The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-04-25
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

Samuel Jordon, a colored barber of
Kansas City, has amassed fortune of
$15O,000 in fifteen years.
- One of the latest inventions is q
three cornered steel nail that will
drive easily and will not split the
wood.
p. T. Barnum, the gaeat Snowman,
announces his intention Of retiring from
public view. He is q brainy man, and
will be missed.
When q woman who has been sewing
puts her thimble on the table as she sits
down to eat, is sign that she will be left
a widow if she marries.
- The late Duches Galliera believed
that everyone should have an object in
life. She left collection of postage
stamps valued at s95o,ooo.
= Kerosene will make tin tea kettles
as bright as new. saturate woolen rag
and rub with it. It will also remove
stains from vanished furniture.
- The consumption of peanuts is 81.
100000 bushels a season. They are all
raised in Virginia, North Carolina and
Tennesse, chiefly in the former State.
= 1t is not interesting to have man
tell how rich he might lave been if he
had had good luck. 1t is better to know
what he has been able to do against bad
luck.
- An eighteen-year old girl vas
arrested in San Francisco the other
day, who testified that for the past year
she has been consuming 50 worth cf NOR.
phine daily.
Almost anything is insanity, says :
New York doctor. If you laugh heartily
get mad-forget anything-drop a letter
into the postofice without stamp, you
can be called insane.
- As the word of God, we'll studied,
will help us to understand His provinces,
80 the provinces of God, we'll observed /
will help US to understand His word, for
God is every day fulfilling His Scripture.
A flock of wild gsese were struck
by lightning at Gonzales, Tex, and 786fs,
them killed. If their feathers don t pro.
tect geese from lightning, what becomes
of the popular theory that feather beds
are non.conductors Of the electric fluid. .
= It is a great comfort to people Of
commonplace gifts and talents to know
that the measure of success, in the Mas
ter's sight at the last, will not be the
largeness of result, but faithfulness in
the use of what the Master has entrusted
to US.
= Two young men of Three Rivers,
Mich, John Yager and George Shultice,
enlisted together during the war, served
in the same company, fought in the same
battles, came home. together, and on the
I'd instant both died within an hour Of. /:
each other.
- "A Chicago man has inventeda
spring gong, to be attached to an umbrel.
la or cane, so arranged that if sIuy unau.5
thorized person picks up the article SO !
guarded the bell rings with Whir that is
certain to attract the attention of every
one within block.
- It is figured out that the railroads of
the world are worth nearly $500, 900, ,000,-i.
900, or nearly one tenth Of the wealth Of
the civilized nations, or more than 8 /
quarter of their invested capital, and that
all the ready money in the world would
buy only one.third Of them.
"A fashionable young woman in New
York has undergone remarkable surgical
operation, long and painful, by which her
tip tilted nose became an organ of pure
Grecian design. The cruel charge is
made that the new nose does not suit the
general conformation of her face.
- A movement is on foot to hold
convention lat Columbia of farmers, fac
tors, manufacturers, fertilizer men and all
persons interested, directly, OF indirectly !.
in the cotton business, looking to the es:s
tablishment of jute mills, and other
plans for the improvement of the traffic.
= Anton Werek fell dead in Philsdel-.
phia the other day. At first it vas sup
posed to be case of heart disease, but
upon investigation it was found that
Werck had received a bullet near
the heart during the war, and this piece.
of lead had killed him after twenty-five
years. delay.
- The ladies of London and Paris have
found new dissipation. It is the smok-
ing of tea cigarettes. At first the efectis
very pleasant, but after awhile the
smokers feel a futtering OF the heart and
relation of the muscles. Ladies willdo
we'll to let tea cigarettes alone. They can
| wreck their systems in other ways and
have more fun.
= a man while eating lettuce in a
Boston restaurant, came upon piece Of
gravel so suddenly that it tsnspped tooth
off. he sued the proprietor Of the res.
taurapt for $500 damages. The judge
gave the case to the jury. The latter.
found out what an entire set of new false
teeth would cost and made that the figure
of their award.
"A lady living in Tocoa, Ga, claims
to have discovered sure cure for hydro
phobia. It has been tried in several in.
stances and always cures. 1t is tea
made from we'll known herb, which
possesses the remarkable power Of fenter.5
ing the blood, permeating the entire sys.+
tenn ard neutraliziug the effects of the
dreadful poison.
"A number of prominent New Eng
landers have invested at Valley Head,
Ala, s9,00O,00O, and have gone to york
to build up another new town. The To-.
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