The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-05-12
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Miss Lalla Harrison, of Leesburg
| -Loudon County, has been selected as the
most beautiful woman in Virginia to rep.
/ resent that Commonwealth as one of the
7 thirteen original States at the Worlds
Fair.
The private in the German army is
paid $3.50 per month, or cents a day,
out of which cents is deducted for mess
expenses. Very few of the privates are
able to live at first.class hotels on the re-
naming cents.
In Brazil and Spanish America
I young monkey roasted is favorite dish.
The cook scoops out hole in the ground
and makes small bake oven, in which
the monkey is done to q turn, favored
with various herbs and vegetables.
- The av erage American is the head OF
a family of five persons, earning 81, 900 a
year. He pays $50 of this into the nation
al treasury, $50 into State, county, city or
/ town treasures, and at a moderate esti-
mate, S23 more for the indirect cost OF
methods of collection.
THE most densely peopled continent
! is Europe. The: number Of people in
Europe is sknown with great degree of
accuracy There are about 36O,OO0,O 1000,
and the continent which accommodates
all these people is SO small that there are
upon it ain average of 90 people to the
J square mile.
In Cal ifornia it is found that peach
stones burn as well as the best coal, and
give out more heat in proportion to
weight. The stones taken out of the
fruit that lis timed or dried are collected
and sold at the rate ofs15 ton. apricot
stories also burn, but not so well as
peach, and do not command 80 good a
price.
- JapaneNe auctions are conducted
upon plan which gives rise to none of
the noise and confusion which attend
such sales in Britain. Each bidder writes
his name and bid upon slip of paper
which he places in box. When the
b;ddi ng is over the box is opened by the
auotit,neer and the goods declared the
property of the highest bidder.
Paris is to be prepared for war in
remarkable and unprecedented fashion.
A joint committee appointed by the min
istry Of war and the municipal council
has approved plan for Building large
stores to preserve supplies of frozen
meats. In time of war the city needs 620
tons Of Ameata day, and should war be
declared these stores are to receive 10000
tons Of beef and mutton, or .half-rations
for 1G0 dsys. The forts around Paris have
food enough for three years. The expe-
rience Of the German siege is not to be re-
peated.,
- Warren F. Leland, proprietor of the
Leland House, in Chicago, says there are
thirty new hotels in that city, either al
ready built or in course of construction,
owing to the prospective rush of busi-
ness at the Worlds Fair. These hotels
represent in the cost ofth:eir construction
at least s15,0OO,0OO. R.e thinks the
growth Of the city, the new railroads
being constantly built n the Western
metropolis and the increase Of popula-
tion-regular as well as that induced by
means Of the Columbian Exposition
the capital that will be attracted will
make these great hostelries paying insti-
tutions when the Worlds Fair hat be-
come thing of the past.
= Bishop Taylor, the noted mission
ary leader IN Africa, made ian interesting
statement the other day at the Methodist
ministers meeting in New York Of the
actual condition of affairs In Liberia,
which has been exploited as the "prom-
ised land" for American negroes. He
said: 'It is good country, with plenty
of natural advantages, and some of the
nagsoes who have emigrated there have
done well. But the proportion of these
is small. Four-ffths Of the immigrants
have returned to the States. and many
who have gone out recently will return
as goon as the opportunity offers itself.
I Idon't know how the contrary impress
sion has been spread, except, perhaps,
that some Of my writings descriptive Of
the country have been misinterpreted."
- Travellers in Japan tell Of the un-
concern with which Japanese will take
q bath in full publicity, and the custom
has impressed foreigners as immodest.
An Englishman who has long been in the
country says there is really nothing i'm
1odest in the promiscuous bathing of
men, women and children from Japan
ese point of view. With them cleanli-
ness is the object sought for, and the
etiquetts of the bath room differs from the
etiquetts, Of the parlor. With Europeans,
he says, the attitude Of walters is only
permitted when the music is played.
It Is sometimes like this with Japanese
bathers. When the necessary operation
of washing or doing. other work requires
1t to strip becomes duty. On the other
hand, Japanese woman would scorn to
appear decollete. To her eye our ball
rooms are an astonishment, and the ex-
posure ofthe person for display is incom-
prehensible. This writer thinks that
the Japanese are not excelled by their |
Western brethren in modesty.
A story is told illustrating the rigid
discipline of the Russian army. Ono of |
the Grand Dukes told the Car that a |
sentinel at the railroad crossing at Peter
hof refused to raise the gate for his car
risge, although the train was not due for !
three or four minutes. "It is against or
ders, your Imperial Hlghness," the SOL
dier replied, the rule being that when
the gate is shut it must not be opened |
until after the train had passed. The Gar
said that he was glad to hear that the
soldier knew how to obey orders. The
Grand Duke laughed and said that he was
certain that if the Car himself had been
present discipline would have given way.
The Car did not reply, but few days
after, to put the matter to the test, he
drove up with the Czarina just after the
gate had been lowered. The Gear called
to the sentinel to let him pass. The SEN
tinel, in great trepidation, saluted,
put did not move the gate. "Open the
gate, I tell you," cried the Emperor.