The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-08-28
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
= Nine billion dollars are invested
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- Nine billion dollars are invested
in the railways of the United States.
- For two years the Southern States
have led the world in railroad construc-
tion.
"A young woman at Madison, Ind,
being frightened, screamed loudly, dislo
eating her jaw.
- We are sent into this world to make
it better and happier; and in proportion
as we do 80 we make ourselves both.
= 1t is estimated that there are twen-
ty seven thousand married men in New
York city who are supported by their
wives.
= The government mail bag repair
shop at Washington gives employment to
one hndred and thirty five persons of
both sexes.
"A luminous buoy has been invented,
the light for which is produced by phos.
puret of calcium and is visible two and
half miles away.
p. T. Burnum's fortune is estimated
at eleven million dollars, every cent of
which be has accumulated since he
reached his fortieth birthday.
If the salt held in solution in the
ocean were spread over the earth it
would form layer of more than
thirty feet deep covering the whole
globe.
A lover received the following note,
accompanied by bouquet of flowers:
"Deer-I send u bi the boy a buckett of
flours. They is like my love for u. The
mite shade menes keep dark. The dog
fenil means [ am ure slave."
A weak galvanic current, which
will sometimes cure toothache, may be
generated by placing silver coin on one
side Of the gum and piece of zinc on the
other. Rinsing the mouth with acidula.
ted water will increase the effect.
$50 you are married, Jack?" I am,
JIM" ~ hope you considered the mat.
ter well. 1t is serious matter of assum.
ing the responsibilities involved in mar
riage." You are wrong, my friend. I
I have no responsibility at all now. My
wife's the boss"
= The lawyers are being left out in the
cold over in Georgia. OF one hundred
and ffty-four members of the Legislature
nominated so far only sixteen of them are
lawyers. 1t is predicted that the Legis-
lature will not have enough jurists to fill
the general and special judiciary commit.
tees.
= An Englishman was boasting to
Yankee that they had book in the
British Museum which was once owned
by Cicero. "Oh, that amt nothing"
retorted the Yankee; "in the museum in
Bosting they've got the lead pencil that
Noah used to check off the animals that
went into the ark"
-"Do you take many periodicals. 2"
asked young minister On his frat visit
to one of his parishioners. 20, no sir,n
replied the good woman II never do,
but I'm sorry to say that my husband
takes periodical about once in every
two months. I wish you could induce
him TO sign the pledge"
The time may come when politics
will mean all that is noble and good
when a small boy will break az apple in
tao and give bis little sister the bigger
half; when q tramp will work, and
stray dog won't bite; but the day will.
never dawn when g fly can tickle
drowsy mans nose without making him
jump.
Nineteen years ago Gratiot coun-
ty, Mich, farmer refused to let mis-
daughter go to candy pull. She went
though, and remained away. Last week
she drove up to her fathers door, lifted
cut her eleven children, coolly took off
her wraps aud astonished her father by
declaring that she had concluded to return
and stay home: and hereafter be an ODE.
dient daughter.
= A Georgia correspondent vouches
for the remedy for horse collie here repro.
duced from the Southern CuAivator He
says: "Take q blanket and cover the
bowels of the horse with it. Then secure
il in position with two girths tightly to
the horse. Apply hot water, or as hot as
the horse can bear it, freely. The bowels
are relaxed and the horse relieved Of the
collie like a charm.
- The thirty machines used in the
census Office at Washington for counting
the population, work with clock like ac.
rucy, ard count from one to twenty per.
sons each time a small ivory key is
touched. The machine looks like an up.
right piano in polished oak case, and
has key board like that of q typewriter.
Most of the machines are worked by girls,
and they are able to count accurately one
million names day.
= 1t may just be we'll to mention that
Uncle Sans dominion extend little
more than half way around the globe.
Therefore. when any of Her Majesty's
subjects get off that chestnut about the
sun never setting on the British domin-
ions, we can brag of the same thing, too.
The distance from the eastermost point in
Maine to the westermost island in Behring
sea is little more than one hundred and
ninety degrees of longitude, so that it is
full sun up in Maine before it is sundown
in Behring sea.
- The Chicago Post is firmly of the
opinion that "there is good deal of the
natural savage still remaining in the civ
ilized man because word comes from Lii
IBERIA of white missionary who conclu.
ded that he would rather initiate the saw
ages he had been sent to convert than to
Christianize them. He has accordingly
abandoned the ways of civilized life, and
is living with the natives in their wild
state. His fellow missionaries are pro.
fouudly astonished, but civilization has
many irksome restraints, and savage life
may have many substantial advantages"
-"You have asked me pointedly if I
can marry you, and I have answered you
pointedly that I eau. can marry man
who makes love to different girl every
month; / can marry a man whose main
occupation seems to be to join any gaunt.
let in front Of churches, and Other public
places, and comment audibly on the
people who are compelled to pass through
it; can marry man who makes bar
rooms his fayorite resort; I can marry 8
man whose only means of support is an
aged father; 1 can marry man who
boasts that any girl can be won by the
help of good tailor and an expert tongue;
can marry such a man, but Won't.
j. Milton Turner, ex.niuister to
Liberia and the Moses of the Western
negroes, has great scheme on kand,
having secured Sl50,000 from the gov.
ernment for fees in Indian land cases.
Mr.. Turner sets about devising plans for
ti,o oJor a ion Cf hio rcca Ho l,o oooured