The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-06-27
ALL SCOTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
- 1t is estimated that the United
tates has doctor for every 600 inbabi.:


= It is estimated that the United :
States has q doctor for every 600 inhabi-s
tants.
1t is estimated that rainy day in.a
city of 100000 people kills S25,O0O worth
Of trade.
There are more.than.. eight hundred
aud sixty Indian dialects in North
America alone.
= Men often preach from tho house.
tops while the devil is crawling in at the
basement below. lEs
Georgia expects to raise two thous.
and more carloads of watermelons this :
year than in 1888.
= The average weight of the brain Of
man is 8 l-2 pounds; of woman, 2 I
pounds and IL ounces.
Meredith Stanley jumped 253 feet
from bridge into the Kentucky River,
and came out almost unhurt. II
One of the greatest causes oftroublei
in this world is the habit people have of:
talking faster than they think. 5ss
- The next national celebration will
be the 400th anniversary of the discovery
of America by Columbus. October ~,
1892.
= 1t is estimated that the Protestant
churches of the United States contribute
annually $l1,25OOO0 for foreign mis-.
sioDs.
It is said that nearly FIVE million,
persons in the United States depend for
their living on the sale of liquor and sto:s
bacco.
"A Finnish woman in Minnesota has
given birth tosix children at one time.
The father hopes that this will finish the T
family. .. s.s,
= II is said that gentleman named
Eugene Moore killed FIVE hundred alliga.5
tors ip Florida last year, That records
hard to beat.
= Arthur Simmons, colored man, has
been porter Of the private Secretary's room
in the White House for twenty years.
he vas recently bounced.
There are those who live in this:
world, as though 1t was never to have an &
end and for the next as though it was
never to have beginning.
There are FIVE girls in one of The
Humphreys families of Fleming County,
KY, and their names are Arkansas, q
Louisiana, Tennessee, Florida and Vir-
ginis..
A manufacturer of cosmetics states
that it costs American women SC, 100000
q year to paint their faces The 7ariega-
ted noses of the men of America costs
much more
lin England, a country more religious
than America, the telephone is used to
enable inyalids, doctors, druggists and
others to hear sermons that they cannot
go to church for.
"A friend of the ink manufactures is z
Mr.. Ludwig Vonhinkelsteinhausenbloser
of Cincinnati, who insists on having his
name written or printed in full whenever
occasion demands.
= George Case, New Yorker, was
arrested on charge of stealing 112 gold
rings. One of them proved to be only:
washed, and Georges lawyer got?Ihim
clear on this teehnicality.
= Benjamin D. siliman says there
were only 1876 lawyers in New York city s
when be began his practice sixty years L
ago, but that the New York bar is row !.
adorned with 5,575 members.
"A Salem. Dak., newspaper prints the
following unique advertisement: "IfJohn
Jones, who twenty years ago deserted his
poor wife and babe, will return, said babe
will lick the stufin' out of him."
= Ii is said that the largest pine tree
ever cut in Michigan was felled recently
near Hobart. 1t was six feet in diane.
ter at the butt, sud scaled ten thousand
and sis: hundred feet of choice lumber. I
= One DR.. Terc, In England, is advo.
eating the sting of bees as a remedy for.
rheumatism. He declares that he has
treated with success one hundred and
seventy. three cases, and has given in all 3
thirty.thouaand stings.
= The Democrats of Illinois and Ohio
have some hopes of carrying those States
this fall. The issue in which they expect
to gain votes, strange to say, is the tariff.
Time and reflection are believed to be /
making votes for the Democracy in the (
West. -.
"A young married couple in Ashta-s
bula county, o., have been making gar.s
den for the first time. When planting /
onions they were at a loss to tell which
end to put down, SO they compromised
the matter, he putting them in one way
and she the other.
= Little John Bankhead, who only
smoked pack Of cigarettes day, has
climbed the golden stair. He puffed his
little soul away in the smoke Of paper
wads. Johnny lived in Philadelphia and
is an angel now, but the innocent ciga.
rette is still with ue.
"A Portland, Ore, man pulled out
his pocketbook, when the wind seized it's
contents and scattered them broadcast,
and $3.50 in bills were blown about the
streets. Fortunately everybody in the
vicinity proved to be honest, and the
money vas all recovered.
= A Reading tobacconist has q ten
weeks old bear, which he keeps In his
store. It Itplays with his Newfoundland
dog and seems to enjoy itself greatly.
The other day it approached a drummer
from behind, and gave him a hug that
startled and surprised him.
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