The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-09
all Sorts of Paragraphs.

= The only way to get more from
God is to enjoy what he hath already
given.
= The government paid 500, ,610, 1881
to railroads for carrying mails during
1890.
- More than two million dozen of eggs
were received in New York City in eight
days.
- More than sixty companies for the
manufacture of cotton goods have been
organized in the South during the last
eight months.
- The man who spends his life In
getting even" for real or supposed ipju--
ries, is a torment to himself, and general
ly bore to his friends.
- There is tract of forest trees in
Southern Oregon, embracing about 5000
square miles, which, if cut and sold at
$40 per 1000 feet, would pay our nation
al debt twice over.
- Virginia, North Carolina and Ten
uessee raise an average of 100000
bushels of peanuts year. The annual
value of the crop averaged s2,5OO,0O0 for
the last four years.
= Earthquakes are more frequent at
the periods of new and full moon, and
also when the moon is nearest the earth.
French scientists assert that earthquakes
are caused by the moon.
: The first gun made for the Confed-
eracy is now in the possession of Mrs.
H. I. Miller, Of Chattanooga, whose faith.
er made it at Holly Springs, Miss, in
1861. It originally had a riaed barrel,
and is still in good condition.
= Col. Ben. Terrell, of Texas, the
Farmers Alliance orator, is booked for
large number of speeches before the
County Alliances in North Carolina.
The president of the State Alliance in
vites the public "to turn out at these
meetings and learn what Alliance doc
trines are"
= he who goes to God for help will
not leave the work for God to do, but is
more likely to work for what he prays. In
short, we must be in earnest, having on
the whole armor Of God, and show by
our daily walks that we believe what we
practice, and practice what we believe. :.
In looking idly over the lien bo.k
in the Clerks Office the other day, We
came across a mortgage given lately
upon "two unborn calves" to secure the
purchase money for FIVE window shades
and a baby carriage. The BABY had evil
dently been born, if the calves had not.--o
Edgefeld Chronicle.
"A whole family, consisting Of Adam
Barley, aged sixty.four; his wife, aged
forty.two; sister, sixty. eight, and daugh-
ter, twenty, have died within the past
week, after few days. illness of grippe;
followed by pneumonia. They lived
near Stephens City, Va, in Winchester
County.
"A Mrs. Williams, of Valley City,
Dak., wagered that she could put the
slips on FIVE pillows while any man pres
ent at church fair could encase one, and
seven different men took her up and suf-
fered defeat. No man can ever acquire
the knack of holding pillow in his teeth
to work with both hands.
There are over 1000 grip cases in
Dubuque, Iowa. In many business houses
half of the employees are down with the
disease and almost every hodsehold has
one or more victims. Physicians state
that the grip this year often develops into
pneumonia, although the fatalities are
not alarmingly frequent.
= A pretty English hwoman has been
arrested in Paris for marrying forty.three
gentlemen aud invariably skipping on
the wedding night with all the presents.
Her companion, Mrs. Haba, believed to
hail from New Orleans, attended to the
selection of the victims. She made her
escape, leaving her principal to suffer the
penalty of the law.
= To q Polish wedding at Hurley,
Wis, the guests brought no conventional
presents. When the feast was over all
the plates we're washed and placed up.
right against the wall, to be pelted with
silver dollars until every plate was bro.
ken. The ammunition thereby accruing
to the happy couple reached total OF
nearly $500.
- More than ten thousand medical
students have graduated during the past
two years in the United States, and are
now looking for business in that line
The number seems out of all proportion,
but medical journal declares that seven
thousand graduates per year can be turn.
ed out to make a fair living, as
the population advances in the same
ratio.
A little girl went shopping the 9th.
er day with her mother, who, making
purchases at various stores, gave as the
parting word, "Please charge them to my
husband, 26 street." At night the
little girl, half sleeping and tired out,
said, in conclusion, 81 pray God to bless
my mother and my father and my little
brother, and send bill to papa, 26
street."
= Married women will do II i to paste
in their scrap books, if the Gosnen DEM
ocrat is to be believed, the following sta
tistics relative to 8 woman's work: In
one year woman gets dinner 365 times,
washes dishes 1905 times, gets the chill.
dren ready for school twice day for 1sq
days, gets the baby to sleep 1,46O
times and makes about 906 calls.
Who says that a woman has nothing to