The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-12-26
= Within the last twenty years the
Iourts in Kansas have granted 7,19l dl.

vorces.
big black diamond picked up in
Brazil is on exhibition in New York. 1t
looks like piece Of chestnut coal in the
rough, but it would take good many
tons of coal of any kind to equal the
value of this lump. 1t weighs 367s car.
ats, and is worth $4,000.
Judge Wells, of Rapid City, Dakota,
was the victim of a peculiar runaway
few days ago. Two Of his COWS escaped,
and be went hunting for them in buggy.
He found them, and, tying ropes around
their horns, attached them to the back OF
the buggy and started for home. he had
not gone fat when the cows, concluding
they were going the wrong way, turned
and made off in the opposite direction,
dragging the Judge and horse and buggy
after them at q regular rate. Finally, the
horse was pulled off his feet and rolled
over in ditch, piling the Judge and the
buggy up in promiscuous heap by the
roadside. Fortunately no damage was
done except to the buggy. After tying
the COWS the Judge went home and cent
a small boy after them.
In his recent work on "Recent
Economic Changes" Mr.. David A.
Wells states thst the consumers of pig
iron in this country during the past ten
years have paid in enhanced prices, due
to the tariff, 65 per cent. more than the
entire capital invested in its production.
That, too, he states, while the employees
of the iron men have been receiving
wages somewhat less on an average than
we're paid at the same time to other and
outside labor" The aggregate excess of
cost of iron aud steel in ten years to the
consumers of the United States above
that paid to Great Britain has teep, says
Mr.. Wells, s560O0O, 900, or an average
of s56 1000 per annum. This shows
where the farmers money goes. 1t shows
also where great many other peoples
money goes, to their loss and impover.
ishment, while the protected" capitalist
is getting richer and richer.
"A New York correspondent writes
"A general resort to cremation as q means
of disposing of the dead may be prevented
by sentiment and habit, perhaps, but un.
der some circumstances it is certain to
meet with favor. Nothing is more con.
yenient when the body is to be transmit
ted to distance. A corpse in an ordinary
coffin is exposed to the unfeeling handling
of the baggage smashers, and full fare
must be paid for tit can'tg 60 dead head
while two or three portage stamps
will carry the cremated remains of a dear
departed to any part of the country by
mail. The remains of a gentleman re.
Gently cremated in San Francisco were
sent easily in this way. They made 8
neat, compact package less thar siz
inches long, and the postage came to the
trifing sum of IL cents, Of course, it is
rather more trouble to mail dead wife
husband, relative or friend than it is to
mail letter. The package containing
the remains is too large to go into the
letter box, and it is not safe to leave il
on the top of the box. It must be taken
to the postofice and passed through the
window to the clerk. But this is really 6
small matter in view of the many conve
niences possessed by the plan and the
trouble and cost that it enables one tt
ayoid