The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-10-31
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
There are 3ss cotton mills in the.


| writing her husbands biography.
| Governor Biggs, of Delaware, made.
big pile of money on his peach crop this
year.
The Japanese hitch their horses
in the street by tying their forelegs to.
gether.
Wild geese are flying southwark
several weeks earlier than usual. a sign,
of an early winter. &,
: It takes smart man to tel. 9. issod
lie, but nearly all men grow smarter the
longer they are married. q
= Many have an idea that they are
serving the Lord when they are meddling
with what is none of their business.
The Knights of Honor have paid to-;
the families of deceased members In the
past sixteen years of their existence, $27.;;;
100000.
1t is not putting things in the right
place that bothers a man SO much as find.
ing the right place after he has ipnt;
things in it.
- The Baldwin Locomotive Works
have recently turned out, for the North:.
ern Pacific railroad, their ten thousandth.
locomotive. "a e
Railroad men say that more care are.
being built at present than ever before,
owing to the great corn and wheat crop
in the West. )
= The late King of Bavaria left debts
which will be paid off at the rate fS275,.s
600 q year. The last payment willbe.i
made in 1905. !; AZ
= 1t is stated that over 1900 horses
are slaughtered for food every year ins.
Paris, and of this quantity two.t thirds are,
used for sausages. 3
The longest distance over which:
conversation by telephone is daily main
tained is about seven hundred and fifty
miles from Portland, Me-, to Buffalo, IS
Y.
Statistics furnished by manufacture
ers of Massachusetts show that S53pers
cent. of the workers in that State receive
wages ranging from rs cents to ST per
day. ss:.
According to the preliminary report
the receipts Of the patent Office for the
year ending June 80, 1889, were in excess
Of the expenditures to the amount Of!
s1S6, 1000. i:5:
= The heavy frosts last week did great
damage fc the tobacco crop in Kentucky
and the Virginias. The loss in one
county alone in Kentucky will amount to,
100000 pounds. ;..%
1t costs four hundred thousand doll
lars year to keep up Central Park, New
York. The land originally cost the city
six million dollars, and is nov estimated
to be worth one hundred million.
The average annual death rate in !;
America from cholera, yellow fever,
smallpox, typhoid fever, dia!lhesis and
scarlet fever, all combined, docs not:
reach the enormous total of deaths from
consumption.
= A carriage maker of Armstrong
county, Pa, has lately shipped to Persia
carriage, packed in boxes 70 facilitate;
transportation across the desert on CAM
el's back. The freight bill was about one
hundred dollars. ~
| = Ten well-known ladies are publish
ing articles on the subject, "Whst We
Would 10 if We Were Men," Iti5to be:
hoped that one OF them will be sufficient.
ly practical to say bat she would learn,
how to sharpen pencil. !-
Horace Sebring, who poisoned an
entire family at Three Oaks Ind, for tie
purpose of.securing property in order
that he might marry agirl who refused
him because of his poverty, has been
sentenced to twenty FIVE years imprison.
ment q,
1 Edward Bellamy, in Looking Back.
ward" says that one hundred years hence
the servant girl question will be solved,
and housekeeping will be conducted
without servants. This is encouraging,
but one hundred years seems ike q long
while to wait.
= The Campaign that is now. being
carried on in Ohio is said 10 be one Of
the bitterest and most heated ever known
in the history of the State. Both parties
are thoroughly aroused and making des-.
perate efforts. There is no telling what
the result will be-.
= The growing of cigar leaf tobacco is
proving very successful industry in
Florida. Her soil and climate are we'll
suited to the growing of the weed. There
are five large plantations containing 100
acres each and the yield, which is now
being cut and cured from these planta.
tations, is estimated at 100000 pounds.
"A teacner put the following question
to young Sioux: Glow do you parse,
MARY milks the cow?'" The last word
was disposed Of as follows: "Cow is a
noun, feminine gender, third person and
stands for Mary" Islands for Mary
How do you make that out 2" Because =
said the intelligent pupil, eff the COW
didn't stand for Mary how could Mary
milk her 2"
= The Australian government is
building fence of wire netting 5000
miles long to divide New South Wales
aud Queensland, in order to keep the
rabbits out of the latter country. Aus
tralia is paying not legs than s125, ,00Ope
year to keep the pests down in what are
known as crown lands. The offer ID still
kept up TO 100000 to any man who will
produce something that will exterminate
| the pests.