The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-05-17
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

- The Sole Leather Trust has been
formed with capital Of s120,000,0O0.
"A Geneva matchmaker has invented
talking clock that can be so adjusted
that it will invite the courtipg young
man to staY to breakfast.
-"Don't be afraid of the bacon, Mr..
Jenkins" said clearinghouse mistress
to boarder. "Not at all, madam. I've
seen piece twice as large, and 1t did not
scare me Bit"
-"Oh, oh !" exclaimed Mrs. B.,
crazed with toothache, "why can't people
be born without teeth ?" "If you. will
recollect moment, my DEAR" replied.
Mr.. B., "you will be convinced that such
is the fact"
"A horseback ride to Texas in FIVE i
months, and ride back by rail in less
than that number Of dayr, serve to illus
trate how our methods of locomotion
have progressed almost within the memo
ry of men now living. &
When you turn horse out to pas
ture, do not give him slap with the
Bride he will remember it, to your re-.
gret, if you do. Make pet and friend
of your horse; it will improve him., and
make yourself a better person.
-sunken eyes, q pallid complexion,
and dis6guring eruptions, indicate that
there is something wrong within. Ex-:
pei the lurking foe to health, by purity.
ing the blood with Ayers sarsaparills.
Cures Erysipelas, Eczema, salt-Rheum,:
Pimples, and Blotches..
There is gun in the British navy,
22.ton Armstrong, which hurls solid
shot a distance of u miles, the highest
point in the arc described by the shot
being $4,000 feet above the earth's sur
face. The discharge Of the gun cannot
be heard at the place where the ball
strikes.
When Luke Allen, Of virginis,
went to the war in 1862, he left behind J
him young wife, whom he had just
married. He did not return until after
the surrender and the couple lost all trace
of each other. When Allen did get
home, be found his wife gone-no one
knew where. A few days ago, he met
her on q railroad train, where she was
travelling with her husband, and she was
introduced to him as the mother of seven
children. z5'
-"The flowers that bloom in the
Spring" are not more vigorous than are
those persons who purify their blood with
Ayers sanaparilla. The tabled ElixeT
vi!@ could scarcely impart greater viya-
city TO the countepance than this Won
derful medicine.
The geologists tell us that the oro-
bippus, the ancestor of the noble horse of
to-day, was but little larger than the
common rabbit of to day, and that each
had 16 toes, four on each foot, the same
as the cattle of to day. After the lapse
of ages this 16 hoofed equus shed a toe
or hoof from each foot and thus became
a - toed animal. The 16-hoofed variety
are first found in the eocene period Of.
geological epochs. ~
1t is q fact not generally known
that the United States government clears
four million dollars year profit on the
New York postofice. It is its great
money-maker. Chicago comes next with
an annual profit Of twenty-five hundred
thousand dollars, and then Boston and
Philadelphia with thirteen hundred
thousand dollars each. Outside of these
four cities, the postofice department is
run at an annual loss of fifteen million
dollars year.
The old man was rich, but the.
young man hadn't a red. Neither did
the young man have daughter, but the
old man did, and the young man wanted
to marry her. The old man didn't want
poor son in.law, but the young man
had nerve, and he bearded the lic- in his.
den and told him all. The old man
looked him over disdsinfully. money.
talks, young man." he said. "Well.n =
responded the youth bravely, "why dong
you say something then I"
"A Lowell (Mass.) man gave aaur.
geon now prscticing at Great Falls, N.
e., a deed some years ago dispoaing of
his body for anatomical purposes at his
death for $40 cash in hand. He has
since been in South America, has made
a great deal of money and is now anxious
to have a decent funeral and interment
when he dies, but counsel, whom he has
consulted, advises him that the deed
holds good unless he buys it from the
holder. This he has tried to do, but the
doctor has refused large offers. -
DO you despise the unprete. tious
peanut? Have you ever tried them in
this way? Buy the green or unparcbed
peanuts, parhoil them, rub off the red
envelopes, spread the blancued nuts on 8
tin dish, treat them to butter, then brown
them for half an hour in baking but
not hot oven, and when they are a light
snuff color take them out at once and
salt them Aile hot. Do this and you
will be mad to think that go much Of
your life has passed without your know.
ing how much better peanuts are in that
condition than almonds.
Miss Sallie Putnam, born 14th day
of May, 1899, is still living and in good
health, within mile of Orlean, Va.
She does not remember to have taken a
dose of medicine, and has never seen q
train of cars. Thirty years ago she broke
her hip bone and doctor was sent for,
but when he came she would not allow