The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-10-09
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
- A man arrested in Missouri vas
armed with four reVolvers, nine knives
and q razor.
A clerk of an hotel at Hannibal,
No., dropped dead from excessive ciga-
rette smoking.
"A farmer and his wife in Indiana
were feeding some cattle when the ami.
mails gored them to death.
Abraham Parsons of Memphis,
Tenn, wealthy citizen, has bean arrest.
ed for the murder of his wife.
- The city of Boston has four women
in her school board and two colored men
in the common council.
- One of the bridesmaid at late
wedding in Covington, KY, was the
| grandmother of the bride.
"A cave has been discovered in Nor.
mandy, Tenn., which ia said to be larger
than the Mammoth of Kentucky.
w. W. Sellers, postmaster at Le.
banon, N. O.. has disappeared with sever.
al thousand dollars of postofice funds.
= The Oregon legislature has passed
bill enabling any person who loses money
at gambling to recover double the amount
| 30 lost.
| In taking care that your cleanliness
is next to your godliness, take care, also,
that your godliness is not next to moth.
ing.
- A couple we're married in Brooklyn,
N. Y, and five hours after the ceremony
the groom dropped dead in the presence
Of the bride.
"A couple in Arkansas who had been
divorced 50 years, were recently remar.
ried, the bride was 50 and the groom 81
years old.
= Character is very much like cloth
in one respect Ifwhite, it can be dyed
black; but once blackened it cannot be-
dyed white.
Among the new settlers in Oklaho.
ma are man and his wife who are,
respectively, seven feet seven inches and
six feet in height. -.
- A suit which has been pending in
New York since 1874 has just been de-.
cided. The plaintiff claimed S3O,OO0,000s
and was awarded 6 cents damages. .
= The Detroit Free Press FTend has,
been punning on DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
His is only gratitude, for all thinking men.
know its merits.-Eachange. 3.
= A fire in the Spartanburg, s. O.,
opera house created the usual panic, and
it was almost miracle that all of the
women and children escaped with their
lives. ..5.5
- There was q split in the County
Alliance meeting held in Waynesboro.
Ga, over the question of endorsing an
independent candidate for the State Sen.
ste. IS
= he said: "My love, I am sorry to
disappoint you about the picnic, but my
trotter has got lame foot" That's
nothing We've got plenty of Salvation
Oil.
= It is about settled that the Oldest
newspaper now published in the United
States is the Maryland Gazette, of Annap.
oils, the first number of which appeared
January II, 1745.
IA school teacher in New Hampshire
during the last term asked a boy how the
earth was divided, and the boys answer
was, Between them that have got it and
them that want it."
= Wooden shoes are growing in popu..
larity, both here and in England. By
the aid of machinery really neat and
comfortable shoe can be made. II is said
that 10000 pairs are annually sold in:
Ohio.
- Reports from the Memphis district
say that the cotton crop has been damaged
% per cent. by the excessive rains of Che 2
past week. The district embraces west,
Tennessee, upper Arkansas and North
Mississippi.
"A wealthy widower met pretty girl
Of % at dinner party in New Jersey
and after 10 minutes conversation won
her consent to marry him and in two
hours after their first meeting the cere-E
mony vas performed. -
"A three.year.old boy and New.
foundland dog were walking on track
lately near Boston, Mass, when train
approached. Just before it reached
them the dog seized the child's clothing
and dragged it from the track. ;74
1t is said to be not at all unlikely
that the house in which President Lin
coin died will follow Libby Prison to
Chicago, Western syndicate having
made an offer for it. The intention is to
put it on exhibition during the Worlds
Fair.
One of the largest forests in the
world stands on ice. It is situated be-,
tween Ural and the Okhotsh Sea, in
Russian Siberia. a we'll was recently
dug in this region, when it was found
that at depth of 116 metres the ground
was still frozen. -
1t is claimed that phosphate is;
found in only three places throughout
the United States-South Carolina, New
Mexico and Florida. In New Mexico it
is about exhausted, while in Florida it
il more extensive than in South Carols.
ma. ~
= Hiram Lester, now an inmate of the
poor house at Med Donough, Ga, is thought
to be the oldest man in the world. His.
age is 120 years. Col. Sloan, of Med
ough, who is over so years of age, saya|
when he was little boy Lester was Ell
old man. "
- Pecan.nut farming is one-of the
growing industries of the Gulf States.
After the trees have once begun Ito bear,
they involve no labor or expense, and
yield, it is said, an income of from $500
to 81 900 an acre, according to the quality
of the nuts.
An English paper says that we still
put our hands to our mouths when ne
yawn, and fancy that we do it out of po-
liteness only, but in early days the action
was used to prevent the devil taking ad.
vantage of a habit he had of leaping into
g gaping mouth. M
= According to a correspondent of the
Topeka Capital, stock raisers have noticed
in the last three years an apparent in
creasing sterility in heifers. It is abscrib.
ed to the practice of dehorning. The
horns on cattle must fulfil some useful
function, or they would not have been
provided by nature.
= There are at present 1900 beet sugar
factories in Europe, and they consume