The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-06-19
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

- In Belgium there are $500 schools
and 23G, 900 barrooms.
President Harrison has subscribed
two dollars to the Grant Monument
Fund.
Over seven millions bales of cotton
have come in sight from last seasons
crop.
Mayor Job, Of Plainfeld, New
Jersey, has kept one umbrella thlrty-hve
years.
The wise carry their knowledge as
they do their watches, not for display, but
for their own use.
No matter how much girl may
like her name, she is always willing to
consider the possibility of changing it to
her advantage.
M. L. Durgip, of Milo, Me-, has not
tasted tea or coffee for slxty.two years.
He has now reached four-score and ten,
and is still hale and hearty.
= Richard l.. Edwards, 10, of Cincin.
natl. was drowned three weeks ago.
When found, his hair had turned white,
it is supposed from fright while drowning.
An Ohio man wants divorce be.
cause his wife sprinkled carpet tacks over
the floor, and then made him get cut OF
bed at midnight to gel her glass of va
ter.
"A new megaphone has been placed
on the market in England, by which the
human voice can be 50 magni6ed that it
may be heard at distance of several
miles.
Gen. E. Kirby Smith, thesfsmops
Confederate soldier, claims the unique
distinction of being the Oldest living man
born in Florida. He is native OF st.
Augustine.
Judge Gornto, of Perry. Fla, has a
camphor tree on his place. The cold has
not injured itin the least. Mr.. Gorntof
says he believes the tree can be success
fully raised in this country.
There are fully 200 men in Chicago
who have fortune of $4,000, 900 or more
apiece. The richest of them all are.
Marshall Field and P. D. Armour, who
are each worth about S25,0O0,00O. .,
= Stanley says if he could get 5000
two-gallon jugs into the heart of Africa
they would buy him 10000 acres of land
and 500 wives. One two. gallon jug will
make man think he OWNS the earth
provided it is loaded. #
- Mamma wonder what we shall
call the baby? JOHNNY don't think /
we'd better call him any of the names 4
papa called him last night when he was !
crying. He mighn't like it when he grow. !
ed up. 81 Is
= Ex Congressman W. L. Scott, of !,
Pennsylvania, has tried buttermilk that
has been heated to the boiling point
without boiling, and then permitted to
cool, and enthusiastically recommends it !.
as cure for dyspepsia.
- They have curious way of deciding
lawsuits in Siam; both parties are put
under cold water, and the one staying the
longest wins the suit. In this country !
both parties are got into hot water, and
then kept there as long possible. The
result is the same.
= In New York, the other day, Fede-5
raj marshalls arrested six women for re:
fusing to answer census questions. The
prisoners complained to the court that the
questions were impertinent, but they all
agreed to answer and were thereupon re-
leased.
= The double funeral of Mr.. and Mrs.
Minnott Thompson, of New Haven, was
held Monday. Mr.. Thompson and his
wife were both eighty years of age, and
they died within twenty. four hours of
each other. Old age was the principal
cause of death in each.
- care you going to the seaside this
summer? ?" asked one young woman of
another. "No," was the reply. 81 don't
think it would be of any use, Susie and I.
Bessie both got married last season, and /
don't suppose pa could afford to support
another husband"
-"I, say, Sparkins Did you see. in
the paper to day that the captain of the
schooner Emma is to receive medal. for
his herioc conduct in saving FIVE lives 2"3
"Well, what of it I've saved hundreds
of lives and nobody ever gave me 8 med
al?" "You Impossible How When?Dosz.
"Why, I studied for physician and then !
refused to practice"
"A naughty little boy one day eluded
punishment by creeping under the table
where his mother could not reach him.
Shortly after his father came in, and when
told of the state of affairs crawled on his
hands and knees in search of his son and
heir, when to his astonishment he was
greeted with this inquiry "ls she after
you too, father ?"
"A Williamsport girl, who in the
matter of beauty and afectionate ex-
uberance was sot to say fresh as FIRST in
love and rosy as the dawn" was asked
why she did not get married, and this is
what she said in reply: IT have consid-
erable money of my OWL, | have a parrot
that can swear, and monkey that chew5
tobacco, so that have no need of hus-
band"
= When the average man or woman
comes to be fitted with the first pair OF
glasses, some curious discoveries arc
made. Seven out of ten have stronger
sight in one eye than the other. In two
cases out of FIVE, ono eye is out of line.
Nearly one half the people are colorblind
to some extent, and only one pair Of eyes
out of every fifteen are all right in all
respects.
= 1t is estimated that over 10000, 600
cigars are manufactured every day in the
United States alone, and this enormous
number requires in the neighborhood of
10000 boxes for their keeping. AS a
result there are over two hundred facto.
ries in the country turning these boxes
out. The wood of which these boxes are
made comes from Mexico, Central Amer
lea and the West Indies.
= The farmers are coming squarely to
the front on the Tillman ticket. Besides
Tillman the three who have announced
themselves as candidates are. all lawyers
and are not presumed to be able to tell
barley from oats. Of course they will
tell the old rusty, broken jointed cam.
paign joke about themselves not being
much lawyers and Il" people will believe
they are telling the truth and vote for
them.-Spartaaburg Spartan.
"A novel operation has been perform
ed in the Edinburgh (Scotland) Infrma-
~. A farmer was suffering from dis
eased leg bone, induced by an accident.
On medical advice he went to the lnfrm-