The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-06-06
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

"A man in Harney Valley, Nebraska,
has been arrested for stealing frame
house.
Rev. Sam SmalIs has closed his en-.
gagement at Danville, Va. Over
thousand persons were converted.
IT. Burwell Green, of Washington,
Ga, has biscuit that was baked at
Manassas Junction in 1861. 1t is a little
stale.
- Twenty three per cent of the white
girls Alabama who are under Is
years old and u6dissss q can't write their
names.
An authority on he subject says it
is safe to say requireh will call for
l50, 100000 to 100000, ,O0oSalilroad ties
this year.
-Of the fifty or more ambitions writer's
who have attempted to fill Josh Billings
shoes not one has succeeded in drawing
attention.
= More than 1000 empty patent med-
icine bottles were found in the house ofa
rich bachelor who died at Knoxville,
Pa, lately.
"A Milwaukee man has designed an
apparatus by which he claims that water
may be successfully burned in cook
stove or ordinary heater.
"A young white woman, of Birming-
ham, Alabama, has been sentenced to be
hung on June II, for attempting to kill
an aged female peddler. The sentence is
irregular and the case will be appealed.
Several head of cattle were bitten
by mad dog which passed through Mer-
lit township, Mich, the other day. Some
sheep which were attacked by the animal:
butted themselves to death. x.
- One DR.. Thenius, OF Vienna, has
invented process by which he declares
that good heavy sole leather can be made
from the wood of old red beech trees.
He has applied for patents.
- It sometimes pays to be kind to Y
strangers. An eastern drummer, while
travelling in Kentucky, was taken ill and
stopped at a farmers house. The farmer
cared for his unknown guest, but the
drummer got worse and just before be
died he bequeathed all his property,
amounting to $4,000, to his host.
= The rice planters about Savannah s
are contemplating a change in their
crops. They will plant less rice and more
vegetables. They think truck farming
will pay better than rice. They can
market all the early vegetables before the
rivers rise. Some of them have tried this
on 8 small scale and the results are salts
factory.
A gentleman of Marietta, Ga, re-.
Gently had some improvements made -on
his residence. He noticed out Of the Z
four carpenters at work three were left
handed, and the man who came to do the !.
painting was left handed. A few days
after that he bought door bell and hired
another carpenter to put it on the door,
and he, too, proved to be left handed.
"A farmer riding along the read in
Chester county, Pa, overlook two chill.
dren, boy OF 8 and girl off, some :
distance from their homes. He knew
the boy and asked him where be was CO.;
ing. "You won't give me away?" queried
the little fellow. "No, indeed" well,
then, we're going to get married! We've
run away" The farmer persuaded them
to postpone their elopement for q dozen
years OF SO, ard took them back to their
parents.
- Professor Elisha Gray remarks that (
electrical science has made greater adj
vance in the last twenty years tan in all
the 5000 historic years preceding More
is discovered in one day now than in 9
thousand years Of the middle ages. We
find all sorts of work for electricity to do s
We make it carry our messages, drive our
engine, ring our door bell and scare the
burglar; ne take it as medicine, light
our gas with it, zee by it, hear from it,
talk with it, and now we are beginning to
teach it to write.