The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-11-23

u = Sugar fifteen times sweeter than
that produced from the cane Is being
made from cotton seed grown at With.
Sherman, Texas, has 100000 Jail
from which ten prisoners recently escaped
by saving through iron bars with 35-
cent file.
"A Kentucky cattle dealer has ship
ped 700 fine Durham cattle to England for
Christmas beef, part of which, he says, Is
for Queen Victoria.
= The Tennessee Democrats did some
tall work when they elected "Old Pete"
Turney to the Governorship. He stands
six feet and four inches in his stockings.
Mr.. Moody is expected to hold re-
Yival meetings in Chicago next year
throughout the whole Exposition period.
With the Fair closed on Sundays and the
saloons all open, he will have splendid
field for missionary work.
1t is stated that q number of fine ho-
tells have been erected during the pres
ent year that haye omitted the number
thirteen in numbering the rooms. Many
hotels long in operation also haYe this Pc
culiar omission.
= Col. William L. Brown, Of the New
York Daily NewS, won $4,000 in his
bets on the election. He was one of the
first men to sustain his opinion after MIR.
Cleveland's nomination in Chicago and
he held his ground against all cemers un-
til the night before election.
- The great organ in the old Mormon
Church at Salt Lake City has 2,704 pipes,
each 80 feet long and large enough to adj
nit the body OF q man Of ordinary size.
It was built in the early days, whom all
freight WAS handled from Missouri
River points across the plains with OK
teams.
1t 10 hardly appropriate for men who
last May voted Grover Cleveland to be
mo Democrat" and the "tool of tho mon
ey kings" to tumble over each other in
their eagerness to seek Office at his hands.
The men who passed these infamous res
olutions against the earnest appeals Of
good Democrats are down on the record
and they cannot erase their names. Col
atn,6ia State.
We are all prone to retalate for por-
sonal Sights, but perhaps the funniest
incident of it is one Of an old Irish wo-
man who, seeing funeral to which she
had expected an invitation pass her door,
expostulated angrilY: sob, go Oh wild
ye! so on wild ye 60 on wild yel But
maybe there'll be q funeral at our
house soon, and then we'll see who'll be
axed."
- The Memphis Commercial had the
following headlines the other day: "Hell
and Vermont are all that is left Of the
grand old party. The Democrats have
gobbled the rest of the creation. Illinois
heads the funeral of the fostering corpse.
Indiana winks the other eye and shouts
q hearty amen. The dull thud Of some
thing dropped in Kansas and Nebraska,
and it is rumored Vermont will make it
unanimous. Beautiful Baby Ruth sue
ceeds the Mckee kid"
- One Of the honored old men of Ken
tucky is Ex-Governor William D. Meri-
| wether, who has recently celebrated his
| 9srd birthday. He succeeded Henry
Clay in the United States Senate and
served with great credit. He was Gov
ernor of Now Mexico in Its widest days,
| and sat In the Kentucky Senate for six
| teen years. Mr.. Meriwether is still an
active man, and looks like patriarch
with his white hair and long flowing
| white beard.
Daniel Boones bones rest in his be-
| loved Kentucky, but the house which he
| built for home and in which he passed
his last days ia landmark near st.
Charles, Mo-, where it still stands in a
| good state Of preservation. In the latter
| davs of the old pioneers life he occupied
the attic of the house az beth sitting room
and workshop, and busted himself maxi
powder horns as souvenirs for friends.
Here, too, he kept the cherry-wood coffin
be had fashioned with his hands. Not
| long before he died he used to lie in the
coffin several times day 'just to try the
fit Of it." as one Of his old acquaintances
says. The house was one OF the first
erected in st. Charles County.
| - Chief Smith, Of the department of
transportation exhibits, has arranged for
an exhibit Of the smallest and most
unique railroad system in the world.
This system is the property of Daniel
Coke, the young son Of 4. B. Coke, OF
Reading Pa. 1t is perfect In its equip
ment, and will be exhibited at the Fair
| Just as it is now in actual operation on
the farm of the father OF it's young owner.
Master Coke will be in charge of the ex-
track for this wonderful system is nine
inches. There are two locomotives,
modern and complete in every detail.
Each engine draws train of five cars,
and each car Is built to carry two passen-
gers. The locomotives are equipped with
sirbrakes. A rate Of speed of ten miles
Der hour can be attained, and the train
can be stopped in less distance than ita
own length. The cars and locomotives
are built on the scale ofone-sixth the full
size. Space for the exhibit will be pro-
vided in the transportation annex. The
| toy. if it may be so called, cost complete
about 8o,000.-Micago Daily Inter
| Ocean,,