The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-22
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

= In England check reins are now
entirely out Of use, being forbidden by
Law.
= Ex President Cleveland is said to
have invented new fly for trout
fishing
~ colored man at Albany, Ga, has
served no less than twenty one terms in
jail for fighting
AT Seymour, Ind, four sisters met
recently who had not seen each other for
twenty five years.
= The most delicate, the most sensible,
of all pleasures, consists in promoting. the
pleasures of others.
A gentleman living near Quitmau,
Brooks county, Ga, meyer ate morsel of
bread or meat in his lire.
= The Alliance men of Alabama are
going to build mills and manufacture
their own cotton bagging.
= The negroes of Kentucky are hold.
ing meetings and declaring their inde.
pendence of the Republican party.
= Senator Quay is said to receive
more letters than any other man in the
United States except the President.
= The New York Cotton Exchange
has consented to fix prices on cotton re.
gardlesa of the material used for cover.
ing. This will be good news for the far.
mers.
= When father in Madagascar gets
in the notion that his daughter ought to
marry be puts rope around her neck
and leads her forth, and the first young
man that he offers her to has got to take
her or pay forfeit.
"A boy living near Abilene, Texas,
was recently bitten by snake and soon
taken with convulsiona. An old Mexican
scraped out the bowl of briar pipe and
applied the scrapipgs to the child's
wounds, aud the next day the boy was
we'll.
DR.. Strong is authority for the
statement that in the States between the
Mississippi River and the Rocky Noun.
taius there is one saloon for every forty.
three voters. East of the Mississippi the
average is one to one hundred and seven
voters.
= A hail storm in Villafranca
Piedmont, was of such enormous stones
that more than one hundred persons
we're badly hurt, and boy and girl had
their skulls fractured. The weight of
some hailstones was estimated at two
pounds.
One thousand six hundred people
have been burned to death at Su Chow,
China, making half dozen stupendous
calamities in the Celestial empire in as
many months. Even the Chinese do not
seem to grow very excited over such oc.
curreuces.
- The White Lead Trust has obtained
control of the three leading factories Of
the United States. TIE trust now
controls 30 per cent. of all the white lead
produced in the country. The linseed oil
factories were consolidated into trust
two years ago.
A lady who had lost her voice for
nearly year stumbled and fell while
making her escape from the recent flood
at Rockford, w. Va. Iu her excitement
she tried to scream for help and immedi.
ately recovered her voice and can speak
as we'll as ever.
"a young married couple in Ashta.
bula county, Ohio, have been making
garden for the first time. When planting
onions they were at a loss to tell which
end to put down, so they compromised
the matter, he putting them in one way
and she the other.
The practice Of keeping night lights
in children's bed rooms is pronounced
very injurious by we'll known physician.
Instead of allowing the optic nerves the
perfect rest afforded by darkness, the
light keeps them in perpetual stimulation,
with the result of causing the brain and
the rest of the nervous system to suffer.
The practice of cremation is spread.
ing rapidly in Italy. In forty.two com.
munities it has been adopted to the
exclusion of every other method of dis.
posing Of dead human bodies In twon.
ty.one communities furnaces have been
in operation forseveral years. In nineteen
communities the authorities are trying to
raise money for the erection of creama.
tories.
A verdant young man from near
Delton drove to town, accompanied by his
best girl, says the Hasting Democrat, to
witness the wonders of a paten! medicine
auction, and, in the exuberance of the
hour, bought a box of tooth powder and 8
package of corn medicine. He gave, as
he supposed, the tooth powder 70 the girl
and the corn medicine he kept for him.
self. But he made sad mistake, and
the package was divided vice versa.
Sunday morning it was discovered that
his once fair partner had used the corn
annihilator freely on her teeth, Saturday
evening, after her return home, and that
during the night her teeth had all drop.
ped out.
A good story Of old days in Massa.
chusctts has recently.been published. In
one of the churches in the eastern part of
the State bass viol was procured to help
the choir. One summer Sunday, while
the parson was in the middle of the ser.
mon, bull got out Of his pasture and
came swaggoring down the road, growl.
ing az he came. The minister heard the
| low below, and looking up towards the