The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-10-31
ALL SCOTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

writing her husbands biography.
= Governor Biggs, of Delaware, made
a big pile of money on his peach crop this
year.
The Japanese hitch their horses
in the stree: by tying their forelegs to.
gether.
= Wild geese are flying southwark
several weeks earlier than usual. A sign
of an early winter. Sc
1t takes smart man to tell good
lie, but nearly all men grow smarter the
longer they are married. D
= Many have an idea that tney are
serving the Lord when they are meddling
with what is uone of their business.
The Knights of Honor have paid to-;
the families of deceased members in the
past sixteen years of their existence, $27.8
100000.
- 1t is not putting things in the right
place that bothers man so much as fnd.
ing the right place after he has put
things in it.
= The Baldwin Locomotive Works
have recently turned out, for the North
ern Pacific railroad, their ten thousandth.
locomotive.
Railroad men say that more cars are
being built at present than ever before,
owing to the great corn and wheat crop
in the West.
The late King Of BaYaria,. left debts
which will be paid off at the rate of S275,-9
600 year. The last payment will be /
made in 1905. .sS:s: 81
1t is stated that over $4,000 horses
are slaughtered for food every year ir i
Paris, and Of this quantity two. thirds are
used for sausages.
= The longest distance over which
conversation by telephone ia daily main
tanned is about seven hundred and fifty
miles from Portland, Me-, to Buffalo, m y
Y.
Statistics furnished by manufactur-
ers of Massachusetts show that 85.perg
cent. of the workers in that State receive
wages ranging from rs cents to ST per
day.
According to the preliminary report
the receipts of the patent Office for the
year ending June 80, 1889, vera In excess
of the expenditures to the amount Of
s1Se,OOo. I;
= The heavy frosts last week did great
damage 70 the tobacco crop in Kentucky
and the Virginias. The loss in one
county alone in Kentucky will amount to !
100000 pounds.
1t costs four hundred thousand dol.
lars year to keep up Central PsIrk, New
York. The land originally cost the city
six million dollars. and is now e,Itimateds
to be worth one hundred million.
The average annual death rate in !
America from cholera, yellow fever,
smallpox, typhoid fever, dipthesis and
scarlet fever, all combined, does not
reach the enormous total of deaths from
consumption.
= a carriage maker Of Armstrong
county, Pa, has lately shipped to Persia
a carriage, packed in boxes to facilitate
transportation across the desert on CAM
els back. The freight bill was about one
hundred dollars.
= Ten well.known ladies are publish
ing articles on the subject, "What We
Would Do if We Were Men, tits be {
hoped that one of them will be sufficient.
ly practical to say Sat she would learn
how to sharpen pencil.
Horace sebring, who poisoned an
entire family at Three Oaks, Ind, for the
purpose of securing property in order
that he might marry agirl who refused
him because of his poverty, has been
sentenced to twenty five years imprison-
ment.
Edward Bellamy, in Looking Back:
ward," says that one hundred years hence
the servant girl question will be solved,
and housekeeping will be conducted
without servants. This is encouraging
but one hundred years seems like long:
while to wait.
The Campaign that is now. being
carried on in Ohio is said to be one Of,
the bitterest and most heated ever known
in the history of the State. Both parties.
are thoroughly aroused and making des-
perate efforts. There is no telling what
the result will be.
The growing Of cigar leaf tobacco is
proving very successful industry in
Florida. Her SOL and climate are we'll.
suited to the growing ofthe weed. There
are five large plantations containing 100
acres each and the yield, which is now
being cut and cured from these planta.
tations, is estimated at 100000 pounds.
A teacner put the following question
to young Sioux: Glow do you parse,
Mary milks the cow?'" Tho last word
was disposed of as follows: Cow is a
noun, feminine gender, third person and
stands for Mary" ISLANDS for Mary |!
How do you make that out ?" Because .
said the Intelligent pupil, eff the COW
didn't stand for Mary how could Mary
milk her?'' 4
= The Australian government is
building a fence Of wire netting 5000
miles long to divide New South Wales
and Queensland, in order to keep the
rabbits out of the latter country. AUS
tralia is paying not less than s125, 900 per
year to keep the pests down in what are
known as crown lands. The offer is still
kept up 10 sloO,OUc to any man who will
produce something that will exterminate
the pests.
= John Jacob Astor died worth $40.