The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-09-27
All Sorts of Paragraphs.
= Hats for this country cost $780,

honest hand any less attractive.
When people once begin to devi-
ate they do not know where to stop.
- Better live in house without
windows than in a house without
books.
Free coinage or not, South Caro-
lima couldn't get along without little
"mint."
"A man never says as bitter things
about woman as woman says about
another woman.
The growth of girls is greatest in
their fifteenth year, and that Of boys
in their seventeenth.
= France has more persons over 60
years Of age than any other country
ireland comes next.
They tell Of person in Detroit
who has two tongues. They say he Is z
man, but we know better.
- There are two things in the world
upon which there have never been any
improvement-the wheelbarrow and
kissing.
"A North Carolina turkey-gobbler
recently scratched up eight potatoes in
garden and has been sitting on them
for several weeks.
x On lower Broadway in New York,
in corner plots, land is worth from ff.
teen thousand to twenty thousand
dollars per front foot.
Every wife occasionally wishes
she could vindicate herself by letting
some woman her husband praises have
him for few weeks. 8
"A young lady in Philadelphiaa
broke an engagement because her
young man refused to shave off his
moustache. She knew what hurt her.
= She-'tIt's no sign because girl
is engaged to man that she is willing
to marry him." He-"No. Butit.is
sign that the nan is willing to run
the chances" 8
= "Her religion is very much like
her dress; she san put it on or.otf,
just as she pleases." eyes, and like
her ball dress at that; there ism very
much Of it.
= It is said that when an Indian
dies his surviving relatives pay, allShbilss5
debts. We are acquainted with man
who we heartily wish would turn In
dian and die. "
= A recent wedding at jamestown,
N. Y, has resulted in nearly score
of cases of diphtheria, which arc said
to have been contracted by kissing
the bride.
"A cotton boil, containing the
unusual number of twenty-six pods, IS
claimed to be in possession Of James
F. Williams, of Villa Rica Ga. -Four
pods are generally all that are found
| in each boil. II
of the nine hundred and forty
six papers and magazines published u
New York city, exactly one:haf-four
hundred and seventy-three-are issued
monthly. The dailies number forty
six.
Should misfortune overtake you,
retrench, work harder, but never fly
the track; confront difficulties with
unhinching perseverance should you
fail, you will be honored but shrink,
and you'll be despised.
When the first Bible was printed
in America it took three years to print.
the Old Testament. When the reyis-;
ed version of the New Testament was
telegraphed to Chicago, in 1881, it
was put in type and stereotyped IN
twelve hours.
When an Armenian maiden at.
tains her seventeenth year, and is not
engaged to be married, she must un-4
dergo strange punishment. She ls
forced to fast three days; then, for
twenty-four hours, her food is salt fish
and she is not permitted to quench her
thirst.
-"I notice." said the woman, with
the steel bowed glasses, that # q
married woman happens to get killed
the papers announce that eMary
Smith, wife of John Smith, was run
over by the cars, for instance. II
John himself gets killed there is not q
word said of Mary, except to mention
| that he leaves widow. And that's
| why I'm kicking"
The practice in early English
history was to bury the heart and
bowels Of a prominent man in one
church and his body in another:
In 1888 the body Of Richard
Ceur de Lion was found buried in
Rouen Cathedral, confirming the his
toric statement. His body was laid to
rest at Fontevaud, his bowels at
Chaluz.
1t has been reported in Washing
ton that the Chinese telegraph systers
has been connected with the Russiah
system, so that messages may now be
sent overland between any part OF
China, Russia and Europe, and by
cable to Africa, North and South
| America and Australia. Ine Wnoie
world is now wired and Geographically
connected.
One of the biggest dams in the
world is the new one at Austin, Tex,
over the Colorado river. 1t is l 200
feet long, of solid limestone overlaid
with red granite from Texas quarries.
It is 60 feet high and has created a
lake 25 miles long. 1t supplies the
city with water and light, besides fur
nishing about $4,000 horse power in
running manufactures.
A New York chemist, accom-
panied by two friends, has started on
a foct journey to California. They
expect to be ITO days on the way and
to subsist exclusively on an elixir
which the chemist claims to have dis
covered, and Of which he says half a
teaspocnful three times day will
enable man to dispense with food
and sleep.
When your shoes squeak go to a
shoemaker and have him put a peg in
the middle of the sole and there will
be no more loud proclamations. An.
other thing, when you buy a pair Of
new shoes and they hurt you put
water in them and let it remain for a