The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-06-12
ALL SORTs OF PARAGRAPHS.
= There are.said to be five thousand
Mir A1o.ons ir thn limited States,

There are.aaid to be five thousand
Chinese Masons in the United States,
"A Pennsylvania insurance company
will hereafter insure against Hindstorms.
IF you have any remarks to make
about o mule, it is safer to say them to
his face.
- Charles Miller OF Hueneme, CAL,
has made table of ornamental Woods
that contains 1850 pieces.
= Do not wait for extraordinary op.
portunities for good actions, but make
use of common situations.
= Most people who make business OF
casting bread upon the waters expect it
to come back pound cake.
lift is true that George Washington
never told lie, il must be also true that
his wife never gave him letter tc mail.
- The biggest fish story Of the sea-
son so far comes from Indiana where
a shower of sun fish fell one day last
week.
When man is young ne thinks to
reform the world, but when be gets older
he is quite satisfied if he is able to reform
himself.
Mayor Job, mayor of Plainfeld,
New Jersey, is so years old, and las an (
umbrella which he has carried for thirty.
five years.
Col. r. E. Bowen of Pickens an
nounces himselfas a candidate for Con-
gress fror, the Third Congressional Dis.
trict.
= The public debt Of France is the
largest of any nation in the world. 1t is
SC, 100000, and is growing at the rate OF
$780, 100000 year.
"A poet asks: "Whst is warme; than
q woman's love 2" we infer that he,-
never picked up new. coined horseshoe
fresh from the forge. s..
= Kansas, in ten years; has trebled the
value of its oat crop, doubled the value
of its corr crop, and added one.hfth to
the value of its wheat crop.
"What is more lovely than peace. ;.
full grandmother asks an exchange.
Her grand. daughter. If this is cot the
right answer we give up.
- The agricultural college professors
have figured out that two little sparrows
in ten years will produce an ancestry of
275, ZIG, ,9S3,69S birds.
"A man sent fifty cents to New
York firm, for "an easy way to get rid OF
old debts" IL return he received the
astonishing advice, 'Pay them."
- Burnwell Snence, who lives in the
Navajo Country, New Mexico, sports
beard seven feet long. He generally
has it braided and coiled inside his
vest.
When you have said something you
know you ought not to have said, take it
back promptly. A clear conscience is OF
more value than feat of verbal legerde-
main.
1t is estimated that fifty thousand
horses now in use will, before long, be
thrown upon the market, owing to the
development of electricity as a motive
power.
Senator Butler has introduced 8 bill
in the United States Senate, asking for
an appropriation of $4,000 to place an I
equestrian statue Of Gen. Francis Marion
in Columbia.
-Horseshoiug was introduced into
England by William I, in 1865. The
Greeks aud Romans had some sort of
covering to secure their horses boots
against injury.
e. Rev. DR.. Talmage declares that he2
Snever could understand why 9 woman
should be ashamed about getting old"
She isn't. She's ashamed to acknowledge
it-tbat's all.
- Texas Spring Palace, Fort Worth 8
Exposition building, was burned to the
ground last Friday night. One life was
lost, and several persons injured. The loss
is estimated at Sl.0O0,OO0.
a wonderful surgical operation waa-
performed in Portland, Me-, the other
day, when complete false set of teeth
was removed from q mans stomach by
cutting open the abdomen.
-Teacber-Now children, God made
the world in six days. Little Joe with
a logical turn of mind)-But he did not
finish it. Look at all de houses buildin,,
and all de boys and girls det have to
grow!
Frank Cunningham, of Richmond,
Pa, having sung at 1856 funerals, proposes
to sing at his own by means Of larssN
phonograph. He intends to bottle up
enough funeral melody to last through
the impressive ceremonies OF his own oo.
sequies.
"A child with four legs was born in
Indiana the other day. It is to be hoped
that the parents Of this freak will""guard
it tenderly, if, for no other reason than
the jimdandy base runner it will make
when it reaches mans estate.
"A great Baptist University has been
secured for Chicago. John D. Rockefeller
offered to give 100000 provided the
Baptists would give s400, 1000 so as 10 start
otfwith an even million. The subscription
has been secured aud the institution is an
assured success.
The climate of China is said to be
growing not only colder, but dryer. An,
imals and plants accustomed to hot moist
regions are gradually retreating. south.
ward. Two thousand years ago the BAN.
boo fourished in the forest of North Chi.
ma, but it can no longer be found there.
"We have decided to take a trip
north" writes Georgia editor, "and du.
ring our absence the paper will be in
charge of our wife. AS some OF our de-
linquent subscribers may not know her as
we'll as ne do, we advise them in advance
to settle thei. accounts in full if she
should call upon them."
The population Of Ireland contin.
ues to decline, and it appears to hsVe
dropped some $4,000 in number during
the past year. The lowest point in this
present century has now been reached;
its zenith was in 1S45, when shere we're
S,25O,O00. The estimate for to- day 81
100000.
English florists have concluded that
it does not pay, after all, to run esff!er new
varieties of flowers. They have returneSa
to the old favorites. This season the# 81
are giving their best attention to the dal-V
sy, the pansy, the rose, the honeysuckle,
the columbine, the larkspur, the holly
hook, Canterbury bills. sweet peas, hello