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

"A bill has been introduced in the
Virginia House of Delegates to tax dogs
at their true value, the tax thus derived
to go to the State school fund.
- Several towns in Russia have elected
women for mayors on the ground that
they were best fitted to be entrusted
with the interests Of the community.
= The largest raisen vineyard in the
world now in bearing is owned by A. B.
Butler, of Fresno, Cal. 1t contains Gl0
acres. The annual income from this
vineyard has reached 100000.
There is only one vessel in the Brit
ish navy which in the last thirty years
has been engaged in sea fight with q
hostile war ship, the Shah. She is to be
sent to Bermuda to die hulk.
= The entire living population of the
globe, 0O,OOO,OOO people, divided into
families of five persons each, could be
located in Texas, each family with house
on, half-acre lot, and there would still
remain 7O0OO,O0O vacant family lots.
= One of the largest casks in this coun-
try has been constructed at Toledo Ohio.
It is of oak, weighing 10000 pounds,
holds $4,000 gallons of wine, and rests on
massive oak cradle which raises it
about three feet from the floor.
= Should man in China bo unfortu-
,,,ko o,o1Ob tn tho 1sfo of opothar
from drowning he is saddled with the
expense of supporting the saved one
during the remainder Of that persons
life.
"A surgeon Of the French navy has
discovered an antidote for poisonous
snake bites. tits liquid having for
base salt of gold. This discovery backs
up the Keely cure, which eradicates al
coholic poison in the human system by
the salts of gold and other things. Gold
is powerful cure.
Near Olympia, Wash, there's is well
that is coming gradually to the surface.
It is between twenty and thirty feet in
depth. For some time the brick wall Of
the well hos been protruding through the
ground, until now itsticks up intolthe
air like funnel to the height Of ten or
fifteen feet. The bricks are undisturbed
and the wall is intact. The bottom Of
the we'll, too, is rising with the wall.
- In Russia a child 10 years of age
cannot go away from home to school
without q passport. A gentleman re-
siding at st. Petersburg or Moscow can
not receive the visit of friend who re-
mains many hours without notifying the
police of his arrival, as the case may be.
The porters Of all houses are compelled
to make returns of the arrival and depart
ure of strangers. And for every one of
the above passports charge is made of
some kind. 49,
- It was about thirty years betweeen
the close of the revolutionary war and
the breaking out OF the war of 1911. From
heidate of the battle of New Orleans un-
til the beginning Of the Mexican wax was
thirty years. 1t was only half that time
from the close of the Mexican war until
the first gun was fred at Fort Sumter.
It is now nearly twenty-seven years
since Lee surrendered at Appomattox
and the fullness OF time for another out
break ofhostilities IS near at hand
Pasteur has an eye Of wonderful
power. A visitor to his ssmenagerie" in
Paris, where he has gathered various
kinds Of animals for experimental uses,
saw him quell with a glance fierce
Spanish mastiff, which for his ferocity
had been muzzled and chained. Pasteur
had theFbrute brought. before him, and
looking him straightin the eye, fearlessly
took of his muzzle and removed his
chain. The dog covered at the glance,
then fawned upon Pasteur, licked his
hand and finally lay submissively at his
feet.
- Profs. Waldron and McArdle, ofthe
North Dakota Agricultural College, are
collecting grasses for State exhibit at
the Worlds Fair. Among the specimens
secured along the shores of DEVILS Lake
was species Of slough grass which had
attained the unprecedented length Of
twenty-five feet. The samples were SO
long that they wound them up in coils.
They also.found what seemed to be a
new variety of wheat growing wild on the
prairies this season, very much higher
than the cultivated kind.
- Miss Kittie Shaw, daughter of a
prominent physician of Pittsburg Pa,
dropped dead at $3.50 last Friday morning
while dancing at reception given blythe
Pittsburg Club in honor of the reopening
Of their club house. Socially the Pitts
burg Club is the foremost organization of
che city, and this reception was the social
event of the season. Miss Shaw had
danced frequently during the night and
was taking final waltz when she sud-
denly threw up her hands and fell. The
coroner's inquest has not been held, but
it is supposed that death resulted from
heart disease.
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