The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-12-19
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

The labor question will come out
all right. It is the loafer question
that hinders industries.
The amount of money coined
during November was s3,207, 900 Of
which 81 ,2O7, 900 was silver.
1t is sad to see family relics sold
at auction, but the most painful thing
under the hammer is generally your
thumb-nail.
-Dealer-Does that shoe hurt
you? Miss Beacon-I think not;
unless am greatly mistaken it is my
foot that hurts me.
Kitty-What do you suppose her
age is2 Toni don't know. But 4
womans age doesn't matter so much
as how long she has been that age.
"A New York doctor says he has
examined the men who work in large
brewery and found that it is the custom
of those who have free access to the
beer to drink keg day.
When Adie Johnson, the twelve
year-old daughter of e prominent man
at Palestine, Tex, was accused Of
stealing 25 cents last Saturday she
took rat poison and died.
Mrs. Winthrop-What did your
husband mean by saying he would be
thinking Of Christmas all the coming
year? Mrs. Penfeld-He bought the
presents on the installment plan.
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or money refunded. 50cents per box.
Send stamp for circular and Free Sam
ple to MARTIN RUDY, Lancaster, Pa.
For sale by Wilhite & White, drug
gists.
If lion and strong horse were
to pull in opposite directions, the
horse would win the tug of war easily;
but if the lion were hitched behind the
horse, and facing the same direction,
he could easily back the horse down,
upon it's launches.
= Artificial whalebone is now being
made from leather, which is soaked
for two or three days in sulphate Of
potassium then stretched, slowly
dried, subjected to high temperature,
and then to heavy pressure, which
makes it hard and elastic.
When an Armenian maiden at.
tains her seventeenth year, and is not
engaged to be married, she must un-
dergo a strange punishment. She is
forced to fast three days; then for "a
hours her food is salt fish, and she is
| not permitted to quench her thirst.
1t is said that Queen Victoria is
proficient in II European languages,
and that she has, in the last four or
five years, completely mastered Hin
doostanee, in which she conyerses
with great correctness and huency with
any Of her Indian subjects who are
presented at court.
Japanese workmen bathe the
whole body once a day and some of
them twice. Public baths are pro-
vided on every street. They are fed
by constant current of cold and hot
water. The bather plunges in, re-
mains immersed some 10 minutes, then
comes out and receives a warm douche
Of fresh water.
=" "See here" exclaimed the red
headed woman in wrath, IF you amt
out of this yard in 10 minutes |
declare I'll run this umbrella down
your throat and open it sThere
| amt bit O use Of that, num-" re-
sponded Dismal Dawson anybody
that's as dry inside as | am amt
needin' no umbrella in him.
"A wife in Australia died just in
time the other day, if she had only
known it. Her husband maintaining
that his marriage VOWS were only It'll
death do us part, refused to pay the
funeral expenses. The court, it is
pleasant to record, promptly convinced
him of his error, deciding that hus-
bands duties only cease when the un-
dertaker's bills are paid.
- The most wonderful hailstorm on
record as having occurred within the
United States was that at Dubuque,
To-, June 16, 1882. It began at 2:35
D. m. and lasted but 13 minutes, but
within that time hail fell to the depth
of three feet. The hailstones, which
weighed from one ounce to q pounds,
were of all kinds of fantastic shapes
and were woven around rocks, sticks,
earth beetles, frogs, etc.
1t is said that the smallest piece
Of painting in the world has recently
been executed by a Flemish artist. 1t
is painted on a grain Of common white
corn, and pictures Of a mill, and q
miller mounting stairs with sack OF
grain on his back. The mill is repre-.
sented as standing on a terrace, and
near it is horse and cart, while
group of several peasants is shown in
the road near by. The picture is
beautifully distinct, every object being
finished with microscopic fidelity, yet
by careful measurement it is shown
that the whole painting does not cover
a surface of half an inch square.