The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-05-08
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

Land in the financial section of
Broadway, New YORK, recently sold atthe
rate of seven million dollars per acre.
The sum and substance of all the
preparations needed for eternity is to
believe what the Bible tells US and do
what the Bible bids us do.
- At one time in mans life he is too
young to know what he says, and at
another he is too old to say what he
knows.
About the only pleasure some men
take in knowing thing is laughing at
the ignorance of man who does not
knowit.
= The greatest elevation ever attained
By balloonist was 81 ,060 feet or about
seven miles. The ascent was made Sep
tember S, 1862, at Wolverhamp!on, Eng
land.
When Cleveland went out of Office
he left surplus of s1oO,oO0,0oo in the
treasury. When Harrison goes out
there will be only hole in the
ground.
A Georgia editor says: "In
remittipg your subscription, do not
say, please find enclosed one dollar
We are bound to be pleased without
asking"
DO you ever think, when you are
wasting your money, that unless you
reform, the men you hate the worst
may some day be called upon to help bu-si
~ YOU?
= The cosmopolitan character of our
population is illustrated by the fact that
it is necessary to distribute the Bible in
twenty-nine languages in Pennsylvania
alone.
-"My frien's," said colored preach
er, "a mans character is like fence
you can't strengthen it by whitewash,
though you can cover up the places where
it is worm eaten"
: One who has probably had expert.
ence remarks: 'The man who's says to his
wife, give me the baby dear, and will
try to put it to sleep, is greater than he
who taketh city"
= The extreme length of the city of
Chicago is twenty. four miles, its extreme
width is ten miles, its area is one hundred
and seventy four square miles, and its ea.
timated population is one million, one
hundred thousand.
A young lady was recently admitted
to the Massachusetts, bar and married her
first client. She lacked experience. A
lawyer of the other sex would have got
al! the clients money without marrying
him.
A Philadelphia man says that the
last time his wife said Eyes" willingly to
anything he was interested in, was when
he proposed to marry her. She woald,
no doubt, be happier to day if she
had not made an exception on that occa-
sion.
"A bishop was at dinner party one ],
night, and a waiter carelessly upset into
his lap bowl of hot soup. Hs glanced
around with an sgonizing look upon his
features, and then exclaimed, "Will some
layman make remark appropriate to the.
occasion ?"
20, Bobby" his mamma said, the
other day, "is there shy need of your
keeping yourself so covered with dirt all
the time?" eyes, mamma" he answer.
ed, with fine assumption of gravity; !;
"you see I'm made of dirt; and I grow
SO fast that I couldn't get on at all if I
didn't have some dirt on the outside to
grow out Of"
- Two Florida meu cut down a bee
tree and secured 700 pounds of honey.
When they finished gathering the honey
they commenced to investigate the top of
the tree and found where cranes had
built their nests. They gathered up 140
dozen of eggs. 1t is supposed the gentle-f
men will buy an incubator ard start
cranery.
In 1905 there were 95 translstions of
the Scriptures in existence. Since the
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formation of the British and Foreign Bi.
BILE society in that year, ten million doll
lars have been expended in the work of
circulating the Bible, and there are now,
counting dialects as we'll as languages.
nearly three hundred translations of the
Scriptures.
The decay of the farming interests
in the West during the last twenty years
is illustrated by the report of farm mort
cages in Upton County, Indiana. Upton
is cae of the best farming counties in
that State. In 1870 its farm mortgages
amounted to 100000 in value !; in 1880
to SSO2.l4S, and in 1890 to s2,2S7,4S5, or
fifty per cent. of the market value of the
real estate in the county.
= Does your COW make milk or beef
out of her food? If you do not know,
the sooner you find out, the better it will
be. Ifshe makes milk out of it, she is a
dairy COW and may be kept. II she
makes beef, sell her to the butcher at frat
opportunity. No COW can proftably
make 10th milk and beet out Of her food
at the same time, any more than man
can satisfactorily serve two masters
Northeastern Agriculturist.
IT destroy vermin on fowls, take a
sponge or soft rag, moisten with kerosene
with few drops of carbolic scid added,
and rub it gently over the back of the
neck, and under the throat, aaG little
under the wings, and that fowl will be rid
of them. Then rub the same mixture
over the rerches, pretty we'll rubbed in
once week, and they will never take
possession of the chicken house.
"A MeadVille, Pa, man tells of a
recent hattie in that oitv hetweon q oona