The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-08-09

"A single fact Is worth folio Of
argument.
= Uncle Sam is still "paying pen
'sions to twenty widows Of Revolution
ary soldiers" T"
Queen Victoria has about 40 pet
dogs. Her greatest favorite are col
lies.
Wicked men stumble at every
straw in the way to heaven; but they
climb over the hills in the way to de-
struction.
"Look here" said Skidmore to
.Gilgal, 'you've had my umbrella a
week, Notwithstanding the fact that it
bears, in large letters, this inscrip-
tion: This belongs to G. w: Skid
more. Return it tomorrow. >" 'sThat's
all right, replied Gilgal. "This isn't
tomorrow.
= Prisoner-Yes, your worship, I
committed the theft with which I am
charged entirely through the instiga-
tion Of my medical adviser. Magis-
trate-You mean to say that in carry
ing out an experiment in hypnotism
he suggested the crime to you? II
don t know about that, but one thing
is certain-hc told me to take some
thing before going to bed.
- Dashaway-Here, uncle, is an
old shirt I've brought you. Uncle
Ebony-T'ze berry much afraid, sab,
dat shirt ain gwine ter be big enough:
Dat shirt wants ter hol good sized
watermillion. Dashaway-But, Great
Scott, uncle, you can get a big water
melon in that shirt, can't you? Uncle
Ebony-Yes, sab, but it's got ter hoP
me too.
Back in the distance, when the
earth was very young, it went around
so fast that the day was only three
hours long. The whole globe was
liquid then, and as it spun around and
around at that frightful speed it finally
burst into two parts. The smaller Of
the parts became the moon, which has
been sailing round the earth ever since
at an ever-increasing distance. These
curious points are not given on the
"suppose-so'' theories of an ignoramus,
but are the well-matured deductio ons
of DR.. Ball, the astronomer-royal OF
Ireland.
"A bachelor tradesman who has
just died in Hamburg adopted novel
method of revenging himself on the
woman who once Tilted him. In his
will he left her q legacy Of 1900
, marks, but also indited the following
letter which he ordered to be handed
to the lady, who is now widow, with
the money: "Madam: Some thirty
years ago / was a suitor for your hand
in marriage. You refused my offer,
and as consequence my days have
been passed in peace and quietness.
Now I re lite your goodness.
DIR. R rt L. Watkins made an In.
terestin. .nd dangerous experiment al
the LOOMS Laboratory on "Wednesday
For the ca. Sc of science he risked death
and took the dread tubercle bacillus into
his system. According to the accepted
medical theories consumption will fully
develop in him in twelve weeks and he
could not be saved then. His theory
after several years study Of the subject
is directly the contrary Of that commonly
accepted by the faculty. DR.: Watkins
caused himself to be innoculated with
the bacillus of consumption produced by
the culture of germs derived from the
human sputum or expectoration. 81
multaneously with his own innoculation
DR.. Watkins caused a similar quantity to
be injected into a Guinea pig in order
that the conclusions at which he has ar
rived in reference to the phenomena OF
phthisis might be demonstrated the more
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