The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-15
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

by two Massachusetts men.
The American silver dollar first
made its appearance in 1874.
"A three:legged alligator was shot
the other day near Albany, Ga.
The food damaged the property Of
Pennsylvania to the extent of 81, ,22O,.
600.
= Man, with all his wisdom, never
knows who is his best friend as we'll as 9
baby.
Some men are born great, some
achieve greatness, and some can curve a.
ball. s 80
"A stitch in time saves nine-but
this was said before the sewing machine
was invented.
= There is man in Hart County, Ga,
who spells his entire name with two
letters, Bob Bobo.
1t takes three hundred men to $
harvest the wheat crop of one ranch in;
C0lusa county, Cal. sssssss3 - =
John Lawes, the heaviest man in I;
America, died in Elmira, N. Y, last D
week. he weighed GAO.
The richest clergyman in all the
world is, probably, the Primate of Hun
gary, and his income is s3S0,000 year.
= The famous shoe house Of E.&A.
Il. Batcheler & Co., of Boston, has failed
The liabilities are about q million and &
quarter dollars.
- Mrs. May Roberts, who died at the {
age of so the other day at Sharon, Pa.,S 4
was never inside a postofice and never
rode on railroad train. -
AT Lexington, KY, q lawsuit that
was begun in 1911 has just been settled. s.
It related to a land claim, and the sum
in dispute was originally about 5000.
= Some years ago John Mcclure took
up piece Of cactus land in Los Angeles s
county, CAL, and set it to grapes. Last Z
spring he refused Sl50,000 for the place. 3
= The largest watermelon patch in the {
world is at Adams Park, Ga. It embra..
ces eight hundred acres, snd is expected (
to produce over four hundred carloads Of
melons.
= There is said to- be q schoolboy at 3
Kingston, N. Y, who studies hard and
commits his lessons to memory we'll, but
if he goes to sleep he forgets all that:he I
has learned. b:
= Jay Gould says that for the frstyear &
of his married life he lived on 500, gotup@
at daybreak, went to church every sun-
day, and was as happy as a boss bumble:s
bee in sweet clover.
= The people Of the United States use
annually about seven postal cards for
every man, woman and child; that is to-! !
say, their total consumption for a.year
reaches 4oO,Ooo,0oo.
"A remarkable cave in Stone county,
Kan, is said to have been explored for
twelve miles, to have two rivers and mill.
lions of bats. It sounds as if John Mul.
hattor had been out there.
"A French coin of the time of Louis
XIV was found in cornfeld at Marengo,
Ind, a few days ago. It is supposed to-
have been there since the days when the
French traded with the Indians.
- The most original swindler of the
day is the one who has been telling the !
colored people Of Georgia that the world 3
will come to an end August 16, and has 3
sold $50 pair of "angels wings" at sl0a.8
pair.
The photographs on the White
House desk of babies born since the elec;;s
tion and named Benjamin Harrison make :
big bundle. Every State of the Union,
with but one or two exceptions, has con-
tributed. -
"A Russian traveller in the Malay.
Peninsula claims to have found in use
there the smallest "coin" in the world.
1t is minute wafer, made from the juice 5
of tree. It's value is about the millionth
part of dollar.
John G. CAN'T, the celebrated tramp
printer, who is known in almost every
printing establishment in the central and
southern States, is 70 years of age, and
has been constantly on the. tramp since
the close Of the civil war.
The colored women of Little Rock,
Ark, have just organized q washerwo.
mans association. The society has been
legally incorporated, and its objects are
! to care for members in times of illness
and to promote the general welfare Of the
laundry business.
- stranger-"You are not booming
your State very much at the present time,
| are you? ?" Kansas Citizen-"No, We are
not advertising ct all, now; but wait till
the cyclone period arrives, and you'll
see the name of our glorious common
wealth in every paper you pick up."-
Omaha World.
The most valuable book in the
world is said to be q Hebrew Bible at the
Vatican in Rome. In 1912 Pope Julius,
then in great financial straits, refused to
;. sell it to syndicate of rich Venetian
Jews for its weight in gold. The Bible.
weighs more than 1926 pounds, and is.
never carried by less than three men,.
The price refused by Pope Julius was
therefore tsl25,000.
"A weeping peach tree is one Ct
the curiosities of Dennison, Tex. It is:
visited by many persons daily. At times
perfect mist or spray surrounds it. a
number of superstitious persons think
that spirits operate upon the tree. a
leading spiritualist visited the tree last
Sunday, and thought that seance would
explain the mystery. The negroes at.
tach considerable significance to the
,,,o &c ~, vor;atr of tho pooob which