The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
- New York city has debt Of $685..
100000.

ALL VE 4 A1thVAtAA A4Ss t=ss.
- New York city has a debt Of $685.
100000.
= Steamships six hundred feet long
will soon be common.
"A cat that will drink beer is one of
the curiosities of Calamet, O.
- The only croys.eyed COW is owned
by George Williams, of Comley, O.
There are thirty.fye thousand more
women than men in the city of PhiIadel-
phia.
DR.. Nansen, the explorer, says the
ice in Greenland is six thousand feet
thick.
In Para, Brazil, license to cell.
liquor costs s5; q license to keep school
costs $40. ~
An Ohio man the other day counted
up and found that he had been concerned
in 139 lawsuits.
A live turtle was found waddling
around among the mails in the postofice
at Pot!sville, Pennsylvania, the other
day.
a church deacon at Galesburg,
Michigan, claims 10 have parrot
which will lead hymn at prayer meet
ing.
An Atchison man, says the Globe,
recently married widow because she,
took such good care of her first husbands
grave.
IT. II. Davis, of Clarkville, Mo-, was
three times married to the same woman,
his own temper and two divorces making
this possible.
= During q recent storm stone
weighing eleven pounds dropped from the.
clouds into the yard of farmer living:
near Essex, Ia. - @
1t has been computed that the aver
age growth of the finger nail is one.thir.s
ty second Of an inch per week, or a little
more than one and one.half inches per.
year.
"A young woman at Rincol, Cal, has:
began suit for 81 500 damages against q
rancher for kisses that she says were
forcibly inflicted upon her by the defen.
dant.
Seventy thousand Arabs are reported
to be ready to come to America, if q
delegation of twenty, now at Castle
Garden, Gucceed in obtaining admit-
tance. .s;s.5' ~
= There are eight hundred thousand
more widows than widowers in England
In France for every one bundled widow;
ers there are one hundred and ninety:four.
widows. ~.
Robert Marvel died at Indianapolis,
August Goth, after fasting for sixty.seYen
days. Since June 18th he had taken no
nourishment except little milk. This
is the longest fast on record.
"A letter from Calcutta reports that
q herd of 100 wild elephants has been
captured in Mysore. Also that there
we're 5000 deaths by snake bites in the
northwest provinces last year. 81!
= Why does the letter R hold an envi.
able position? Becauseitis never found
in sin, but always in temperance, indus.
try, virtue and prosperity. It'll the be-
ginning of'religion and the end Of war.
: Cotton worms have appeared ins
Pulaski, Jefferson and CLARK counties,
Arkansas, within the last few days.,
and the farmers are greatly disturbed,
and are using Paris green energetical.
ly.
Maj. W. G. Stevens, Of Ann Arbor.
Mich, formerly of the Ninth Michigan
cavalry, still owns and uses the horse
that he rode in the army. He bought hiln
in Kentucky in 1862 and rode him in
many battles.
"A German lieutenant practicing
with balloon got his foot entangled in
the valve line and was carried for two
miles with his head downward. The.
balloon lit without breaking his neck,
but he was inaensib!e. II s3
- Ina certain town in Ohio, whers
screens are not allowed to be used ia
saloons, a big fat man is hired by one Of:
the more enterprising saloon keepers to
stand in his door all the time., Hss
obstructs the view very efectually. 8
IS. E. Sweet, who claims to be q resi-
dent of Tennessee, has entered suit in the
United States Court, at Little Rock, Ark I
for 100000 against thirty.fve prominent
citizens. BE claims they drove him from
his home on May 10 last, because he
chose to vote his own sentiments.
"A natural bed OF q substance resem.
bling shoe blacking has been discovered
in Rush Valley, Ulch. Analysis shows
that it contains 19 per cent. carbon, "a
per cent. aluminium, and so percent.
clay. When properly applied to leather.
it produces fine polish that is not easily.
destroyed.
William Ogden, of Fairfield, Neb.,
performed a remarkable trick. He laid
cooked gun on the ground, stood off,
about fifteen feet from it, threw a common
glass ball into the air, turned a hand.
spring, picked up and discharged the
gun, breaking the ball before it reached
the ground.
- Physicians around Galena, Wis.,;
are puzzled over the case of an S.weeks
old child that has been asleep ever since
its birth, and which takes nourishment
regularly but never wakes. Children
can enter that house without being greet
ed with, "Hush don't make a noise, or
you will wake the baby"
There were originally nineteen con.