The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-05-14
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= What is the first thing man does
when he falls into the water? Gets
wet. Z! q
= The reduction of the public debt 7
for the last month was about one million
dollars. Il
- Every one admires man of push,
but nobody wants to be the person push
ed aside by the man.
of every million people in the world
300 are blind, and the other 999, 200 cam
not see their own faults.
= The man who never gives away any.
thing, cheats himself ont Of good deal
of satisfaction. 3 @
= There are good many. men in the
pulpit who would not be there if they
had not misunderstood the Lord.
IA good deal of the trouble in this life
comes because men take too much time
to make money, and too little to enjoy
it. u:
= There are people that-ciaim that
they want to get to Heaven who Hgverci
want TO get near warm prayer meet
ing.
= By mistake New Orleans paper:
printed list of coming weddings, the
other day, under the head of "The Sugar
Crop"
- It takes about three seconds for q 4
message to 60 from one end of the Allan
tic cable to the other; this is about 700
miles second.
From the figures of the new United
States census, it appears that the mort.
gage Indebtedness in Iowa amounts to-
$500 for every family.
= Clay County, Mo-, will be repre-
sented at the Worlds Fair by 8 span Of
mules eighteen hands high, and which
will weigh $500 pounds. g
When driving nails into hard wood,
if they show disposition to double over
dip them in lard or oil, and they will
sink into the wood without any trouble.
Tine Rev. John Hall, Of the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church, of New
York, is now rated among the million.s
aires. His annual income is not far short
of $4,000.
- In adversity ne should pray for pa
thence to bear its trials and privations;
in prosperity we have even yet more need:
to pray for grace to meet its many temp:
tations.
The railroads own 211,ooO,ooo acrest
Of land, which is an area larger than six
States the size of Iowa. Since 1861, no.
less than 1O1,ooo,ooo acres have been.
given to the railroads.
= In the Uuited States annually abou
$500 persons are tried for murder, with,
an average of about 100 legal executions.
In five of the States imprisonment for
life has been established for the death
penalty"
1t is considered that the ovary of the
average hen contains about 600 eggs 20
mature the FIRST year. l20 the second, 1856
the third, and the rest after that; so the
second and third years are the best for
egg production.
- The name Indian" Was given-to.
the inhabitants of America by Columbus,
from his belief that the country which hq
had discovered was an extension of India
the country known to occupy the extrs M
of the Eastern hemisphere.
= Minnie-The idea, Mamie, I ret
thought you 1ould marry man with q
red mustache. Mamie-His mustache is
not red, you hateful thing. And If it
were, there's just as much tickle to red
mustache as black one. -
= First boy: "The preacher saidsshat;
when the collection plate went round
everybody thought TO theirselves not how
much they could give, but how little they
could give without feelin' ashamed. Now:
I'd jest like to know how he can tell what
people is thinking about" Second Boy:
"Of course he knows how folks feel.
Before he got to be minister he used
to be in the congregation hisself."
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