nevolence.
The grain which is used annually In
the manufacture of liquors would give
ninety.Dine and one half four.pound :
leaves Of bread to every family in the
United States.
| II wish I was minister said
Robby, one Sunday afternoon. aWhy,s
dear?" Because he is the only one that
can speak out loud in church without 90.
ing to the bad place for it."
During 1889 slightly over a hundred q
million dollars worth of gold has been I:
digged from the earth on the four contl.s
nents; the largest quantity came from
Australia, California, and South Africa.
"A mine of natural ahoe.b .blacking has E
been discovered in Utah. It contains
sixteen per cent. carbon, thirty.four per
cent. aluminium and the remainder clay.
It produces fine polish not easily de-
stroyed. &
While Albert Ogle was hunting
| natural gas leak with a lighted match
| in his mothers residence, at Muncie,
Ind, the gas.ssiguited, causing aterrifc
explosion. The house was blown IN
pieces and Albert and his sister were se:5
verely injured. - 2
= The late terrible snow storm In !:
New Mexico attacked regions where snow
was scarcely ever known 70 fall. The.
loss of sheep alone was not far from
10000. Since the memory of man no
genuine blizzard was ever encountered in
southern Colorado or New Mexico before.
Perhaps one will be heard of In old Mexi.S
co next. ~ % S.
Legacies to the amount of 5000, left
by Benjamin Franklin and John Scott to-
be expended upon public Improvements,
have amounted by investment for nearly.
a century to about $4,000. Ofthis,s
100000 will be devoted to the erection
of large public bath in Philadelphia,
while the remaining $4,000 will be laid !
aside for another hundred years.
Pennsylvania is going to present
q claim Of 100000 to Congress for
losses incurred in border counties Of that
State during the invasion of confederate
troops. The State has advanced at diff.
fereut times 100000 for the relief. Of
people who sustained losses, and Con-:
gress, will also be asked to put that
amount into the State treasury. Penn.
sylvania is not at all modest. TX
| = There are between FIVE hundred and
! six hundred Cinnamon in Sunday.schools;
| and missions in New York city. T}Az
are there chiefly to learn to talk Engl5
for there are only ffty.three of the nd
ber who are out and out Christians;
is, members of the churches. a religg gg2
worker among the Mongolians says the
church people have got to realize that the
Chinaman is pretty hard subject to
christianize.
The beard of Henry s. Cook, q
tailor Of Norwich, Conn.,, is as long as he,
is. Mr.. Cook is a.small man, go years
old. His beard is jet black and4ns; and