The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-09-04
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

In aud around Charlotte, n. c.,
there are thirtytwo cotton mills.
Men are often said to "feel their
oats" when in fact it is rye or corn.
= In Iowa the honey crop is failure,
and the bees ere starving.
= There are fully 10000 dealers in
New York city engaged in handling
fruit.
- The area in corn in the United
States this year is about S3,570, GOO
acres.
The present cost of sustaining the
Federal Government is s1,0OO,000 a
day.
- In North Carolina there are now
4,273 Sunday Schools with $4,000 pu.
pills.
= President Roberts of the Pennsylva.
MIA Railroad started life as track hand
thirty years ago. The combined salaries
he receives now amounts to 100000 a
year.
"A we'll to do farmer named Richard
Carmichael, of Queen Anne County, Nd,
has kept diary for thirty years, and it
shows that it has invariably rained on the
26th of July, during that time.
: Ex.Congressman w. L. Scott sold
from his farm in Northampton County
last year sS5,0o0 worth Of truck. The
farm expenses were $4,000, a net profit
of S22,0 900 was made.
- "Give me dollars worth Of stamps,
please" said a lady to the clerk at the
post Office. "What denomination, mad
am?" presbyterian, I suppose. That
is what Mr.. Wanamaker is, I believe"
= Temperance advocates are rejoicing
over the fact that Blaine is now total
abstainer. 1t is remarked that the list of
public men who have joined the various
temperance organizations of late years is
long one.
= Snow still remains on the ground in
the Yosemite regions. Many mountains
in the Sierras are still covered twenty feet
deep, and the result is that the melting
anow Keeps the streams full and the wa.
terfalls are superb.
We lose two pounds of water in the
twerty four hours by perspiration, and
the more ne perspire the cooler we be.
come. There are 100000 pores.on the
surface of our bodies, which, if placed in
line would extend twenty. EIGHT miles in
length.
- A Charleston policeman ran after
some negro children for stealing papers
from store doors early in the morning.
A girl about fourteen years old was &c
badly frightened that she jumped from
the wharf into the water and was drown.
ed.
Some one estimates that getting born
costs the people of the United States
s225,OOO,0OO annually; getting married,
sSO0,OOO,OOO; getting buried, s75,O0O,00O.
It is q serious question which of these
amounts are the most judicious expendi-
lures.
= In New York the law against Gigs
retle smoking goes into effect September
1. Minors under 16 caught putting the
vile things will be fined two dollars and
imprisoned for one day. Some people
think good whipping should be thrown
in.
= Mr. Mandersville Virgins, of New
Brighton, Staten Island, suggests drown.
ing as humane form of capital punish
ment. he says he came near being
drowned not long ago himself. he went
far enough to discover that death by that
method would be painless.
: The lazy man has no excuse now,
even if the Waterbury watch made him
tired. A self winding watch has been
patented which is wound BY the move.
ments of the wearer, fifteen minutes ex-
ertion on his part winding the watch for
"a hours. But then, oh my! it will be
no benefit to the lazy club, because the
true blue member will not move for 15
minutes continuously.
"A new departure has been taken in
gifts intended for the edifcatiou of the
public in the electric fountain which has
been presented to Lincoln Park, Chicago.
The fountain has over two hundred
large jets, which are artistically inter-
mingled, the highest of which throws
stream of water to height of seventy.
five feet. The fountain, when illumiua.
ted, is most beautiful sight. The spray
separates into innumerable drops, each of
which reflects the glitter of the electric
light, giving the effect Of shower of
diamonds.
- 4t' w ltSoO, oIotCu SiSAh VI tuO
Southern Presbyterian Church, publishes
a summary Of its statistics, from which it
appears that that body now has II pres
byteries, an increase of three over last
year; 1,l79 ministers, an increase of "a;
2,400 churches, au increase of 70; Il, 400
additions on examination, an increase of
1,499, and 16S,791 communicates, an in
crease of 7,049. The contributions for all.
purposes have increased, except for edu--
cation, which has fallen of nearly $4,000
below the unusually large sum of So, 1863
of last year. TIE total for congregation
al purposes and benevolence is S1,727,-
263.
= The Detroit Evcning Journal, co op.
Grating with Mr.. Henry Gilman, former
ly of that city, aud now United States
consul at Jerusalem, conceived the plan
of fraising $4,000 to restore Jacobs we'll,
described some weeks ago in letters on