The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-10-03
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
Schemes are being devised to cook
with electricity.

- Schemes are being devised to cook
with electricity.
= Soap was first made at London and Z
Bristol in 1924.
- In Paris goats are milked on the
streets for customers.
About $4,000 Americans visited
Paris during the past summer.
A little bird called the redtail can
catch one thousand flies in an hour.
- To-day more than two millions Of Z
the youths of India are receiving an edu-
cation in the English language.
"A small town near Morganton, W. z.
Va, has an eccentric woman who wears
different colored wig each day Of the &
week.
"A church deacon at Galesburg,
Michigan, elaine to have parrot which
will lead hymn and prayer meeting
both. ,5ssi IS &
= The length of the tornado trsck
varies from three hundred yards to about
two hundred miles, the average being
24.79 miles.
Norway is the most thoroughly
Protestant country In the world. Out Of
population of 1,S05,172, by the census
of 1889, 1,794.6S4 are Lutherans. -
The wet weather has sadly interfered
with the peach crop in New Jersey. In z,
Hunterton county alone, the loss is plac.
ed at 100000.
"A woman in the railroad depot st 3,
Toledo saw mouse and jumped through s
window with such vigor that she broke.
two ribs and an ankle.
= The National convention CT colored 5
Baptists at indianapolis reports that Of
three million Baptists in the United
States 1852, ,273 are negroes. ,s
"A Washington correspondent of the
Utica Observer says that "there probably
never we're SO many women seeking Office
as there are this year."
= A countryman, on being charged by
a rampagious bull, held his wife firmly ia I
front, saying, "stand steady, Maria he I.
can't toss both of u.s."
A tin peddler who travels through I;
Canada can exhibit forty. one scars where s
farmers dogs have taken hold of him to 3
see whether he was q dummy or live e
man.
y The Legislature Of Missouri at it's
recent session passed bill. which prohib:
its the marriage of first cousins, and Z
declares such marriages absolutely
void.
= There are at the Treasury vaults st Z
Washington nearly pint of diamonds ].
and other precious stones that were pre-.
aented to various Presidents by admiriDg
friends.
There are altogether about seventeen s
thousand Arabs iu this country, aud not y
ten per cent of them have settled home >
or any other means of support than ped
ding. 81;
= Several Cairo, Michigan, gentlemen
recently saw large rat carry hens
egg on its back. They say that it Z.
twisted its tail around the egg and. Il
carried it safely until it was hit with
stone. 80 -,
The wedding trousseau of the empress )
of China filled 900 boxes, each sof
which took two men to carry. The
emperor's two other wives were able to
pack their apparel into two hundred
boxes.
= The bill recently passed by the
Georgia Legislature prohibiting the sale
of cigars, cigarettes and tobacco to minors
is now in force, and dealers violating
the provisions of the Act render them,
selves liable to fine not exceeding five $
hundred dollars. -
The words "patents applied for" are
invalid as protection against infringe:
ments. Unless the patent, has been &C: 9
tually granted, it is no good to the inven.
tor. This is recent decision of "a United 4
States court. 81
The prisoners in the Texas peniten.
tiary raise suger cane and refine its juice.
After paying all the costs Of food, fuel s.
shelter and clothing sixty.fve thousand
dollars have been turned into the State
from this work.
- A woman at Carbon Hill, Ala, !
wanted to hang herself, but had no rope, &
went into the woods, peeled the bark off
q hickory tree, tied one end of the bark
around limb and the other around her
neck, and succeeded in her purpose.
One of the public schools at Troy,
N. O., has been closed because of plague
of feas in the building. The insects have
beer swept up BY pals full but no plan
yet tried has seriously diminished their
numbers. ~
= Seventeen negro babies in Augusta,
Ga, have been christened Benjamin
Harrison. The Presidents secretary has
| written letters to the parents thanking :
them for the compliment and expressing
kind wishes for the welfare of the chill
dren.
In China tbs inhabitants recount.
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