The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-02-15
Nrs catberine sharn. who died in

- Mrs. Catherine Sharp, who died in
Philadelphia tho other day, at the age of
lis, remem bered seeing George Washing
ton when he was President. She saw
Jefferson, Lafayette and other great men
of those days, and well remembered the
ridicule heaped upon Robert Fulton's
steamboat. She said, in an interview,
about year ago, that Washington was
not a large man, nor good looking,
but that he had very pleasant ways.
The sums paid to great artists for
their services in this country have at
times been very great. Edwin Booth re-
ceived about CSC, 1000 for the only tour be
has made through the south since the
war. He made it in less than six weeks.
Mansfield got S4S, 900 for forty-eight per-
formances in the south. Henry Irving
got S4OO,O for playing a season of six
months in America, aud Patti is to re-
ceive S2O2, 1000 for forty concerts in the
country next season, aud the contract
calls for all of her expenses, including a
private car.
- There is some talk of sending Ross
Williams, phenomenally large boy who
lives in Virginia, to the Worlds Fair.
The Martins Ferry Times gathered the
following information about him "He
was born in Bridgeport, June 19, 1877,
being fifteen years and seven months
1 II Sc faof nina innhad in
height, weighs 80 pounds and measures
around the head one foot and ten inches:
neck, one foot and six inches; shoulders,
four feet and six inches; chest, four feet
three and half inches; waist, four feet
three inches; hips, four feet two inches;
arm, between elbow and shoulder, one
foot seven and g half inches; thigh, two
feet fSe inches; calf, one foot,
six inches: ankle, one foot two inch
es."
There lives in Green county, Ken
lucky, family named Polly which has q
remarkable record for longevity. The
head of the family, Mrs. James Polly, is
107 years old. She was borr in Virginia,
but has lived the most Of her life in Green
county. Mrs. Polly is the mother of
fourteen children, only one of whom is
dead. The youngest of the living chill
dren is fifty-nine years old. Mrs. Polly
is quite active for her extreme age, being
able to knit, wash dishes, make up the
bed and arrange the room, and only a
year ago last summer rode horseback a
distance of seven miles and forded Green
river en- route. The only thing that
threatens to. cut down these good
people in the bloom of their youth,
is the fact that they are all habitual tobac'
co users.
- My friend, DR.. Talmage, has son,
also named Dewitt, and anxious to be as
witty as his father. In last Sunday
sermon he said: II know shat there are
those who think primeval man was a
brute, killing his game with club, and
that our hand is nothing but an evoluted
claw, and that we used to walk about on
all-fours, and that if you &c into Africa
and shoot baboon you may be killing
one of the descendants of your great
grandmother. That cannot be. When
God created man he created him like
us, bone of our bone and flesh of oul
flesh. He did not take monkey and
, scrape off his hair and put him in trou
sers and give him pipe to smoke" A
little closer study fthe Bible will inform
this young humorist that God did moi
put man into trousers at Ell. That wss
Satan's work, and he began with the fig
leaf pattern.-NeO York Metropolis.
= President-elect Cleveland has deci.
ded not to bring his family to Washing
ton on the 4th of March, at least not tt
take up their quarters in the White
House, because of his fear that there il
danger of scarlet fever az the result of th'
illness of the little daughter Of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Russell Har rison. Contrary to pub
lished reports, the quarantine of the Ex
ecutive mansion has not yet been raised
The house is still closed to visitors, ant
the rooms that were occupied by the sick
: child and her parents are being thorough
ly disinfected. Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Harrison and the child are now stopping
at hotel. The scarlet fever sign will b'
removed from the White House door ir
a few days, but President Cleveland doe
not think it safe to take his family ther'
at present. His fears OF contagion are
probably we'll founded, and President
Harrison endorses the President-elect'l
caution in this regard.
= The influence Of the Bible seems tt
be felt to such an extent in Turkey tina
a more rigid censorship than ever il
) being exercised. The minor Turkish Of
ficials are not content with wholesale
confiscation, contrary to treaty guaran
tees, but they have now undertaken t
revise the sacred volume and eliminate
such portions as they see fit before it
circulation is permitted. All reference
20 the Kingdom of Heaven are regarded
with suspicion, and recast or omitted
The Old Testament gives special offence
It's promises regarding the restoration o
the Jews to Palestine are considered ranl
. treason to the Turk, who now holds the
land. The revised edition is to say moth
ing about Jew or Hebrew, or the law o
the Jews, the law of Islam having super.
f ceded it. Sir Glare Ford, the British
minister, has protested to The Sultar
against this course.
= The French newspapers tell of
!, very interesting match that came off il
France. Two women. in good societ.
challenged each other totalk fast. Eacl
was to utter as many words as possible il
a fixed time. Each woman talked thre
consecutive hours. One uttered 203,5O|
words. The other won the match Will
206, ,OS0 words.
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