The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-05-24
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

Some people in New York wear
| $3.50 shoes.
- The United States contains 194, 900
square miles of coal felds.
The drought is 80 severe in Mexico
that water is reported to be selling in
some parts Of that country for So bar
rel.
Jones-Brown, did you ever see 0
saw fish Brown-No; but I once saw
sea fish.
- a man in Evansville, Ind, who is
suing for divorce is the father of twenty.
seven daughters.
"A sugar dish owned by Mrs. I. K.
Smith, of Roswell, Ca, has been in use
by her family for over 100 years.
Taking the earth all over into con-
sideration, the amount of rain that falls
on it's surface comes to about FIVE feet
annually.
- Annabel: What is love, anyway I
Rosalie (who has had experience): Love
is the desire to keep some other girl from
having man you admire.
= In Tennessee recently Miss Onion
was married to q Mr.. Garlic. It goes
without saying, that the union created an
order in Tennessee society.
A man and his wife in Girard,
Mich, have not spoken to each other for
20 years although living together. Can
the wife be a woman3
= Merchant Ito applicant )-"Do you
think you know enough to assist me in
the effect" Boy-"Kuow enough ! Why.
I left my last place because the boss said
I knew more than he did,"
He: am in trouble. I kissed 9.
girl the other night and now she WON'T
speak to me. She: Did you .kiss her
more than once? He: Oh, mol She:
No wonder she is mad.
= Adorer feeling his way)-"I-er-s
suppose your sister does not like my
coming here so often, does shei" Little
brother (confdently)-"Oh, you needn't
worry about sister. She can endure:
most anybody"
- Indignant buyer-"You said that
this horse was all right except that he
was but partially broken" Seller:
"Thats what I said. He's wind broken
and the rest of him is as sound as dol.
lar. seef" -
A number of workmen who were
drilling an artesisu we'll at Centerville,
Ia., tapped subterranean cavity ata
depth of nearly 600 feet, that was COM
pletely filled with live bats of the com.
mon gray species and of extraordinary
size.
A mare owned by Herman Colby Of
sanbofn, N. a., recently gave birth to
triplets. Two of the fosls were about
the size of kittens, and the thirk perfectly
formed and of normal size. The marc
was bred to Percheron stallion weigh
ing 1,600 pounds.
- In all cases, where mild bat efec.
tive aperieut is needed, Ayers Pills are
the best. They improve the appetite,
restore healthy action, promote digestion,
and regulate every function. No pill is
in greater demand. or more bighly>re-
commended by the profession.
The superstitiously inclined might
as we'll drop that idea about Friday being
an unlucky day. 1t is now discovered
that Columbus started on his world find-
ing voyage on Friday and actually sight.
ed land on Friday. Certainly Friday
was not an unlucky day for Christopher.
j. S. Norton of Boston has forty
acres in Irish potatoes, from which he
expects to gather 1900 barrels Of pota-
toes, or, say that he allowed three BUSH
els to the barrel, making $500 bushels.
1t is safe to say he will realize 81 per
barrel, thus making the total reach 81. 400
from forty acres Of land, and that in pc
tatoes.
The archbishop of Canterbury
receives a salary Of $4,000 a year.
Next to the queen he occupies the posi-
ton of the head of the church. The
archbishop of York and the bishop of
London received $4,000 each; the
bishop of Durham receives $4,000 and
the bishop of Winchester nearly as much,
aud other salaries of the episcopal body
range from $4,000 to $25,000.
A North Carolina man sold sin.
gle tree the other day for $500, and the
purchaser said that he expected to real.
ize at least $1,000 for it when it was
worked up. The tree measured three
and halt feet through at the stump,
and was beautiful curley walnut, curl
ed from root to the topmost twig. There
is a great deal of walnut in that State:
and it is very valuable, single trees sell.
ing at from 500 to $500.
- Jonathan Stanhope, wealthy far
mer of Blue Lick Hills, Ind, has ordered
$500 worth of Columbian stamps with
which to paper the wall Of his parlor. If
his tongue is not worn out by the time he
gets them all pasted on the wall he will
be able to point with pride to his record,
or murmur the motto of Michigan in 8
voice choked with emotion. Persons
doubling the story that Christopher COL
umbus discovered America should visit
Jonathan and sit down in his parlor and
rest while Washington Ne,os.
- Peter Gruber, of Oil City, Pa,
turned over to tailor the material for q
suit of clothes that probably cannot be
duplicated in the world. tits to be made
of the tanned hides of rattlesnakes that
have been caught, killed, and tanned by
Gruber during the past four years. That