The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-05-10
News Paragraphs.

News Paragraphs.
"A West Virginia boy ate five doz-
en- bananas, as fast as he could
swallow the fruit, on wager Of fifty
cents.
- Mr.. Edison says that whatever has
been mathematically proved to be i'm
possible he has always found it easiest to
invent.
u. F. Nance, of Uvalde. Tex, has a
stone which will cure any pain. He
bo ught it from a South American for a
small sum and has since refused very
large sums for it.
- Texas has man who recently lost a
fine farm and all his stock at game OF
poker, and singularly enough, the man
regards the loss as perfectly legitimate
one.
West Virginia has two-headed wo-
man who has two voices entirely differ
ent in tone. She talks bass on one side,
and tenor on the other. She is not in the
stage line, however.
The Methodist Church of Kansas has
dismissed the Rev. V. II. Biddeson, the
Populist chaplain of the State Senate, be-
cause of the prayers made in that body
last Winter.
"A little girl in Louisiana clim bed an
oak tree and fell asleep in its forks. A
woodman, searching for timber, had cut
the tree half down before the child was
awakened and alarmed him with her
screams.
Alabama is nothing if not original.
That State now boasts woman who was
struck by lightning seven years ago, has
never spoken since, and whose eyes grow
luridly brilliant at the approach of a
thunder storm.
-Thad Archie, well-known and
well-to-do negro, Of 4orkville, s. c.,
died recently and left in his house 81, 900
Disappeared. His heirs are hot on the
trail Of suspected parties.
Someone entered the orchard of Mr..
J. w. Jenkins, of Marshall county, Ala,
and cut down about ninety young trees
that were Just beginning to bear. Sam
Taylor was arrested for the crime, waiv-
ed examination and went to Jail to await
trial.
"A Louisiana man, crazed by the
death of his wife, has built a small house
me-. her grave and has taken up his res-
idepce there, He has preserved all OF
his wife's trinkets in a glass case on tho
grave, which is carefully guarded.
= The Florida orange crop this season
will pro baby be the largest ever known.
The trees are now in blossom, and are
so full of..blooms that should only half OF
them mature the trees would not hold the
fruit without considerable propping and
bracing.
There is wonderful chicken on ex-
hibition at Galveston. The chicken has
four beaks. Besides two full formed
beaks standing at an angle from the GEN.
ter of the head, there are the under por-
tions of two other beaks between. Then
there are three eyes, two placed
naturally, and one in the center of the
head.
"A great preventive of colds is said to
have beer discovered in the new paper
stockings now made in Germany. The
material they are formed Of is specially
prepared paper, impreguated with some
substance which apparently sucks up all
perspiration as quickly as it is formed,
keeping the feet warm and dry. This
should be good news indeed to very
large portion Of much suffering humanity
If 1t is true,
- The Woodford (Ky.) Sun tells Of a
wooden legged cat that fiourished as fa-
nous rat killer in Woodford county,
clubbing the rats to death with its artiti-
clal limb. The kitten was born with only
three legs, but its owner had the wooden
leg fitted to the stump where the fourth
should have been.
- There was quite an interesting trial
at Thomasville, Ca, last week. A doc
tor who seemed to be making some won
derful cures with electricity and char
without license. He was bound over to
court because it appeared in evidence
that be had prescribed or recommended
charcoal, and one of the witnesses testified
that charcoal was a drug.
-."Foreigners have little idea of the
merits of corn bread, " says the New York
Recorder, Though there is hope that they
will give it a trial, and if so they will
never give it up. Gen. Lees army was
Kept alive and in fighting trim for months
around Petersburg on daily ration Of
handful of meal and an inoh slice of
bacon. Czars and Emperors would do
we'll to feed their troops on the same diet"
During the holding Of the Worlds
Fair religious exercises will be held by
evangelists, under the direction of Mr..
Moody, The city will be divided into
three districts, and in each services will
be held nightly, A number of foreigners
will assist Mr.. Moody, and the exercises
will be conducted in different languages
from time to time. In this way it will
be sought to reach the people of
all the nationalities who will attend the
Fair.
- Chicago has opensd her big show
with population, visitors not included,
of about !, ,250,OO0, or about 600, 900 behind
that Of New York. Philadelphia's esti-
mated population is l,16O, 900, Brooklyn's
1000, 900, Baltimore's l1,500, Boston's
475 5000, Cincinnati's $4,000, Cleveland's,
including recently annexed suburb,
s22, 900 San Francisco's 100000, Bufalos
100000, Washington's2 s 263, 900 and Detroifs
25O,0OO. Most of these are moderate
official estimates, and they show that the
chief cities of the country are growing
with even more than their usual rapldlty.
- The lightning on Monday night
struck stack Of fodder belonging to All
drew Corley, who farms near Montmo-
renci, destroying $50 bundles. Andrew
says Q6 WAS WlSuIy GuaAhlo1 w 6oo eoo
rain that accompanied the lightning,
though he regrets his loss as he will have
to buy, On the acre of land where this
fodder stood Andrew says about four
years ago he saw tree struck four times
In one day by lightning, and the year fol.
lowing he had melons planted there and
lightning struck in the patch killing
many of the vines.-Aiken Journal and
RcUie1p.
= AT the Aquarium in Berlin there Is
a big gorilla whose habits are about as
correct as those Of most of his distant rel
atives. He gets up at 8 in the morning
and takes bath, and uses soap without
hesitation. When his toilet is completed
he takes cup of milk, after which he
eats two loaves of bread, with Frankfort
sausages and smoked Hamburg beef, all
of which he moistens with a glass Of
Weiss beer. At p. N. he takes bowl
of soup, with rice and potatoes, and
wing ola chicken. lie uses his knife
and his fork and his napkin like one OF
our own four hundred; but when he
thinks that his Keepers arc not observing
him he discards the impediments of civ
ilization and plunges his muzzle into the
bowl, as if to give evidence of the mel