The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-08-29
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An open and avowed sinner is
not half as bad as a hypocrite.
- Six-tcnths of the population Ct
Japan do not earn more than $40 per
month.
"A fool seldom thinks of what he
says, and the wise man rarely says
what he thinks.
- Equal parts of sweet oil and vine
gar make an excellent preparation for
polishing furniture.
The number of marriages per-
formed throughout the world each dag
is estimated at 10000.
- An Illinois man named Storms
has named his three sons Hale Storms,
Rain Storms, and Snow Storms.
A farmer of Conway, Ky.,, 70
years old, was recently married to a
13-year-old girl Of the same place.
In Italy, five centuries ago,
every person that wore shoes was
obliged to pay the State tax for the
privilege.
= One inhabitant in every $50 in.
this country owns a bicycle, and has
lots of fun keeping the other l79
lodging for dear life.
- Through pneumatic tube, 200
miles in length, letters are whirled
between Paris and Berlin at the speed
of twenty miles minute.
The highest lakes in the world
are on the Himalayas in Thibet, where
there are some bodies Of water as high
as 10000 feet above the level Of the
sea.
I - In twelve months no fewer than
q, ,389 persons died in India from
snake-bite, and more than half q mil
lion of snakes were destroyed during
that period.
Near Brennan, Tex, lives man
who has one eye, the strange feature
Of his case being the fact that the
place where the other eye should be is
blank, and has been so from birth.
1t is said that man at Heming's
Corners, Tenn, shrinks once month
from 1870 to ITO pounds and remains
| in that condition for a week, after
which he regains his original weight.
| An old album of stamps collected
thirty years ago in Savannah and res
Gently discovered by an heir Of the
collector, has revealed number OF
valuable issues, some OF them worth Z
s1,5OO.
An Irish editor who speaks with
the air Of one who has discovered a
new fact by experience, says that the
way to prevent bleeding at the nose is
to keep your nose out of other people 81.
business.
| According to the latest reports
the liabilities Of the railways of this
country foot up $l1, ,0O0,O 100000. As
the railways are valued at $40, ,OO0,-5
600, 900, this makes them 81 900, 900, z
600 worse Of than nothing.
1t has been said by those who
have studied that if only the birds
were all destroyed we could not live
ON earth for the insects which birds
eat would destroy all vegetation, and
all human life would perish.
of our 81 States and Territories, !
27 are each larger than all Of England,
while the entire territory of the Union
would contain England 69 times.
Five of our States and Territories are
each larger than the united kingdom
of Great, Britain and Ireland.
"A dissipated dog is one Of Cali
fornia's oddities. A Gordon setter,
owned by Malachi Moon, is addicted
to the inordinate use of lager beer.
Strange to say, while the canine is
willing to perform any number OF
tricks for drink, he refuses to drink
from glass that is half foam.
J The hottest place on earth is in
the vicinity Of Massowah. When the
northwest wind blows from the desert
the thermometer has been known to go
to 160. The men of the Italian garri-
son there can sleep only by the assist
ance of natives employed to 60 to
and fro. all night and sprinkle the
bodies of the sufferers with water.
Andrew Franklin, Of Burlington,
Kans., one Of the Oldest pensioners on
,, the rolls of the War Department, was
born on Christmas Day in 1871. He
; fought in the war of 1872, in two In
dian wars, and served as teamster in
the civil war. In spite of his lob
: years, Franklin, it is said, "can do
} more chores than most of sixty
- Augusta is a great place for girls,
as the census clearly shows. While
there are 1900 more men than women
in the State, in Augusta the females
outnumber the males by the same
amount. The girls needn't be uneasy
about getting married as there are
Is, 900 men and II, 900 women, giving
each girl 1917 of a man, which is
great deal more of man than half the
married women have.
- The great ocean is in constant
state of evaporation. 1t gives back
what it receives, and sends. up its
waters in mists to gather into clouds;
and so there is rain in the fields, and
storm on the mountains, and greenness
and beauty everywhere. But there
are many men who do not believe in
evaporation. They get all they can
and keep all they get, and SO are not
fertilizers, bug stagnant and miasmatic
pools.
Men are like clocks. Some are
too fast, some two slow. Some strike
just at the right time and make little
ado over it; others strike too late, and
when they begin: there is no telling
) when they will end. Some never fail
to tell the truth; others carry lie on
their faces from morning till night.
Some sound an alarm, others never
yet aroused sleeper. All are liable
to get clogged up if exposed to dust,
} and all must be wound up.
- There is a man in Rockland who
will be an ungrateful wretch if he
ever feels afraid of lightning any more.
He had the grip year ago, and his
health had been very poor ever since
until Monday. On that day he was
standing on Rockland street during
+bo +bnndor shower when hn felt