The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-07-16
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

- The religion that has no joy init
does not come from God.
= Faith fears nothing. Faith and trial
are the best of friends.
= The poorest man on earth is tss one
who has the fawest trials.
"A child born without eyes is at
tracing the attention of New YorkersS
The only people who are discomfort s
ed are those who are not doing their
whole duty.
"A man at Oakland, CAL, is payinga
a fellow-citizen s100 week not to speak
to him for month.
Maud Evans, of Beaver Falls, Penn,
who is only sixteen years of age, has 81
third set of natural teeth. u
= "Now, Jennie, let me see whether
you know your lesson. Tell me who frste
discovered whalebone." Jonah, III
guess"
= "Ma," said little girl, "Witfig
wants the biggest piece of pie, and aink
l ought to have it, cause he was eating
pie two years fore I was bornded."
-Daughter-"Father, Mr.. Hendricks
is very bright young man." Father
Gle must be. notice you never have
light in the parlor the night he
calls"
The ordinary watch gives 116, $4,000
ticks during a year. This information is
furnished by the Jewelers. Circular to save
the people the trouble of counting the
ticks. ss.
An Indiana woman very rightly
sues her husband for divorce for pnt-7}
ting mouse down her back. She said
she could stand most anything but an
outrage like that. q
james Bartley of New London, says
he has just spent thirty six hours in 9; !:
whales belly. It is an open question
now whether James more resembles
Jonah or Ananias. - 70.
-"Do brutes have language 2" ask:
ed the president of the Millville Literary
circle, at recent meeting. "Do they?0
replied the secretary; "you oughtto hear
my husband when he loses his collar butt
ton."
"A bride was arrayed in her wedding
fnery and 200 guests had assembled at
Keyport N. j., when she received note
from the groom that he couldn't be pres.
ent, as his wedding clothes didn't fit
him.
- Frederick Dengler, an old audsec.s;
centric miser, was found dead in his
hovel at Lima, o., having evidently been !.
dead for several days. His wealth, which
he had deposited in the various banks, is
estimated at $4,000.
In China all the land belongs to the
State, and triAing sum per acre, never
altered through long centuries, is paid as
rent. This is the only tax in the coun-
try, and it amounts to but about sixty
cents per head.
The longest suit of hair in the world
is perhaps that which grows on the head (
of Miss Asenath Philpott, of Gainesville,
Texas, hers trailing on the ground when
she stands nearly four feet, measuring in
all ten feet, seven inches.
= A syndicate of young Charleston
speculators went in strong bulls on
cotton some time ago. The staple kept
going down, and last week the last Of
their margin was consumed and the bot
tom dropped out. They lost about s6O, 900.
-"Marie, what are those things on that
tree ?" "They're blossoms" cob, does
the tree drink?" "No, of course not.
What put that in your head?" Why, I
heard grandma tell mamma that drink.
ing was putting beautiful blossom on
papa"
= It is an old story of the Scotch
Presbyterian who said: "That the devil
is bad you can tell by his very name
for, if you take away the d, it is evil, and
take away the de it is vile, take away the
dev it is ill, so that he is an i'll, vile, evil
devil.
There is mountain of coal in Wild
Horse Valley, which has been burning
for more than thirty yesrs. It sends up
dense volumes of smoke, and at times the
gas from it is almost sufocating, even at
distance of fifty to seventy.fve miles
from the burning coal bed.
= The Alliance platform adopted sew
eral days ago at Grand Forks, N. D.,
makes no mention Of the Cincinnati
platform. 1t demands 100 cent silver
dollar and the taxation of mortgages, and
favors an income tax, prohibition and
woman suffrage. The Alliance also in
dorses the Ocals platform.
The Boston Traveller, Republican
organ, is authority for the statement that
Republican money went into South
Carolina and was used to defeat Hamp-
ton and elect Irby to the United States
Senate, and that "much more extended
preparations are being made for the next
campaign under the skillful leadership
of ex-Gov. Long at the Boston end Of the
line and OF J. 81. McLane of Columbia,
S. G., at the other end" 1t adds that
"McLane's Alliance tendencies would
shock his Boston associates under ordi-
nary circumstances, but they are willing
to ioin hands with him and tolerate the
crudities of the Alliance to beat the
Democrats" And there is nothing else
on earth in the way of either ''crudity"
or rascality which the Republican party
would not tolerate to "beat the Demo
Gratis" That which shocks it "under ordi-
nary circumstances" becomes very mild
aud agreeable when it can be turned to