The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-08-06
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

= There has been steady rise IN the
average age at which men and women
marry ever since 1873.
"A harness that looks luminous in
the dark has been invented. It is intend.
ed to prevent collisions at night.
= The first dictionary wss compiled
by Pa.out-she, a learned Chinaman, who
lived in the year 1,100 B. G.
- a colored man near Cochran, Ga,
has six fingers on each hand, and three
of his four CONS are said to possess the
same number.
If the pension list is q genuine one
the United States had seventeen million
soldiers in its army, and they all had large
families.
Religious life needs culture. Nour.
ish it by the study of the Bible, by pray
or, and by the faithful performance of
Christian duty.
An Indiana man suicided because
be was too fat. The world, the flesh and
the devil met together, and the devil
carried the day.
= The man who lets his wife split all
the wood may mean we'll, but he
shouldn't be allowed to do all the talk
ing st prayer meeting.
"A grain Of fine sand would cover
100 of the minute scales of the human
skin, and yet each Of these scales in turn
covers from 800 to 500 pores.
The Prince Of Wales life is insured
for 100000. The astonishment is that
any reputable company should insure the
life of such a disreputable character.
- Chicago has underground and sue.
cessfully working 404 miles Of electric
light cables, 6O6 miles of telegraph wires,
and $3.50 miles of telephone wires and
cable.
New York and Brooklyn together
have a bonded indebtedness of nearly
s15o,oOo. New York pays nearly 81;
100000 annually in the way of interest
on the debt. g5:s
"A calico printing machine has been
invented in this country, the novelty of
which is that the cloth may be printed
on one side in eight colors, or on both
sides with four colors each.
- The life insurance carried by John
Wanamaker amounts to S1,000,000,:
which is distributed in twenty.nine DIFF
ferent companies. The premiums on
these policies amount to $4,000 g
year.
- Ordinary methods of taking bri-5
dal tour are altogether too slow for 8
Chicago couple. They arewheeling It to
New York on bicycles. They are.
starting life at rather too fast gait to be,
happy.
Some almanac makers say the "dog
day" period extends from July 8 to Aug.
II, while others insist that it does not
begin till July "a and thereafter lasts one.
month. Every almanac maker, no doubt,
should have his date since every dog has
his day.
The Japanese language is said to
contain $4,000 words, every one of which
requires different symbol. It is quite
impossible for one to learn the entire
language, and well educated Japanese
is familiar with only about 10000
words. <
= The various forms of eaYe.taking
have more special significance than Is
generally awarded to them. "Adieu' sig.
signifies "To God I commend you."
"Good.by" is contraction of "God be
with you," while farewell" means "Be
happy" or more literally, "May you jour.
ney WE'LL"
Miss Anna Williams, the girl whose
classic profile is reproduced on the sill
yer dollar, is still a Philadelphia teacher,
as she was when her features attracted
the attention of the mint engraver.
She now teaches kindergarten philosophy
in the Girls Normal School in the Qua
ker City.
"Oh, I understand, MISS" said the
lawyer, "this man has been guilty Of
breaches Of promises, made to you aud
accepted by you in good faith" Eyes,
sir, but-but," and she blushed fearfully,
couldn't you, in court, call it trousers Of
promises-it would be more delicate,
don't you think ?"
- An exchange tells how girls taste
differs according to her age. "At sixteen
she wants dude with tooth-pick shoes
srd microscopic mustache at twenty
chief justice with piles of tin +; at twen-
ty-6ve she will be satisfied with mem.
Der of congress at thirty, country
doctor or preacher will do; at thirty
Eve, anything that wears pants from an
editor up.
= At Grafton, Ill.,, three brothers
named Murphy, man named Domaine,
and one or two others, all substantial
farmers and neighbors, after filling
themselves with liquor, purchased Wa.
termelon, and sat down behind saloon
to eat it. They quarreled over its appor.
tionment, and used their knives on each
other until six men we're badly cut, and
one of the. Murphy brothers was fatally
stabbed.
"A singular discovery is reported to
have been made in Edwards County, Tex'
1t is known as the ':Devil's Sink Hole. =
Recently it wss partially explored. One
man was let down by rope $50 feet.
Here he found ledge and passsgeway
leading from it seven feet high, wide
enough for three men abreast, and rum
ming at steep incline downward. he
followed it three hundred feet and came
to an immense lake of water, ice coldl