The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-11-07
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.


= There are about six hundred women
in Chicago who own and ride bicycles.
= Electricity is computed by What
stone 10 move 2sS,0oO miles in second.
= Army statistics show that the
best shots are found among grey eyed
men.
"A patent Ggurer has found that in
100000 years the sun will be as dense
as the earth.
"A dog in West Gardiner, Me-, earns
enough money to pay his tax, doing big
churning each week.
= There is only one colored congress.
man. He is from North Carolina, aad
his name is Cheatham.
The fire loss throughout the United
States during the month of September
amounted to nearly len millions of dol.
lars.
j. B. Green, of Mosherville, Mich,
captured an eel in his mill fume which
weighed 81 pounds and WAS forty inches
long.
= The sum and substance of all the
preparation needed for eternity is to be-
lieve what the Bible tells us and do what
the Bible bids US.
A farmer in Brooke coonty, W. Va,
has an old fashioned pocketbook that his
father and grandfathe. used to carry.
He estimates that more han 100000
dollars has been in it since it has been in
use.
The human skin is composed of
ehree layers, averaging in all between
one twelfth and one eighth of an inch in
thickness, and, in extreme cases, as
much SIS one.fourth of an inch in thick.
ness.
IT. II. Ball, of Aurora, Ills, has in.
vented cotton picker which has lately
been tested on Mississippi plantation
1t is pronounced success and is said to
have done the work of one hundred ne.
groes. IS
= Annie Price, the fattest woman IN &
the world, died in New York last week. 4
She weighed $50 pounds, and was exhib.
tied as freak in dime museum. Her
husband was very thin man. His eye
was his great attraction. He had only
one, and it was pink.
MIR. Goodcatch calling on the eldest
sister)-"Wby, Johnny, how you are
growing? You'll be man before sister,
if you keep on" "You bet I will. Sister
will never be a man if she keeps on being
twenty like she has for the last 5 years."
Then there was trouble in the houae-
hold.
= In China the inhabitants are count.
ed every year in curious manner.
The oldest master of every ten houses
has to count the families, and has to
make list, which is sent to the impe.
rial tax house. Last year the whole
number amounted to S97,3SS i1habi-
tants.
All plants and trees consume water
in large quantities. Sir John Laws dis.
covered that an acre of barley will take
up 1904 tons of water in two days.
Trees and plants are composed more
largely of water than any other substance.
The branch Of q tree will lose nine-tenths
Of its weight by dying.
"A calf was recently caught on the
COW catcher of locomotive on Georgia
railroad, near Gohutta, and carried nine
miles. When discovered the young boz
vine was lying complacently on the pilot
apparently enjoying the ride. 1t vas
unipjured, and when released trotted off
as if nothing had happened.
The Savannah Morning Ne,us report
two.thirds of the rice crop now on tie
market, the yield average, but quality
very fine, and states that the June rice
has been somewhat affected by the frosts
within the past three weeks, the grain
having the same appearance as if the rice
birds had sucked the milk from it.
Two brotkers.in. law in New York
were eagaged in rough fight the other
day, and the blind son of one took up q
slate and hurled it in the direction ofhis
uncle's voice. His ear was bettee than
the eye.of some of our rifemen, as the
slate bit the man in the forehead and
fractured the skull, so that his condition
is critical. ;.
4 The following is said to be a good
application to prevent metals rusting:
Melt one ounce of rosin in gill of lin.
seed oil and while hot mix with it two
quarts of kerosene oil. This can be
kept ready to apply at any time with
brush or rag to any tools or implements
required to lay by for time, preventing.
any rust, and saving much vexation when
the tool is to be used again.
- The cotton crop of Texas, according
to dispatch from Galveston, is now es.
tablished at 1,75O,00O bales. The wharves
and warehouses there are full of cotton,
and there are now nineteen steamships
for foreign port. There are four steamers
week to New York with capacity of
4,500 and 5000 bales each. All the cot
ton screwmen and longshoremen of the
ports are at work and the season thus far
has been the busiest for many years.
"A most destructive food has recent.
ly occurred in Japan. In review of the
calamities caused by the food during tie
year 1889, the Japan Nail says "Incom->
plete returns show that IL prefectures
have been devastated 2419 people killed
1O5 wounded, and over $4,000 people
deprived of means of subsistence. More
than 50,0 900 houses have been swept away
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