The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-01-23
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
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The Californians gathered ripe wa:
termelons on December 1st. 81 {!
Be quick. You can't use, a minute 4s
but once-make the most Of il.
- Mrs. Jefferson Davis will presently
20 to Colorado to live with her married
daughter.
The average number of frea in New
York city is twenty-eight hundred..a year,
about 7 day.
= Leadville, Col, has produced more
than s35 100000 in gold, silver and lead
during the past ten years.
: Never employ yourself to discern
the faults of others, but be careful to-
mend and prevent your own.
"A Wheeling, W. Va, inventor is at
work upon watch which is expected to
run month without winding.
John Horn, of OrVille, Ohio, is six
feet, four inches high, weighs 1886 pounds,
and is twenty. two years of age.
The amount of money required to-
pay the pensions of the veterans for the !
present financial year is about 100000 -
900.
"A West Virginian has been arrested Il
for personating his deceased twin Z
brother and drawing the pension of the.
latter. tx. sg33sI. 3l9s.
Alexander Montgomery, of San
Francisco, has given s250,OO0 to the !;
Presbyterian Theological Seminary of !
California. s,t3ss55!
"A Henning, Tennessee, doctor while
drunk sewed an amputated finger on;with
the palm surface turned the wrong way;
It united nicely.
The Egyptian cotton crop is larger
this season than ever before, and the cottenss
is of a superior quality, though otequalsssl
to that of the q. S.
New York State is reported TO have {
produced last season 2,oSS, ,S45 pounds Of
honey, being exceeded only by Tennessee s
with 2,l3O,6S9 pounds.
"A moustrosity in the shape Of q calf
with four eyes, four nostrils and four
ears, and mouth like q fish, is exciting
the citizens of Jenning Township, Indi-S
ana.
"A company of Michigan capitalists
bought between two and three thou,and
acres Of swamp land on the Santee river
near Sumter. They propose erecting saw;
mills at once 4.
- Laziness grows on people (; it beginas
in cobwebs aud ends in iron chains.sE
The more business man has to dosthe
more he is able to accomplish, for he;
learns 60 economic his time.
1t is estimated that there have been E
100000 divorces in the United States in
twenty years. Opinions as to marriage
being a failure may differ, but all will
agree that divorce is a success. 5;5 80 q
1t is expected that by another year
fresh figs, raised in Florida and Georgia, B
will be put Gu the Northern market in
considerable quantities. Several large
fig groves have lately been planted. &.
II is said that the great oil fields of (
New York and Pennsylvania are rapidly
becoming exhausted. The supply has
fallen from 100000 to $4,000 barrels Ier
day. Search is being made for new 6elds.
An Atlanta syndicate has purchased
800 acres of land fifteen. miles from Ma.
con, Ga, and will set out 8 big peach 3
orchard and establish canning factory.
The enterprise is backed by ample capi.
tai for all needed improvements.
- The campaign against electric wires u
in New York has been carried on in &
earnest. Gangs of men are at work cut
ting down all dead and poorly insulated g
wires in different parts of the city, and u
from fifteen to twenty miles day have
been taken down. Altogether over one &
hundred miles have been removed, and
the work is being rapidly continued.
= During the recent floods in Japan {
2,41S persons were killed and 155 were 3
wounded; 10000 we're deprived Of the
necessaries of life; $4,000 houses were
swept away-or rendered uninhabitable;
100000 acres of agricultural land, with
their crops, were laid waste; 10000
bridges were carried away and hum.
dreds of miles of roads were destroyed.
- a case is mentioned of a young
woman becoming i'll with difficulty, !;
which, at first, somewhat baf1ed the 4
physician, though there appeared to be 3
every symptom Of arsenical poisoning:
The green wall paper of her room vas 1
analyzed, but without any trace of the !.
suspected mineral being found. Finally,
o green flannel dress, which the patient
had begun to wear was submitted to an
alysis, and, as the aannal was found
loaded with arsenic, the cause of the ILL.,
ness was at once apparent.
= A worthy deacon in Vermont
country town was discovered by his pas
tor, one Sunday morning, saving an
armful of wood for the kitchen stove. Z
The surprise of the discovery caused the
deacon to drop his saw in cousternstion.
81 didn't suppose you'd see me, parsonl"
he faltered. "Ah," replied the good man
severely, "you must remember, deacon.
that there is One higher than I who sees
every evil act you commit" eyes, par.
son." assented the deacon; "but then He
doesn't make such an awful fuss about
it!"
= In view Of modern progress in
embalming, desiccation and other meth
DDS of preserving the dead for an indei-s
mite time, it is interesting to note that it
has been estimated that more than 100000