The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-08-20
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

There are nearly 5000 pieces in
modern locomotive.
- Nine men out of ten love women;
the tenth loves a woman.
of the twelve largest cities in the
world three are in Japan.
"A herd of eighty. five buffalo will be
exhibited at the Worlds Fair.
Chief Justice Lucus, of West Vir.
ginia, is said to be only 4 feet high.
: The United States collects $S39 and
spends s461 every minute ofthe night and
day.
- India, it is estimated will produce
11O,00O,OO0 pounds of tea during the
coming season.
The receipts oi the French treasury
are larger than those of any other civil:
lied nation.
One sheet Of paper recently made
was eight feet wide and seven and three.
quarter miles long.
= Men who cover themselves with
glory, sometimes find, after all, that they
are very thinly clad.
If the devil can get man to worship
himselfhe don't care how much he goes to =
Church.
For every man who knows more
than he tells, there are fifty who tell
more than they know.
Edna Davis, child, fell over preci.
pice $50 feet high, in Washington, and
was only slightly hurt.
= It is estimated that the yield of
wheat in Oregon will be 1000, 900 bush.
els more than last year.
= Missouri is the most populous State
west of the Mississippi, and is nearly as
big as all New England.
Texas has Fat Mans Association,
the initistion fee of which is cent a
! pound. Men who weigh less than 225 I
pounds are ineligible to membership.
There is something signifcantin the
fact that the Wyoming Legislature,
which imposes tax Of two dollars on Z
bachelors, was elected by woman's suf-.a
frage. ~. ~
- The biggest orange tree in Louisi-
ana is in Terrebone parish. tits Is feet
in circumference and so feet high. The !
yield this year is expected to reach 10000
oranges.
i - Ingalls, says the political leaders are
towards. They are afraid to say what
they think for fear they might offend
their constituents. There is good deal
of truth in this.
- There are number of otherwise
good people in this country who seem to
have forgotten that neither gold, silver
nor greenbacks are current in the world to /
which they are going.
= a man can tell 8 lie by the wink of
the eye, nod of the head, ahrug Of
the shoulders, but it is as truly 9 lie as
if the deceptive impression has been
conveyed by plainly spoken words.
"A hotel has been built in Hamburg
entirely of compressed wood as hard as
iron, and rendered absolutely proof
against both fire and the attacks of in-s
sects by subsection to chemical processes
An Euglishman has invented an ap's
paratus through which, he declares, he
can see the soul leave the body. He
arranges lenses that so magnify the par-E
ticles of dust in the air that disturbance
by anything passing upward can be de-
tected. How he is to see the souls
that pass downward is not explained.
= The largest fig orchard in ths,au
world is expected 10 be one thatwii #
be planted in Pomona Valley, Cal. Ovef
seven hundred acres will be planted or
$4,000 trees. The projectors believe they
can produce figs equal to the best Smyrna
varieties. The trees will be imported
from Syria.
An over-careful physician in New
Haven washes all the greenbscks he re-
ceives from patients for fear they might
contain disease germs. BE first uses
soap, then rinsipg the notes off in cold
water, and he reports that the treatment
gives clean, crisp look to even the
most dilapidated bill.
"A member of the Legislature, from
one Of the lower counties, says the At.
lanta Journal, has received petition
asking him to introduce bill to prevent
boys and girls from sitting together in.
Zion church. The petition recites that
it ipterferes with the proper preaching.
of the gospel, and desires the bill passed
at the Earliest possible moment" The
member has not yet decided what to do
about it.
"A saw has been designed for cut
ting iron, mild steel or other metals of
fairly large sections. The inventor of
this appliance claims that it is cold iron
saw, at once simple, powerful and ehec.
tive. It is always in readiness for work
and can be manipulated by inexperienced
workmen. The machine is fitted with
fast and loose pulleys, strap fork and
bar, and is stated to be capable Of max.
ing 400 cuts through bars of Bessemer
steel 4.inch diameter, each cutting occu-
pying six minutes on the average, with
out changing the saw.-New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
= Another marvellous piece Of me-
chanism has recently been exhibited in
Paris. 1t is an eight day clock, which
chimes the quarters, plays sixteen tunes,
playing three tunes every hour, OF at any
interval required, by simply touching Q
spring. The hands 60 as follows: one
once minnie one once an hour one