The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-02-18
News Paragraphs.

= A bequest of $500, 900 has been made
by DR.. Ignaz Hoppe, of the University
of Basle, Switzerland, for the investi-
cation Of the nature of the soul.
- Children are not numerous in
France. Out of 100000 families in the
Republic one-fifth have no children at
all and another fifth have only one child
each.
It is claimed by southern women
now that there are more men in South
Carolina willing to grant the suffrage to
women than there are women willing to
receive it.
There is al old proverb which as
sures man that if he will only keep
thing long enough he will be sure to
find use for it. Peter Stehler, Michi-
gan man, illustrates this, for, when he
died the ether day, aged 95 years, he was
buried in the shirt, which, G3 years ago,
he had first worn as q wedding gar
ment.
The number of murders in this
country amounted to 5,906, or 1,6l6 more
than in 1890, and 1889 more than in 1882
The executions of 1891 numbered only
l3S, of which 81 took place in the North
and Sc in the South. That is, one muir
der in 6s received capital punishment.
During the samo period the lynchings
which outraged instead :of avenged the
law, numbered 1876, or 6S more than in
any previous years.
Here is something that beats the re-
cord in the way of chattle mortgages. In
fact if there is another mortgage or lien
on record in which a dog is given as
part security it is not known. But two
or three weeks ago the clerk filed
mortgage in which several articles and
species of personal property is mentioned
as security the last of which is zone
good squirrel dog. ."-Pickens Sentinel.
Skull Valley, which is part of the
great Salt Lake. desert, gets its name
from the number of skulls which have
been found there, owing to the custom
practiced by the Gosh-Ute Indians OF
burying their dead in springs, sinking
them with stones. Inasmuch as these
springs are depended upon fer water
supply the habit in question is not par
ticularly agreeable one. Very often peo-
pie have been obliged to dig out the
skeletons of Indians from the mud at
bottoms of springs in that country before
using the water.
If you take all the people in the
world, and set them out in space mile
apart, like mile-stones along road, and
at the farther end use all the dogs and
cats to extend the line of mile-posts, you
would run far short of the material to-
mark the distance out to the. earth's
brother planet, Neptune. Again, ifyou
can use all this material Of men, women
and children, dogs and cats, and put
them out so that they would be as far
from one another as one end of Europe is
from the other, your line wouldn't be
halflong enough to reach the nearest fix
ed star.
- The geniuses are strange creatures,
not to be regulated by the laws govern
ing the vast majority Of humdrum NOR
tails, Is an accepted fact the world oyer.
Generally speaking musical genius is
envied, petted and admired by all-that
is where the talent develops in orthodox
channels. To hear about the knowledge
that one is an absolute genius in such
wholly unorthodox manner that they
dare not shine before society must be gall
ing indeed, yet such is the case with q
pretty young lady we'll known among
the younger set ofsociety who possesses
the remarkable ability to play on the pi-
ano with her feet. Divested of shoes and
stockings it is actually possible for her
to play consecutive tunes with her fex-
ible toes, which she uses with apparently
as great ease as the ordinary pianist does
the fingers. Washington Post.
A curious little stove exposed for
sale by street venders in this city recent
"; says the New York Sun, is quite
novelty in its way. tits folding stove.
Its front is about fifteen inches square,
and it extend 3 back only about five inch
es. When filled with anthracite it
blazes merrily, and can be utilized for
many purposes. 1t wassinvented in
Canada several years ago. During the
past season it was carried over the Pamir
by MIR. and Mrs. Littledale. who, at
that enormous elevation, where, in the
month of June, their horses foundered
through snowdrifts, found 1t most USE
full. It is noticed that the men who are
selling the stove Oh our streets are not
aware that it has been used by some ex-
plorers as a desirable part Of their camp
equipment.
On Col. Tom Latham's farm in
Merriwether County, Ga, lives negro
who in the father Of seventeen children,
fifteen of whom are living. Of course
the father had to hustle to feed SO many
mouths and the way he does it is lesson
to every farmer. The family eats BUSH
ell of potatoes day. The family is fed
by living at home. They run three
horse farm and make all their provisions
and thirty bales Of cotton besides. They
raise sugar cane and make their own
syrup and sugar. They even raise rice.
They economize in every way, making
their own ploughstocks, for instance,
doing their own blacksmithing, etc.
Every edge is made to cut. An evidence
of thenegro's good management is shown
in the fact that he has lived on the place
twenty years.
- It has been discovered that the hu-
man mouth is slowly but surely and
steadily moving toward the left of the
face, which will, in time, bring it some
where in the neighborhood of the left
ear, ALI the five great races of man