The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-08-15
All Sorts OF Paragraphs.

- There are more muscles in the
tail of rat than there arc in a human
hand.
- The value of public school prop
erty in the United States is estimated
at s4OO, 900, 900.
- The United States has greater.
railroad mileage than any other coun-
try in the world. -
Last year Australia produceds
gold to the value of $4,000, 900 in ex--
cess Of any other country.
The statement is made that
during the last one hundred years
France has lost 100000 soldiers in
war.
= Great asi the cattle industry, the
value of poultry and eggs produced in
the United States annually is but lit
tie less.
Mrs. Ann Wheeler died recently,
aged 102 years, at Ashmore, England
in the house where she was born and
lived all her life.
Statistics prove that nearly twos
thirds of all the letters carried by the
postal service Of the world are written,
sent to and read by English-speaking
people.
= The average height of the men in
the Union army in 1883 was feet q
inches. The natives Of this country
average greater height than thoseo
any other.
- The head and face have SO mus.
cles; the neck has 49; the thorax,
78 the abdomen, 33; the back, 20;
the upper extremities, SO; the lower,
109.
| "A gold-weighing machine in tRe
Bank of England is so sensitive thata
postage stamp dropped on the scalewill
turn the index on the dial six IN
ches. =;
Bessemer, Ala, owes its:origin
| to the fact that in the immediate VIZ
cinity there is vein Of iron ore from
five to twenty feet thick and mex
haustible.
- Cultivate the habit Of repeat
| ing from memory. In later ysarsit
will be a source Of both profit and
pleasure, and often serve you well in
time of need. &;
= 1t is astonishing how soon the
conscience begins to unravel ii asin-
gle stitch is dropped. One little sin
INDUCED in makes hole youcond put
your head through.
= At Lafayette, Ala, recently, twos
persons were married who had walked
seventy miles to find an official to per-
form the ceremony. 1t was runaway
couple at that.
= Fishhooks are precisely che same
in shape to-day as they were 20 CEN
turies ago. The only difference is
in the material; then they were made
of bronze and now they are made OF Z
steel.
= Jilson-"What do you think Of
the proposition to put the United
States flag on postage stamps g.
Jenks-.'Don't like it. "Why
not ?" cold Glory has never been
licked" -
While Asbury Park is suffering
from visitation of ladybugs, Mount
Misery, N. S., is fighting gentlemen
bugs" The insect is peculiar one,
and is so called because its head
resembles plug hat cooked on one
side.
= Forty-fve pounds Of corn are
said to be worth only cent and q
4 half in Russia to-day, and many farm
ers are sending their cattle into shes
fields, as the cost of. the harvest
ing would exceed the price of the
corn.
= Criminals in Buenos Ayres who
are sentenced to long terms Of penal
servitude are frequently released on
parole for certain hours each day, SO
that their private business will not
suffer.
= The test for symmetry is to turn
a man with his face to the wall. If he
is perfectly formed his chest will touch
it, his nose will be four inches away,
his thighs five and the tips Of his toes
three.
"A few years ago no man dared
ride through the streets Of any Chilian
city on Good Friday. Even the cars
were not allowed to run. No sound Of.
human labor was permitted to disturb
the religious silence.
1 Teacher: Now, Johnnie, you
may tell us this /: Suppose your moth
er told you to come home at i've
o'clock, and you did not go; what
would you be doing? II don't know
whether it would be swimmin orplay-i
in baseball" /"
Two letters bearing the postmark
1859. addressed to General George X.
Jessup, were received at the post of
| fee in Madison, Ca, ashort time ago.
Where the worn messengers have been.
all these years is mystery.
RupY's PILE SUpPosIroRY is guar
anteed to cure Piles and Constipation
or money refunded. 30 cents per box.
Send stamp for circular and Free Sam
ple to MARTIN RUDY, Lancaster, Pa.
| For Sale by Wilhite & White, drug
gists Anderson, S. g.
| Many man tries to soothe his
own conscience by thinking how many
hypocrites there are in the churches.
| # every man on earth were Judas,
it would make it no better for you at
the day of Judgment. Every one
must give account for himself unto
God.
John Hunt, Of Providence, R. L,
who died last week at the age Of 20,
had not spoken to his wife for twenty
years, and did not even repent on his
| deathbed. For the last twenty-five
years of their married life his father
and mother had not spoken to each
other.
"How does it happen that there
are so many old maids among the
school teachers p asked reporter OF
+bo otbor day. HBecause