The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-02-01
News Paragraphs.


Of its kind that was ever seen in that sec
ton.
Strawberries have mado their APP
pearance in New York at the modest
prico of 35 cents each. French tomatoes
can be had for 81 pound.
A farmer living near Shelby, n. c.,
on awakening Monday morning found
seventeen rabbits huddled together in a
corner of the room. They had got in
the house in some tuanner to escape the
cold.
A San Francisco exchange raises the
alarm that California is suffering "a girl
famine" In every large town in that
State, with the exception of Alameda,
there is lalnentable paucity of the gent
Ter sex.
- The Dover, Tenn, Courier has tho
ory about the cause of the cold weather.
1t says: Continue to destroy the tim
ber in this country and after
awhile Alaska will be Hades compared
to it,
"A colored youth in Washington,
mistaking the Hon. Sherman Hoar for a
house page against whom he had a
grudge, gave the Congressman kick in
his coat tails. Mr.. Hoar promptly ac
cepted the kicker's apology.
- Among the superstitious natives Of
Bulgaria the prophet Elijah is believed
to control the elements. During heavy
thunderstorms the women fall on their
faces and pray: "Dear Lord Elijah, do
not drive SO fast, with your fiery hor-
ses."
= Probably the oldest canary bird in
the country died in Huntsville recently.
1t was the property of Miss Mary Wind
ham, and has been in her possession fif-
teen years. The late cold spell was too
much for the bird and lie died, the old
est of his tribe.
- After advertising several weeks. E..
c. Quinby, Of Carthage, ILL.,, succeeded
in purchasing 1,50O cats. He tagged them
with advertisements of his business,
turned them loose, and in few hours
every town within radius of thirty
miles from Carthage was deluged with
cats advertising Quinby's store.
= Five hundred thousand lizard skins
were shipped from the State of Tabasco,
Mexico, to the United States last year.
Thousands Of the skins are marketed in
Mexico, while large quantities are ex-
ported to Europe. 1t is estimated that
the number of lizards slaughtered for
their skins in the State of Tabasco last
year was 100000.
= A Texas man recently whipped his
mother. When he was leaving the house
after his brutal deed, she said to him:
"Before this day is out the same punish
ment "lll be visited upon YOU" He
had barely got into the street when he
met man with whom lie bad quarrel.
A fight ensued, and the unnatural son
was nearly killed.
= Thomas j. Murphy, well-known
lumber dealer, was endeavoring to cross
the Ohio River on The ice below New
Martinsville, West Virginia, with six
horse team, loaded with boiler and
heavy lumber. When half way across
the ice broke and wagon and horses sank
to the bottom. Murphy saved his life by
jumping from cake to cake of ice until he
reached the shore.
Several large cargoes Of raw cotton,
grown in Russian Central Asia were re.
Gently shipped at Odessa to German
parts. The Russians are sanguine that
there will be vigorous development of
the cotton growing industry in the near
future. The quality of the cotton so far,
however, has been inferior.
"A telegraph operator Sedalia, Mo-,
is said to be deaf and dumb, He deci-
piers the messages he receives, it is
sal !, by reading the movements of the
relay armature. The manner in which
he receives the dispatches is to put his
head against the instrument at which he
is working, so that be can feel the jarring
OF the sounds.
The late Justice Lamar, untila year or
g, ago, had most remarkable memory.
He could repeat word for word the
speeches of great orators which he had
read and passages from authors unknown
to others than students like himself. He
rarely erred in quotation, and one
might have said of him, as Lord Mel
bourne is credited with having said of
Macaulay, 81 wish 1 were as cocksure of
any one thing rs he is Of everything"
A bill pending in the Ohio legisla-
ture provides that no prosecution for il
hel, either civil or criminal, shall be
maintained against publisher if he re-
tracts the same, and if such retraction bo
made as fully and publicly as the libel
lous article this shall be complete de-
fense unless malice be proved by the
prosecution.
- Col. j. V. Cocklell, Congressman
elect from the "Jumbo" district of Tex
as, was wounded nearly thirty years ago
in fight between Federals and Confed-
crates in Southwest Missouri. One day
last week he called on q surgeon and
complained ofa "rising" in his back,
The surgeon made an incision with his
lancet and big minnie ball slipped out,
Some years ago an old gentleman
fell by the roadside, near Kensington,
England. Ofquite number of persons
who witnessed his fall all pronounced
him drunk, save one, lady named
Birch. She alone went to his aid, insist
ing that he had merely tainted, which
was the fact. 1t is not known that Miss
Birch ever afterwards saw the old gen.
tleman, but few weeks ago his solicitor
called and informed her that he had died
and bequeathed to her the sum Of $780,
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