The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-07-24
ALL sORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
The best government is seif-goyern.
DO nothing you would not like God

DO nothing you would not like God
ID see. .
1t is easy for man to be moddS
husband when he has no wife.
Work does nc. wear out either man
CT woman so much rs worry.
- The stomach contains 100000
glands by which the gastricjuice is secre-
ted.
- The Georgia watermelon crop this
year is said to aggregate thirty million
melons.
The truth which of all others most
deeply concerns man is the lsct that God
loves him.
A halter at Wilkesbarre, Pa, has
rlade straw hat with brim fourteen
feet in circumference.
The poorest soul on earth is the man
who has no time or inclination to dc.
anything but make money.
- The census taker of Americus, Ca,
has found two colored women, each of
whom has had twenty-six children.
In China there is now, according to
| intelligent estimates, one missionary to
ABOUT every three hundred thousand peo.
pie.
&C. E. White, Of Pomona, CAL, took
olt $50 pounds OF honey from bees
n:st under the cornice of his dwelling
| house.
The experiment of treating typhoid
fever by prolonged immersion of the pa
tient in water has been tried with graft
flying success.
= A medical journal estimates that
during its seven weeks prevalence in the
United States the grip killed twelve
thousand persons.
Gen. Sherman receives salary of
Sis, 900 year as retired general of the
amy, with nothing to do and good,
actiYe clerk to help him do it.
About scyenty.two million caus.of
tomatoes are put up to satisfy the demand
for this vegetable, which only fifty years
ago was raised for ornament, and thought
not fit to eat.
"A Presbyterian Chu-ch at Forest
Grove, near Pittsburg, Pa, which was in
debt, sunk we'll on it's premises, struck
oil, and has sold out to the Standard Oil
Company, for $4,000 cash.
= "Talk about bsent.mindedness,"
said citizen to-day, "why when was
boy worked for man who was so absent
minded that he discharged me three times
in one week and paid me q weeks wages
each time"
= An Englishman, Charles Gould, was
recently killed at Murphy, N. c., by his
wife, or by q womaa who passed as sucl.
They had quarrel and he proposed to
punish her when she drew dagger and
cur; him to death.
- "Mother, think the spinal verte:
br!e of the frigid season has received 8
School girl to hey mother. eyes, re-.
marked the old lady, 81 expected your
father would hurt that dog when he threw
She poker at it."
The New Orleans Times Democrat is
authority tor the assertion that "the ag>
ricultural lands of the West are burdened
with mortgages to the immense sum of
s3 ,450, 100000, bearing seven to nine per
cent. interest, to say nothing Of the costs
and commissions OF agents for procuring
th zse loans of money"
= "Should every dog of every breed
in America be killed tomorrow" says
ST. Louis statistician "the real loss to the
country would not be S100. On the con.
trnry, the gain would be at least $50, ,000,-
900 per year. Nations noted for their
thrift and economy do not take to
dogs"
Harry-She has Tilted me and I
know I shall die. The disappointment
will kill me! Aunt Hannah-I know
how disappointments effect one, Harry:
But you'll get over it. felt just as you
do now when I set that yaller hen on
thirteen eggs and only got just one poor
chick out of the lot.
- In Switzerland children are prohibi.
ted from beginning work until the com.
ple:ion of their 18th year. From ID to
the end of their 10th year they may be
employed, but the time, including school
or religious instruction which they may
at The same time be taking, must not ex-
ceed eleven hours daily.
II There was a child born to Mrs.
Wallace in Kelso, Cowlitz County,
Washington, the other day which though
otherwise strong ard physically perfect,
had no openings at the eyes, the skin
completely covering those members. A
surgical operation was performed to sup.
ply the deficiency.
= a new industry has sprung up in
Germany With the young leaves of the
wild strawberry plant. Having been
carefully dried, they are used instead of
Chinese tea, and are said to approach
that beverage very closely in taste. An
addition of young hrarnble and woodruff
leaves is said to add to the excellent
flavor of this most inexpensive Of teas.
- In the United States three.fourths of
the nations illiteracy is in the South.
Forty per cent. of The whole population
of the South cannot read the New Testa-
ment. Of the 100000 illiterste voters
in ,ur country, l, 100000 are in the South.
The negro population, now about 5000, 600
increases at the rate of about 500 per day.
| - During one of the snow-storms of
the past winter in the Rocky Mountains
nineteen locomotives were required for
one train, which wss made up as follows:
First, snow plough with nine engines
behind it, then train of nine cars with
another five engines, and behind these,
five engines with gang of men to dig
out the train should it get stuck.
4. = DR.. Charles W. Dulles, prominent
physician Of Philadelphia, holds to the
opinion that there is hope for consump.
tives and that medical science will soon
be able to control the disease. In
recent paper on the subject be pointed
out that while in England half century
ago there were $4,000 deaths annually
among 100000 people, there are at
present in population of 100000
but $4,000 deaths due to phthisis.
= We believe, says the Greenville
Ne,cs it was Ben. Wade who growled the
general admonition to the Southern peo.
pie te "raise more cotton and less hi"
The pending election bill appears to be
an urgent demand That We raise less cot
ton and more of the other thing. Woare
entirely capable, however, OF raising
good deal of both simultaneously when
the occasion demands it, and the present
outlook is that the occasion will come