The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-04-10
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

"A miser died at Fort Scott with
$4,000 on his person.
The fruit in Illinois is declared to
be uninjured by the freeze.
= 1t is said that Robert lngersoll has
shown signs Of conversion to Christiani-
ty.
"A Mormon settlement is thriving
at the foot of Pilot Mountain, North 5
Carolina.
There are two rights woman is
slow to claim: the right to an old
garter and the right to an old paper bug
tie.
: Every man is the architect Of his
own fortune. And it's lucky for the most
of us that there is no building inspector
around.
= Two boys playing near Wichita,
Kansas, set the prairie on fire just for fun.
The loss to the neighborhood was s15c,000
to 100000.
= It is not bad plan to think to
yourself what you would do in case you
were awakened at night to find your
house on fire.
A New French invention is smoke
bomb intended to be fred into the ranks
of the enemy who uses smokeless powder
and obscures his view.
~ thought you were going to marry
Miss Goldthwaite." "Her family were all
opposed to it." "Well, but if the girl
herself" II said all the family. She
was one of 'em.''
Zone Of our delinquent subscribers, /"
writes Georgia editor, "has asked US to :
change his address. But we have not
seen dollar in six weeks, and can't
change anything"
= George" said Mrs. Galley re-
proachfully, "before we married you al
ways insisted on carrying my packages
for me-" eyes," replied George, "but I
didn't have to pay for them them"
Y. Sun.
"A woman who has been living in
abject poverty for number of years in
Philadelphia, has just learned that her
husband whom she had mourned as dead
is still living in Idaho, and has amsssed
fortune.
1t took just seventeen days for Geo.
Macomb, a Michigander, to bury his wife.
put up headstone, repaint his house,
and marry second time. What a bless.s
ing it was that God took her away hom
such man.
= 1t is said that all the Presidents of
the United States except General Harri-
son had blue eyes. Socrates, Shakes
peare, Loche, Bacon, Milton, Goethe,
Franklin, Napoleon and Humboldt, all
had bIue eyes.
Sam Lee, Chinese laundryman, of
Dubukue, Iowa, was killed by his assist
ant, Frank Foak, who, when a crowd
rushed in, wrote on piece of paper: 8
"He owe me three months wages, I
shoot him I die too," and then shot
himself.
"A hill 400 feet high, composed of
copper, silver and gold, has been diEcov.4
cred in the Mexican State of Chiapas. a
river bowing on one side of the mound
has largely uncovered the deposit, and
many hundred thousand tons of ore are
in sight.
From coal is obtained the means of
producing over four hundred shades of
colors, great variety of perfumes, two
explosive agents, various acids and med
icines, insecticides, salts, saccharine,
fruit favors, the bitter taste of beer,
asphaltum, lubricating oils, and varnish.
At the table of well.known Meth.
odist minister the subjects of widows was
under discussion, when one of the sons
inquired, "What is grass widowf"
"Why, Harry" responded the other,
"don't you know? a grass widow is
woman whose husband died with hay fe-
yer.
A prize of fifty dollars for the best
essay on the relation of the temperance
question to political economy, has been
offered for the competition of college un.
der graduates by the National W. T. @.
q. department Of organization and in
struction in the higher institutions of
learning.
"A copjugal dialogue: Before our
marriage" complained the wife, "you
assured me that my pathway through life
should be strewn with roses, whereas I
spend my evenings mending stockings"
"Well, darling, you know you couldn't
walk on roses, barefooted, on account of
the thorns."
Job Riggs, the mail carrier on the
Campbell, N. O., route, delivers his mail
to the Offices on foot, walking twenty.four
miles one day and thirty.one miles next
day. During year he steps over S,454
miles, and at this rate would cover the
circuit of the globe in three years, ex.
elusive of Sundays.
= Kansas City, Mo-, has been invaded
by new religious sect. A man named
Silas Wilcox is the originator of this
body, and he claims that blood should be
used for healing purposes. BE quotes
the Bible as his authority for the state.
ment. In one house two little emaciated
children we're found by inspectors.
Scars covering both arms showed how
often they had been bled. A consumptive
father lay almost dead on the bed. He
confessed to the drinking of his children's
blood to save his own life.
= Considerable Importance is attached
to the formal opening of the factory of