The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-06-13
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CA foolish friend does more harm
than q wise cnemY.

| - Talk about sensational trials /;
wait till you hear the recording angels
testimony.
Fasts of from 30 to 40 days are of
common occurrence among the religi-
Gus fsnaties of India.
The Iowa farmers have paid Of
| 5000, 900 of mortgage Indebtedness du-
| ring the last three months.
| A Partisan dentist filed hole
the size Of a silver dollar in an cle-
plants tooth with composition and
tin.
A farm of more than loco acres,
near the Delaware Water Gap, is
devoted entirely to the cultivation Of
celery.
- More than four.6fths of the mur-
ders in the United States last year
were by men who had no regular occu-
patton.
= Electric pianos, which play them
selves, the keys being depressed as
though by some unseen hand, are now
being manufactured.
-" II am going to marry your sister,
Johnny, and take her far away. What
do you think of that p "Guess I can
stand it if you can"
At Defiance, Ia, there is "liv-
ing skeleton" in the person of man
who is 5 feet and 8 inches tall and
who weighs but IS pounds.
Young women in Denmark are
able to insure against being old maids.
Should they remain spinsters at 40
they receive a weekly allowance.
= A we'll recently dug in the Arctic
regions near the Okhotsk Sea proves
that the ground in that vicinity is
frozen to depth Of nearly so feet.
= Some people have yet to learn
that there is wide difference between
making business of ones religion
and making religion Of ones busi-
ness.
= The largest Sunday School library
in the world is in Washington, DC.
It is the property Of the Assembly
Presbyterian church. The librarian
is J.. C. Stout, Of the senate library.
- The only monstrosity mentioned
in the Bible was the giant who, had
"six fingers On every hand and on
every foot six toes, four and twenty
in all" See Samuel H., xxi, 20.
= Gump: I wish a fellow could
borrow money as easily as he can bor-
row trouble. Hump: If you could
make money as easily as you can make
trouble, you wouldn't need to borrow
any.
= The Mikado of Japan has recent
ly issued decree allowing Japanese
woman to lead, if she chooses, a single
life. Hitherto, if found unmarried
after certain age, husband was
selected for her by law.
= Miss Arabella Don't you think
I look dreadfully pale, doctor? ? The
Doctor: Yes, indeed, you do, made
moiselle. ''Then what do you advise
me to do?" "Wipe some of the pow
der off your face.
= Uncle: Now, Robbie, if [ gave
you 20 cents and Ned promised you 10
more how much would you have
Robbie: Twenty cents. Uncle: How
can that be? Robbie Cause Ned
wouldn't pay his.
1t costs about 81, 700 per shot to
fire one of Krupp's 130-ton steel guns.
The gun costs s195, 900, and it can
only be fired at the most 60 times.
The gun has range of Is miles, and
the projectiles weigh 1900 pounds.
Father-"Yes, I admit your lover
has good income, but he has very
expensive tastes, very" Daughter
"You amaze me, what does he ever
want that is so very expensive Z"
Father-"Well, you, for one thing"
Last year more than 1000 car
loads of beans, mostly Lima, were
shipped from Ventura County, Cali
fornia. Merchantable beans on one
ranch were raised at the rate Of 600
pounds per acre, the entire product
being 100 car loads.
In recent lecture Sir Robert
Ball said that a telegraphic message
would go seven times round the earth
in second, and if telegraphic mes
sage could be sent to the moon it
would reach its destination in little
more than second. He also thought
that it would take something like eight
minutes to arrive at the sun.
The latest development in the
milk business in London is to drive
the COWS around the route and have
them MIXED in presence of the con-
sumer. The customer is thus able to
Judge for himself of the healthy ap-
pearance of the animal, and is sure Of
fresh milk. The practice is a common
and ancient one in Egypt.
A French electrician, NJ. Trouvc,
catches fish by sinking in the water a
net with an incandescant lamp attach
ed. The curious fish collect around
the light, when a pneumatic tire
around the edge Of the net is silently
inflated and rises to the surface, en-
trapping them without frightening
them, and, hence, without destroying
the spawn.
A collection of tools used by
workmen in building the pyramids of
Egypt that is owned by a famous
Egyptologist indicates that many tools
credited to modern ingenuity were in
use when Moses was troubling the
Pharaohs. 1t is also announced that
furnace has been unearthed along
the Nile in which hot blast was used
centuries before the modern Nelson
formulated the same idea.
"A writer in the Forum draws
attention to the fact that women have
helped to elect two of our Presidents.
One of them was Mr.. Cleveland, the
women of Wyoming having voted at
the last presidential election. The
other president whom women helped
to elect was Thomas Jefferson, in
1901. The women who cast votes that
wear were those of New Jersey. Politi-
cal history repeated itself after the
long lapse of eighty-eight years.
- Harris Beck Of 2O2 Eastern Park
way, Brooklyn, is the latest victim of
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