The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-02
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The walls of Babylon were $50
high and 100 feet thick at the base. Z.
"A beetle can draw 20 times its
own weight. So can mustard plas-
ter.
Over 10000 men, women and
children died from snake bites in the
year 1893 in India.
The bones and muscles of the
human body are capable OF over l,'2OO
different motions. 81
Hicks-"I am never able to find
anything in this house." Mrs. Hicks
-"Oh, yes, you are. You generally
manage to find fault.
An enthusiastic New York no
man is engaged in the work Of raising
canary birds on a large scale. She
has now 1000 birds sitting.
The "King of Water Moon" is
the name given the largest gold mug:
get ever found in Australia. It was
found in 1852; weighed 223 pounds
and 4 ounces.
- Eight millions OF shoe pegs,
5000 bushels, have just been shipped;
from New Hampshire to Germany.
A Maine man has made 100000 in
wooden toothpicks.
There is gentleman living near:
Marshall, Fauquier County, Va, who.
has 81 children, II of whom are boys.
All sit down at one table, made ex-.
pressly for them.
-"I wonder what makes Highly so
unpopular 2" ''I give it up, but it's 4 2
fact. Why, that man is SO disliked
goes fishing"
"A Kentucky woman recently
brought suit against a railroad Tor.
killing her horse and her husband.
She got $3.50 for the horse aud one
cent for the husband.
The edible dogs Of China are.
known BY their blush black tongues
They never bark and are very taciturn.
Fonr million and half are slaughter
ed annually for the Celestials. s
Nell-"Why is it that Bionss
girl is neglected by men during the
winter and becomes so popular in;the
snmmer ?n Relle-"She is fond OF
the theater, and detests ice cream and
soda water"
Babb;, who is happier, the man.
who owns a million dollsrs, or he who
has seven daughters 2 The one who
has the daughters. Why SO? He
who has q million dollars wishes for.
more-the man who has seven daugh-.
ters does not.
"And did the west impress you
fayorably ?" they asked. Carried
me by storm" answered the returned
traveller, who on one occasion had been
waited across three counties by q
cyclone.
- The oldest engine is claimed to
be in operation in a Savannah, (G..)
rice mill. It was built in 1916 by
James Watt of Lancashire, England,
and was brought to this country m
the same year.
"A man with head that is two
feet one and fve-eights inches in CIR
cumference was fitted with hat3ln
Baltimore the other day. His size is
eight and fve-eights, which is twelve.
sizes above the average.
A little Green street girl was out
walking with her nurse when an old
maiden lady met her and asked;
"How is my little girl to-day g
"Your little girl ?" said the child.
IT didn't know you was married.
AT Gainesville, Tex, few days
ago, during an hours storm, the.
ground was covered with ocean snails,
which, except few specimens cap
tured by local naturalists, b. next
day had found their way instincsiyely
to the streams.
Robbie Gn sober mood): Oh,
mamma, I wish I only had all the
money I've spent for candy. Mamma
(proudly): My boy would put it in
his savings bank, wouldn't he? Rob,
bic deliberately: No, ma am; Id
buy more candy.
= The State of New Hampshire is
paying one dollar bushel to farmers
for ali the grasshoppers they can de;
stroy. Rates have not been reduced
because of the allegations OF genera!
depression, and yet the number OF
bushels destroyed has not appreciably
increased.
Hoop skirts first appeared IN
1880. An iron cage was prepared and
the skirts were stretched over it..
The cage was tipped to one side, the
lady crawled underneath, and the
cage was fastened to her waist by a
strong leather belt. The contrivance
often weighed as much as 40 pounds.
The wheat crop of 1893 in the
United States amounted to 396, Bl,,
725 bushels, grown on a,629, ,4l8
acres of land. It yielded about IL
bushels per acre, and was worth at the
farm 81 cents per bushel, making q
gross return of $6.16 per acre. Total
value, s213,171,3S1.
The punishment for drunken
ness. in St. Petersburg, is to make the
offender, no matter what his social
position, sweep the streets. Well
attired gentlemen, some Of them in
dress suits, are occasionally seen
sweeping the streets, after nights
carouse.
New York is the first manufac-
turing city of the country. 1t has
eleven thousand factories, which make
| every year s500,000, 900 worth Of
| goods, including $50, 600, 900 Of cloth.
Ing. s25, 900. OG0 of books and papeis,
and s18,OOO,OOO of cigars. Central
Park covers eight hundred and sixty
two acres, and cost $15, 100000.
With four bullets in his head,
George Adams, of North Attleboro,
who is at the Massachusetts, General
Hospital, will recover, although all
the bullets have not been extracted.
Adams stood before a mirror in hi,
L. boforo a do1on cnstnnere