The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-03-15


ton. She is negotiating for the Blaine
mansion.
- There are strong reasons for believ-
ing that the Worlds Fair will not be
ready for opening on the first of May.
The condition of the buildings is such as
to forbid the idea that they can be COM
pleted within that time.
"A pension Office clerk a few days
ago remarked that all the existing pen
sion laws require to make them perfect
is an amendment granting pensions to
| veterans for badness. The sarcasm got
| to the ears Of Gen. Raum, who promptly
scalped the clerk.
- Editor Hawkins, of the Georgia En-
terprise, in referring to the notifying in
! t1uence dif1iused from feminine pres
ence, says: ga visit from the ladies is
| always appreciated. It encourages the
devil to comb his head. wash his face and
keep the Office swept up"
- An intelligent Zulu recently said to
missionary. "You missionaries trou-
BILE US. Before you came our wives got
food out of the ground for us, and brought
us children and cattle. You make Us
give up our wives, our beer, cattle for
our daughters and want US to spend mon
ey for clothes, books and preachers.
Life was easy before. You make it very
hard"
= Both branches of the Kansas Legis-
lature have passed the bill submitting to
the vote of the people at the general cleo
ton next year constitutional amend
ment giving the right to vote on all oc-
casions to women of twenty one years
or more. The Governor will certainly
sign the bill, and it is very. sure that the
people will accept the amendment. They
haye backed up every 'tap hereto
fore taken.in the enfranchiseL .ent of wo-
men.
There are two psrties in Memphis
good and wicked one. The former
has been waging bitter war on the gam
blers and lewd women and threatens to
impeach Judge Du Bose, of the Criminal
Court, who is alleged to be at the head of
tables, however, by having number of
the good indicted for renting houses to
fallen women for immoral purposes.
Sometimes those who wear the uniform
Of the truly good really belong to the
wicked party.
A syndicate of capitalists have just
purchased 10000 acres of land in Florida,
lying north OF the Pensacola and Atlantic
Railroad. The price paid was 100000,
which is at the rate of so per acre. The
syndicate proposes development of their
purchase on large scale. The timber
lands will be utilized for the timber, but
the balance will be colonized from Swe-
den and Germany. Tobacco seems to
have become the staple crop OF that soil,
while stock breeding will also be intro
duced. Fruit growing, too, will play it's
part.
"A man of unquestioned veracity, of
Valdosta, Ga, vouches for the truth of
this fish story. His friend, who lives a
few miles in the country, set line for
ing when he went for the fish he found
them in abundance, and on one line he
found large owl, that must have been
terror to birds and fishes when alive.
The line was wound around the body and
the neck of the owl, and the fish bore
marks of the OWLS talons, indicating that
the owl had caught the fish after the hook
had caught it, and in its efforts to fly
away with the fab it had been ensnared
by the line, after which the fish had its
inning by drowning the owl. At
any rate the owl was dead and the
fish, though disfigured, was still in
the swim, and playing the line with
vigor that caused the line to bob up and
down with the irregularity Of the cotton
market. The drowned owl is on exhi-
bition as witness to the truth of the
story, and the fish, though the finest of
the catch, escaped the frying pan, and
now has steady job as an owl catcher.
The fisher set him for owls.
- An interesting experiment is to be
tried at Union Springs, n. Y. A COM
mittee of prominent residents, including
In IHvsc onA Hothn1io al 10
to assume the exclusive sale of liquor.
This committee has published the follow
ing statement: "We will allow no man
to pay for another mans drink. We will
| permit no drunkenness nor any approach
to it. We will allow no one apparently
under the legal age within our doors.
We will sell to no man if by the proper
person we are forbidden 80 to do. To
certain other persons, their names to be
passed on by a majority of the commit
tee, we will not sell it at all. We will
not sell spirits in larger quantities than
single glass, except on physicians or
der, and Of all such sales we will keep
record. These and such other wholesome
rules as from time to time we may deem
desirable we shall enforce, Our entire
profits, which will be large, will be
handed over as frequently as pos
SlUlo W Ll6 tOW u duCuOllllCS WlSu tuC u11-
derstanding that they will be used for the
purpose of reducing the taxation of the
| town."
"A German statistician has been both
ering himself about the question as to
when people should marry. In the first
place, he holds, that the mother in the
teens is an abomination. No woman
should marry until she has crossed her
twentieth year. Children born of moth
ers under twenty die in treble proportion
| of those whose mothers are above that
age. This spectacled professor also raj
ses the limit Of age on men. The father
who has not raised his mustache should
be confined in an asylum for imbeciles.
By law, men should be prevented from
marrying until they have reached the
age of twenty-five. The best results in
children are seen among fathers whose
ages range from thirty to forty. Women
under thirty years of age should not mar
ry men who have passed fifty. The pro-
fessor quantity adds that cit Is not wise
fol women over thirty-tive years of age
to become the brides of men under thir-
ty." But what is the use Of all this? Not
only is love blind, but the lover as we'll,
and when the notion seizes the heart,
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