The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-06-20
ticlc too long. This visit and the
Kindness shown me by the Catawbas
will always be remembered with feel
ings of pleasure and interest.
McDoNALD FURMAY.
Rnmscy. .Sumtcr County, May, 1871.
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

All Sorts of Paragraphs.
- William Dunlop, young man
not % years old, who died few days
ago at Tippccanoe, o., weighed over
500 pounds.
= German courts have been asked
to decide whether tooth after being
drawn is the property of the dentist or
| his victim.
A German statistician says that
his latest discovery is that's 900 years
hence there will be one man to every
220 women.
- The first furrow plowcd by cleo
tric plows in America was on March
30, 1892, at the Kansas Sorghum Tx
pertinent Station.
- It costs Uncle Sam 81 100000
year to pension the naval officers who
have grown old or who have become
disabled in his service.
= Venus and the moon are exactly
alike in one respect at least, each
revolving on it's axis in the same space
of time taken to complete it's orbit.
- A noted botanist is authority for
the statement that among all the
leaves of meadow, field and forest
there are no two that arc exactly alike.
Over 100000 in this country
live upon the wages paid by railroad
companies. Four million good reasons
why railroads should be treated fairly.
= lie: A penny for your thoughts,
Miss Stcrling-but l suppose you
value them at more than that She:
Oh, no-thc fact is, was thinking Of
you.
- About year ago, in Hanover,
Pa, a Mr.. Smith and Miss Hoke
were married. The lad that arrived
recently has been christened Hoke
Smith.
A lawyer said to a witness
"You'rc nice fellow, amt you p
Witness replied-'I am, sir, and if |
was not on my oath I'd say the same
of you"
- The expressions "Hallelujah'
and "Amcn' are said to have been
introduced into Christian worship by
St. Jerome, some time about the year
A. D. 300.
- Hc-''But couldn't you learn to
love me, Ida ?" Shc-"I don't think
l could, George He (reaching for
his hat cit is as l feared ! You are
too old to learn -
- No receptacle has ever been made
strong enough to resist the bursting
power of freezing water. Twenty
pound shells have been burst asunder
as though made of pottery.
Quito, Ecuador, is the only city
in the world in which the sun rises
and sets at 6 o'clock the year round.
The reason of this is that it is situa-
ted exactly on the equator.
Bees arc said to have such an
antipathy to dark-colored objects that
black chickens have been stupg to
death, while white ones of the same
brood were left untouched.
- The freight service performed by
the railroads of the United States in
| 1892 was equivalent to moving Sc, ,24l,-
O5O, ,225 ton one mile. The compensa-
tion therefor was s799, ,31G,042.
Lcuenhoek says that 100000
webs spun by young spiders when
they first BEGIN to use the spinners
are not, if twisted together, as great
in diameter as hair from human
head.
"A Liberty Me.) man has 12
years growth of beard which is be-
tween six and seven feet relength.
He wears it plated in pigtail re-
scmbling a Chinaman' S cue (queue.)
- On Anniversary Day the Chinese
place food on the graves of their an
cestors. In a day or two it always
disappears, and, of course, the spirits
of the deceased must have devoured
it.
- The Russians arc the most religi-
Gus persons on the face of the globe,
never touching food or drink without
making the sign of the cross and never
starting upon or returning from a
journey without giving thanks.
When mails are distributed at
the postoffice in the City of Mexico
the names of receivers of letters are
posted on bulletin board. VIXEN
norson calls for his mail his first act
is to consult this board.
A little three -year-old girl, while
her mother was trying to get her to
sleep, became interested in some noise.
She was told tina. it was caused bya
cricket, when she sagcly observed
Mamma, ! think he ought to be oil
cd. )"
i In the treasure room of the Ma
harajah of Barnda is stored 4 carpet
which cost sl,OOO,OOO. 1t is only 10
by 6 feet, with a center and corner
circle of diamonds. 1t took three
wears to make it, and was intended as
a Gift to Mahomctan beauty.
- Since the death of Lucia Zaratr
the "Mcxican midget, the title !.
being the smallest woman on earth
has fallen to Mile. Paulina, native
of Holland. She is now nearly Is
years of age, is but 20 inc hes high and
weighs few ounces less than
rounds. Unlike most midgets (who
are usually hideous monstrosities) she
is remarkably pretty and accomplish
ed, speaking four different languages
nucntly.
"What will we do with our
girls q is question asked by late
magazine. At present, the answer is
easy, for they may be disposed OF IN
the good, old way but after time,
the daughter of the modern mother
will be so mannish thata man will not
want her. The problem of what to DO
with the girls will always be easy OF
settlement if the girls are but reared
into the womanly womanhood that
manly manhood likes.
I have no faith in that woman
who talks of grace and glory abroad,
and uses no soap at home. Let the
: huttons be on the shirts, let the chill