The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-05-02
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

ALL SUN1 IAIGIlUh4aI
= The greatest of fools is he who i'm.
poses on himself.
"A gardener in Marion county, Fla,
has raised cabbage eight feet and three
inches in diameter.
Fifteen Philadelphia girls have
formed health club which requires as its
only condition of membership the discard.
ing of corsets.
= Alabama boasts of nineteen cotton
mills, representing an investment of
nearly s2,0O0,0OO, and an annual produc.
of over 81, 100000.
= Another reckless fellow has suc-
cessfully made the leap from Brooklyn
bridge. As he was drunk at the time
the jump did not injure him.
= 1t has been calculated that not less
thar 100000 of meteors, each large
enough to be visible as q shooting star,
enter our atmosphere daily.
"A woman in Baltimore bled to death
from a cut on the leg, caused by the
breaking of whisky bottle that she
babitually carried in the stockings.
- Cats arein great demand in Dakota.
A speculator who has been shipping
large lots of these musical pets in that
direction reports that he is making moR-
ey.
"A syndicate of New York capitalists
has purchased $4,000 acres Of land near
Auburndale, Florida, and are going
into tobacco culture on an extensive
scale.
= a man at Walla Walla, W. T.,
eats an egg for each year of his life
on every birthday. He was recently AZ,
and ate that number of eggs on that
day.
Peach stones find ready sale at s6
a ton in vaca valley, Gal. They are used
as fuel, burning as long as coal and
giving more heat" Apricot stones are
also burned.
The carpet manufactures of Phila.
delphia have 1850 looms in use, employ
II. 800 hands, and manufacture annually
100000 yards of carpet, at a value of
s44,a70,oO0.
- The Florida strawberry season WAS
at least three weeks late this year. ItnoW
only costs 10 cents per quart transporting
to New York, shipping vie all rail in re-
frigerator cars.
An offer of $500 was recently made
for maidstone owned in Charlotte, N.
O. The stone has record Of having
cured more than hundred cases Of mad
dogs and snake bites.
An eminent physician states that,he
cured a consumptive cough with hot.
buttermilk. He also found it very bene.
cial in the case Of q patient recovering
from congestive fever.
The kernel of a cotton seed contains
1,90O oil globules, and ton ofwell ma
tured seed, under hydraulic pressure, will
yield forty four gallons Of oil, which is
about "a per cent. of the oil contained.
= The citizens Of Fay yettevi!le, N. O.,
have invited Jefferson Davis to deliver
the address at the centennial celebration,
of November 81, of the ratification of; !;
the federal constitution By North Csroli.s
lima. IS
"A lazy genius in Maryland has in.a
vented an automatic dshing-pole, which
by the aid of stout spiral springs, yanks
out the unwary denizeus Of the streams,
while the fisherman smokes and reads in
peace.
"A negro who was giving evidence in
a Georgia court was reminded by the S
Judge that he must tell the whole truth.
"Well, yer see, boss" said the duuky
witness, "I'se skeered TO tell the whole
truth, for fear I might tell a lie"
-P. T. Pratt, cashier of the First Ma
tional bank at Ankosa, Minnesota, is
defaulter, aud is supposed to have appro.
priated to his own uses 100000 Of the
Banks funds. He has run away and is <
supposed to have gone to Canada.
= John Hamilton, Of Frankford,
Philadelphia, was bitten some months ago
on one of his hands by a dog. Since then
Hamilton's hand has been almost useless,
the bones appearing to decay. His ply
sician has recommended amputation of
the hand.
The Texas umbrella tree is becoming
a favorite for shade and ornamental pur-
poses in California. 1t is q large and
beautiful tree, resembling an umbrella in
the spread of its foliage, which, is SO dense
that it affords perfect protection from
either rain or sun.
"A peculiar accident.lwas met with
by Oliver Tucker, whose home is at Ell
dervil!s, Pa. he was climbing tree,
wb.n it split, allowing him to drop into
the opening, which closed upon. him,
crushing him terribly. One Of his eyes
was squeezed from its socket.
= Lightning acted strangely in q Mid.
dletown, (Pa.) barn. One large ateers
next to the wall was found dead, two next,
without hair singed, while the fourth
was killed outright. Then it crossed the
entry and performed the same feat, the
one next the wall and the third one being
killed.
= There's gander in Coweta
County, Ga, that has recently been
bereft of its mate. he has since taken
up with rooster and is trying to learn
how to crow, but SO far without success.
When the rooster flaps his wings to.
crow the gander does likewise, and
stretches his neck in vain effort to imi-s
tate the music of the cauticler. He tries
hard to fly up on the roost and is very.
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