The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-01-24

- Marshall county, Alabama, claims a
hog with halt human head. The dime
rauseums are bidding for it, but its own
or, farmer, refuses to part with the great
curiosity.
w. B. Gardner has curiosity in the
form of a fruit tree in his grove at Fort
Meade, Fla. It bears oranges on one side
and grape fruit on the other, each side
having been budded differently.
Near Birmingham, Ala, q man on
retiring for the night heard q strange
noise in his chimney. and discovered the
legs of man dangling therefrom. He
lit fire and scorched the fellow consld-
erably before he released him.
- Mr.. J. w. Armfeld, of High Point,
N. c., swallowed an oyster she'll, while
and sharp on both edges. Physicians
succeeded at last in pumping the shell
out of his throat.
Near Cocoa, Fla, a man was awak
ensd from his slumbers by a stra nge
Mortified to discover two large rattle
snakes coiled on the foot Of the bed. He
was not long in dispatching them.
The five children besides baby
Esther Cleveland who were born in the
White House were also girls. One of
these girls, the grandchild Of President
is now employed in one Of the depart
ments in Washington, ending.as she be-
gan, her days under the Goyernm ent's
root.tree.
"A lady at Cannonville, N. c.. found
a snake in her stove nicely Drowned and
toasted. 1t seems that the snake bad
gone into winter quarters in a hollow
stick of wood. The good lady in order
to have her wood nice and dry to cook
breakfast With put it In the stove the
night before.
A tOviedo, Fla, Mrs. G. E. Brown
spied hawk making q dive for chick
en-, and she ran up to it, expecting to
scare it away, but instead Of accomplish
ing this the hawk showed fight and at
tackled the lady. She called to Mr.. Far
nell expecting to see it take flight at his
approach, but to his surprise the hawk at
tackled him also, and he had to pick up a
stick and delare war himself, when he
soon came of victorious,
Some of the evils predicted when
Stephenson was trying to introduce rail
roads ere that COWS would be prevented
from grazing and hens from laying, while
horses would be driven distracted. Some
gentlemen in st. Johns Berkeley, in the
same spirit, objected to the building of
the Northeastern Railroad because it
would ruin the breed of horses in the
parish if the young men could get to
Charleston so much quicker by rail.
Two factions of the United Brethren
Church at Alma, Kan, have long been at
war. The other night one set put wheels
under the church and started to carry it
off bodily. The leaders Of the other fac
ton rushed to the home of the district
Judge, secured an injunction, and, wax
ed up the Sheriff, and had it served at
once. At the time the injunction was
served the building was in the middle OF
the street and there it stands.
"A most remarkable electrical exper-
iment has been successfully exhibited at
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
in Baltimore. BY means of flexible
rubber tube diminutive electric light
was introduced into the stomach of a
patient. The lights in the room being
lowered, over 200 students viewed the
workings of the patients internal organs
through the translucency the light created
in the abdominal wall.
"A man in Elwood, Ind, bought
paid 20 cents He took it home and his
wife proceeded to do it up into "cold
slaw." Upon inserting the knife it
struck something hard. The cabbage
was divided and $50 gold piece reveal
ed. Further dissection revealed three
more twenties, ten and five, all in
gold. The supposition is that some gar
dener hid his savings in the cabbage
when it was young, and then forgot the
plant.
- A few days ago the Greenville News
mentioned the case of a citizen of Green
Vile county who has sixteen living chill
dren by two wives. This record is
eclipssd by that of Mr.sand Mrs. Joseph
Looper, living in Dacusville, in Pickens
county. Mr.. Looper is 81 years old and
his wife is Sc. They are the parents Of
sixteen children, and have had ZIG grand
children. and average of something over
seven apiece, and "a great grand chill
dren, total of 226 direct descendants in
three generations. Mr.. and Mrs. Looper
are in good health, active and sturdy and
seem to be likely to see many more years
and descendants, S,-GTeenUilLe Ne,VS