The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-10-25
News Paragraphs.

At the present rate of increase there
will be 19O,0O0,000 people in the United
States in so years.
Ex-senator Joseph E. Brown, of
Georgia, has grown so weak that he can
scarcely hold his head up, and is almost
blind.
- The law of woman became para
lived willie she was talking through
telephone at Dover, DEL, the other day.
An attempt to force open her jaw result
cd in its fracture.
- The maxim murder will out' Is
disproved by statistics. In the ton years
ending With 1886 there were 1,776 muir
ders committed in England and Wales,
and in 1,OS4 of these cases no trace OF the
criminal was ever found that led to his
apprehension.
- The large attendance at the Worlds
Fair during the past two months insures
the financial success of the undertaking.
The directors report that all debts will be
paid out of the receipts, and some-
thing will be left to return to the stock
holders.
Only 81 per cent. of the women in
Connecticut who were entitled to vote
for school officers for the first time this
wear went to the polls last week, and in
moro than one.half Of the Connecticut
towns not single woman exercised the
privilege which has been conferred upon
the sex.
Russian railway managers propose
to devote one carriage on each train Tor
the use of women who wish to smoke. A
London journal relates that one Of the
second class carriages on the Great West
ern Roads Bristol express, marked
"smoking," recently bore the placard,
..'For Ladies'"
When Chinese girl Is married her
| attendants are always the oldest and
ueliest women to be found In the neigh
| borhood, who are paid to act as foils to
her beauty. It is said that some excep-
tionally ugly old women make their liv-
| ing by acting as professional attendants
at weddings,
- It is o notable fact, says an English
paper, that not only can Queen Victoria
swim, but so also can all her daughters.
The Princess of Wales. all her three
daughters and the Princess May are also
swimmers. In fact, all the Princesses
Royal are swimmers and love the art
| in greater or less degree. Perhaps the
greatest of all lady swimmers Is the Em.
press of Austria, who, at one time, rev.
|
tricks. Although swimming among
women is practically unknown in lazy
Spain, the present Queen Regent
can do all manner of feats in the water.
| -"A. planters wife was left with q
Mississippi River plantation, under s23,-
600 mortgages and family of i've chill,
dren, just ready for school and college,"
says the Atlanta Constitution. "The two
vears' illness of her husband had given
her grasp of the business. After his
death when the commission merchant
came up to close her out the improved
condition of the place and tho wisdom OF
her plans caused him to say: I'll advance
all the money you want this year. at
the end of three years she had paid the
mortgage, sent her sons and daughters
to college, and her plantation was uni
versally confessed to be the best improv-
ed one in the country"
Frem communication read to the
Association of Belgian Chemists, itseems
that Continental bakers are In the habit
of mixing soap with their dough to make
their bread and pastry nice and light.
The quantity of soap used varies great.
ly. I'm fancy articles, like waff1es and
fritters, it is much larger than in bread.
1.-THE soap is dissolved in little water
to this Is added some oil, and the mix.
ture, after being we'll whipped, Is added
to the flour. The crumb of the bread
manufactured by this process is said to
be lighter and more spongy than thai
made In the ordinary way.
Commenting on the frequent lynch.
ings of negroes for the usual crime the
Birmingham Age-Herald says: "These
negroes are not the better class of their
race, but are escaped convicts, tramps,
thieves, etc., and are ostracised by their
own people. Hence we often read thai
there were number of colored men In
the mob that did the lynching. The way
10 eradicate an evil Is to strike at the
root. These vagabonds should be dealt
with before they have chance to com
init crime. Ali towns and communities
should adopt the same laws that prevail
In Birmingham. The police of this city
arrest men who cannot show any visible
means of support These vagrants are
either put on the streets or sent to Jeli
By strictly enforcing this rule much
crime is prevented It is q good rule
and its enforcement is far more necessary
in the country than in the towns. The
vagrants require to be looked after more
sharply than ever before. 1t is better tc
put them to work in or out Of prison thar
to lynch them.