The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-04-04
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
: The tea crop will be short this

ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
= The tea crop will be short this
year.
= The excitement about the Lower
California mines continue.
! New York has subscribed to date
S13,03S to the Chinese famine fund.
- A sardine box VAS found in thu
stomach of bear recently killed in
Michigan.
Betsy Gould, colored woman, aged
90. who resides in Cleveland, is heiress
to s1O,oooooo.
- Whiskey is recommended as j
remedy for weak lungs. 1t certainly
has tendency to make the breath
strong.
a promise should be given with
caution and kept with care. 1t should
be made by the heart and remembered by
the head
Mrs. Gen. Grant, and Gen. ALI.
Pleasanton have made contributions to
the fund for the National Confeder.
ate Soldiers Home.
There are lively old ladies at Men.
tucket. at recent gathering there
lady aged 65 played the piano, while
another aged IS danced jig.
Over twelve thousand pairs ofwooden
shoes were made in Grand Rapids, Mich,
last year. They are worn by the Hollan-s
ders of the State, and cost fifty cents
pair.
| = Iowa farmers raised enough corn
last year TO pay of all the farm mortga-
ges in that State, and leave q balance
of 100 600, 900 bushels for their feed and
seed.
| The largest corn crib in the world
| is said to have been built by man in
Ulysses, Nebraska. It is 400 feet long,
| and has capacity for holding $4,000.
bushels.
= New, York parties are before the
Michigan legislature with scheme to !
cut ship canal across the upper penin-s
sula, connecting Lakes Michigan and
Superior.
= Charles Dudley Warner is of the
opinion that fashions in woman's dress
are both remeniscent and prophetic. TO
good many men they seem to be nqthS,kr
ing but expensive. h
= It is stated that the Farmers A4ff Af'-
ance has grown to enormous proportions
in North Carolina. There are now L.
700 subordinate Alliances, with total
membership of $4,000.
sg- An independent old lady, speaking
of Adams naming all the animals, said
she didn't think he deserved any credit
for naming the pig. ANY body would
know what to call him.
= Life is a continual struggle from
the cradle to the grave, and the man
who is not prepared to meet with ard
overcome obstacles, has no right to ex-
pect success. "No cross, no crown"
- It takes thirteen cabinet officers,
with an aggregate annual pay ofsl05,O00,
to carry on the government Of Canada.
The United States manages very we'll
with eight cabinet officers, who cost
every year $4,000.
"A baltimore barber makes the asser-
ton that mans beard grows faster in .
bright weather than in cloudy. He
thinks that the sunlight has the same {
effect on the hair of q mans head and
face as it has on plants.
There are now more than FIVE hum.
dred Farmers Alliances in the State.
The charter for No. 502 was written up
on the 11th. The growth of the order in
in this State has exceeded in rapidity
that of any other secret order ever intro.
duced.
= The Indians near Reno, Colo, being
determined to break up drunkenness
among their people, the other day stoned
to death squaw who persisted in getting
| intoxicated. The method was radical
one-at least as far sa the squaw was
concerned.
"A California company has been or.
ganized to manufacture soap out of ma.
terial that is skinned from boiling
spring in that State. The substance
hardens by exposure TO the air, is like
soft clay, and is supposed to be mixture
of borax, alkali and lubricating OIL
New York Sun.
1t is told out in Indiana that in 1880
dinner was given in Madison County
and thirteen men sat at the table. Gov.
Williams, who was one Of the thirteen,
called attention to the fatal number, and
there was considerable fun made of the
superstition. To-day but three of the
thirteen are alive.
The convicts in the State prisons
and prison reformatories of this country
amount to nearly one hundred thousand,
and involve an annual cost of about ff.
teen million dollars, which is only q
small part Of the actual loss to people as-
the consequence of crime caused blythe
use Of strong drink.
: The alligator of the South, like the
buffalo of the West, is likely soon to be-.
come extinct. The slaughter of the alli--
gator for its hide, like the slaughter of.
the buhaloes for its hide, has been so
great that it will be only few years be-.
fore the lonely lagoons of Florida H
have lost its last survive.
Forgetting he was married, Robert
Nostrsnd, of Troy, groom of a month,
after leaving his ofice bought an evening
paper aud went to his fathers house,
took a bath, and presented himself at
table. His mothers inquiry: Robert.