The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-12-24

= Twenty-Five newspapers in Kansas
are edited by women.
- One hundred and twenty -soven mill
! ions is the number Of boots and shoes
said to be manufactured yearly in Great
Britain.
- Mrs. Samuel Gasion, of Providence,
R. T., has had three husbands out of one
family. She is only forty-seven years of
age, but she has been married seven
times, her first, fifth and seventh hus-
bands being brothers. How their father
escaped is mystery.
If the inhabitants Of Chicago should
turn out and walk IN double file they
would form line seven hundred and for
ty miles in length. It would take nearly
all the cars in the country to accommo-
date them if all of them decided to ride at
once.
"A negro boy was hunting in the
swamps near Morgan, Ga, the other
morning, when gray eagle seven and a
dog and tried to fly off with ii. Tho
boy shot the eagle and brought him to
town.
- From January to October, this year,
nearly S70.0O0,00O were expended in
building in Chicago. This covered the
plans for 10, ,440 buildings. In New York,
during ths same period, plans for 2,2S2
buildings were filed, costing S47,772, 600.
The average cost per building in Chicago
was S4070, while in New York it was
S20,600.
= A st. Paul man sued the Western
Union Telegraph Company for $4,000
damages for failure to deliver him tele-
gram announcing the death of his brother
in Chicago. His allegations set forth that
through this failure the plaintiff twas
deprived of the satisfaction and pleasure
Of seeing his said brother and attending
the funeral"
A wonderful flower has been discov-
cred on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec,
which changes its color at different peri
DDS in the day. In the morning it is white,
when the sun is at its zenith it is red,
and at night it is blue. The red-white-
and-blue flower grows on tree about
the size of a guava tree, and only at noon
does it give out any perfume.
= The. outlook is now that very con-
siderable tobacco crop will be raised in
Georgia next year. So decided is this
movement that commissioner Nesbitt has
| about decided to employ atobacco expert,
NuOS6 puStutSS ~ WILL US w ~ llOlll pldCo
TO place, furnishing information to those
about to engage in the culture on large
scale. There are now thirty-eight tobacco
clubs, or growers associations In Georgia
and new ones are being formed constant
ly.
- For the past ten years two families,
one named Write and the other Jonson,
have lived near each other in Blount
County, Alabama, about ten miles from
Dlountsville. Mr.. and Mrs. Write had
FIVE daughters about grown and Mr.. and
Mrs. Johnson had five sons who had at
tanned their majority. The families were
neighborly and intimate. Two years ago
the two eldest Jonson boys married two
of the Write girls. Shortly afterward
Mrs. Jonson and Mr.. Wright died at
about the same time, postponing tempo
rarily the marriage ofanother of the JON
son boys to e',other daughter of the
Writes. A short while ago Mr.. Jonson,
sr., was married to Mrs. Write, and one
of the two remaining boys married the
youngest Write girl. The marriage was
double one. A few weeks ago the re-
naming Jonson boy married the last
Write girl.