The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-06-21
News Paragraphs.

- Tamnany will invite Mr.. Cleyeland
to deliver an address on July 4.
- Texas has ton-yearold boy who is
q confirmed inebriate, and has been
drinking ever since he was seven years
old.
Sink and Swim are the peculiar
names of two of the best citizens of Da-
wilson, N. c. They are thinking OF FORM
ing copartnership.
1t has been discovered that the Eng
lish sparrow is superior article of tood,
so the little pests had better take friendly
advice and leave.
- Mary Wales, All ancient Boston spin
ster, who died the other day, left her en-
tire fortune, amounting to about $4,000 to
her pet Thomas cat, called Otto.
At Laredo, Texas, while the coroner
was in the act of holding an inquest oyer
dead man, the corpse rolled over on his
back and "cussed" the coroner in choice
Spanish.
Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Allen, of
Maugum, Texas, were divorced at the
last term of the Greer county Court, and
were reunited in marriage a few days
since.
ALL the overfowed lands in the river
bottoms in Conway county, Arkansas, are
being planted in corn and cotton, and with
fairly good season will produce aoun-
dant crops.
The Mathews Cotton mill, at Salem,
Ala, has laid out baseball ground, fur
cry Saturday afternoon and insists on
their taking outdoor exercise.
1t is reported that Georgia's yield of
II In oh nm
and this causes the Savannah Press to re-
mark that there is no good reason why
the colonels who get left should feel blue.
Mrs. Jack Wines died near Selone,
Fanquier county, Virginia, last week,
aged about eighty years old: Parties
who helped prepare her body for burial
found in large box her wedding dress
in nearly as good condition as when she
donned it, forty-four years ago. 1t is
white dress, cut low neck and short
sleeves.
Mr.. Curb Derrick, of Madison coun-
ty, Alabama, had three mules stung to
death by lees. A team offour mules was
stopped near the bee hives, and it is sup
posed that thu stamping of the mules
maddened the bees when they swarmed on
the mules withthe above result.
While Sam Jones was in Dallas re-
porter quoted him as saying that no one
could send him anything which he " ould
appreciate more than buttermilk, and the
next day every good old sister in town
sent in from q quart to a gallon until ne
thought the whole of human kindness had
turned to buttermilk.
- The church in the United States
grows in numbers and wealth. Its prop
s,,1
wears. In 1850 it amounted to $S7, 600 ,OOl
and in 1890 it had reached 1851 ,0O0, 600. 10
this is to be added the immense proper
ties of Christian institutions, such as hos
pitals, colleges, publishing houses and the
like.
"A farmer in Fayette county, Penn
sylvania, recently fell asleep under tree
While slumbering with his head agaln1
the tree his dog chased large gray squir
rel, which, in its haste to reach place O.
safety, jumped into the farmer mouth
The farmer disgorged the animal will
an effort, aud it is said, has not fully re-
covered yet.
In Paris the demand for horseflesh is
greatly on the increase. There are over
one hundred and fifty butchers in the
| French Capital who deal in it alone
Twenty thousand horses were eaten BY
the Parisians last year, not by the poor
only, though it's cheapness is strong
| inducement to the working and labor
classes, but by many people fairly well
off. The price is about half that of NUT
ton or beef.
According to a Paris special Mr.. I'm
ri Kiralfy, who is at the Grand, has JUS
been interviewed by French joWnalisi
on his well-known method of selecting
ladies for the chorus by examination
| the hand and wrist. He declares that he
can Judge the female figure with practi'
cally unerring accuracy in this way. HI
saws that the first knuckle joint shows the
size of the hip, the second the size of the
knee and the last joint the height of the
instep, while the wrist compared with
the hand shows the relative size OF the
waist, the fatty part of the thumb the size
of the calf, and so on. This "leg reading
by the hand" as it has been called, will
it has been prophesied, before long be-
come quite fad and dethrone mind read
ing as a fashionable amusement.
Il saw, says q writer in the Globe
| Democrat, curious method used the
other day in Illinois, to take the foul al
out of well. The we'll was to be clean
ed out, but the man that took the JOB wa
afraid to 60 down until he had ascertainet
the quality of the air at the bottom: IT!
let down a lighted candle, and when
descended to about six feet of the bottom
| it went out as suddenly as though extin
guished by Whit of air That, was al
6e wanted to know. He was then sure
that the we'll had poisonous gas in it, ane
took small umbrella, tied a string tt
| the handle and lowered it open into tn
| we'll. Having let it 60 nearly to the bot
tom, he drew it up, carried it few Tee
from the well and upset it. He repeated
this operation twenty or thirty times
with all the bystanders laughing at him
then again lowered the light, which
burned clear and bright, even at the bot
tom. He then condescended to explair
that the gas in the well was carbonic acie
gas, which is heavier than air, and there
fore could be brought in an umbrella jus
as though it was 30 much water.
was simple trick, yet perfectly effective
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