The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-07-20
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

- The forts around Paris have sufi.
cient food to last three years. IS
- In an artificial light the waste is
over ninety per cent.
"A woman in Oregon has worked
twenty.three years as professional stone.
cutter.
- Seventy per cent. of the railroad
passenger cars of Massachusetts are
heated by steam.
- There are 413 species of trees found
within the limits of the United Statea
and Territories. 80
The woman question Now isn't this
a pretty time of night for you to get
home? q
The banana yields larger supply.
of food for man than any other plant on
similar extent of ground.
1t has been scientifically demonstra.i
ted that the earth's axis once every 1877
days undergoes distinct oscillation.
The microacopists say that NOS
quito has twenty-five "teeth" in the end
of ib bill-eleven above and eleven below.
- Do you use nightcsps? asked his
sweetheart. Yes, love, he replied, with
q little sugar, and she could not think
what he meant. 5
jess: think it's nice to be married.
on ones birthday, don't your Beas: 3l
don't know; I have known 1t to bring.
bad luck; look at Eve. 81
= The highest bridge Ia Pennsylyania
is at Bradford, Mexican County. It is
about 1000 feet long, and its height from
the stream below is SO1 feet at the center
of the structure. q.
= From Maryland comes curious
remedy for chills and fever. Take the
skin from the inside of an eggshell, 60 to-
young persimmon tree three days in
succession and tie a knotin theskin each,
day.
Quill pens are still much in use in|
Great Britain. A tradition exists in the:
law courts there that no document would
be strictly legal if written with any pen
other than quill.
"A man On a wedding tour may be-
recognized even if his bride is not with
him. When he meets women he looks
at their clothes instead of their faces
he is beginning to wonder what such
duds cost.
= She: think girl is very foolish to
marry poor man. He (piqued) Yes,
she is, but not half SO foolish as another
person whom I might name. .Whom9E
The poor man who marries that sort Of q
girl.
SO you enjoyed your visi. to the Zo.
illogical Gardens, did you,f inquired 8
young man of his adored ones little sis-I
tsr. "Oh, yes! And you do know, we saw
a camel there that screwed its mouth and
eyes round awfully, that sister said look
ed exactly like you when you recite poe
try at evening parties" aal
= Wolves are SO plentiful in South
Dakota that the cattle men are arranging
for the biggest hunt on record. Rewards.
of $40 head for old wolves are offered,
and it is expected that thousands Of the
animals will be killed. They have in-
creased enormously within few years,,
as there has been little OF no hunting.
: Frau Probsti, who enjoyed the dis
tinction of being the heaviest woman in
Europe, has just died in TraubDrig, in
Bavaria, at the age of Al. at her death
she weighed $50, and on account Of her
enormous weight it was impossible to car.
ry her coffin from the first story the
house in which she lived. Consequently
boards were put down the staircase, over
which the coffin Was slid.
- Younger Brother-Nellie, if you'd
lived in the days of Annanias and Sap.
phira you would have been dead long sgo.
Nellie (indignaat)-I am sure, Robby, j
never told what wasn't true In my life
How can you be SO unkind. Younger
Brother-Why, they lived about 1900
years ago. You wouldn't have hung on
as long as this, would you.
Mr.. v. NJ. Rogers, Of Cavins, s.. o.,
had minnie ball cut out Of his body re-;
Gently, which he had carried for twenty
eight years. he was wounded at the. he
blow.up of Petersburg, the ball entering!
the upper part of the shoulder, shiyering.
the shoulder blade, and lying under It.
The ball was taken out below and q little
back of the armpit. It has been moya&
downward for several years, giving Mr..
Rogers severe pain. The operation was
performed by DR.. Lsnham, Of Cavins,
and DR.. Allen, Of Blachstock. Mr. Bog
en is doing we'll, and his physicians and
friends hope for speedy recovery .fori
him. srs
Among the other great things, the
number of high mountains in this country
is a remarkable feature. Including those
| of Alaska, there are three hundfed and
| sixty mountains in in the Unit States,
exceeding ten. thousand feet height.
Most are in the Rocky and Sierra Nevada
ranges, and the greatest number are
found in Colorsdo and Utah. IL Alaska,
however, are the highest, there being in
| that territory FIVE which each exceed ff-
teen thousand feet, and Mount Elias, also
| in Alaska, nineteen thousand five hun,
| dred feet high, is the loftiest peak in the
United States territory.
An Athens widow was in great luck
yesterday. A few days ago she purchased
dozen chickens from q popular dealer.
There is nothing unusual about that.
She had killed all these chickens but one