The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-08
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
. Kansas has had fourteen cyclones in

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= This years peach crop is estimated
at 8, 2,79S,O00 baskets.
= He that stands in the valley will
never get over the hill.
During the last fiscal yesr, the debt
OF the country was reduced SS7,lS2, 200.
- The hardest time for man to show
his grit is when he is forced to bite the
dust.
If some men were halfas big as they
think they are the world would have to be
enlarged.
The Cherokee Indians, in the Indian
Territory, have put 100000 in semi.
nary for girls.
1t is estimated that the wheat crop
will be about 496,O00,0OO bushels, and
the corn crop 1,0oo,ooo,o0O bushels.
Edison sleeps only four hours q
night. He got into this habit by keep.
ing late hours with his wife's
baby.
- The wheat harvest in Kansas is said
to be the largest ever gathered in that
State. Some fields yielded 120 bushels
per acre.
W. Shelly, of Milford Square, ILL.,,
has Newfoundland dog ponderous
enough to do all the family washing by a
tread power.
= A recent count of money in the
United States Treasury revealed short.
age of $S5. The amount counted was
$1S4,OOO,ooO.
= Another expedition to search for
the north pole has been organized. The
pole will not be found in time to be util.
lied during the summer.
The internal revenue On spirits and
tobacco during the last fiscal year
amounted to s1s1,ooo,OOO, and the tax on
sugar to about s5e,ooo,ooo.
= The following notice appears in an
exchange: "This hotel will be kept by
the widow of the former landlord, who
died last summer on new and improved
plan"
- Experiments have shown that the
skin of white person transplanted on
the skin of Negro becomes black as the
skin of Negro, and that black inoculated
on white loses its pigment and becomes
white.
One of the steam-engines for the
Paris exhibition is little less than
three fifths of an inch high, weighs less
than one.ninth of an ounce, and contains
1SO pieces of metal. 1t is the smallest =
ever made.
Old John Cole, stingy old farmer
near Burlington, VT, drew up valuable
papers and used ink of his own mauufac-
ture to save expense. It faded away in
few days and he is about taeven thousand
dollars out.
Terrible stories are told Of the
starving miners at Braidwood, Illinois.
It is said that dead horses have been eat
en-, and children may be seen with their
hard, dry skin cliDging to the bones Of
their faces.
The income of a professional rat
catcher averages $1,000 per year, and
there are only ten of them in the United
States. The average income of lawyers is
only 500 per year, and the ranks are
overcrowded.
A negro girl, of Mecklenburg-
county, N. G., died from hydrophobia
last week. Her suferings we're very great.
She was bitten about three weeks before
her death. Buffers famous madsto6e1
was applied, but did no good. %
- Mrs. Dumpsey: "see ..ere, johnny
Dumpsey you have been in swimming IS
Now, ntdeny it." johnny Dumpsey
Indeed, haint, MAJ Mrs. Dumpsea
Careful, sir! How does your sk M
happen to be on wrong aide o4
Johnny Dumpsey: "Me and Bill b M
have been turning somersaults al
morning" q
England has over 100000 investM
ell in the manufacture of idols for heath.
en- countries. tits probably the only idol
industry that is making any money. 6asau
country has more than sl,O00,000 invq
ed in the manufacture of idols }|
Americans. They are called us Min
and they manufacture an idol known
the mighty Dollar" which is universe
ly worshipped.
The largest vine in the world is sal W
to be one growing at Oys, Portugal u
which has been in bearing since 1904
Its maximum yield vas in 1864, in which
year it produced sufficient quantity of
grapes to make 195 gallons of wine; in
1874, LAG! gallons, and in 1854 only 794
gallons. Itcovers an area of {, ,315 square
feet, and the stem at the base measures
74 feet in circumference.-New YORK.
Telegram.
= Mr.. Young, telegraph operator of
Charles City, Iowa, has invented square
hole boring machine. His paienthas been
granted in thirteen claims. He is backed
by two moneyed men of the town. An
exhibition of the machine was given be.
fore prominent mechanics. It was pro.
nounced perfect success in every way, /
the machine boring an even square hole 6
of any dimensions 1t is possible thd
business mems association may organize
q syndicate to manufacture the machine,
Herald.
-DeKalb County, Ala, has wonder
in the shape of ground hf9 boy, who
lives with his parents on Sand Mountain.
The lad is IA years of age, and those who
have seen him say he has head, hands
and feet similar to ground hog. He