The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-12-17

II Washington letter says that it
takes IN awful lot OF carpet 10 protect me
feet of our slatcsmcn from the cold OF the
handsome tile floors oi'tho Capitol. Bc-
sides the nine hundred yards necessary
for tho Senate chamber and lobby, it
takes about one hundred yards OH an nv
eraro for each committee room. Six or
eight OF the Senate committee rooms have
been furnished with now carpets this
year. Probably two thousand yards havo
been used in that wing Of the building TO
rcnlaco carpets that lavo been worn out.
Fourteen hundred yards OF now carpet
is being put down in tho House, ard,
with good judgment, a combination OF
red and brown has been selected, which,
while quite rich. will defy tobacco stains.
Probably six hundred yards more have
been used in other rooms on tho House
side, so that the American manufacturers
have supplied the Capitol with four thou
sand yards of carpet; this for the benefit
Of tho 52nd Congress.
- Tho efforts Of inventive goniuscs
seem to have been turned skyward, and
schemes for Juggling with the eloments
are becoming numerous. All Of them go
for Gen. Dyronforth and his frecrackor
methods uireservcdly. Louis Gathman,
of Chicago, is the latest out. lie has an
invention, which, he says, will not only
produce rain in the driest spot on tho
globe, but will dispcrsc sea fogs, land
fogs. and even I.ondon's smoke pail.
His scheme is to explode retorts ofllquc-
fled carhonic gas at 3 great elevation. inc
rapid evaporation of tho gas creates
current Of cold air. The specific gravity
of cold air being greater than warm air
sinks to the earth, sets in motion streams
of atmospheric air, lowers tho tempera-
ture at a great altitude, and produces
clouds and rain "instanter" as Mr.. Gath
man says. His plan for dispelling fogs
is much the same, the fog, mist or smoke
being forced to tho earth and then dissi-
pated.
- Here is curious and instructive
item from Wil!imantic, Conn.,, letter in
the Hartford Couront: With the present
appliances for evaporating juice of all
kinds, cider can be transformed into
regular old fashioned boiler cider very
quickly and very cheaply, and sweet cl-
der cvaporating into molasses ought to
find ready sale in grocery stores at not
less than 81 per gallon. Ono barrel OF
cider will make aboutsiX gallons OF ci-
der molasses. The cost to make cider is
so cents per barrel, and tho cost to get tho
cider evaporated is about so cents per gal
lon. This product from apples, aftor opce
introduced, could not fail to become pop
ular. Ono thing in favor Of turning
apples into molasses is that it will keep
an indefinite time. The writer has n
quantity on hand which is six years old,
and tits fully as gooda when it was first
mado.
- Joseph ". Bailey, of Texas, the
youngest member Of Congress, is thus
described by the Washington Post: IA
young man ofa strikingly noble face and
commanding presence stood chatting with
friends in the lobby of the metropolitan,
and was the observed of all Observers.
His features were refined and almost as
regular as could be chiseled by all artist;
eyes deep blue and wonderfully hand
some suit Of jet black hair, worn very
long. That, together with his soft folt
hat Of expansive brim, was enough to tell
that he hailed from Dixie, and pictures
quoly attractive ho was" Mr.. Bailey is
twenty eight years old, woll-to.do, and
native of Mississippi.
Il know a wealthy Black Bay man
who shaves himself standing in The cor
ner Of the room and facing the wall. Flo
was poor country boy, and, like most
boys, boughta razor on the SLY. There
was no looking glassin his chamber, and
rather than LET his folks know what he
vas about, he faced the wall and scraped
away by the sense Of feeling.