The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-10-24
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
William Nickel keeps a S cent ato

= There are on the united STATES pen.
sion rolls 23O, ATS widows.
y Our estimated foreign population is
not far below fourteen million.
The man who Couldn't find his
match" went to bed in the dark.
1t takes longer for man to find
out man than any other creature that is
made.
= Tie battles and surrenders of the
civil war numbered 1851, of which 519;
occurred in Virginia.
= Contentment is better thatG riches,
and when a man has both he has great
reason to be thankful.
= Reports declare that the cc1n crop.
will be much larger than has been an
ticipated by statisticians.
At Coshocton, Pa, p:e eating
match recently the winner dir posed Of
eighteen pies in one hour and half
There is bet in Greenyille that q
young man cannot eat eight eggs day.
for thirty days. The loser is 10 pay for
the eggs.
Iceland is entirely Protestant, with
population of 10000. It has neither.
theatre nor police, no prison, and not.
even justice Of the peace.
There are more than fifty cases Of,
diphtheria in Gallitzen, Pa, and two or
three deaths occur every day. Bad sani-,
tary condition is the cause.
Somebody has taken the trouble to-
compute that the average consumption,
Of salt per adult capita in this country is
nearly fifty pounds per annum. g.
New York State has $6O,OOO,0C05
invested in prisons, asylums, hospitals,
and almshouses. a New York City alone
has ten thousand dram shops to help to-.
provide the inmates.
"A Catholic priest, Father Boyle,
was convicted of criminal assault ona
young lady at Raleigh, N. G., last week,
by the name of Geneva White, and was J
sentenced to be hanged on November 25th
next. isi5s5 ~
The owner of the ostrich farm in /
Lower California paid $1,000 each for
his birds, and he has quite number Of !:
them. Twice year their feathers are
plucked, and each plucking is worth.
$500.
"Don'ty know how to spelL?nt the
exasperated teacher asked the extremely
phonetic boy. "oh, yes," said the boy,
II know how to spell we'll enough, hut the
men that made the dictionaries don't
seem to-"
An old farmer named Minally, liv.
ing 10 Pickens county, near Greenville,
vas ia Ken out CT his house recently and
cruelty beaten by mob, No reasons
were given except that the mob said he Z
had lied about them.
Robert Bonner once paid Tennyson
$4,000 for poem which made only
twenty lines in the New York Ledger.
This was at the rate of $3.50 line, which
is price that would almost seem beyond
the value Of any written production.
A young woman in Massachusetts.
has sued 8 recreant lover for breach Of
promise of marriage. She says heis the
twelfth who has Tilted her, and she is
going to make an example of him, be-
cause thirteen is an unlucky number.
"A Texas man made bet that he
could invent question to which fifty
people would give the same answer, He
won the bet. The question Was Have
you heard that Smith had committed
suicide?" The answer in each case was:
"Whst Smith ?" IS
y Mr.. George W. Vanderbilt, Of New
York, has purchased more land near
Asheville, N. c., and has paid s10,5005
for tract near Asheville Juncture and
has taken the option on another tract for
$4,000. Up to date his investments in
Buncombe County lands aggregate three
quarters of a million.
Liverpool is probably the most
densely populated city in the world-zit is
beyond doubt the most densely popula.
ted in the United Kingdom. In the
year 1887 its population was $4,000 or.
1888 per square acre; while Manchester.
stood next with S7.9, then Glasgow, with
S5.S, and London with S.. -
During recent thunderstorn near.
Memphis, Team, a negro was severely.
kicked by vicious mule; and, just as
he was picking himself up, stroke Of
lightning hit the mule, and killed him
dead on the spot. "Well, dar," exclaim-
ed the negro, "ef dis chile hain't got
pow'ful frens to venge his results, den
der's no use trying to hab faith in any.
t'iDgp'
If Columbus were alive to day says
the New York San, and il. his contract OF
April II, 1892, with Ferdinand and Isa.
bella we're sustained by the American
! Courts, he would be enjoying an Income
of about SIG, 100000 a year from the bul.
lion product of the Western hemisphere,
to say nothing of his onetenth claim for
the pearls, precious stones and general
merchandise of America.
"A lady who owned much real estate
one Sunday saw one of her tenants at
work in his garden. She reproveds him
asking if he did not know he was break.
iug the third commandment. "I break
it no more than yourself, my lady.:'
"Why!" said she in astonishment.
NO." was the answer; "nor on any other
day. and don't the commandment read,
six days shalt thou labor'?"
= The chief attraction st tie North
Carolina State Fair at Raleigh on the
18th inst, was the marriage of ". NJ
Bateman and Miss Josephine Movies, o1
Washington County. The ceremony
took place at the grand stand at the fail