The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-05-01
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

a girl in West Virginia, by trapping
nuskrats, saved enough money to buy a
gold watch. 49,
IT is estimatedl that 10000, QUO
European eggs were eaten in the United
States last year.
The japanese Christians contributed
s41 900 last year tor religious and educa'
tional objects.
Tom Tucker: "Why is kiss like
sermon?n Jack Horner: because
it requires two heads and an applica'-
tion."
Generous George W. Childs has
raised purse of $4,000 for Mrs. Samuel
J. Randall. This is better than noble
obituary.
= When you have cold you do net
know how to cure it. And your friends
know, ard they tell you. but it does not
affect the cold.
- The Cincinnati Price Current esti-
mates that the winter pack of 1SS9-90
will show an increase of 100000 hogs
over the year preceding.
= Chicago boasts Of the most econom-
ical young lady in the west. When SIZE
washes her face she always laughs 80 as
not to have 80 much face to wash.
- The carpenters strike in Chicago
continues and thousands of workmen in
other building trades are now out of work
because theyscannot 60 on,.without the
carpenters.
"A man near Washington, Va, has
the coat he was married in twenty-five
years ago, and says it is his mascot, as
when he puts it on good luck attends all
he sets his hand to.
The Grand canyon of the Coloraeo
is simply the channel worn by the action
of the water to depth of FIVE or six
thousand feet; the sides are pendicular
cliffs fifteen miles apart.
The two wealthiest women in Phila.
delphia, both widows, are said to be Mrs.
Thomas h. Powers and Mrs. Thomas a.
Scott. They are worth between $6,OOO,-
600 and Ss,OOO,0O each.
= Near Cold Springs, N. G., lives
remarkable old lady. Her name is Mss.
Phoebe Wilson, but far and wide she is
known as "Granny Wilson" She is one
hundred and nine years old and has been
twice married.
= Eiffell and Edison have proposed to
build for the Chicago Worlds fair tower
500 feet higher than the one in Paris, to
Delighted by 100000 of Edison;s incan-
descent lamps They will furnish all the
capital, and merely wait for the world to
go ahead.
"A hill 400 feet high, composed of
copper, silver and gold, has been discov-
ed in the Mexican State of Chipias. A
river flowing on one side Of the mound
has largely uncovered tie deposit, and
many hundred thousand tons of ore are
in sight.
= Experts now place the actual wealth
of the United States at SCI, Ass, 100000
Its property assessed for taxation upon
the duplicates is s29,719,O00,000. Some
idea of this amount can be had by remem.
being the fact that it is greater than che
wealth of the entire world one hundred
and fifty years ago.
= From coal is obtained the means
of producing over four hundred SHADES OF
colors, great variety Of perfumes, two
explosive agents, various acids and
medicines, insecticides. salts, saccharine,
fruit Aavors, the bitter taste of beer,
asphaltum, lubricating oils, and good
varnish.
= They tell of petty king on one of
the South Sea Islands who had % wives,
whose duty it was to smoke his pipe for
him and breathe the smoke into his
mouth. Although the personifcation of
laziness, he seems 10 have had tender
heart. A less ccnsiderate heather would
have compelled one wife to do that work.
"A New York paper recently gave an
exemplifcation of the proverb "a rich
man for luck and poor man for children"
by publishing q census showing that only
six children had been born among three
hundred rich Fifth avenue families dur
ing the past twelve months to one hun
drsd and eleven born in three hundred
poor Cherry Hill families for the same
period.
- A St. Louis dentist says there is
wholesale destruction lurking in the ma.
iority of dentrifces offered for sale. Cold
water and hard brush ought to be sufi-
cient in cleaning the teeth, but if an
added preparation is desired, prepared
chalk is the best and simplest in the
world. The chalk will whiten the teeth
better than any dentrifce, and is more
cleansing.
= Miss Ella Ewing, living near
Rainbow, Mo-, eighteen years old, is new
seven feet eight inches high, weighs 225
pounds, wears a number fifteen shoe,
which, of course, she has to have made
to order, and her shoemaker had to order
special last. The girls parents are
about the usual size, the father being
possibly a little taller than the average
man.
"A last will snd testament, 5000
years old, was found recently in Egypt.
The testator, Sekiah, executed it with his
own hand in favor of his own brother, a
priest Of Osiris. The property disposed
of in the will was to 60 at the brothers
death to Sekiahs daughter, who, the in
ternal evidence Of the document shows,