The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-05-17

"A woman in Pennsylvania having
accomplished the task of collecting
million old postage stamps, has now gone
crazy after having discovered that they
are as valueless as 80 much old paper.
And yet we suppose the popular notion
that such collection possesses great vsl-
ue will not he disturbed. People like to
be humbugged too we'll.
= New York is the only State that al
lows an uncle to marry his niece. In
Florida and Georgia marriage is prohibit
ted within the "Levitical degress;" these
are set forth in Leviticus xviii, and for
bids marriages of nephews and auntS,
but seemingly not Of uncles and ncices.
No European country considers such
marriage lawful.
Warren county, N. c., has the smart
est hog. During the forest fires last
week the hog saw the flames approaching
her'bed of straw, in which was her young
brood She rooted out hole near the
bed, deposited the pigs in it., and then
laid down over them. The fire passed
over, singing the hair of the old
porker, but the little squealers were safe.
AT Charlotte n. c., a Hindoo was ar
raigned before the mayor and fined So.
Not being able to ''ante up' he lifted his
voice in prayer for the Lord to send him
inst one more dollar. informing him that
he had 81 and didn't need but one more
to pay his fine. Finally Chief Mason
forgave him the extra cash, If he would
leave town, which he did.
Mr.. Howard l.. Jones records an
example of a graft-hybrid between two
different varieties of geranium, red
and white. In several successive years
the flowers partook of the characters OF
both parents /; some pure red and some
pure white, others had some Of the petals
white others red while in others again
the petals were red mottled with white,
or white mottled with red.
- Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson, of
Mississippi, said the other day in New
York: "Negroes are practically elimina-
ted from politics in our State. They new
or had much chance and they have less
now. The new Constitution provides
that they m ust be able to read it intelli-
gently before they can be allowed to reg
lister. Quite large number Of white
men are also disfranchised, but the ne
groes who are denied the right ofsuffrage
number nearly 10000.
- In an Irish daily there recently ap-
peared this advertisement: "Wanted-
A gentleman to undertake the sale Of
patent medicine; the advertiser guaran-
tees it will be profitable to the underta-
ker." This is even an unllappier mode
of expression than that adopted in
local paper, when the editor regretted
to have to announce the death OF Mr..
So-and.so, but was not astonished to
hear of the sad event, as deceased had
been attended for some time by DIR.
Smith,"
= The largest church collection ever
taken up on a single Sunday was the Of
fering at st. Bartholomew's Episcopal
Church in New York on last Sunday,
when the plate showed return Of $50, 900:
The cause of this collection was the an
nouncement the previous Sunday that
the church needed some repairs and that
$50, 600 was required to make them. DR..
David H. Greer, the rector of ST. Barthol-
omew's, has occupied that pulpit for four
years and during that time he has raised
$1,015, 900 for church purposes, and all by
voluntary contribution.