The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-04-03
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
"A miser's first rule is addition.
His heirs generally begin: with divis-

His heirs generally begin: Win dlVis-
ion.
"A man often drops his eyes without
breaking them. Not so with his specta.
cles.
A boy of eighteen ard girl Of IL
years of age were recently married in
Cherokee county.
TO overlook nothing in others is
often proof that We overlook great
deal in OURSELVES.
- The actress Lotta is said to be the
richest woman in the world with a
fortune earned by Lerself.
= 1t sometimes happens that the
greatest philosophers in theory are the
greatest fools in practice
= Our total Indian population is now
to be found on about seventy reservations,
and numbers 262,620.
= The melon growers of southwest
Georgia are preparing for the handling of
the biggest crop of watermelons that
Georgia has ever. known.
John Brown, one Of the most noted
counterfei'ers in the country, died in the
Ohio Penitentiary, Sunday, at the age of
81 years.
= All the biggest meteors in this
conntry fall in out of the way places.
One weighing several hundred pounds is !;
said to have fallen in Texas last week, Z
sinking some fifty feet in the ground. S
j. II. Burchfeld, of Oceola, Fla.
chastised his fifteen-year-old son, and he
was about to shoot his wife, when the
boy drew q pistol and shot his father
dead.
President @. 81. Phinizy is reported
to have said that the Georgia railroad is
the only road of its size in the world
that has never killed passenger and
never had a mortgage on it.
= In the United States there are TO-.
900 lawyers, about one lawyer to every
900 inhabitants. In France there is only. Z
one lawyer to every 5000 people. In
Germany the proportion is about the
same as in France.
- Mr.. Edison has new novelty on
which he is working-a clock to talk the
time. Instead of blank sound, it will
say "One," "Two," ETC., at the proper
hours. For an. alarm it will say, in so
many words, "Get up" in stentorian
and commanding voice.
= In Siam you can get good board for
As cents a week, and this includes wash.
ing, the use Of two servants to run er.
rands, tickets to shows, three shaves, and
all the cigars you can smoke. This sounds
delightful until you learn that it is almost
impossible to earn IS cents q week in
Siam.
-"What would you do," asked a.
pompous man, Of little fellow who had
been bold enough to dispute his word in
an argument, "if you had as much sense
as I've got?" "I'd go at once and look
for more" was the startling reply, "befo,e
what little had died for want of socie.
ty."
= From the wallet of a murderer, 5
robber aud burglar recently captured in
New York was taken slip of paper,
on which was written: "Keep good
company or none." "Honesty is the
best policy" "Drink leads 10 ruin"
"Honor thy father and thy mother"
"Civility costs nothing" "Do not mock
at sacred things"
1t was shown in lawsuit q in New
England town the other day that one
Ebenezer Skinner made affidavit that a
certain remedy bad cured him Of
rheumatis of twenty years. standing, and
all he charged for this swearing was
fifty cent?. He had never had the
rheumatis in bis life.-DetroI Free
Press.
A printers error has been detected
in the last issue of the Bible from the
Cambridge press. In Isaiah Xviii, 13,
the word foundation" is begun with an
"r" instead of an "f." The mistake was
discovered by young son Of Rev. DR.. 81.
Adler, who has received the standing
reward of a guinea offered for the detec'
tion of such an error.
A little girl died of diphtheria in
Chicago, and her remains were transport
ed to GAINESVILLE, Ohio, where the casket
vas opened in relatives house. Forty.
five cases of diphtheria in GAINESVILLE,
will sixteen deaths, are already the
result of that careless step, and there is
no saying when the ravages of the fell
disease will stop.
An exchange says zone third of the
fools Of the country think they can beat
the lawyer 10 expounding Law, one.half
think they can beat the doctor healing
the sick, two. thirds of them think they
can beat the minister preaching the
gospel, and all of them know they can
beat the editor in running the newspa-
per."-F2orida Facts
- London has no Sabbath mail. At
ten o'clock Saturday night the postoffice
is closed, and no letters are received or
delivered, and no one is worse for this
suspension of business The employees
of the Office have an unbroken day of
rest. Business men are far better of, and
it pays If no lettrrs were mailed, de.
li7ered, or carried in the United States
on Sabbath, no branch of industry
would suffer, no important institution
would be harmed, and busy men and no.
} men everywhere would be profteo by the
change.
= The month of February, 1886, was
in one respect the most remarkable in
the worlds history. 1t had no full moon.
January had two full moons, so had
March, but February had none. Do you