The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-16
Much harm is done by people who
think they are doing what is right.

Much harm is done Dy people VINO
think they are doing what is right.
Farmers in the Panhandle of Texas
are reported to be planting larger acre
age of cotton than ever before.
Two women, man and one child
were poisoned in Louisville, Ky, by
drinking water from copper kettle that
was cankered.
Sir James Stephen knew the value
of short and exp plicit will. His is as fol-
lows: '.This is my last will. I give all
my property to my wife, whom appoint
sole executrix."
No receptacle has ever been made
strong enough to resist the bursting
power of freezing water. Twenty-pound
steel shells have been burst asunder as
though made of pottery.
Tile Pittsburg Dispatch is authority
for the statement that at birth negro
child is of a reddish nut-brown color,
which then turns to slaty-gray in the
first week of The child's existence, and
the black color is not developed for pe-
riod varying from one to three years.
In one of the battles of the war,
Judge R. H. Phelps, of La Grange, Tex
as, had leg shot off. A Federal soldier
lifted him up and carried him from the
field. At the Confederate reunion in
Birmingham, Ala, the other day, lie had
the pleasure of shaking the hand of the
soldier, who had made q journey of GOO
miles to see him.
- There are $4,000 more women than
male inhabitants in New York State.
There are 800 more colored women than
colored men in the State. The propor-
ton of native born women Is slightly
higher than of native born men. II men
and women had the ballot on equal terms
there would be $4,000 more women's
votes than mems in New York State.
There is only one woman railroad
engineer. There is little stretch of road
known as the Cairo Short Line, and on
this the daughter of one OF the chief engi-
neers rode to school daily, and at very
early age she seemed deeply interested
in machinery and was never tired OF hav-
ing the workings of the engine explain
ed. One day the engineer of this narrow
puage road became i'll, and during bis
illness the young woman in question
took his place and made the runs with
out any mishap. After the death of the
engineer she assumed the charge of the
train. which she is still running to the
entire satisfaction of all parties concern
ed.
- The celebrated DR.. Gregory, in
in the course of one of his medical
lectures at Edinburgh, stated Gone
cannot stand perfectly motionless tor
half an hour; that he had once tried
to do so. and had tainted at the end Of
twenty minutes, the blood requiring
the aid of motion from the body in Or
der to retain its full circulating pow
er."
just several shades removed
from the chameleon fad is the idea OF
wearing snake skins for neckties, but
the fashion is growing in Baltimore.
It promises to become quite the pro-
per caper to be seen in an immaculate
morning suit of the latest London cut,
with the tanned cuticlc of 3-foot
reptile neatly tied around the snowy
"chokcr" collar, or whatever other
style of linen ncckwear happens to be
the rage.
1t has been estimated by compc-
tent civil engineers that the Nlissis-
sippi River annually discharges 49,
500, 900 100000 cubic feet Of water
into the Gulf of Mexico. Of this
prodigious quantity the 1-2, 900 is sed-
imcnt. Thus it will be seen that the
Mississippi annually deposits enough
mud in the Gulf to cover square mile
| - ,,rfooo N q danth of 24( feet.