The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-02-14
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.
MOST anv man can act a clock but &c

Most any man can set clock, but it
requires genius to set a hen.
- The winter in France has thus far
been the seyerest in fifteen years.
- He that pelts every barking dog
must pick up great many steness
- There is one thing that a hardware
dealer always has "on haDd"-Nails.
=. Some newspapers announce that;
they are "entered at the pestoffce as
second class matter" and they don't
lie.
The building of the Bank of England
cover more than eight acres, and the:
institution employs over one thousand
clerks. ss3ss:. -
Land in the suburbs of Chicago SisS
no bad thing to own. -Four hundred and
eighty-fve acres were recently sold for;
s75O,O00.
= The single item of flowers for enter
tainments given by a New York million
aire and his wife in the course Of the
! year amounted 70 $4,000. 81 81
- The last census report Of Great
Britain gives 100000 cats as tho feline
portion of the population Of that country
What field for moonlight serenades
- The Thornwell Orphanage is now
sixteen years old. They have property
valued at $50, 900 and an endowment fund
Of $4,000. They now care for about
aixty.fve orphans.<,..a. s
= The South shipped New Yosk
during the year 1883 2,552, 900 feet.of.
yellow pine, about the same quantity the
previous year, and materially exceeding
the cuts of '85 and 1886. sss5ss.ss 81
Marriage says a cynic, ais like
putting your hand intoa bag containing
ninety.nine snakes and one eel. Yous
may get the eel but the chances aress
against you." s.
- There are twenty-five hundred Woss;i
men in the United States having diplomas
from either American or foreign medical s
schools. The first medical degree giivenaT
woman in America was about forty wears
ago.
- Josh Billings thinks it seems rather;
tuff, and quite ridikilus, thst man who
haz honestly earned fame, kant git IT,.
until after he is dead, and then hasitakea
toit in second rate poetry on his tume:
stun. 8
A clergyman out in Wichita, Kan:,ss
has been asked to resign because his
sermons are too long, and Clergyman
in neighboring town has been 5isked s
to resign because his aermona are toos
broad.
An Irishman wrote thus to the wife &
of q sick brother "If jamie ISM dead
yet, remoind him of the tw;nty shillings 5
he owes me on the pigs; and if he is, tell
him not to give himself amy consurrun s.
about it," S:5sssi
= Tommy went fishing the other,
day, without permission of his mother.
Next morning a neighbor's son met him
and asked: ibid you catch anything
yesterday, Tommy 2" "Not till I gotss
home," was the rather sad response. s.
The length of the Missippi river. has
always been placed at 4,1O0 miles, sbntS:
civil engineers familiar with the stream
say that it has shortened itself over 400.&
miles in twenty years, and will do asswellf
in the twenty to come.
= The conrts Of California have deci:5!
ded that Chinamen's queue must not rbes,
cut off when he is sent to prison; but
they are cut off just the same. No:
warden will allow that a heathen pig tail
is more sacred than American unplaited5
hair. 80
Ella Wheeler Wilcox did not begin
writing until she was 30, and has written
almost night and day for thepast eighteen
years. She is very domestic in her
tastes, and often dons big kitchen apron
and makes her husbands favorite pie for
breakfast.
= Experiments are being made in
England with new safety" gun which
il said to be capable of di,charging sixty
shells minute, silently and inyisibly.
The gun is discharged by steam or vaporSs
at pressure Of two hundred pounds to-
the square inch. Ss
1t is estimated that last year the
South lost by forest fires nearly 81 7,50o,.s
900. The total number of acres burned:
over, according to the New Orleanss
7Ema.Democrat, was more than double
the whole area of land under cultiyation
| in Louisiana, or considerably over 5000.
900 acres. And what makes lit worse, it.
seems that the destruction of most of the
timber was due to carelessness or reck.-
,..anese.--->------ -.
That the "sting" and poison appara.
tus of bees have another object than that.
of weapon of defense, is shown by the
following, from German source Alta.
meeting of the Physiological Society Of