The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-11-27
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
Sixty. six saloons in New York sre
kept by women.
- Possibly the meanest man in the
world is the devil.
- Self denial, not self qualification,
brings soul satisfaction.
= Of the 7,915 public school teachers
in Minnesota, Gill are women.
The Texas State prisons have netted
profit of $4,000 this year, above e1-
pensea.
A sheriff's jury in New York
decided that Tony Hart, the actor, was
insane.
= The State geologist says the iron ore
fields of Eastern Texas will yield 4,00O,.
600 tons to the square mile.
= Emigration from Ireland, though
greatly diminished, still continues at the
rate of more than sixty.thousaud persons
year.
"A girl of thirteen aud boy only 2
years older were married at Columbia,
Mo-, few days ago with the full consent
of their parents.
= Uncertainty may attend business
ventures and enterprises; but it never at
tends the prompt administration of DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup. Price, Is cents.
The feat of carrying the mails from
New York to London in seven days has
just been performed, and already there
is some talk of reducing the time to six
days.
- Stanley Palmer, a prisoner in the
New Castle, Delaware Jail, has invented
toy puzzle for which he is said to have
been offered $4,000 by New York specu-
lators.
-"Preserve order, please!" shouted a
man on the platform to restless audi
ence. There's no chance for preserves
here !" man yelled back. 'There is too
much JAM"
= 1t is estimated that the railroads of
the United States lose 100000 yearly
by landslides, s5,OOO,OOO by floods, ST.
100000 by fire, and s9,ooo.ooo by collis-
ions.
-"My sore ran in the.night, and my
soul refused to be comforted" Poor
fellow. OF course it did. Pity he could
not get Salvation Oil. Only 25 cts.'
= There has been 80 much trouble in
Cherokee County, Iowa, caused by the
resignation of teachers for matrimonial
purposes the past year, that the school
board now requires every teacher to sign
contract not to get married during the
school year.
- A West Virginia editors life WAS
saved by silver dollar in his vest pock-
ct. He was shot at by belligerent cit
izen, who was sngered at something
which appeared in his paper. The
question is, where did the editor get that
dollar?
= The youngest man in the next Con.
gress will not come from Massachusetts,,
as is commonly stated, but from the 5th
Texas district, where young fellow
named Bailey, just turning the constitu-
tional age of 25, has been elected in
place of Congressman Hare.
Henry Shubert, of Peoria, Illinois,
tried to see how quick he could get mar
ried after being divorced, and accom-.
plished it in seventeen minutes. It,
however, took him two hours to get rid
of the smell of the busbel of eggs thrown
against him by his fellow citizens.
= Will Hans and Henry Lukens low
ed the same Indiana maiden, and on sew.
eral occasions they came near having
shooting match. The other day they got
together on business basis, and Hans
offered Lukens SIS for his chances and
will marry the girl.
= James Holden, resident of Gov
ington, KY, was so fond of law that he
had eighty seven different law suits in
one year, all of them against his neigh.
bors. Two weeks ago somebody caught
him out at night, shaved his head, put
tar on his whiskers, and whaled him with
strap, aud he has dropped law like
hot potato.
: The Methodists in England are pre-
pairing to commemorate in March the
centenary of the death of Wesley, and
to build tomb over his grave. It is
proposed to substitute seven handsome
marble pillars, for the present wooden
pillars, each to cost FIVE hundred dollars.
The Methodists of Canada have been in
vited to contribute funds for one of these,
and Methodist Episcopal churches of the
United States one each.
- It's mighty hard to down Tamma.
ny politician. The law in New York
forbids the putting of Distinguishing
mark of any kind on the ballots. Assem-
blyman Dry Dollar Sullivan has num-
Der of constituents who cannot read. He
could not reach their eyes, but nothing
was wrong with their other senses, so he
had all his posters heavily scented with
peppermint essence. The word wss
pissed around, the boys followed
their noses and 'Dry Dollar" never lost q
vote.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theobold NJ. Donald.
SOD, of Sandy Hook, Md, are the parents
of perhaps the smallest baby in this
country. The child at its birth weighed
scarcely pound, aud now, at the age of
months, its weight is only four pounds.