The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-07-18
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words fOund only once III Cle DlDle.
In South America rain frequent
ly falls in torrents from clear sky.
DO not speak of your happi-
ness to man less fortunate than
yourself.
A cynic remarks that it generally
| puzzles horse to know what woman
is driving at.
Over 100000 people in this
country live upon wages paid by rail-
road companies.
- Most men have faith enough to
pray for rain when the wind is in the
right direction.
= Talk about sensational trials I;
wait until you hear the recording an
gels testimony.
= The one point upon which hem
peck and his wife agree is when she
wishes she were man.
- It takes one hundred gallons of
oil year to keep large-sized loco
motive in running order.
= The fastest short hand writer in
the world is said to be George Bua-
barry, of Dublin. He can write ESQ
words minute.
= In Sydney, Australia, it is the
fashion to keep the bodies Of the
dead until Sunday in order to insure
a large attendance at the funeral.
= New York is the oldest city in
the United States with a continuous
municipal history, interrupted only by
the vicissitudes of the Revolutionary
War.
- The man who has always found
a way to keep from doing any kind OF
hard work is the one who talks
loudest and longest about the hard
times.
What is said to be the only frost
less belt in the United States, lies
between Los Angeles and the Paci-
ic ocean. In breadth it is about three
miles.
= The lowest temperature ever reg
istered was at Werckojansk, Eastern
Siberia, in February, 1892, when tenn
perature of 157 degrees below zero was
recorded.
1t is worthy of note in these
times Of abusing the men that
there are more men able to earn
potatoes and beef steak than there
are women who know how to cook
them.
= "Charley, DEAR" said the rustic
young girl, "will you love me as now
.nd cling to me always? ?" eyes, dsr- 4
ling" replied the matter of fact lover,
"I'll stick to you as tight as those
freckles on your nose.
"A man has recently been acquit-
ted in Jersey City Of the charge Of
"embracery." Embracery has ten
der sound, but is nevertheless q very
tough thing, being no less than at
tempting to bribe a juryman.
-" CATER all, what is kiss 2" said
young Mr.. Warren refectively, after
pressing the lips Of his Boston fnan-e
Gee. "a kiss - replied Miss South
Church, "is the anatomical juxtaposi-
tion of obicularis muscles in a state OF
contraction"
i He-Supposc, darling, was like
one of those husbands who always coac-
down late in tie morning, and then
grumble if the coffe should happen to
be cold ? She-Well, dear, I should
make it hot for you Gle is still
wondering whether she meant the cof-
fee.)
Jefferson, Ashtabula County, o.,
is serene little village on the West.
ern Reserve which the doctrine OF
political spoils seems to pass by
unscathed. It's Postmaster, w. u.
Wallace, is eighty-four years Of age,
and was appointed by Jackson 6Oyears
ago.
- Robert Tucker, the oldest negro
in Indian Territory, has just died. He
had a we'll authenticated age of ll3
wears. He was a slave among the
Choctaws for over fifty years. During
portion of the war Tucker was the
BODY servant of General Price, OF the
confederate army.
- Herodotus gives good descrlp-
tion of the manner in which the early
Philippians preserved their dead. Hav-
ing thoroughly dried the corpse, they
plastered it over with a paste
made of gypsum and then painted the
face and exposed parts so as
to make them look as natural as pos
sible. Dead bodies served in this man.
ner remained intact for hundreds OF
years.
= To cure a sty, take the white OF
an egg on saucer and rub into it
small pinch of powdered alum. 1t
will become curd. Put it between
two fine pieces of muslin lawn and
bind it over the eye before retiring
for the night. In the morning the
sty will be gone or much better. One
more application will be sufficient, and
no more stys will come.
A little 5-ycar-old girl had been
attending Sunday school for several
weeks, learning to repeat the golden
texts. A few days ago her mother
had occa. ;on to administer severe
reproof, wlen the little one looked up
undismayed and slowly and calmly OBJ
served 1.-THE Lord is an my side, l
will not fear 1t was her golden
text of the Sunday previous.
- Havana is a city Of 25O,O in.
habitants, combining the comforts OF
American cities with some of the pc
culiarities Of European capitals. 1t
is only three days journey from New
York and is situated on perhaps the
most fruitful island in the: world.
This little spot Of Cuba has re-
mitted since 1927 the sum of $137,
600 900 in hard cash to the Spanish
Treasury.
The great convention Of the
Young Mems Christian Association
held in London, witnessed an illus
tration of the value Of an apostolic
gift-the gift Of tongues. Archdea-
Con Con- Sinclair, in an address Of welcome
smoke in "English, French, German
and Italian" The message was the
same in each, and the same evangeli-