The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-05-23
ALL sORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

ALL sOGTS OF PARAGRAPHS. y
The human race is increasing
30,OoO,0OO yearly.
= Mrs. Hetty Green, shrewd Wall
Street broker, is worth s50,00O,00O. - sc;
"A man who doesn't know anything
is pretty sure to tell it the first chance he
gets.
1t is estimated that there has been 9 ]
decrease of fs1l, 10000 in the public debt
since April /.
= There several men and women
in Henry county, Ga over 90syears old &
2 men over 100.
Queen Victoria will celebrate her
birthday on Friday, May "a. she. will
then be years old. s;;3 4; I;
"A man has been arrested sin 1rldi-s
ana for dunning man on postal card,
and calling him dead beat.
/. = There is no use in trying to- strike
an average on honesty. The article must
be simon pure or it is spurious.
= The Doctor who attended Samuel
J. Tilden before his death is suing the
estate for s143, $50 for his services. "a
= Unless the North wind sblow,at
the critical time, this will be 81 bonanza
year for grain and fruit in California.
- The wreck Of our war vessels
in the Samoan harbor Of April entaileds
loss TO the United States Of over 22,.s
100000.
= Washington county, Miss, produces
the largest cotton crop Of any county in
America; it yields between 5000 and
$4,000 bales annually.
= A young man who actually tried
says that although there are three scrupiess
in dram, the more drams you take thes
less scruples you will have. g ;3szss$ sss5
"A correspondent from Guthrie City,
Oklahoma, states that fully ter. thousand
shots are fred daily in that new town
without any body getting hurt, @
= In New York and Brookly ynS,an ay-s
erage of nearly 100000 newspap apers are !
printed for daily distribution, Of which
three-fourths are morning publications.
- Miss Eugenia Washington; the
great.grauddaughter of Gen. George, and
wonderfully like him in features, is now:
employed in one IF the departments at s
Washington. 80
1.-THE little things of life give us thet
most pleasure my child.n Yes, father;
I thought SO lastsummer when i saw you
dancing round the room to the music of
the mosquitoes"
Levi Johnson, of Boston, is 81 years
old aud has been blind for tent years. The;
other day his sight, suddenly returned itoall
him and he called for book and read
with perfect ease. :5S
Mrs. Hannah Chard, of Millville, j,
M J., has just celebrated her Tooth BIRTH
day; but strange to relate, does not;resd9 /,
without glasses nor dance jigs aiter.thesS !:
manner of the average centarian. @
= When you get into tight :place.
and everything goes against you Aits
seems as ifyou couldn't hold out q minute
longer, never give up then, for chat is.;;
just the very time the tide will tuln.
-A At Lewiston, Pa, what is called q !
"thunderbolt" was found imbedded ;inEas
tree which had been shattered by light.
ming, 1t is egg shaped, three and ene:
half inches long, and ofa metal so hard
that file does not affect it.
:. The Delaware Legislature has
granted sixty.fye divorces 1.-THE session
just closing. This is an odd ,kiEd of
business for lawmakers to be UP to. The
Delaware Constitution, now neatly 100
years old, is indeed q curiosity. p
- An exchange says that Penasyly va
mia Dutch girls make good preserves q,
but it doesn't say how much sugar you
take to a pound of Dutch girl, nor
how long you let 'em boil. The receipt:
for preserving girls should be publish:
ed. 80
1t is curious fact that wasps' nest:
..s
sometimes takes fire, as is supposed by the:
chemical action of the wasp uponthe ma:
terial of which. the nest is made. Un.s
doubtedly many fires of unknown origin
in baystacks and farm houses may thus
be accounted for.
The Swiss watchmakers have In.
wanted watch for the blind. a small
peg is set in the middle of each fgute.;
Wien the hour hand moving towards the
hour the peg for that hour drops. The
person finds the peg is down and then
counts back to twelve.
The white of an egg has proved one
of the:most eficacious remedies for burn..;
Seven or eight successive applications of
this substance soothe tie pain and efscs-
ually exclude the burn from this air.
This simple remedy seems preferable toi
collodion or even cotton. zss,ss55
"A stubeville man thought something;
was wrongiiwith his nose. It was nearly
stopped up. After suffering from thin
annoyance almost a year or SO, ,lhe wens
| to the doctor, who removed a shoe button.
from the base part of the nasal cavity;
The man now breathes more easily.
In few Of the famine stricken dis:
tricts of China mothers sre selling their
children. A missionary, who visited the,
market town of Wang Chi Gilman, met
many women on the streets calling out !:
"Who will buy this boy? Ican't feed.
him any longer, and I don't want to hear
him crying about for want of food.o si
lin swamp north of the town Of As;
! toy, Fla, John Wilson cut q huge cy-..
| press tree, arl was surprised to find!
therein an alligator seven feet long. The