The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-07-03
ALL soRTs OF PARAGRAPHS.
There ere $4,000 idle men in Cali

ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
- There are $4,000 idle men in Cali
fornia.
Lives from hand to mouth-The
dentist.
People who talk dollars generally
trade in pennies.
-Vassar College has graduated 867
women since its organization.
What q darling world III would be
if everybody were as polite as candI'
date.
Few men SOW their wild oats with-
out getting more or less rye mixed with
them.
"A homing pigeon flew from Spartan.
burg, S. G., to Baltimore, 420 miles, in
Il hours.
- The Rev. P. S. Twitty, of Cuthbert
Ga, is organizing an anti.kissing society
in that town.
"A Jackson County, Ga, horse can
take off his own saddle and bride, open
his stable door and feed himself.
A man at Paw Paw, Ind, who is
worth over 81 600, 900, carried water for 8
circus, and SO got inside of the tent
free.
"A correspondent wants to know,
elbow long girls should be coursed ~
Or stills, of course; short ones on
chairs.
The census taking in New York
has developed the fact that more than
sixty languages and dialects are spoken
there.
= There is profit in popcorn. a
New Yorker raised nearly 100 bushels on !
an acre last year and sold it for dollar
q bushel.
Two old gentlemen, one 81 and the
other 78 years ole, had stand.up fight 8
one day last week in Portland, Oregon,
over young widow. - e
- It is one of the easiest things in the
world to get into debt, but debt is one of
the hardest masters to serve and one of
the most difficult to escape. e
- There is an old negro in Quitmarl
County, Ga, who has never owned 8 lock. &
BE has been for years mailing q bar of,
wood across the door of his crib every
night. ~: ~:
- It appeara that the construction of
new railroads in the United States during
the first four months of 1890 has been
about one thousand one hundred and ten.
miles. W e:
"A Gainesville, Ga, man has twenty &
acres planted with cucumbers. BE ships
them all north and expects to realize not 4
less than FIVE thousand dollars from yhis p
patch.
Jay Gould's daily income has been q
estimated at 81 ,446; Cornelius Wander
biIt's at s15,249; John D. Rockfeller's,
ats1S,715 I; and William Waldrof Astor'sS
at S23, ,5s3.
= The president of the Montreal s
Methodist Conference was asked q few;
days ago to remove minister because he X
preached too long. Els sermons lasted s
an hour.
"A Georgia youth who answered (en.:3
closing q quarter an advertisements Of
how to make money without work, got 3
in reply a piece of paper, inscribed: -
"Catch suckers, as we do"
Justice Lamar believes that Missia-s
sippi is destined to become negro State, +
and he is anxious to dispose of his pos:
sessions there for much less than their
real value.
Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky
thinks the Sub.treasury scheme proposed II
by the Farmers Alliance great financial 4
humbug, and that it will injure the far
mers instead of giving them the desired e
relief. ssss,
The grandmother Of the Emperor of
China is SO years old, blind, deaf, and a
cripple, and the other day her loving
grandson presented her with 500 singing
birds, 300 silk dresses and 100 musical s.
instruments. 5s "
North Carolina claims to have been 4:
the banner State Of the Confederacy, and
puts up very strong argument to Prov.
thst she was. The voting population of
the State in 1861 was only 115,OO0, and
yet she equipped and sent to the field G
$4,000 fighting men. I
Don't keep on hand too many cut.lE
and. dried theories. A foot rule Is 81 81
convenient thing for carpenter to carry
about with him /; but man who is al
ways "sizing up" other peoples opinion &
by private rule of his own is apt to be a. \
bore.
at a Sunday school in Winsted, Is
Conn.,, recently the text was, Wisdom is f
better than rubies." "De you understand
the text?" ssked the teacher of one of the \
little girl scholars. "Yessur,." What I
Is it9n-.HW HWisdom is better than rheuma.
tism." - -.---.. &
- The Moody a7d sanky collection uf.-
Gospel hymns has, according to the New
York Tribune, had a larger sale than any
hymn collection in existence, good judges
estimating that 100000 copies have
been sold and its popularity still con-
tinues to be almost as great as ever.
j. Edwards, of Hume, Fauquier
County, Va, was playing with his
brothers, when one of them threw a :.
grain of corn into his mouth, which :
lodged in hin windpipe. Two doctors
were summoned, but not in time to save
his life, as he died two hours after.
wards.
- The Chicago Bible Society has just
celebrated the end of the first half Gem
tury of its existence. The total circula-
tion of copies of the Scriptures by this
society in fifty years, by gift Or sale agg.'
gregates 54l,9l2. The aggregate receipts (
frora sales and donations amount to S228,.
331.
- A census enumerator at Richmond,
Va, has found a colored woman, named
Martha Gray, who has had thi7ty'seven
children since 1865. She has given birth
to triplets six times, to twins six times,
and to seven others singly. She is now
living with her third husband, and Of the
thirty seven children but one survives.
: The heart beats sixty.nine times
each minute and throws blood nine feet.
Computed thus, the mileage Of the blood
through the body might be taken as 207
yards per minute, seven miles per hour,
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