The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-01-18
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licemen and $4,000 grog shops.
- The most expensive thing that can
happen to you is to be wrong.
= North Dakota has newspaper pub
liahed in the Sioux language.
Coal oil was first used as an illumi.
nant in 1926.
- There is more money spent for eggs
than for -four in the United States.
Some of Kansas empty jails are at
present being used to store the surplus
wheat.
= Every president of the United States
so far has either been lawyer, soldier,
or both.
No man has any right to wish be
had never been born. Let other people
do that for him.
- One of the best remedies for the
moulding or rotting of grapes is to make
the trellises higher.
- Teacher: Johnnie, I want you to
pay attention to this lesson Johnnie:
I can't pay nothin'; l spent every cent |
had for Christmas.
To do much good and make bat
little noise is singular ching. Some
say much but do nothing; but Christians
should do much and say nothing.
= The Mississippi river is gorged with
ice from its source to st. Louis. An i'm
mense gorge has formed in tEa Ohio at
Cincinnati and great damage las been
done by the sinking Of barges and tugs.
- There is an old married couple in
Porter County, Ind, who, it is stated,
have not spoken to each other for twenty
FIVE years, although they live iu the same
house and eat rom the same table.
- The new sub treasury building at
San Francisco has an electric burglar
alarm installed between the rows of brick
so that any interference with either the
bricks or cement will cause an alarm to
sound.
Mrs. Virginia Thompson, ex post
mistress of Louisville, says that women
are peculiarly fitted to conduct postofi'
ces and that this fitness ought to be re-
coguized. "There are enough other Off
ces for the men," she says, and all her sex
will agree with her
= An i'll paid minister went to his
deacon to solicit an increase of salary
SALARY I" said the deacon; 81 thought
you worked for souls ?" $50 I do," re-
piled the poor man, "but cannot cal
souls. And, if I could it would take
good many sous of your size to make
dish !'
- Bobby: Funny thing about sissy
two beaus, isn't it, pop? Fond Parent
What is it? Bobby: Why, Mr.. Bold
leigh is grocer and Mr.. Gotrox is ir
the real estate business. Fond Parent
What about il? Bobby: Well, Sis sayl
that Mr.. BoldIeigh bas lots of sand, bu
that Mr.. Gotrox has more sugar"
= Fine edged tools assume a blue
color and lose all temper if exposed fo
any considerable length OF time to th'
light of the sun, either 10 summer O.
winter. A similar effect is exercised b!
moonlight. A large cross cut saw will
which the experimenters we're working
having been "put out of shape and it
temper ruined by single nights expos
ure to first quarter moon"
A writer in the New York Pres
says: IF millionaires could keep thei
property intact the interest on it woslt
soon absorb the whole wealth of th'
country. a French banker, nance
Thelusson accumulated fortune during
the French revolution, and left vii
providing that bis descendants to tn
third generation could net touch dolla
of it beyond mere pittance. The prin
cipal was invested and the interest wa
to be annually reinvested until it shouIt
descend to an heir of the third genera
ton when be bad reached his majority
The property amounted originally Il
about three million dollars, and had th'
will been allowed to stand some young
man living in France at the present da.'
would now be inheritiug its accumula-
tious. These would have amounted Il
about three hundred million dollars, or {
hundred times the original amount of sht
property left. If, on this same basis
Jay Gould's 100000, 900 could be left t.
George Gould's baby's grandson, wher
that young mau celebrated his twenty
first birthday he would be the posaessol
of $40 900, 900, 900, an amount impossible
to conceive and large enough to buy ur
the greatest government On the face O.
the earth. This is rather an interesting
fairy tale, or rather it suggests fairy tales
am indebted for it to gentleman who
is fond of such speculations, and, being
we'll provided with leisure, he occasion
ally indulges iu them"
"A good old story is revived, which