The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-07-25
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
= Missouri has set apart $4,000 for
.lc e.. oon and IL o0n

- Ihc Blble society mas lesueu, up "
date, total of nearly 5o,ooo.OOo Bibles.
= King Humbert, ofItaly, squandered
more than 100000 during bis four days
visit to Berlin.
A man at Hawkinsville, Ga, has
been married twice in the same trousers.
They are 40 years old and he still wears
'em.
Human beings are still sold in the
famine stricken distriesa-, of China
a child under 10 brings from 81 10 .
s1.5O.
DIX. Pearson, the Chicago million
aire, has, during the last few years, given
away nearly $4,000 to educational insti.
tutions in the west.
The population of school age in the
United States is about 2G,000,0O0- The
number of children attending Sunday.
school is estimated at 100000.
Cows hair is now used in making
carpets. The process is described as g
cheap one and the product as an
Improvement on the woolen article.
= tits estimated that SO to 95 per cent.
of all the business men of the United
States actually fail or become financially
embarrassed in the course oftheir business
career.
The following advertisement recently
appeared in paper: ga middle aged
woman, who is capable, honest and indus.
| trious, but as homely as stone fence,
wants work" 7.
= Sam Hornsley aud Sylvia Cody,
both colored, the former aged Is years
and the latter 70, were married recently
| in Hephzibah, Ga, By 0. g. TarNer, at
the store of E. ]. Tarver. z:
"A man at Hampton, Ohio, had an
|. old building torn down and al! the nails
saved, and when he got through and 6g-
| ured up he found that they had cost him
thirty.three cents per pound.
That sincere and amiable end of the
| world crank, the Rev. Mr.. Baxter, of
England, has revised the date of the great
smash up. He now declares that it will
occur on the 18th of April, 1891.
Iii is estimated that 10000 Ameri.
cans have gone to Europe this season,
| and that on the average they will spend
not less than 81 900 each, making total
of 1000, 900 as contribution to the old
| world.
= Mrs. Callahan and Mrs. Rogers ara
Texan stock raisers, doing business
individually for Themselves. The first
lady is the owner of $4,000 sheep, and the
other is rated at 81 100000 in cash and
live stock.
- An admirable society for the help
of bachelors has been started in London.
The programme is to provide persons who
will sew on buttons, darn, mend and
otherwise care for the neglected habili::-
ments of unwedded gentlemen.
There is a woman in west of Eng.
land town who makes a good living by
killing cats. She advertises that if peo.5
pie who are about to 60 sway for the
summer will. send their cats to her she
will kill them with chloroform.
| "A man with an artificial face has
been attracting much attention at an
English watering place. he had an ar.
ti6cial cheek, eye and palate, fitted by q
surgeon at Bristol. He eats without the
slightest difficulty and speaks distinctly.
= The first half of the year 1889 mas
been eisastroua to railroads. According
to statistics just published, eight railroads,
With total of 1880 miles, and an appa.
rent investment Of SIPS, $4,000 have gone
into bankruptcy during the past six
months.
John M. Brosius landed in Atlanta
four years ago with $3.50 i'll his pocket
| and chest of tools which were made in
| 1S4S. The same man to-day is worth
over 100000. The fortune was made on
| two patents-an axle for wagon and o
sewing machine.
We read about million bushels of
wheat, but few people realize what.a vast
amount it is. But if million bushels
of wheat were loaded on freight csrs, 500
bushels to the car, it would Eli train
fifteen miles long. If transported by
yagons, the line of teams would be 142
miles long.
We understand that gentleman
| living near Westminster has recently
fallen heir to about 100000. This large.
sum of money comes to him through the
death recently Of an uncle of his wife.
| who was living at San Francisco, Califor-
MIA, who died leaving an estate valued at
s8,ocO,ooo to s11,ooo,Ooo.
- William I. Hilton, wealthy and
p,iserly merchant of Franklyn, Ky,
placed nail keg containing $4,000 in
greenbacks and 4 per cent government
bonds upon fire few days ago, and
laughed joyfully as he saw the fames
deyour the paper. Family troubles and
business cares had turned his head.
A bill has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature, now in aession, to
establish an industrial college for girls.
after the plan of the one at Columbus,
Miss. It will embrace three departments
literary, normal and industrial; and
the last named department will include
stenography, telegraphy, printing, draw.
ing, etc. The bill will probably pass, with
a very liberal appropriation to carry out
. its purposes.
= The Woodland (Cal.) Mail states
, that party passed through that towr
with large wagon loaded With hore
, hound, which they had gathered in diff
ereut parts of Yolo County. It grows
wild along Cache Greek and in many
other places. They were taking the
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