The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-09-12
ALL SORTs OF PARAGRAPHS.

Steamships six hundred feet long
will soon be common.
- The annual consumption of feathers 8
in this country is 100000 pounds.
When man gets to be grandfath.
e. he sighs as he thinks how old his wife 3
is.
"A prominent capitalist of Oakland,
California, married his fifth wife last
Tuesday.
"A goose with several links of a gold s
chain in its craw was killed at San Lucas,
CAL, recently.
The South Carolina Railroad has Z
this year shipped over it ], ,S11 carloads Of .
watermelons as against 7S5 the previous
year.
George Green, of Alabama, has been
serving term of imprisonment sr mur.s'
dering 81, man who is now found tobe 8
living. g
At Waterville, W. T., squirrels are
so plentiful that they enter peoples hou.
ses and eat the crumbs from under the I
tables. ~
= There are 1866 convicts in the .
Georgia penitentiary, of which number
two hundred and three are under sentence 4
for life.
y While party Of children were ont
berry picking near Annapolis, N. S., 8
bear made his appearance and killed and
ate one little boy.
New Workers devour a million
quarts Of ice cream on Sunday. Awag
AYERS that they remember the Sabbath
day to keep it coldly.
= Melbourne, Australia, is to have o.
public clock which will roll off pop
ular air every hour except during
Sunday, when only sacred music will be-
Played. go y q
= Army worms have made their ap-s
pearance at Lamar, Darlington County. Z:
The farmers fear there will be great dam
sge done to late cotton by them, as there !
is but little matured fruit yet. sl5s.ss 80
Abraham Lincoln was the tallest5
President in this country, namely 6 feet
4inches, Martin Van Buren, the shortest,
barely 5'feet 6 inches. Benjamin T[arri.
son is.shorter still, his height being 5 feet
s inches.
a movement ia on foot in Philadel.
phia to exclude from the burial services
all female ralatives and friends of the \
deceased. Where are we drifting?s
After awhile the women will have nog
rights left?
"A New York chemist declares thatg
every remedy for tobacco smoking and
chewing and the opium habit, contains
morphine and opium in dangerous auan.
titles, and that those who sell them ought
to be prosecuted. 4
= a Cademus, Mich, farmer fed q
flock of swine several gallons Of cider
soft. The hogs went on 8 glorious drunk
for three days, and few Of them passed !:
peacefully away, never realizing what
had touched them. 6
- The present strength of the Grand
Army of the Republic is 4l3,22S, an in.
crease of $4,000 during the past year.
This is the organization which, according
to Senator Vest, was the cause of Cleye:
lands defeat in 1883. 5#5. &.
= An old church in Cahokis, Ill, that !:
was built in 1854 of cedar logs, was torn !
down few days ago to make way for
more modern building. There were only
two churches in America-at st. Angus.
tine and Santa Fe--that were older, =.
- The fire losses in the United States
during the first half of 1885 aggregated !
over s7O,OOO,OOo, against q total loss Of !.
but $46,5oO, 900 for the same period last
year. In loss Of life and losses Of proper.
ty through other agencies the first half Of
1889 has been notable.
= When the Seminole Indians of
Florida elect a chief they choose the big
gest fighter and most successful hunter of
the tribe. If there happens to be tie
between two, candidates, their method of
deciding it is to have each candidate
place live coal of fire on his wrist.
The one who Ainches first loses the Of
fee.
The last census shows that the ay.
erage yearly earnings of the whole
American people amount to eight hum
dred dollars each. Mechanics average
one thousand dollars of yearly earnings
clerks and other salaried persons earn
|. fifteen hundred dollars, and the learned
professions average but twenty. five hum.
dred dollars.
Rev. Sam Jones met with tre.
[ mendous success at Trenton, Tennessee.
| An immense tent capable of seating about
5000 people has been crowded all the
time, and people have focked to Trenton.
by the trainload and wagon load. a.
correspondent writes "On Tuesday 1900
people had assembled at the opening of
the meeting and greeted Mr.. Jones's drst
appearance, but still they came, until
Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi and even
Texas have senttheir contingents to swell
the vast concourse. Day by day the
number grew until to-day, when the cli.::
max was reached. By early morning to-.
day every road leading into Trenton could
be marked for miles by long winding
clouds of dust that rose and fell with
every breeze. The "oldest inhabitant"
here never saw anything like it. Every
train that rolled in was packed, until
people were actually hanging upon the
platform steps and corners and tops of
| cosches. Excursions were run in as far