The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-01-31
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thirty feet long.
= Cucumbers were originally tropi-
cal vegetables.
= There are 100000 suicides yearly
and increasing.
In 1902 velvet was commonly
used for book binding.
= Women are said to be less sensi-
tive to pain than men.
Children, plants and animals
grow more rapidly during the night.
First class fare for twenty-five
miles on the new Kongo rai,load costs
$40.
Next to the Bible, Moody and
Sankey's Hymns have had larger
circulation than any other work in 25
years.
A shower of rain which fell at
Alden. Arabia, in 1888, was the first
that had fallen at chat place in 26
years.
A woman without arms was
recently married in New Zealand. The
ring was placed upon the fourth toe Of
her left foot.
Salvation Oil gives perfect satis-s
faction for horses with cracked heels.
G. W. Lee, 414 W. Balto., ST., Balti-
more, Md.
During the year 1893 over 4, 600
corpses were cremated in France
Nearly one-third the number is credi-
ted to Paris alone.
Over in Maine a widow has
recently married the man who put the
rope around her husbands neck when
he was lynched last July.
"A woman is never known to ad-
vertise for the return Of stolen prop
erty "and no questions asked. She 4
would ask questions or die.
"A paper advises: ''Never inter
rupt any conversation, but wait pa
tiently for your turn to speak. This
does not apply to married men.
= Last year s125, 100000 was ex-
pended to maintain charitable institu-
tions in this country. So material
America is not altogether heartless.
y Your ancestors since the year
1900 A. D. number nearly 100000.
Figure omit, allowing three genera
tions to the century.
-'I love you extravagantly,n he
exclaimed. II should say you did, -,
she murmured in response, as she
fondled $40 bunch Of roses he had
given her.
"A fee Of $3.50 day is given the
physician to the Emprei Of Russia
when in attendance upG- his august
patient. It is to his advantage to !
keep her alive. N
In Java $50 distinct earthquake
shocks were felt during the year end
ing December 1893. The average
yearly number of shocEsfelt in Japan
is something over 500.
There are now over two hundred
and fifty thousand words in the En-
glish language acknowledged by ,the
best authorities, or about seveAty
thousand more than in the German,
French, Spanish, and Italian combin-
ed.
Wife-"You don't seem to care
much for my literary taste" Hus-
band-"Why 2" Wife-"You never
ask what books I like" Husband
"I don't have to, my dear. I know
the pocketbook is your favorite.
"A second edition of the Siamese
twins, now being exhibited at Hong
Chow, are two nice looking boys about
six years old, bound together by
ligamcnt of flesh near the middle of
their sides. They are as much alike
in appearance and as near equal in
size as it is possible to be.
= The Columbia souvenir coin was
losing experiment. It not only
failed to realize for the Worlds Fair.
the premium confidently expected,
but the directors have had to pay the
United States treasury $4,000 to
defray the cost of recoining into ordi-;
nary silver currency the s1,7OO,0OO
worth of souvenirs left on hand.
A long-winded member Of parlia-
ment stopped in the midst Of tedi-
GUS Grafton to take glass of water.
Sheridan, the playwright, Immediately
arose to "point Of order" Every
body wondered what the point Of
order could be. "What is it p asked
the speaker. II think, sir" said
Sheridan, "that it is out Of order for
windmill to 60 by water"
- What is believed to be the larg-
est aerolite that ever fell from the
region beyond our atmosphere is now
lying in the shallow waters of the
Caspian Sea, near the Peninsula Of
Asheron. 1t projects IL feet above
the surface at spot where the water
is known to be over 30 feet deep. In
falling it made a terrific noise and
Illuminated the sea and land for miles
around.
"A Paris paper lately offered a
prize for the best specimen of micro
scopic handwriting. The winner of
the prize was "a man vino had copied
out in full on a postal card the con-
tents of the first two pages Of big
newspaper. Another candidate, in
gcniously alluding to the famous
incident, wrote on an egg an account