The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-07-30
All Sorts OF Paragraphs.
Women think more of lattery than
men, but they believe in less of it.

men, but they oelleVe IN less OF IL.
"A machine has recently been inven.
ted for making shoestrings out of paper.
One day last week three thousand
people sailed from New York for Eu.
rope.
II In Austria women are employed as
hod carriers and get twenty-five cents
day for it.
of the 5000 new patent medicines
put on the market every year not 100
survive
Teachers salaries in the United
States annually amount to more than
s60,0OO0OO.
Never was there such closeness in
the money world of New York as now,
so say the capitalists.
Women: kissing each other is some
thing like voting the Independent ticket.
1t doesn't do any good.
"A tract Of land at Cape May Court
House, NJ j., is advertised for public
sale to satisfy debt of 81 cents.
- Forty years ago New York man
marked quarter and put it in circula-.
ton. It has just returned to him.
An immigrant girl who landed in
New York the other day has nose Eve
and seven.eighths inches long.
= Africa is land of many tongues.
The Bible has now been translated into
sixty-six of the languages and dialects
of Africa.
- The king of Ashantee has 1888
wives. That is just 1882 more than any
king of q shanty is entitled to, luckily
for the wives.
= An old drummer says that the way
to succeed in business is to wear out the
soles of your shoes instead of the seat of
your pants.
- The citizens of Athens, Ga, beseech
their council to pass an ordinance for the
muzzling of cats. The animals are too
noisy o'nights.
- Michigan has followed the example,,
of California by refusing to tax the prop.a
erty and also the mortgage which repre-.
sents the property.
Cotton prophets are predicting !
shortage of a million bales of cotton in I
the present crop. Such calamity might
be blessing in disguise.
"A Philadelphia young man recently
advertised for wife, and his sister an. i,
swered. In most cases, however, the
young man does not escape SO easily.
The young man who stsrts out in
life with bottle Of whiskey in one pock.
ct and pistol in the other, is on the
straight road to the devil, with down
grade all the way.
- Mrs. Rosetta R. Hostetter, of Pitts-
burg, is one of the five richest women in !.
America. She is the widow of the man
ufacturer of Hostetter's Bitters. In. her
case bitter is sweet, undoubtedly. IS
= The third party is to take whack
at things in Kentucky in the August
election. The fusion will be with Be
publicsns in many districts and the effort
will be to defeat the Democratic nomi-5
nees.
One member of the legislature in
troduced bill prohibiting citizens of
Georgia from getting drunk. Another
member has offered a bill prohibiting I
county or State officials from getting
drunk.
A Maine farmer who recently sent
10 cents to q man who advertised to send I
for that amount directions how to run
farm without being troubled with potato
bugs got this reply by postal card: Plant,
fruit trees instead of potatoes.
Sixty persons have for two months
been counting the money in the United
States treasury and found it correct to as
cent. AS the cost was about $4,000, it I
is hoped there will be no change soon in
the treasurership necessitating another
count.
Jasper county, Texas, has wide
range of latitude. Crops may safely be
planted in the southern end of the coun.
ty month earlier than in the north
ern part. Oranges may be raised in
the south end of the county with more.
safety than figs in the north end.
"A gun thirty and one.half feet long,
weighing thirty.on tons, firing 6ye-5
hundred.pound projectile with 240J
pounds Of powder, has reached the
Brooklyn Navy yard. The projectile
will go through forty inches of wrought
iron or wrought steel at distance Of one
mile.
-"I've grest notion to go and jump.
into the river" said Mr.. N. Peck at the
end of little domestic discussion, as he
picked up his hat and started out. "You
come right back here" said his wife. eff
you intend any such tricks as that just
march upstairs and put on your old,
clothes before you start"
There are $4,000 oil wells in the
United States, representing q capital Of
s120,000,000 with an output of 100000.
barrels per day. The refining capacity
of the country is 100000 barrels per day:
while $4,000 barrels are consumed as
fuel. A surplus stock is held in tanks Of
more than 100000 barrels.
Probably the most remarkable rail.
road in the world is that rnnning from
Gloggintz to Lounering, near Vienna. It
is only twenty-five miles in length, but;
cost S9,0O0,O00. 1t begins at an elevation
of 400 feet and has its terminus at 49,
600 feet 1t has fifteen double viaducts,
seventeen tunnels aud crosses itself nine