The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-11-06
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
- Edison's talking doll speaks 1876
words. 1t is girl doll.
The Texas State prisons this year
pay S75 1000 over and above all expenses.
There are said to be $4,000 different
kinds of postage stamps in the world.
= There are about $4,000 colored
children in the Washington public
schools.
From the oil of grasshoppers a
Spanish inventor claims to make the fin
est soap yet produced.
Why are our girls like flower gar.
dens? When they are happy they are
daisies, and when they are sad they are
blue bellies.
With a saw made out of q tin buck.
ct, a Terrell county negro escaped from
jail iu Dawson, Ga, the other night.
Snow fell to depth of four inches
in Greenfield. about two miles from
Saratoga, N. Y, on the the 24th of Octo.
her.
The cheapest place in Missouri to
live is at the penitentisry. The daily
cost of maintaining convicts at that in
stitution is only y cents per capita.
There is a township in Sumner
county, Kan, in which crime against
the laws of the State mas not been record.
ed in sixteen years.
Positive and unsolicited testimony
from every section confirms every claim
made for the wonderful eficscy:.of DR..
Bulls Cough syrnp. Price Is cents.
= The ancient Peruvians believed that
the sun once came down to earth and laid
two eggs, and then went back again.
From these two eggs men sprung.
= 1t is expected that the low railroad
rates lone cent per mile) will bring 8
vast crowd of tourists and home seekers
into Florida this winter. There are no
epidemics to scare the people.
= E1 Lieutenant Governor Gabriel
Cannon, of Spartanburg, Is over 81 years
of age. In all his long life he has never
been intoxicated, never used tobacco and
has never been confined to bed day by
sickness.
The oldest man in the world is
probably Osman, of Cavallovit, Turkey.
BE has lived 160 years, and has docu-
ments to prove it. He is an Arabian
widower, and is supported by small
pension from the Sultan.
The latest "boy orator" to come for.
ward is Irving Jay Steeninger, the child
phenomenon Of Rochester, Ind. He is
not quite years old, but he can deliver
a Fifty minutes address with astonishing
eloquence and self possession.
Since the recount of New York has
panned out with nearly 100000 more
population than Pcrter's men gave her,
the Mayor of Philadelphia has determin.
ed to have q recount of that city by the
police.
"No, Charles" said Emma, CPL not
go driving; don't want any ice cream !.
and you must not send me any candy"
"Wby not Emma?' asked her Gance.
Because Charles, Christmas is coming,
and-ah-I think you would better save
your money for the holiday season."
= Looking at the present cotton crop,
the Boston Journal of Commerce says that
there is q good promise of yield rer
acre of 1863 pounds of lint, aa was the
case last season, which would give, with
an acreage of 20,S52,32O acres, at least
7 10000 bales of cotton.
The king of the Sandwich Islands
lives in a 81 $1,000 palace, that WAS built
by his loyal subjects. The natives do not
seem to mind expense where the kings
pleasure is involved. When the princess
died they spent $4,000 on her funeral,
and $50, 900 on mausoleum to he-.
"A new ic:iustry is proposed in Flor.
ida: the cultivation of the camphor tree.
There has beer an increase in the price
of gum of late, and large demand is
anticipated in the future for the man :.
ufacture of smokeless guppowder, of
which camphor is necessary Ingredient.
- Fannie Talbert, the IA year old
daughter of q prominent farmer, living
near Oneouta., Ala, was instantly killed
last Monday by corn crio falling on her.
She was gathering turnips near the crib,
which was perched on some timbers,
when the wind blew the crib over on
her.
= Old Fliend-"I s'pose girls are
go5d deal more expensive to rear than
boys, amt they?" Old Family Man
"Wall, they is fer awhile, but mos gen.
orally as soon as a girl marries the ex-
pense is through with but just as quick
as sou gifts married he wants to borrer
all you've got"
The kid glove trace in this country
ia enormous. Last year there were i'm
ported fully 100000 dozen of fine kid
gloves. This is in addition to the large
number of American made goods con-
sumed. The trade in fabrics, the Isle
thread, the silk and the cashmere, is very
much larger than the kid glove traffic. 1t
is simply enormous.
Mrs. Edith Howcott, of New Orleans,
perhaps owns more land than any other
American woman. In Louisiana and
Mississippi alone she has over $4,000
acres of valuable timber lands, and is
buying more whenever she sees q bargain.
She has just completed a purchase Of
1000 acres of pine lands in Texas and
$500 acres of hardwood and cypress lands
iu Louisiana. =
= Mr.. Nick Purvis, the other day,
while working near branch on his
place, heard a setting hen making q big
noise and went to gee what was the trou-
BILE. He found that chicken snake had
swallowed the ten eggs on which she had
been setting. Mr. Purvis thereupon took
stick and pressed the eggs out of the
snake and put them back under the hen
and she hatched them all.-CAeraac Re-
porter.
1t is estimated that it will require
the labor of 1000 men fifty four years to
extract all the coal from the territory be-
tween Reynoldsville and sykesville, in
the Punxsutawney region of Peunsylva-
mia. The coal, which is now being
opened up, is Of superior quality, the
vein ranging in thickness from FIVE to ten
feet. 1t will be drawn out by electric ca.
bles, and the mines brilliantly illuminated
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