The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-05-09
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ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
= The young man who forged his
'ay to the front is now in the penitentia-


ry.
T e Many men will work harder for q
days pleasure than they will for weeks
wages.t
H-New York invested 100000 in-the
centennial celebration and made $4,000
900 out Of it.
The Christian is like the ripeniDg
corn: the ripper he grows the more lowly
he bends his head
Peanuts are now ground into q kind
of flour, which is both palatable and nour.
ishipg. An excellent porridge is made of
it.
! - More than twenty million acres in
land in Washington Territory, or nearly
one-half the whole area, remain unsur.
veyed.
= Be pleasant and kind to those
around you. The man who stirs his cup
With an icicle spoi!s the tea and chills his
own fingers.
"A Georgia exchange:says.that Hon.
H.lW. J.iHsm, Sam Veal and Major' r.
| A. Bacon met recently by accident in
store at Rome.
There are about 100000 barrels of
cotton seed oil manufactured annually,
two-thirds of which is consumed in man.
ufacturing lard.
- A farmer in lower portion of the
State claims that he has the longest cot
tonlrow. 1t is spiral form aud four and
one half miles in length.
| = The;increase of earnings Of the
Richmond & Danville railroad In the
month of March, 1889, over the same
month last year is 35,S67.55.
= Chewing gum is so much the fashion
in Illinois that the young people have
chewing parties, the prize being given to
the one who chews the longest.
- An Arkansas man who bears the
name of Jerusalem John johnson vents
it changed to John the Baptist Smith, in
order to inherit ten acres of land. IS s.
= The population in New South
Wales is so scattered that in some in.
stances voters have to travel two hundred
miles to the polls, or lose their votes.
= The Secretary of State has received
an inquiry from the Swiss Minister at
Washington in regard to the induce.
hents offered by South Carolina to immi-
grants.
- A Buffalo bachelor has memoran.
dunn book in which he has the name
of every girl he has ever kissed. He had
92S names on the list the last time he
counted up.
"A small pox epidemic now threatens
Guthrie and other towns in the new
| territory of Oklahoma, The mass Of
people who have arrived are much
alarmed at the breaking out of this dis.
ease.
There was case of.yellow fever at
Sanford, Florida, last week, but Surgeon
General Hamilton, who has thoroughly
investigated the situation, expresses the
opinion that there will be no infection in
the State this year.
Upon one street in Elizabeth, N.J.,
there are now living grand.niece OF
Washington and three.grand nieces OF
Wilson Cary, father .of the beautiful
Mary Cary, who is said to have been the
great Generals first love-.
Some Washington ladies adopted an
original method of making their pastor
donation on the twenty.6fth anniversary
Of his installation. They gave him
bouquet of twenty-five large lilies,
and in each lily was hVe.dollar gold
piece.
Mr.. Wayman, of Griffin, Ga.sraised
from 5-S of an acre $4,000 quarts Of
strawberries which he sod at 10 cents a
quart; the picking costs from l to II
cents. This would leave net profit of
$3.50 off his patch, or the rate of S4lO
acre.
Miss Susan NJ. Dunklee, of Newton, :
Mass, the first woman to be bank treas
urer, in the United States, with the help
of q clerk now handles about S50O,OOO in
money each year. In the Is years other
experience she has but twice taken in
counterfeit bill-in each case $40 one.
When the use of coal was f!st
discovered in England, it was made -
capital ofense to burn it in London be-
cause of the smoke. Women we're loud.
est in their objections, declaring it ruined
their compilations. One man was put
to death for breaking the law against
coal.
The gold mine on Douglass Island,
Ore., recently bought by an English syn
| dicate for two million dollars, has been
| diamond drilled throughout, and it is said
there is gold enough shown to keep one
thousand men busy every day for one
hundred years taking out the gold bearing
quartz.
Joe Wilson, an Alabama river fish
erman, colored, caught huge catfish
and started home with it. Somewhere on
the way the fish Topped its tail against
the hammer of Wilson's gun. The piece.
was discharged, sending aload ofduckshot
through the negro's thigh, infictipg q very
dangerous wound.
- A nailless horseshoe has been in
vented in England. The shoe is so adapt.
ed to the foot that driver can put one on
in three minutes. 1t pinches the edge of
the hoof at certain points, and is held on &
in this way, no nails being driven into|
the hoof. The invention saves time in
shoeing and avoids its perils. 1t is just
| as seryiceable as the old. fashioned
way. 8
= "Disembered photographs" is thss
latest craze among the women of thess
West according to the Detroit Free Press.
I. Il.