The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-08-30

| = Darwin asserted that some species of
trailing vines can see. They always
make for the nearest object around which
they can twine.
= The big industries all over the coun-
| try are rapidly resuming work. They
| shut down for only few weeks, and
some of them for only few days.
- John Hough, of Railway, N. j., has
just received legacy Of Sl,0O0,O 900 from
Californian whom he nursed through
a spell of typhoid fever few years ago.
= White caps at Thorpe's Station, in
Ohio, few nights ago, took Mr.. James
Rutherford and his wife out Of bed,
strapped and whipped them, and then
gave them coat Of tar and feathers. The
outrage was in revenge for lawsuit
prosecuted by the Rutherfords.
= DR.. Da Costa says that thousands of
visitors at the Worlds Fair who hunt up
the nude, and 20 to see shocking exhi-
bitions in the South Sea Islands and Af-
rican quarters are mentally unbalanced.
The doctor thinks that our habits, tastes
and amusements indicate that the whole
nation Is going insane.
Mr. James Grant, q society young
man, was held up in st. Louis the other
night, stripped Of all his clothes, and tied
to staple in wall in the full glare of
an electric light. He was discovered by
the people in passing street car and
released. The conductor gave him his
waterproof and he rode home rejoicing.
= It has been suggested to the police
commissioners of Superior, Wis, that the
police force should be equipped with BIZ
cycles, and in this way one policeman
could cover much larger beat and with
greater ease, which would permit
of q curtailment of the force. The plan
is good one and will probably be adopt
cd.
Edison says lie can manufacture fine
sapphires inexpensiyeiy, and as for ru-
bies, he can produce them at IS pound,
and of kind TO excel the genuine in
beauty. All this the Wizard regards as
scientific recreation. Just now he is
bending all his inventive faculties to the
construction Of a combined phonograph
and kinetograph.
An eminent medical authority, in a
recent number of the Boston Medical and
Surgical Journal, maintains that coffee
is real brain food, and has the power of
absolutely increasing a mans capacity
for brain work. Says he: "Opium slim
ulates the Imagination alcohol lifts q
man up for the moment to throw him
into confusion and irregularity Of action,
but caffeine increases his power of rea-
soning, and absolutely adds to his BRAIN
work capacity for the time"
"A few physicians In the United
States now distinguish between malaria
and typhoid fevers, in the earl " stages
of each, by what is esteemed an absolute
~ certain diagnosis. The blood from
pin prick upon the patients body Is
smeared on glass plate and placed un-
der microscope. If the characteristic
proof is taken as conclusive. "This
method of diagnosis" says the New York
Sun, twill be employed more than ever
this fall, as city folks are already return
ing from the country laden with disease
germs, and the knowledge of the method
Is spreading among physicians"
-DaYid Jacob, of New York, owes it
to his presence of mind that he was not
frozen to death few days ago in the re-
frigerating room of firm of dealers in
meat. He was locked in the place by
accident and knew he could not get out
for an hour. While he stood thinking
what to do he noticed that he was be-
coming drowsy and realized that what
ever he did must be prompt. He began
throwing pieces of meat from one side Of
the room to the other and kept up this
violent exercise until the clerk who had
locked him in returned from lunch. Then
be fell in faint from physical and men,
tai exhaustion, but his work had saved
his life.
Governor Turney has issued pro-
clsmation addressed to the people of
Tennessee concerning the recent assassi-
nation of a soldier named Laugherty,
and the subsequent lynching of miner
named Drummond at Briceville. he
says they were cold-blooded murders
and outrages that cannot be passed un-
noticed. He says time, expense and Ia
bor will not be spared, and the perpetra-
tors, who are guilty Of murder in the
first degree, will be hanged if the law is
enforced. He declares lynching as much
murder in law as killing from ambush
or for the sake Of robbery. It is as much
murder to kill felon with deliberation
and premeditation as to kill in like man.
ner the best citizen in the land. He is
using every means in his reach and pow
or to locate the guilty in both cases re-
ferred to, but justice and fairness will be
observed and rigidly practiced, and
equality before the law will be the un-
yielding rule. Citizens or soldiers gull
ty Of the crime shall have justice and
right administered according to law in
the civil courts of the State.