The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-08-14
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
The alliance in the United States
numbers about three million strong.

"Call no man happy" says Scion,
"till he is dead" Call no man unhap-
py." Socrates added, "till he is married"
- There are politicians who don't
want no Office" the same as there are
girls who wouldn't marry the best man
living.
He failing on his knees)-Oh, Mary,
may address you on the subject of
marriage? She-You may if you can
dress me after marriage.
"A small box filed with lime, and
placed on ahelfin the pantry or closet,
will absorb dempness and keep the air
in the closet dry and sweet.
Thousands of cattle are dying for
lack of grass and water in Arizona, New
Mexico and portions of Colorado, where
prolonged drought has occurred.
"A new cannon just made by Krupp
is forty.two feet long, can be fired twice
q minute, and throws two.thousand-
pound shot twelve miles.
The originator of the expression,
"Look before you leap" was probably
the fellow who sat down on chair with
a heavenward pointed tack on it.
- The cultivation of pecans is increas-
ing in the South. F. a. Swinden has
farm of 400 acres near Brownwood,
Texas, upon which he has II 900 trees
planted.
The United States government
history of the war between the States
cannot be completed for at least ten
years yet. 1t will cost thirty. three thou.
sand dollars volume.
-Abram Martin, colored workman
on the Alliance warehouse at Orangeburg
carelessly knocked prop from under the
roof rafters Monday. They fell, breaking
Martins neck and hurting two other men.
"A woman who died at fremont, Pa,
few days ago, weighed one hundred
and ten pounds. A year ago she weigh.
ed four hundred and sixty pounds, but
sickness reduced her weight.
= John Harris, the largest man in
Illinois, died recently at Tuscola. he
was seventy years of age, and his weight
for many years past had been between
six and seven hundred pounds.
= A traveller in Japan writes that the
japanese pay more attention to personal
cleanliness than any other people in the
world. High and low bathe all over at
least once day, and sometimes oftener.
= The number of fires in the great
city of New York ten years ago averaged
five day. Now the average is eight,
but the average loss has been reduced in
the meantime from seventeen hundred to
fourteen hundred dollars.
There is general failure of the
peach crop from New jersey to Florida
this year. tits the first time within the
memory of the oldest inhabitant that
there has been complete failure on the
south side Tryon mountain.
Henry Ward Beecher used to tell
the story Of traveller who finding him.
self and bis dog in wild country and
destitute of provisi, ,ns cut off his dogs
tail and broiled it for his own supper,
giving the dog the bone.
= The Pennsylvania Railroad has 115
trains arriving at and the same number
depart from the Brosd street station,
Philadelphia, on Sundays. On week
DAYS 225 trains arrive and 226 depart
from this station.
- The latest device Of girlhood is q
fancy for stuffing pillows with their old
love letters. There ia one thing about
the contents of these pillows that can be
depended upon with a marked degree
of certainty-they are sure to be soft.
= The total number of deaths by wind
storms aud lightning since January last
is estimated at LOO as compared with
only 1853 deaths from the same causes
during the whole of 1889. This isa
record which will make this year me-
morable in the annals of meteorology.
= An indianapolis woman who has
been eight times divorced is 81 years old,
and comes of family noted for Es
divorces. Her mother has had six divor.
ces, and is living with her seventh hus-
band. An uncle and two aunts have
each been married FIVE times. They are
still young.
The thirty machines used in the
census Office at Washington for counting
the population, work with clock.like
accuracy, and count from one to twenty
persons each time small ivory key is
touched. The machine looks like an
upright piano in polished oak case, and
has keyboard like that of typewriter.
Most of the machines are worked by
girls, aud they are able to count accu.
rately one million names day.
- The Supreme Court Of Illinois has
Just decided that a man cannot be exclud.
ed from the witness stand in that State
on account Of his religious disbelief
The witness in the case under review
believed in God and hereafter, and
in punishment through the courts if he
swore falsely, but he had formed no
opinion about punishment in the next
world. The Supreme Court held that he
was competent witness.
= Nearly G5 per cent. OF the popula-
tion of the world are barbarians, of whom
IS per cent. live in auts and caves. while
the remaining II per cent. have virtually
no place in which to lay their heads.
The other 35 per cent. live in some
descriptian of houses. The numbers, as
given recently by statistician, are as
follows: Living in houses, 100000, 600;
living in huts aud caves, 700,000,000
with no habitation of any kind, 250,000,-
0C0.
4 curious annsthetic used by the
Chinese has recently been made known
by DR.. u. Lambeth in his third annual
report of the Soochow Hospital. 1t is
obtained by placing frog in jar of
-four .and irritating it by prodding it.
Under these circumstances it exudes
liquid which forms paste with the flour.
This paste dissolved in water has we'll
marked anesthetic properties. After the
finger has been immersed in the liquid for
few minutes it can be cut to the bone
without any pain being felt.
= An eccentric old gentleman recently
knocksd out whole graduating class in
Western college. He got the boys
together, the day before commencement,
and told them that he would give $40 to
every man who would answer correctly
two plain, every day questions. The
questions were as follows What is the
origin of the common phrase, "to hope
against hope"? And, Why is the human
ear shaped as it is, instead of being flat?
Not a man answered the questions cor
rectly, and the old gentleman went away
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