The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-06-06
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ridden in this country every day dur
ing the summer months.
- Smokeless powder said to be,
superior to any yet in use has been
invented by an American. .s:1
= James McCloud of South Dakota,
has raised a horse which has eight
perfect hoofs, too on each leg.
= More than four-ffths of the MUIR
ders in the United States last year
were by men who had no regular occu-,
patton.
Buffalo is the only city in the
United States that can claim the dis
tinction Of having furnished two
Presidents.
There are 1877 pounds of salt in a
ton of water from the Dead Sea. In
the Atlantic the amount is 81 pounds
to every ton.
= At the end of each hair of a cat s.
whiskers is bulb Of nervous sub
stance which converts the hair into
extremely delicate feelers.
= Christianity does not propose to-
make man better than his neighbor,
but it proposes to make him better
than himself.
= One of the sages says: Don't
so to law unless you have nothing to-
lose; lawyers houses are built on
fools heads"
= Dwarfs live much longer than
giants, the latter unusually having
weak constitutions and soft and brittle
bones.
= The lamp used by Epictetus, the
philosopher, sold for 5000 drachmas
soon after his death, in the year 161,
A. D.
= According to the Koran the an-s
gels who gave warning Of the coming
destruction of Sodom were Israel,
Gabriel and Michael.
One ought to carry his religion
into everything that he does, just as
he carries any other part of himself
unconsciously.
Hermann Harnes, who formerly !
lived on farm near East st. Louis,
but who was last heard from in Min
nesota, once slept a. months without
waking.
DIR. Caldwell says that there are
but three known tobacco takers s.
The African goat, the hideous tobacco
worm and the rational creature-man Z
= The Bovista gigantea, species
of fungi, will grow in one night from
the size of a pea to as large as water
melon. Its increase of cells per min
ute has been estimated at &c, 900, 600. &
Near Brennan, Texas, lives q !
man who has only 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.
y "You say, Pat, that the Garden
of Eden was in Ireland" "Yis, sor.
"But there are o,serpents in Erin.
"Shure, now, don't you know that
Adam lived before St.: Patrick kenIS
over"
= Within the last month Iowa,
Kentucky and Ohio have granted full
suffrage to woman, making twenty
three States in which women can vote
on equal terms with men in all elecys
tions pertaining to school manage
ment.
During a call that little four
year old Mary was making with her
mother, slice Of cake was given to
her. "Now, what are you going to-
say to the lady ?" asked the mother.
els you dot any more q said little
Mary, demurcly.
- 1t is computed that the death
rate Of the world is 67 minute and
the birth rate 70 a minute, and this
seemingly light percentage of gain is
sufficient to give net increase OF
population each year of almost l 200,
900 souls. 5
= If three or five or more men are
asleep in room. and one Of them is
intoxicated, the flies will gather on
the tipsy man, and avoid the others.
The reason is that insects revel in tie !
oder of alcohol and sometimes get
drunk on it.
- ''Can man serve two masters r
inquired the pastor of the mild-eyed
deacon. "He has to-, sometimes,
confessed the deacon. II think not.
"You never had boy twins at your
house, did you" inquired the deacon
softly, and the pastor retired in dis
comfture. r
One of the greatest natural curi-
osities in Central Anne ca is the VOL
can de Aqua, or water volcano, which
is situated in Guatemala, about %
miles southwest of the capital. It's
apex is IA, ,450 feet above the level of
the sea, and cultivated fields and
forest trees extend almost to its sum-
NIT. It occasionally vents forth tor
rents Of pure, cold water. In 1869 an
"eruption" Of this kind inundated the
northern valley and destroyed whole
village situated on the side Of the
peak.
Her lips quivered, and her breath
came in labored gasps, but she did not
speak. ''Do you love me p he anxi-
ously demanded, seizing her shrink
ing hand. "I-I don't know" she
faltered. Gently he insinuated his
arm about her. Darling" he mur-s
INJURED, would you like to have me
ask your mamma first ?" With a sud-
den cry of terror she grasped his arm.
"No, no, no r she shrieked convul-
sively. "Shc is a widow. l want
you myself" She clung to him until
he solemnly promised that he would
say nothing to the old lady for the
present.
On January 5, 1885, there was
remarkable addition to the world Of
freaks caused by the advent of an IL
ounce baby at the home of Mrs.
Charles Tracy, Kingsbridge, n. Y.
The child was but fraction oyei g.
inches in length, and its feet were SO,
small that the mothers engagement
ring easily slipped over them and up
to the knee. The head Of this little
wonder was about the size of wild