The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-03-27
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
Matilda Ruley died Saturday at


pound for her best butter.
= Hildalgo county, Texas, has been
deprived of county officers for years, by
factional fueds.
There are more hotels in Switzerland
to the square mile than in any other
country in the world.
= Women do not marry for money, but
they say it is easier to love a rich man
than poor one.
Don't fret about what your reputa.
ton will be after death. Tombstones ara
mighty charitable.
"A planter at Monticello, Fla, haa
already shipped this season 10000 pounds
of watermelon seeds.
There is an unknown drunken white
man in Pittsburg, Pa, who gives every
negro he meets $40 bill.
= An Indian who got drunk and mur.
derously assaulted squaw at a camp on
the Red River, was burned alive.
= Miss Jennie NJ. Paul, of Chicago,
has sued Louis G. Wacksmuth
for 100000 for breach of promise fot
marriage.
An indignant mother almost demol.
ished saloon at Bonne Terre, Missouri,
where her young sons were being made
drunk.
- Go where duty calls, but. turn in
and help when you get there. Don't
stand around with your hands in your
pockets.
- In Italy the influenza has thrown
people into long, deep sleep and they,
cannot be aroused. They are kept alive
with liquid food.
The heaviest gun that the United
States possesses weighs one hundred and
eleven tons. Six of these will soon be in
use in the navy.
Amos Parker, who graduated at the
University of Vermont in 1918, claims to
be the oldest college graduate in rths
United States.
= Miss Ella Ewing, living near Rain.
bow, Mo-, eighteen years old, is now T..
feet s inches high, weighs 225 pounds,
and wears a No. Is shoe.
= Rev. John Johnson, of South Caro-.
lima, has written a history of Fort Sum-
ter, giving an account of the defense of
Charleston harbor during the var.
Canada has debt of two hundred
and eighty million dollars and 8 yearly
taxation of forty seven million, and hiss
population lof FIVE million.
= The directors of the Augusta Expo.
sition will raise s65,ooo for the exposition
next fall, and it is the purpose of the
company to make the affair grand sue.
cess.
= John T. Lester, a wealthy stock
broker of Chicago, died with grief because
his daughters wedding was not conduct
ed with as much style as he wanted it to
be
: 1t is reported from Fort Davis,
Texas, that there has been no rain in
that section since the first of October last,
though in nearly every other part Of
Texas the rainfall has been cepious.
"A little FIVE year old, whose mother
had used ten cents from his savings fund,
last evening stumped his father with the
remark; "Pa, you owe me ten cents (;
your wife took that much from me-"
= a sagacious canine at Johnstown is
not going to get caught in another food
if it can help it. Every time it rains the
dog rushes to the fourth story and remains
there until the downpour is over.
= Some. one has somewhere said: "a
man seldom or never regrets that step
which he has taken, after first praying
we'll over the question, and then acting
according to the best of his judgment"
John B. Curtis, of Portland Me-,
has made nearly one million dollars in
the manufacture of chewing gum, not
counting the subsidy which he probably
receives from the dentists fraternity.
Johnnie" said his mother. "did
you get any marks at school to-day for
conduct" "Yes," promptly replied
Johnnie; Several; but if you want to
see them, I'll have to take off some of my
clothes"
Sympathy is one of the great secrets
of our lives. 1t can overcome evil quicker
than the harshest treatment. 1t strength.
ems good, bringing forth more help to
bear the hardest trials that come to us alI
from time to time.
- The Louisiana Lottery clears s3,-
100000 year. Many man, whose SAL
ary is not over seven dollars week help
to contribute this enormous sum. The
information is enough to give them
blank" look of amazement.
= An old Confederate rife cannon
captured at Charleston was used in Utica,
N. Y, the other day, in an experiment
with dynamite projectile. The Corfed-
crate gun stood the test and the trial was
a perfect success.
Twenty of the twenty-one blast fur.
naces in the Pittsburg, (Pa.) district are
now in blast, producing more than thirty
three hundred hundred tons of pig iron
day, and yet the supply cannot begin to
Keep pace with the demand.
- It is refreshing to find one centena-
rian who has never used tobacco. Major
Thomas HarTood, Of Brooklyn, is the
man. He is l01 years old, and never
smoked or chewed. He is in good health,
reads the daily papers and attends church
regularly.
= The presidency of the United States
is the highest gift in the power of the
people, but the president has the power