The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-11-28
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.


= The New York fire department own
and use 353 horses.
"A man who attempts to hatter- y5u
takes you for mule.
The cotton crop of Egypt is esti-
mated ct three hundred million bales this
year. e
During the last eighteen months the
Russian government has expelled $4,000
Jews from the empire.
The statement is made that there are
at present nearly; 5000 persons confined
for debt in the prisons of England and
Wales.
= There is said to be three hundred
cases of typhoid fever at Johnstown, the z
result of the sanitary condition caused by
the food.
= Miss Rose Cleveland will spend the
winter in Florida. She has purchased
home at Paola, Orange county, at the
southern extremity Of the State.
The repeated application CT oil Of
cinnamon will cause those ugly excre.
scenses-warts-to disappear. Rubbing
them with salt is also recommended.
She: Do you understand the rule Of
three, my dear? He: Yes, indeed, ever
since I was in love with you. It consists !.
of your father, your mother and little
brother.
= The Beatrice, Neb., Eapress ssys
that the low price of corn in that vicinity
has induced number of persons to con.,s
tract for considerable quantity of it for
fuel purposes. pa a
Samuel Wildrick, of Stoddartsville,
Pa, aged 81 years, walked to Wilkesbar:
re, over twenty miles, to visit man,
Mr.. Wildrick is the father of twenty.eight /
children. A few weeks ago he cut two
new teeth.
"A company has been formed which
enables one to pay for his own flneral.in
advance. Deposits are taken from time
to time of any amount, with guarantee
that the whole of it shall be spent on the (
funeral of the deposition.
= Woman's rights triumphs at last at
the national capital. The attorney for
the District Of Columbia has notified the
district commissioners that they cannot
discriminate against women in Issuing
licenses for the sale of liquor.
Who would have thought that lO5
cents on every barrel of beer brewed in 3
New York in one year would aggregate
s44G,0O0? There are, it Seems, 4;460, 900
barrels of beer sold by the New York
brewers every year, or about three barrels
for each man, woman and child living in
the city.
Two Texan cowboys got into q dis.
pute about their relative merits as mark.
men, so the story goes, and arranged q
test. One of them hit a Mexican dollar
with his revolver at the distance of two
hundred yards. The other mounted his I
mustang, and going at full speed hit the
coin at twice the same distance.
Peter Havens, a New Jersey man,
bought monkey to bring sunshine into
his darkened house. In order 10 see the
monkey jump, he snapped revolver at
him. A Few days later, in order to see
Peter jump, the monkey snapped the
same weapon at him. This time it hap.
pened to be loaded, aud the monkey.man
got a bullet in the jaw.
DIR. Tyrrell, of the California Board
of Trade, in recent report declares i'm
migration of consumptives to that State
should be prevented, as there is good
ground for the belief that the disease is
contagious. The influx of consumptives
into the southern counties has been fol.z.
lowed by spread of respiratory affections
among the original settlers.
Little by little electricity is coming
into its kingdom as the universal motive
power. In Europe two farmers have
succeeded il working threshing machine
by electricity transmitted from motor
1000 yards away. 1t is said now that P.
S. Bates, of York, Pa, has invented an
electric motor that excels any yet discov-
cred. It is claimed that, once started,
Bates motor will work 100000 hours
without requiring attention.
A Philadelphia Hardware dealer
says six pistols are sold in the north to
one in the south. 1t is fashionable fad
among northern people to carry pistols.
This is the case even among the women,
and the boys are very generally given to
the habit. But for the natural conserva.
tism and cold bloodedness of the north.
erners this practice of carrying concealed
weapons would result in many murders.
AS it is, the statistics are glory enough
At South Paris, Me-, the other day,
Uncle Robert Gray, 81 years cid, harness.
ed his horse, Dick, 81 years old, and, ac:s
companied by his wife, IS years old,
drove to North Paris and visited Sullivan
Andrews, 50 years old, meeting while
there Mrs. Edward Andrews, Sc years
old, who has just returned from Europe,
and Mr.. Pottle, SS years old. The art Of
living long life evidently has been sue.
cessfully cultivated in Oxford county by.
man, woman and beast.
= Tom Murphy is a once.powerful
politician who has fallen to rise no more.
During the Grant regime he was collector
Of the port of New York, with an annual
income of 100000. He was the prince
of good fellows, and spent fortune in
champagne. One hundred dollars q day
went for his own personal expenses.
Many hungry politicians fattened on his
bounty in those old days. Such was Tom
Murphy in bis glory. Not long since he
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