The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-11-14

uIC lkOW LuCiA OWn
A young fellow in Kansas City peti.
toned the court to change This name
because his "tather digraced it."
The debt of the United States
decreased during the month Of October 8
little over nine millions Of dollars. sr:
"A citizen of Wellsville, Ohio, now
seventy four years, old, boasts that he
has never paid a cent to a lawyer or doc:
tor.
A California paper tells of aman: ID.
that State raising beet with which
he fed two horses and three cows four
days.
: Eleven men are to be hangedinj
Hancock County, Tenn. It..:is expected.
to be the beginning of new era Of Law;
and order.
= The United States bonds bonghtby;
the government from Aug. s, 1885,, 7,.to5
Oct. 16, 1889, have effected a sayingieffs
s47, 1884, 4sS6.19. ssss' sss8
-"How We Are Governed is the title
of book published not long ago. We
haven't read it, but presume it is thie .ex.S
per,ence Of a married man.
= Twenty.one. million COWS in tha;U.
nited States yield 7,s5o,ooO,OOO gallopsofs
milk, 95,O0O,c00 pounds of cheese, and
1,350,000 pounds Of butter.
- The population of the world is now.
estimated at ], 100000, 900, of which the.
women are in the majority. There are 67s
deaths per minute and 70 births. a
The largest bar of gold ever cast in
The world was turned out at the United
States assay Office at Helena, Mont, re.s
Gently. 1t weighed 500 pounds, and is:::
worth little over 100000. - -
The farmers in Dakota are in very
destitute condition owing to the drought
Their crops were total failure and they
are without food for man or beast. APP
peals are being made for the relief of thes
suffering people. III
- It has always been observed in pub
lie bodies that married men are inyaris.s
bly, the best debaters. They may not 3
have chance to talk, more at home, but
they have unexampled opportunities to !
observe and learn.
= Meny people iron towels and put,
them away before they are dry. This is
an error, and sometimes leads to results
rot expected. In this damp condition
there is mold which forms on Them
called odiums one variety of which causes
numerous skin diseases.
"A remarkable illustration Of the
enduring character of human hair may
now be seen in the British Museun,
where has been placed q wig, lately
found in temple at Thebes, which is
supposed to have been worn by an Egyp-s,
tian priest at period not less than a490I
years ago. ~
- The latest European estimate Of tho.
wheat crop from Vienna is that the
worlds supply is 1SO,0OO,0OO bushels.
short, and that the European crop this;
year is 222,000,000 bushels below the
average. If these figures are correct
there ought almost certainly to be q mar-
ket for the whole Of our great surplus. 3.
= Each square inch of the skin
contains $500 sweating tubes or perspi-
ration pores, each Of which may be liken.3
ed to little drain tile one. fourth Of an.
inch in length, making an aggregate
length of the entire surface of the, body
of 01,199 feet, or a tile ditch for
draining the body almost forty miles
long. SIS isSsas
Z According to statistics ID late
number Of the Farmer, the wealth Of this
country is practically owned by,25O,0OOs
men, or one in go adult males $4,000:
men own half the wealth. There are
seventy men whose wealth aggregates
s2,70O,OOO,0oO. This concentration Of
wealth is going on at such a rapid rate
that in less than 80 years the wealth of
this country will be owned practically by
$4,000 men.
= There are 5000 medical women in
the United States whose incomes range
from $4,000 to $1,000 year. The mum:
ber is increasing every year, and the
supply of "lady doctors" bids fair to be
a, great as that of the male physicians.
Austria is the only civilized country in:
the world which prohibits women from
entering the medical profession. Russia
and China permit them, and the Queens
OF Italy and Roumania employ women.
physicians.
Some convicts in the penitentiary at
salam, Oregon, display energy in proving
that they hate work. Several of them
within year have manned themselves so
al to be unfit physically for the tasks.
allotted them. Recently a colored man,
John Smell, took hatchet and cut off the
fingers Of his left hand. He is now rest-E
ing in the infrmary. He has 5ionr more;
years of his sentence Of FIVE toserye out.
Some one-handed work will be found for
him as soon as possible.
"A few days ago large hog belongs
ing to Leroy Hardy, fStark, Ga, while
the family were all out Of the house,
went into the house, and after climbing
upon feather bed proceeded to tear the
bed and clothing into doll rags. His
hogship thought he had found beautiful
play house, and in his delight and play
fuluess tore things up generally. When
the inmates Of the house came in, the
floors were literally covered with feathers
and the festive brute ran from the huuse
looking more like cne of the feathered
tribe than fat porker. .sss; 81: