The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-12-06

Il. ls estimated that more than
| s., 200, 100000 worth of railway property
in this country is in the hands Of receiv-
ers.
- George Could now one Of the veal
thiest men in the United States, has ex-
pressed himself as in favor Of an income
tax.
- The Pacific ocean Is supposed to
| fully one-third of the whole earth's sur
face.
= It would cost one hundred million
dollars to feed the human beings
ana domestic animals OF Paris for six
months.
- Leather scraps are now converted
into pulp and manufactured into door
knobs, canes, combs, cups, buttons and
other useful articles.
Two preachers of the Seventh day
adventists have been arrested in Gaines
Vile, Ca, where they have built up quite
large congregation, for working on Sun
day.
- Eleven million six hundred aud
twenty thousand families, with an aver
age annual income of 1868 pay 80 per cent
Of the taxes OF the United States. The
income tax will slightly alter this.
- Mrs. Casey Tichner, ninety yeara
old, went to Carlisle, KY, the other day
TO draw her pension. She walked twelve
miles, and seemed no more exhaust
ed than woman Of thirty would have
been.
- Labor is so cheap in Japan, that
syndicate Of Americans has O. project on
hand for the establishment of gigantic
clook and watch mandatory in Toxic,
which is to employ over ten thousand
work men.
What can young man Of barely Is
years of age possibly want with 81 900
worth Of shirts? Among the liabilities
of the eldest son Of Sir Robert Peel, who
has just become bankrupt, Is an item to
that amount. His debts amount to
some $3.50, 900, while his assets are practi-
oally nil.
- lis usually considered a noteworthy
circumstance for man or woman to be
be married three times, but in olden
times that mum Der would have been but
little thought Of. st. Jerome mentions
widow who married her twenty second
husband, who in his turn had been mar
ried to twenty-five wives. What was the
ancient Chicago?
An English journal is responsible
for the statenl ant that an attempt Isl being
made to form ladies' whistling club in
London. All candidates will have to
satisfy the committee that they are fairly
proficient before being elected. One or
two thoroughly accomplished teachers
will be engaged to give instruction in the
higher branches of the art and whist.
ling duets, trios ald glees will be made
special feature.
A Mississippi planter has discovered
an effective method of dealing with Eng
lish sparrows. Finding that their dep
relations on his cotton crop threatened
to be serious. he took some wheat, soak
ed it in whiskey, and strewed 1t along
the rows. The sparrows soon found 1t,
and in few minutes there was drunk
en- lot of English sparrows in that cotton
patch. They rolled about on the ground,
falling on their sides and backs and
kicking their heels into the air, like n
parcel of drunkards, all the while utter
ing the most comical squeaks. They did
not have long to squeak, however, for
tho boys gathered them up and threw
them into bags. The first day they gath
cred about two bushels of drunken spar
rows. Three or four days later the ex-
pertinent WIS repeated with almost equal
success, and from time 70 time since,
They made excellent potpie, but the sur
vivors have evidently come to regard the
plantation as hoodooed, for now very few
come about 1t.