The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-03-14
ALL SCOTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
Mrs. Cleveland wears No. S shoe,
one size smaller than Queen Victoria.
= Oil has been struck in Scott County,
Ark. The supply is thought to be mex
baustible.
= Self: preservation is the first law of
nature, but too many act as if it were the
only one.
"Who was the first man, Tommie? 2"
asked the Sunday school teacher, after
explaining that our first parents were
made from the dust. of the earth. "Hen.
ry Clay, ma'am."
An Ohio farmer mortgaged bis farm
to get his wife some diamond earrings,
and she lost one Of them in the suds the
very first wash day and attempted 10 haus
herself in the barn.
Bishop McTyeire, although he re.
$4,000 as president of the board oftrustess
of Vanderbilt University, did not leave
much property. His estate, including
his South Carolina plantation, is valued
at ts15,oOo.
= MIR. Ben. Baker, who lives in War.
rem County, Ga, never feeds corn until
it is year old. BE begins the first of
the year on the corn that isjusta year
old and keeps his new corn for the coming
year.
"A farmer in York county, Maine,
recently shipped twenty barrels Of ap.
Piles to Liverpool After freight charges
and other expenses were deducted he
found his fruithad netted him eight cents
bushel. -.
= Ben Butler is the champion mascot
of the nineteenth century. By the ad-
mission of the new States the government
will be obliged to purchase 5000 nation
al flags with forty stars apiece, and Ben
will be 100000 richer by the transac.
ton. Happy Ben Butler.
= Fifteen daring young woman of
Philadelphia have::..formed 8 club of
which the sole condition of membership
is that the applicant forswear corsets.
Each one of the ladies comprising the
club has consigned her whalebone curiass
to the flames, and now taxes her iugenui-
ty to provide substitute. -
"A piano tuner says that pianos fre- 3
quently deteriorate because they are
allowed to become too dry. To counter
act this he advises keeping a growing
plant in the room. Another way is to
keep large vase or urn with a sopping
wet sponge in it under or near the
piano.
- The Maryland court Of appeals has
decided that wife's will is supreme in
one emergency. A woman with tumor
gave her conaent to the surgeon to re-
move it and she died. The husband;
who forbade the operation, sued the
surgeon, but the court decided that the
wife's consent was sufficient.
North Carolina has got the prize
Munchausen in the author of story
which comes from Clyde Station in
that State, to the effect that a popular
tree was cut there so large that it made
plank enough to furnish tweather board.
ing, ceiling and flooring for a church 50
feet long, 3S feet wide and - feet high.
From the same tree fence was built
three.quarters of an acre around the
church. There were three logs left over,
and "the remaining three logs contained
lumber enough to build another church
a, large as the first"
j. R. Whitesides, son of County
Commissioner R. W. Whitesides, in
company with several friends, went out
squirrel hunting on Friday. Coming to
q hollow tree, they decided to cut it
down. In falling the tree struck a limb
of another tree near by. Just as it fell
Mr.. Whitesides saw.a squirrel run out
and he Immediately started up to get 8
shot. When almost at the top some one
told him to "look out" and as he looked
up the broken limb fell, tstriking him ia
the forehead and MASKING in'the SKULL
York Enterprise.
= The value of good country roads
is strikingly illustrated in the case of
Madison County, Alabama, of which
Huntsville is the county seat. That
county has in its limits several macada-
amized roads, so its people have felt both
the need and the.blessings ofsuch roads.
The Huntsville Mercury says the result
is that the land which has the bsTsSo
the turnpike sells readilyhSssn hss M anch
~ a.le' @al,u aa,1. July troms15 to $50
aaVsa,ase aa .osa sssl swell convinced are the
a. 1 a.l.. .1.iadison of the value Of good
psoptnHa nat the county has obtained per.
,ission from the Legislature OF that s
tate to issue its bonds to the extent OF
!. eo mn for the nnrpose of building one