The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-23

ty, Ca, who was once struck1bys
lightning, is said to emit brilliant
light from his eyes during electrical
disturbances.
Never bear more than one kind
of trouble at a time. Some people
bear three kinds-all they have had,
all they have now and all they expect
to have.
The man who opened the first
distillery in the State Of Missouri got,
700 acres of public land in recognition
Of his enterprise. He dieda gutter
drunkard.
She-'"The happiest marriages
are said to be those Of people with
opposite characteristics. : He.
"That's why I am looking for girl
with money" sss
Counting the bearing and non-
bearing orange trees in Florida, there
are estimated to be 10000, 900 trees.
California is credited with having
100000 and Arizona about ], ,0OO,-
0O0..
If all the oceans Of the globeis
should be suddenly taken from their
beds, leaving them perfectly dry, its
would take all the rivers of the world
$4,000 years to fill them again. y
"A West Virginia man lost one Of
his ears in fight, but pdt it in his
pocket and carried it to the doctor,
who sewcd it on. He that hath ears,
let him hear, and not despair.
Lieschen-'' mamma, dear, can:I:
give Willy bite of my apple !? l
Mamma-sHe has no teeth to bite
with, yet, Lieschen." Lieschen-9
"Can't I fetch him yours They re J
on the bureau.
Josh Billings says: s..There il
one thing about hen that looks like
wisdum-they don't kackle much un--38
til after they have laid their eggs:
Sum pholks are alwus Dragging and
kackling what they are going teW do I
beforehand. si
Two Chicago doctors were marri-
ed the other day, and the bride retains
her maiden name. She says that hav-a
ing practiced medicine for eleven
years under that name she prefers
to keep it, and her husband does not
object. -
Coffee grounds make highly
successful filling for pincushion:
They must be dried perfectly before
using, put them in bag and hang
them behind the kitchen stove until
you have enough that are dry to fill
the cushion. They do. not gather
moisture, and consequently do not
rust the needles.
Twin brothers, named Lowndes,
from Cumberland, Nd, who are stu
dents at Yale, look so much alike that
when one of them was arraigned in
New Haven few days ago for attend
ing a prize fight, none of the officers
would venture to say under oath,
which brother it was.
= A young woman at Newport, Ky:,.
was married when II years old, be-
came mother at 13, was divorced at
Il, married at Is, was divorced at II y.
and married the third time at 10, and
was deserted at 20, with three chill
dren. A few days ago she became
insane through grief for the death Of
her last baby from starvation.
There is every reason to believe
that the milking Of cows in large
dairies by machinery will soon become
as common as the cutting Of corn and
grass is on large farms. During the
the last few years two or three invcn-
tions have been brought into practice,
with results so profitable in the saving.
Of labor as to encourage mechanicians
to further efforts toward perfection.
The old adage that lightning
never strikes twice in the same place"
has often been disproved. Here is an
instance to point !: In the summer Of
1884 the farmhouse Of Henry Axtell,
in ChemuDg County, New York, was
struck by lightning three times in one
day. First it split the chimney from
TOP to bottom, ruined stove and>pipe
and bored several large holes in the
floor. An hour later "bolt'' struck
the same house and tore milk bench,
upon which several cans of milk were
setting, all to pieces. The same even--
ing third flash entered the roof and
tore the legs from a bedstead.
The country bride and bride
groom, with clothing crackingly new,
walked lovingly hand in hand down
the broad hotel dining room, two souls
with but single thought, and blindly
oblivious to all things else but each
other in this great, happy earth Of
ours. Almost crowded on one chair,
he fondly fed her as the parent bird
its little chick. Darling" he mupS
muringly cluck,d, "shall l skin ye ,
pertater ?" ''No, deary,'',' she gurg]eA,
"I've one already skun."
"When / was out in Colorado" !"
said man with ginger beard, II
was chased by the Injuns into cave,
and had to stay there for three months
| without anything to eat Here the
| man looked around dc6antly, expect
ing to find some one to doubt his as
scrtion, but as no one spoke, he con-
tinucd: II suppose I would have
starved if it hadn't ',een for my wife
and family in New York. Whenever
I would git to thinking Of them a big
lump would rise in my throat, and by.
swallowing that [ kept myself from
starving"
In Idaho are found springs of
natural gas, which are said to furnish
one of the most remarkable sights Of
the country. The springs are about
one hundred miles from Boise City, at
the bottom Of deep canyon. The
rock there is of a porous nature and.is
perforated by numbcrless small holes
and assures, through which the gas
escapes. These gas jets of nature
have been set Oh fire at various times
by tourists, until the whole ground
for the space of an acre or more is
covered with jets of fame. 1t is a