The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-08-07
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
- The acreage of sorghum in Kansas
is reported at l0,7 200 acres, against $500
acres last year.
The experiment of tanning leather
with palmetto roots has been successfully
tried as Apalachicola, Fla.
"A census taker in Georgia has found
boy nine years old who has never been
given name by his parents.
= On an average a little more than
two persons are killed and FIVE injured
each day on the railroads of this coun.
try.
- An old gentleman of 10S years in
Birmingham, o., recently died from the
effects of excessive dancing at his birth
day party.
= George Vanderbilt recently paid
twelve hundred dollars an acre for
tract of land adjoining his estate near
Asheville, N. c.
"A meteor shat fell in Washington
County, Kan, recently has been sold to
the Kansas State University for 5000. It
weighed LA pounds.
- Tennessee, Missouri, Georgia and
North Carolina lead all other States in
Alliance membership. Missouri is in the
lead with 1900 unions.
= Light frosts were noticed on the
hills at Brockawayville, Penn. The frost
was not enough to hurt anything, but
sufficient to be a novelty in July.
- If the salt held in solution in the
ocean were spread over the earth it
would form a layer of more than thirty
feet deep covering the whole globe.
According to the american Geologilt
the largest gold mine in the world is in
Alaska. It is lighted throughout by
electricity and is worked day and night.
A Georgia exchange is disposed to
quarrel because Sam Jones charges fifty
cents admission to his lectures. But the
devil charges dollar and half and
nobody murmurs.
The invention Of two new musical
instruments is announced. One is bass
fiddle big enough to make little catboat
fourteen and a half feet all over and
eight and half beam.
= The census takers have found three
citizens in Taylor County, Fla, whoown
thirteen dogs each. Whether their wives
20 out washing or not is not stated, bu
that generally follows.
A plank has been sawed in Eureka,
Humboldt County, CAL, for exhibition at
the Worlds Fair. 1t is of redwood,
twelve and half feet long, sixteen feet
wide, and four inches thick.
John Charvous, reformed cannibal
from the Fiji Islands, is lecturing in
Georgia. he says that he never did any.
thing in his life that he regrets 80 keenly
as the eating of his fellow men.
Indiana farmers are threshing and
marketing their wheat crops. The yield is
turning out only from thirty to fo::t!yy forty per
cent, instead of from seventy to eighty,
and is a light and inferior grade.
= Said lawyer to his young clerk,
"Why weren't you at the Office earlier
this morning 2" Beg pardon, sir, but I
am reformer. I believe that the Office
should seek the man, not the man the Of
fce."
= The right way to go through life,
and to have the best manners, is to feel
and to act as though everybody, no mat
ter how rich or poor, needs all the
kindness they can get from others in the
world.
= a poor washerwoman at Fayette-
vile, Ark, who few days ago was mott.
fed that she had been granted pension
and would receive five thousand back
pay, was so overcome with joy that she
died.
"A lover received the following note,
accompanied by a bouquet of flowers:
"Deer-I send bi the boy buckett Of
Aours. They is like my love for u. The
mite shade menes keep dark. The dog
fenil menes I am ure slave"
= The United States government
commissioner of patents estimates that
from six to seven eights of the entire
manufacturing capital of the United
States, or 000,0O0,000, is directly OF
Indirectly based upon patents.
- A weak galvsnic current, which will
sometimes cure toothache, may be gem
Grated by placing silver coin on one
side of the gum and piece of zinc on
the other. Rinsing the mouth With
acidulated water will increase the eff
feet.
At the celebration of the iftieth
anniversary of the invention of the post
age stamp, held recently in England, q
stamp was shown worth $500. 1t WAS
from the British Guiana collection, anG
showed a rude postmark on pink paper.
A Georgia correspondent vouches
for the remedy for horse collie here repro.
duced from the Southern Cultivator. He
says: "Take blanket and cover the
bowels of the horse with it. Then secure
it in position with two girths tightly to
the horse. Apply hot water, or as hot as
the horse can bear it, freely. The bowels,
are relaxed and the horse relieved of the
collie like charm"
There is a beautiful farm just back of
Ocean Springs, Miss, owned BY Mr. Par
kcr Earle, who, very wisely, allows no
man on the place to use whip on any OF
the stock. It ia said that there is but one
old whip on the farm, probably q relic Of
some other owner, but the old whip is not
used, and the farm does we'll and the an
imals work with will and never feel
the lash. Kindness can run anything,
even a farm.
= Says dispatch from Sidney, Ohio !:
Something remarkable happened here
yesterday to a COW. There we're two
large trees close together on the edge OF
clover field. A fence touched either
tree, but the gap had no fence. The COW
squeezed into the gap, and without pass.
ing through began to browse. She soon
began to swell with gas generated by the
green clover, and to get her out one of
the trees had to be cut.
"A Western city resolved" that the
census enumerators have performed their
work carelessly, and that the population
was much larger than the return indica.
ted. a new count was made at the city's
expense, and the total was 900 less than
the governments figures. The city has
concluded to adopt the latter as its cor.
rect population. There are several other
growing cities that might also come out
of the little end of the horn if a new snd
correct count was made.
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