The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-03-19
All Sorts of Paragraphs.
: There were three hundred and fifty


There were three hundred and fifty
new medicines patented in 1890.
No rich man was ever happy unless
he used his money to make others 80.
: There are said to be $4,000 brass
bands in this country, with 100000 per-
formers.
= Michigan is going to bestow on her
women the right to vote in municipal
elections.
An octogeuarian at Mayesville, o.,
has just taken his seventh wife-a woman
80 years his junior.
The deepest hole ever bored into the
earth is the artesian we'll at Potsdam,
which is $500 feet deep.
= The more man reads the more he &
usually knows, and the more liquor he
drinks the redder his nose grows.
= Three deacons at Bellaire, Mich:
threw brother out of church because he
refused to sing, or speak, or pray.
"A very careful man is Farmer Dris.
ko, of Jonesborough, Me. He has plow
which has been in constant service for SO
years.
For the winter live stock market
Chicago receives a weekly average of
250,0O0 hogs, $4,000 sheep and 10000 !;
cattle.
"A Benedictine priest in Erie, Pa,
has caught smallpox through letter from
brother priest in an infected district in
Texas.
In Germany the law makes servants
give months notice before leaving. The
mistress must give similar notice before
discharge.
"A German professor claims to have
discovered the microbe of love, and is now.
engaged on series of civilizations for.
incubation purposes.
"A grain of fine sand would cover 100
of the minute scales Of the human skin;4
and yet each of these scales in turn COW.
ers from 800 to 500 pores.
= Miatress-Why, Steeny, you have
used one of my stockings to strain the
coffee with l.! Steeny-(new servant girl)
be angry, missus; I didn't take
one of the clean ones.
- A farmer near Atlanta, Ga, not
needing the coffin he had bought for his z
sick child, the latter getting we'll, mount;
ed it on four legs and used it as water
ing trough for his COWS. With the lid he
repaired his fence.
= 1t has been prophesied that in ten
years. time there will be more campno-,.
trees than orange trees in Florida, and
that the camphor producing industry
in that State will become of great impor- +
tance.
B. F. Wilson, of sewickley, Pa, is j
now wishing that he had taken the sew
eral offers of $4,000 that have at various
times been made him for the famous
English setter, Count Noble. The val q
liable dog died recently.
= The period of generation" has
been heightened; it used to be 80 years
and was later increased to thirty.four :
now a scientist says the average term of
human life has increased in the last fifty
years from thirty four to forty.two
years.
= 1t showed at Salt Lake recently, (.
and peculiar feature of the storm was
large quantity of salt which fell with it.
The snow melted next day, and left the
salt on the ground at least ! of an inch
in thickness Correspondence Chicago
Tribune.
At an auction sale of blooded stock
in Louisville recently, Antees, ten.year
old stallion, by Electioneer, was sold for
$4,000. This is an enormous price for a
horse, and it ia claimed by Kentucky
sporting men to be the highest price
stallion ever brought under the hammer.
A certain girl evidently has rather
poor opinion of the stronger sex. Upon
being asked why she did not marry she
replied: II have considerable money of
my own. I have parrot that swears, a
monkey that chews, a chimney that
smokes, so you see I am not in need of
husband very badly"
"A little boy who had been punished
for an exhibition of ugliness was sent to
bed with instructions to pray that he
might be better boy in the future and
that his temper might be reformed. His
mother stole to the door to make sure
that her commands were carried out, and
this is the prayer she heard: "Oh, Lord,
please take away my bad temper, and
while you are about it you might as we'll
take mother's."
"A celebrated New York physician
gives this as sure cure for insomnia
"If you cannot sleep, the probability is
that it is because your stomach is empty.
Get up and eat cracker or two and
drink glass of milk and go back to bed
again; then you will sleep. The rule
with all the animal kingdom is to sleep
on full stomach. Man has not ceased
to be an animal. Beer is not so good as
milk, but bite of some light food is
better than either"
"A number of the leading Jews in
Germany have addressed communications
to Baron Hirsch, thanking him for his
magnificent gift to promote the emigra.
tion of the Polish and Russian Jews to
the United States. Large numbers of.
these people have succeeded in evading
the vigilance of the Cossack Calvary, who
guard the Russian frontier, and have
made their way into Austria and Germa-
ny, and are now awaiting transportation
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