The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-08-22

A West Virginia girl was awakened
by noise in her room. On jumping out
OF her bed she was confronted by huge
bear. She quickly seized pistol, which
lay under her pillow, and shot the animal
dead.
= In the mountains Of Kentucky q
majority of the log houses are built now
lust as they were in the days of Daniel
Boone. There are no win dows, no car
pets, no whitewashing, often but one
room, and many of them not even hewn.
1t has been discovered that of the
six-year-o school children of Boston,
sixty per cent have never seen robin,
growing corn, black berries or potatoes,
and eighteen per cent. have never seen q
cow. How about other cities? What G
boon the short summer outing in the
country for the poor children is!
Two Texas girls recently rode dis
tance Of one hundred miles on bicycles.
They rode for queer stake: Both loved
posed that they settle the matter in
that way-the winner of the race
to have sole right and title to the young
man.
- North Carolina has moro small cot
ton mills than any other State in the ma
ton, is building more every year and Is
operating all of them by local labor. A
large number of mills have been built
and equipped by local capital, OBJ
tanned by means of cooperative associa-
tions.
"A medical writer suggests that the
admittedly large increase in crimes OF
violence and in suicides the past two
months has been due to the fact that the
scarcity and dearness Of fruit in our mar
kets have compelled more flesh eating
than usual. This assumes, OF course,
that animal food stimulates the passions
and arouses the latent beast In mankind.
The price of corn in Russia has
shrunk so low, in consequence of the
splendid prospect of the harvest, that
many Of the farmers are sending their
cattle into the fields, as the cost of har.
vesting would exceed the price of the
corn. In the Caucasus barley and wheat
are cut green and given to cattle. Forty
five pounds of corn are worth cent and
half.
Il Lord Rothschild has started the
fashion of driving pair of zebras In har-
ness. The creatures are being trained at
Kensington, where they are daily seen
trotting peaceably alcng dn company
with steady pony, who acts as
"coacher." One Of these fine striped an
imals was recently driven III dog cart
and behaved with exemplary demeanor
throughout the lesson.
- In some interesting statistics of sui
eide furnished the World by DR.. Nagle,
of the New York city board OF health, il
is shown that more than three times as
many men as women die by their own
hands. Poison Is the most frequent
means, and there is no more self-des-
truction among those of one religious
faith than of another. Dr. Nagle says
that the Irish do not kill themselves.
- Mark Twain has just gone abroad
to see his wife, who, he says, "is support
ing couple of doctors over there. The
doctors in Europe" he said. casually
take you to a little town, and whom they
have treated you for while pass you on
to a friend In some other little place, and
so keep you on the go like the Wander
ing Jew, and as my wife has been doing
this for three years, I propose bringing
her back when return in October"
Standing on fopr-inoh cnrnice 154
feet above the ground. Jerry Donoman, a
house painter, carefully painted the gild-
ed cross on the steeple Of q church at
Salem, Mass. He had his paint pot in
one hand and brush in the other and
occasionally he turned to make faces at
the crowd gathered below. The wretch
ed man was drunk and 1t was with diff
Guilty that he was lured down from his
dangerous situation. When he grew So
ber enough to understand the risk he had
run it crazed him and he has been sent to
an insane asylum.
- The following interesting story is
from Norwich, N. Y: Miss Mary Baker,
of this place, when only three years old,
pulled button from an old shoe with
which she was playing apd crowded it
into her nose. On Monday, after twen-
ty years, physician removed the self
same button from its lodging place.
Miss Baker, since childhood, has been
greatly afflicted with what she believed
to be catarrh, and has been treated by
many specialists. Patience, courage and
money were nearly exhausted, when the
young lady resolved to visit we'll
known physician, who quickly made
diagnosis or her case and removed the
cause of suffering. The length of time
which the button had remained in the
head caused deposits to adhere to it until
it had attained several times its natural
size, so it had to be removed in seq
tions, This was accomplished With
ont no otiohrocf ipcNn vapidpoa m Tho ma.