The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-02-22
All Sorts of Paragraphs.


- It is calculated that in the entire
world sixty.seven people die every min
ute.
- The amount of tobacco chewed in
the United States last year was eighty.
Eve tons.
"A canary bird, which died at Hunta-
vile, Ga, last week, was reputed to be
over Is years of age.
= The average weight of the Chinese
brain is said to be heavier than the aver
age weight of the brain in any other race.
- Every man, woman and child who
has once tried that specific DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup, cannot say enough in its
praise.
= The British ard foreign Bible
society sends out every day FIVE tons
weight Bibles, Testsments and portions
of scripture.
A single mahogany tree in Hon
duras was recently cut into boards, which,
when sold in the European market, real
lied over $4,000.
- The most expensive illustrated book
yet made is said to be Bible now owned
by Theodore Irwin of Oswego, N. Y. It
is valued at $4,000.
= Ella: What makes you think he
loves you? Did he say so? Ida: No
but he hugged me. That is ia roundabout.
way of letting me know it.
= Nell: I think it is nice to be MARI.
ed on ones birthday, don't your Kate:
I don't know. have known it to bring
bad luck. Look at Eve!
- In sitka, Alaska, when an Indian
wife has lost her husband by death, sbe
goes into mourning by painting the upper
half of her face deep black.
= Mabel-"I really believe Tom
thinks the world of me-" Kate-"Ive
often heard him say this was miserable
world and he was heartily sick of it."
1t has only been eighty one years
since the first tomatoes were introduced
in America. The original plant was cul.s
tivated as vegetable curiosity at Salem,
Mass.
"A horse will never stand facing the
wind in pasture, but will always turn
his back. A horse heated by driving can
be foundered in few minutes by stand
ing facing the wind or in draught.
Crummer-"What are you burning
there9" .Gilleland-"A bundle of old
love letters" Crummer-"That is wise.
It is better to burn them than to have
them roast you some slime in the future"
DIR. Gatling claims to have produced
new gun which will deliver two thous
and shots per minute. The motive pow.
or consists of an electric moter, attached
by belt to the mechanism of the gun.
-"You always wear fine collars and
cuffs, Mr.. Kink," remarked the Colonel
to the old darkey. "Yessir," replied
Kink; "dat's one advantage oh pahmit-
tim you wife to tex in washin', sir."
The number of Languages spoken by
mankind at present is estimated at 5000.
The Bible has been translated into 200
only, but these 200 are spoken by about
two thirds of the whole population of the ].
globe.
- Among trees the elm reaches an age
of 335 years, ivy $50, chestnut 600, olive
700, cedar 300, oak 1900, yew $500,
while Humboldt computed the age Of q
baobab Ia species Of banyan) to be 800
years.
= There is scrapbook full of money
in the archieves of the treasury depart
ment at Washington. The sum of the
contents is over 100000, but it is all
Confederate notes, bonds and "shinplas-
ters."
Here is a point for horsemen to re-
member on cold mornings. Don't puta
frosty bit in your horses mouth. A dip
of it in pail of cold water will take the
frost out, and save your animal intenses
suffering.
The average healthful man eats
nearly two and q half pounds of solid
food day. Upon this basis the daily
consumption of fond by the human race
equals 3,607,77O,oo pounds, or 1,61o,612
tons.
-"How did you get along at school
to-day, Tom?" asked the old man at
supper. "Papa, our physiology says that
conversation at meals should be of
pleasant character. Let's talk of the
minstrels."
Torpidity of the liver, and disorders
of the stomach and bowels, cause head.
ache and the failure of all desire for
food. Ayers Cathartic Pills stimulate
Gu0 dCtlOu VI LILO otoWoCu1 AVC13 onS
bowels, cure headache, and restore the
appetite.
Primus: told her I adored her
snd that she was an angel. Secundus: ):
Humph! Didn't she accept you after
that? Primus: No, she merely remark.
ed that man was little lower than an
angel and that she couldn't marry beneath
her.
- There has been plowed up in An
drew County, Mo-, an ancient Roman
sword, which is believed to have belong
ed to some member Of DeSota's expedi-,
ton, who were exploring in that part of
the country in the middle of the sixteenth
century.
- The bayouet is so called because it
was first used, it is said, near Bayonne.
A Basque regiment, having exhausted
their ammunition, and being hard press.
ed, placed long knives in the barrels of
their muskets and made the origina! bay.
onet charge.