The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-11-05
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- The ordinary watch gives l0O,l44,oCo
ticks year.
Miss Katie Cole, aged eighteen, drop
ped dead on the street, at Pottstown, Pa,
the other day. Her physician said that
tight lacing was the cause Of her death.
Sir Robert Ball, the astronomer roy
al for Ireland, predicted q short time ago
that so, ,0C0, ,000 years ago the moon was
part of this earth, and that in $4,000, 900
years hence the moon would be twice
the distance as it is now, and the length
of the day then would be ], 400 or ], ZOO
hours long, or equal to twenty -seyen OF
our present days.
Shirley Dare says the fruit cake is
more ncurishing than modern bread, and
that ifone girl were to eat only fruit cake
and another only broad for week it
would be found that the cake-eater kept
her strength better than the one who
lived on bread alone. This may seem
daring statement for Shirley to mako. but
every school gil will arise and call her
blessed.
The most remarkable official career
in the history of the United States was
that of John Quincy Adams. It extended
over forty-eight years, and embraced fif-
teen years In the diplomatic service as
minister to Russia, Prussia and the Meth
erlands, five years rs Senator, eight years
as Secretary of State, four years az Pres
ident and sixteen years as Representative
In Congress.
Miss Heeht of Baltimore, who killed
herself because shs thought she was too
small to charm lover, should have had
the heart for better fate. She should
have remem bered that undersiZed women
like cleopatra and Sappho have been very
important people in the worlds history,
and that an empress like Catherine found
1t necessary 70 stand on tiptoe to appear
imposing.
- It is proposed to erect monument
at Memph to Gen. n. B. Forrest, whom
Robert E. Lee once called the greatest OF
Confederate generals. Gen. Forests fame
rests on the fact that with handful Of
raw troops he was able to defeat his out
numbering enemy. This was the case
when with four hundred men he cap.
tured Streight's two thousand picked
victory at Tishomingo Creek.
= Is IL true that girls are wearing sus-
penders? One ofthe letters sent out from
New York, bearing the signature cfJohn
r. Cockerell, says that they are, ard that
they call them bretelles, thus still adding
another name to what Euglishmen style
braces and the Southorners galluses. The
breteIles are said to be put on when the
girls play tennis and ride byoicles-the
very times when men take their suspep-
ders off.
The ordnance division of the War
Department has recently made tests OF
smokeless powder with field guns. and
obtained very satisfactory results. The
quantity of smokeless powder, half
charge, gave the same velocity as double
the amount or black powder, while full
charge of smokeless powder gave We
iocity of2,050 feet per second, with per-
feet safety to the gun, which Is 70 per
cent. more than can be obtained with the
same quantity ofordinary powder.
- The ruling sensation in London at
present is the extraordinary leap mado
by q man named Miriam Nigg, who
inmps POS feet from the top of the aqua
rum and lands on his feet on the bare
floor. 1Io wears the costume OF an
American Indian, and his rapid DESCENT
is broken by some patent arrangement
invisible to the audience. Nigg began
his performance On Thursday, and now
all London is running to see the startling
feat and to discuss what it is that breaks
his fall.
= The syndicate that was formed in
Germany last summer foH the purpose
of establishing colonies OF German far
mers in Alabama has procured tract OF
land in that State. The work of enroll
ing the colonists ia in progress in Ger
many, and it is reported that body OF
them will bo ready to take their depar-
ture for Alabama next month. II the
first colony IS successful other colonies
will be rapidly organized so that within
q few years tho State may have q large
German population.
- The father may think to hide GER
tain parts of his character from his child,
not wishing him to initiate them, and may
give him precepts that h6 has never fol-
lowed, but the child absorbs what he fan
cies is concealed and forgets the words
that contradict it. Commands and exhor-
tations may produce or restrain certain
acts, but they are powerless to inspire
emotions or create desires. Often they
have reverse effect. TO give every man
his due, 10 refrain from taking unfair edr
vantage. or in any way enriching ones
self at tho expense of another, are duties
which are simply to be inculoated and
obeyed, vet how is the desire Of gain, ,
so intense in many minds, to be made to
weld when it conflicts with these duties?
The love of rectitude, the faith in honor,
the desirs to deal fairly and squarely
with all men, must be aroused and
before any one can be
thoroughly and truly just. And the
same is true with regard to every good
nuality, ty,-PhiIudelDHiN Ledger.