The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-04-24
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

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Queen Victoria's doctors bill is 81
600 year.
The Illinois wheat crop is materially
damaged by unfavorable weather.
"A citizen of franklin, Penn. is
taxed nine cents on real: :estate aud So so
on dogs.
1t is said that the citizens of Fort
Worth, Texas, donated Sam Jones the sum
of $1,000.
Many coffin is covered with roses
by hands that never before gave its occu-
pant anything but thorns.
= In the poor house Of Cook County,
Illinois, there are fifty union soldiers.
This is remarkable record.
- The watermelon acreage in south
west Georgia this year will he twenty-five
per cent. greater than last year.
= Ex.Presidents Cleveland is said to
have law practice of sos 900 a year.
More business is offered thar be can at
tend to.
A Boston young man can shift his
heart from his left to his right side, and
dislocate every joint and pull himself to.
gether with perfect ease.
= The land of Central Park, New
York, which originally cost 'rthe city
S6,OOO,O0O, is!now valued at.s1Oo,O0O,00O.
1t costs o.keep it up.s400, 900 year.
"A spectator of as6re in Wilmington,
N. G., met with singular accident. A
stream of water from the hose struck him
in the face and tore one of his eyes from
its socket.
80, Mrs. suappyl I saw your
husband in the park with three-.or four
ladies around him." 'sThat's all right,
but let me catch him with one lady
around him." u
"A Newport, KY, widower forfeits an
inheritance of $4,000 by marrying
again. 1t was his first wife's property,
willed to him on condition that he should
remain single. 1.
"A rat recently killed at Wingate's
Point, Dorchester County, Nd; measured
seventeen inches from the tip of its tail
to the end of its nose, and six inches
across its back.
= The first peaches of the season have s
come to Savannah-fourteen crates of
them. They came from.C. B. Thorton,
Tarpon Springs, Florida, and were
consigned to Boston and New. York mar.
kets.
Sheep grow to an immense sizein
southern California. One vas recently
killed in the mountain region Of San
Bernardino County which, it is reported,
dressed four hundred pounds of good
mutton.
= Under the new marriage law in
Brazil widows cannot marry until their
husbands have been dead ten months. q
This seems hard, but perhaps it will make
the wives take such extra care of their
husbands that they won't die at all.
An electrician has invented won:
derful watch that will tell man when
his note is due. His watch would be
q great desl more remarkable, as well as
useful, if it would tell the man where to
get the money to pay the note with.
- Sound travels at the rate of one
hundred and forty-two feet per second,
thirteen miles in q minute. So that if :
we hear clap of thunder half a minute
after the fash, ne may calculate that the
discharge Of electricity is six and 8 half
miles of.
Mrs. Jack Greene, living near
Reynolds, Ga, has baby six days old,
perfectly formed, 10 good health and in
place with all its surroundings, whose
face can be covered by silver dollar, and
which will barely turn the scales at one
and half pounds.
In Georgia, when you ask man how
far it is to the next plantation, be will
answer that it is "peep and right
smart screech." He means that it is as
far as you can see from where you stand,
and then as much further as strong
voice can be heard.
Not every one knows that the sure
test of genuine paper currency is to hold
the bill up to the light, so that you can
discern two lines running parallel across
its entire length. These are red and
blue silk thread inside. the paper. No
counterfeit has them.
An ole bachelor who died at New.
ton, Conn.,, last week said on his death
bed that there was one thing that would
make him contented. That was that he
might be able to swallow every dollar of
the 100000 he had amassed By his life
Of Shaving and saving.
= Harry-"Dearest Amelia, can you,
will you give me your hand?" Amelia,
Cooking at Harry's grimy fngers)-"I
don't know, Harry-no, I'd better not.
It would be so hard for you to keep it
clean, you know. think you have
rather more hands already than you can
attend to-"
From statistics just published,
Minnesota stands frt in the country as
wheat growing State, having produced
last year 100000 bushels. California
comes next with 100000 bushels. The
Dakotas produced 100000 bushels,
ranking third. Minnesota has 100000
acres in wheat; California, 100000,
the Dakotas, 100000.
"Do you think your sister likes me,
Tcmmy?" eyes. She stood up for you
at dinner "stood up for me? Was
anybody saying anything against me-?
"No, nothin' much. Father said he
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