The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-01-18

can be secured IN Europe will be brought
to the Worlds Fair early this Spring on
the United States man-of-war Newark.
These relics are scattered through mu-
seums in England, France Spain and
Italy.
At Brookshaven, Miss, Uncle Jim
my Stewart, 106 years Of age, celebrated
Christmas by having his great grandson
play the violin while he danced some
old-fashioned jigs in the "real ole Virgin
ny STYLE"
While plowlng In field, man in
southwest Georgia discovered human
skull with three brass confederate but
tons. The cover Of New Testament
was also found, but there was nothing By
which the identity of the dead could be
established.
= It is against the law to play poker in
Costa Rica, and 1t all comes from the son
of the President of tho Republic betting
too much on four queens when his oppo-
nent held four aces. The young man
lost $4,000, and his father in his wrath
has had stop put to all poker playing in
his country. 1t is against the law to play
poker in this country for stakes, but tits
played all the same.
= Mr.. Allen, the champion speller of
North Carolina, will contest for the prize
at the Worlds Fair spelling bee. Mr..
Allen says he has mental photograph
Of every word be has ever seen or heard
spelled, and these mental Impressions
never become blurred and uncertain,
and if the committee in charge of the
Chicago contest does not get out Of the
limits of Webster's Unabridged he has
no fear of being tripped.
Away up in Ohio, where the colored
man has such ardent friends, little race
trouble has arisen, and the colored man
as usual came out tarred and feathered
and afire. The trouble grew out Of i'm
proper advances Of a negro upon white
woman. The white men have given the
negroes notice to leave the town. This
looks like the North solving the race
question for US. If they had more Of
them up there they would feel like solv-
ing it moro rapidly.
- In Austria distinguished noble
man has been granted divorce on the
ground that his wife deceived him as to
her age and was really fifteen years old
er than her grease-paints, powders and
other wrinkle concealera indicated,
This is an appalling matter to the fair
sex and would smash the domestic sys-
tenn into smithereens If such law should
obtain in the United States. The privi-
lege OF inveracity on the subject of age
is an inalienable right of the American
woman. Whenever that right shall be
denied to her nature may ss we'll turn
loose her cataclysm and let US be done
with earth, life and time.
There are $1,000 men and boys, $500
horses and 100 steam engines at work
gathering the ice crop Of the Hudson.
The intense cold last week has made the
Ice so thick that 1t is aim ost too unwieldy
to handle. In the main channel off uud-
son it is nearly foot and half thick,
and is all solid pure water ice. The in
dications are that it will be the biggest
crop harvested in twenty years. There
is good sleighing all through the Hudson
River Valley. Almost every morning
last week the mercury touched zero. In
the country some Of the streams are fro-
zen solid to the bottom.
"A queer story is told by the Chatta-
nooga Times, ofa child that has been an
inveterate smoker since its fourth year.
His mother, in speaking Of the child's
propensity for tobacco, said: Looking
back to when he was four years of age,
can remember he was then an inveter-
ate smoker, having stealthily obtained
his grandmother's pipe and cultivated
the natural desire for tobacco. was al
ways fearful of attempting to break him
Of the habit, and therefore in that one Ie-
spect he has always followed his own ill.,
clinatlons. He is fifteen years old now +,
and never retires at night without hay
ing pipe of tobacco near the bed for use
during the night. Strange as the above
recital seems, it is said to be true in every
particular. The mother is known by
many people in Chattanooga. and is a
woman of fair intelligence and very de-
voted to her children. AS far as known
the boy has no other bad habits than
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