The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-07-31
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

ALL soRTs CT PARAGRAPHS.
= There sre only two blind editors in
the United States.
= Honesty never laa 10 crowd
anybody in order 10 get room to D'9ke
living.
"A Georgia msn had TO sell lis last
COW To pay the expense Of q lawsuit about
some chickens.
| = At q bear and bull fis hit ct San Die
20, the bear had everything his own way
aud three bulls were killed.
= The Georgia watermelon rus: wss
OF short duration aid succeeded in sink
ing over $40, 900 for the farmers Of lower
Georgia.
= The Rev. Joseph Cook, Of Boston,
deliberately declares that in the city of
New York there are not more than 5000
Protestant Christians.
DR.. Pepper, provost of the Univcr.
sity of Pennsylvania, gets $1,000 a year
salary, and gives the college $4,000
year from his own pocket.
= Several petitions have been present.
ed to the United States Senate praying
for an amendment to the constitution
acknowledging God and the Christian re.
ligion.
- 1t is easy enough TO tell on Sunday
who belongs to the church and who to
the world, but it is not so easy to distin-
guish Church members during the
week.
Experts now place the actual wealth
of the United States at s61, ,450, 100000.
This is said to be greater than the entire
wealth Of the world one hundred and fifty
years ago.
There are five thousand insane peo.
pie ia the city Of New York, aud experts
on insanity say that the ratio Of lunatics
is increasing much faster than that of the
population.
- The census will not disclose the fact,
but twice as many young men and young
women between the ages of eighteen and
twenty eight are obliged to wear glasses
as wore them ten ycara ago.
President Harrison has dismissed
Hawkins, the colorcd coachplan who has
driven the White House carriage
| twenty-five years without an accident
and employed white man in his
place.
The IIacon (Ga.) Telegraph esti-
mates that "the South hes paid q larger
part of her State debt during the last ten
years than any other section-more than
a fourth of the total of S107, 10000
but her debt is still far the largest"
= Edison is said to be at work on his
far sighted machine, which he hopes to
have perfect in time for the Worlds Fair
in 1892. BY its aid, the inventor says it
will be possible for man in New York
10 see the features Of friend in Boston.
A funeral was in progress in Hick-
ing Grove Church, near Dasnviile, Mo-,
the other day, when lightning struck
barbed-wire fence to which many horses
were tied. Twenty one we're Knocked to
the ground, and four killed.
= There are now four State tickets in
the field in Alabama-Democratic, Re.
publican, Prohibition and Greanbsck..
The outcome is frsught with grave un-
certainty, since the Democrats have lad
a family fight that is difficult to recon
cile.
During the eighty.seve years end
ing in 1887, Missouri, according to the
United States Signal Service, lost $751;
1926 900 by tornadoes. There were 156
of these storms in the State during that
time. Missouri is "the banner tornado
State"
"A remarkable clock has just been set
up in the municipal library of Rouen,
France. a single winding Keeps it run
ming for fourteen years. 1t was construct
ed in 1902; underwent alterations in 1916;
was bought by the city of Rouen in 1888,
and has been recently repaired and set
going.
- DR.. John II. Dougiss, of New York,
who was General Grants physician in his
last illness, is dying in New York hos
pital in poverty. The ak months atten.
dance on General Grant broke down his
health and destroyed his practice and he
has spent all of the 81, 800 fee and St, 900
legacy be received vainly trying to regain
bis health.
- A man named Roth, who worked at
the Scales Mound, near Galena, Illinois,
was attacked by progressive paralysis two
months ago, which incapacitated him from
work and also made it impossible for him
to eat. After a week of fasting he was
brought to the county Asylum on the
23rd of May, and there fingered for fifty
three days without food, finally dying last
Wednesday.
= The new postal cards, which will
shortly be printed are Of two sizes-an
idea Of the postmaster genersl-the big.
ger ones which have twice the area Of
the present postal cards, being intended
for business communications that cannot
very we'll be crowded and. for other pur-
poses demanding space. Both kinds
have in the right hand upper corner, in.
stead of the representation Of stamp, a
small portrait of Gen. Grant.
A Mexican parrot which has just
died in New York at the age of 2G spoke
French and English, as we'll as Spanish,
with noticeable Aueucy. She sang Eng
lish aud Spanish sentimental songs. Her
favorite ditty was, "How Can We Ever
Meet as Strangers? This she could sing
all through, without skipping word or
making false note. She could call by
name every member of large family
and every article of food on the table
that she saw and desired.
-Ir letter to the Farmers of North
Carolina Senator Vance, in speaking of
making the Farmers Alliance political
organization, says "In the South it could
only destroy the Democratic party and
leave in undisputed control that other
party whic!i is the author and upholder
of the evils by which We are afflicted"
Oh that these words may be heard and
needed throughout the South How
much are such words needed words of
counsel and Of warning-at this parlicu.
lar juncturc.
= The present condition of the wheat
crop in northern Minnesota and North
Dakota is the best, with the possible ex.
ception of 1856, that it has been in ten
years. Special reports from three hun
dred points covering the large wheat pro.
ducing Counties in Northern Minneso!a
and North Dakota Indicate that all the