The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-05-15
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
Luck is good think to have, but it
is a poor Thug to wait for.

= Luck is a good think to have, butlt
is poor Thug to wait for.
- Iu Bengal there are 1864 widows
under ten years ofage.
Which is the most questionable
letter in the alphabet? A quaer.E.
The Alpha and omega OF Christian
patriotism is honor to God and good will
to men.
- The worst mistake a iunny man
can make is to be funny at the wrong
time.
- More bridal couples are said to have
visited Washington this spring than ever
before.
La Grippe cured crowc of lunatics
in Massachusetts asylum. and they have
been released.
= When barrell is fall it generally
gets bunged up. And this il the case
with man.
The two great wants of the day is
better mail service abroad and better fe-
male service at home.
= Bob. Ipgersoll says he will smoke as
long as he lives. And probably a good
deal longer!
= More than two thousand farmers
have applied to the agricultural depart
ment for seeds OF the sugar beet.
- 1t is said that the Georgia railroad
is the only road of its size in the world
that has never killed a passenger and
never had a mortgage on it.
The work of rebuilding unfortunate
Johnstown has heen going on at a rapid
rate, but there is shortage yeti is said,
of over 1000 houses.
A cedar stump on farm near Sho-
homish City, Ore., measures twenty feet
in diameter. A photograph was taken of
it with thirty men and five horses stand.
ing upon it.
= It is estimated that only - per cent
of the population of Russia can read aud
write. The number of primary schools
is $4,000 for the population of over 100,.
100000.
= The highest salary paid to any man,
official or semi. official, in the United
States, is 100000, which amount is paid
to the president of the Equitable Life In.
surance Company.
There are said to be three or four
ladies we'll known in London society who
are determined 10 appear at the next
meeting If the Coaching Club, on borae'
back, astride.
When one man sees another
with hat exactly like his own he
compliments the other fellow on his
taste out when woman sees her
new hat duplicated she either buys
another one or sits down and cries because
she can't.
II Mrs. Jefferson Davis writes that her
daughter, Mrs. J. A..Hayes, of Colorado
Springs, and her husband, have changed
their little sons name to Jefferson Hayes
Davis, $50 that there shall be one to
bear the beloved and honored name of
his own blood"
According to figures given by San
Francisco newspaper, California is the
bloodiest State in the Union. In 1881
had one homicide to 3,479 of the popule.
ton. In the other States it runs up from
one in S,6l2 in Kentucky, to one in So
900 in other States.
An organization of saloon keepers
in New York has under consideration a
proposition to sell beer by weight. A
good idea. The man who knows how
many pounds he can carry would not be
go liable to attempt to stagger home un-
der bigger load than he Jean hold up
under.
"A pair of curled poplar logs we're
shipped to Germany from Swain County,
N. c., each twelve feet long and six feet
in diameter at the smaller end. The
logs will be hewed aud polished for ezhi.
bition at Berlin this year. The farmer
who sold the logs was paid sixty dollars
for each.
= The sacrifice of widows on the funer.
al pyre still goes on in Bali, an island
near Java. They are burned along with
the remains OF their husbands. The lat.
ter's slaves also shsre the same fate if he
be of high rank. A short time ago
three wives of a chief were cremated
there.
ss- The total land grants made by the
Unified States for educational purposes
during the first century of its existence,
amounts to over eighty million acres, or
one hundred and twenty-five thousand
square miles, territory greater than the
area OF Great Britain and Ireland, and
equal to one half the area of France.
= A pair of curled poplar logs were
shipped to Germany from Swain County,
N. G., each twelve feet long and six feet
in diameter at the smaller end. These
logs will be hewed aud polished for exhi.
bition at Berlin this year. The farmer
who sold the logs was paid sixty dollars
for each.
James Hines took up squat claim
in Arkansas. He vas warned of, hut
decided not to go, and he held out for
the three years. During that time he
was shot at thirty.three times, wounded
four times, had his cabin set on fire twice,
his wife was driven to suicide and his boy
ran away, and at last the man grew weary
and hanged himself.
= Out in Montana the minister began:
"Will you take this woman to be your
welded wife?" when the strapping groom
interrupted as follows: "Say, Mr.. Minis
ter, quit yer fooling' and get down to biz.
ness. You know I'm here to take this
lady, au' so what's the use of askin' me?
Besides, don't allow nobody to call her
woman. She's lady, she is"
"A woman has been found living in
New York city whose expenses average
four cents a day. She makes button holes
when she can get them TO make-and
finds that the revenue derived from he.
toll compels her to depend for sustenarce
on bread without butter, and tea without
milk. a five cent loaf of bread lasts her
two days.
He who is anxious to tie his tongue
in knots will do we'll to attempt the fol.
lowing exercise in pronunciation: A
day or two ago, during lull in business,
two little bootblacks, one white and the
other black, were standing at the corner
doing nothing, when the white bootblack
agreed to black the black bootblack's
boots. The black bootb!acI was, Of
| oorrca ,pil!iny tn have his bootu h1o oEed