The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-07-05
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by using a cutoff by-road won the race
and carried off the willing prize.
News Paragraphs.
On July lst "Frenoh Bill" we'll
known negro character of Tyler, Tex,
will be 100 years old.
= The Webster, N. c., Herald says
Harry Norman, of that place, has hen
twenty-one years old, which is as "peart"
as pnllet.
For miles around Goldsboro, N. c.,
the English sparrows are playing havoc
with grain shocks. Large quantities of
grain have beer destroyed.
Mrs. Annie Moore, of Mount Pleas
ant, Tex, enjoys the reputation CT being
the youngest and only woman president
of national bank in America.
= August Is is colored peoples day in
the Worlds Fair calendar, and $50, 900
Afro-Americans are expected to pass
through the gates during the four days of
the convention.
A Marshall county, Alabama, man
has pet squirrel which recently followed
him to ehnrch. and, during service,
climbed on the pulpit and thence to the
preachers shoulder.
The silver in the standard dollar, ac
cording to the price of the last purchase
of bullion, Is worth about 633 cents, and
the legal tender quality of that coin is,
therefore, made up ofless than two-thirds
of intrinsic value.
- At Denison, Tex, while cleaning out
cistern few days ago, which had
sprung leak, Mr.. Boyd discovered
number of fish. He and others are puz-
zled to know how the fish got into the
cistern, as the water is obliged to pass
through filter.
Alabama is not to be outdone in the
matter Of freaks. That State now boasts
of little girl who, at the first sight of
piano, sat down and played the most
beautiful and difficult music. It is said
she had never played musical instru-
ment before in her life.
At Tuckasiege, N. G., Richard Davis,
sixty years old, dropped dead while hold
ing the plowhandle, aud just as he finish
ed the last furrow in the field on Bain's
mountain. He had been heard to pray
that when his time came he would drop
dead at the plowhandle.
Russia has still many old and curl
Gus marriage customs. One is for the
bride and bridegroom to race madly
down the aisle as soon as the procession
enters the church, because Of the belief
that whoever places foot first on the
cloth in front of the altar will be master
of the household.
- A writer In New York paper the
other day said that he could name six
States of the Union which had a hay crop
worth more than tie entire cotton crop
of the South. The figures for 1888 would
certainly seem to show that hay and not
cotton is king. In that year the South
produced 7,9l7,7l7 bales Of cotton, worth,
say, SM5, ,619,745, The estimate of the hay
crop for that year was S406, ,49a, ,565.
The late Senator Stanford was at
times very absent-minded man. Once
an old servant, named Jane Wallace, pos
sessed with vague idea that Mr.. Stan
ford owned two or three railroads, asked
him to send her back to California from
the East. So the Senator wrote on
sheet of note paper: "Please send Jane
from New York to San Francisco. Le-
land Stanford" The pass was honored,
the first conductor to whom 1t was shown
telegraphing to headquarters for instruc-
tions before accepting it.
"A party of men left Now York, on Fri
day, to drive the entire distance to the
Worlds Fair in o tallyho coach, The
matter at Issue Is a $1,000 wager. The
horses are changed every twenty-five
miles, that is, six changes are permitted
as the horses are taken out OF the shafts
they will be shipped by train to the sixth
stopping place exactly $50 miles distant.
The entire party pledges itself to reach
Chicago, whether they meet with an ac-
cident or not. Il is therefore presumed
by their numerous friends that if the
coach is smashed in an accident they will
be compelled to carry the pieces on to
Chicago.
MFR. A. L. Grimes has crooked fin:
ger on his hand, and that finger has
history. About Ave years ago he got IT
fastened in a machine which cut 1t of.
After dressing the stub he decided to
hunt for the lost mem ber and found 1t IN
the machine. Re carefully placed it in
his pocket and started for physician to
have it replaced, but the first four NJ. D's
he met bluntly refused to make the e8-
pertinent Yhlle A tpe ffth ! o. ore y;,s stuck i
finger, only q little crooked. Several
the finger in his popkeL-RospeH, u, 3d.,
Banner,
In Thomas Edison's exhibit at Chi
cago is the kinetograph, the last of the
wonderful inventions, displayed In con-
neotion with the most versatile group Of
monographs ever brought together. 1t is
to the eye what the phonograph is to the
ear, mechanical retina, which stores
away living picture, to be reproduced
in all it's act tions, every movement faith:
fully shown at any time and in any place.
With the kinetograph 1t is possible. to
ering speech aboard the flagship Chica-
90 in New York harhor. Not q photo
graph of arrested action, but the living
man, his every gesture, the play of e4-
preston on his face and the movements
Of his lips. It will transmit and re-
produce motion Of any kind for any dis
tanoe.
- Cases are not infrequently reported
in which children, and sometimes grown
persons, are poisoned by the free use of
nutmegs, it not being generally known
that this article of common household use
is .eally q deadly poison. This is true,
in fact, of most common condiments.
But when misqsed, these articles, such
as pepper, capsiopm, &c,, are 30 ohno&-
ious to the taste, excepting when taken
In very minute quantltle8. tnat tne oou'
sumner is warned in very positive man
ner before he has had an opportunity to
do himself serious injury. This is not
1iii This nut hut, Which contains. 3 poisonous
principle of very deadly character, may
be consumed without Inconvenience in
quantities sufficient to produce fatal con.
sequences and it is surprising not that
death occasionally OCCURS from Its use,
but that deaths are not more frequent.
A fatal case has been recently reported
ia which q boy Of eight years foil into a
comatose condition after eating two nut
megs and died within twelve Aoura.
See the Worlds Fair for Fifteen Cents.
Upon receipt of your address and fifteen
cents in postage stamps, we will mail you
prepaid our "souvenir Portfolio of the