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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-30
The Ferris Wheel.

Preliminary work incident to taking
down the Ferris Wheel on the Mid
way Plaisance was begun yesterday.
This consists Of placing false work,
engines, and hosting apparatus.
Some day next week the big wheel
will turn for the last time in Chicago.
At that time several Ferris Company
officials that will ride around on the
struss are still in place. Some will
simply hold to the ten-inch iron beams,
while others, more timid, will be tied
on.
It will take ten weeks to take the
wheel to pieces. The car that was
used for carrying the Krupp gun VI will
be used for the seventy-ton axle. The
material will be taken in five trains OF
thirty cars each to New York city.
There are 5000 tons Of metal in the
wheel and 100000 feet of timber is
headed for the false work. Taking
the wheel down will be more danger
Gus than putting it up. Only one life
was lost in erecting the big attraction.
The expense of taking down, NOV
ing, and rebuilding the wheel will be
S15O,OOO. In New York it is to be
placed at Thirty-seventh street and
Broadway. Old Vienna will be re-
produced around it. Here the wheel
had 5000 electric lights in New
York the number will be doubled.
The Old Ferris Wheel Company goes
out of existence and a new company,
composed of New York men, has been
formed. Superintendent L. V. Rice
has charge of the removal.
During the fair the wheel went
around 10000 times and carried 2,OOC,-
600 passengers. The largest single
load was carried October 19, when at
1890 o'clock 1,76S people were in the
cars. The largest days business was
October 10, when $4,000 people were
carried. October 8, 10 and II there
were ia, 1000 passengers, the largest
average for any three days.-Chicago
Tribune,
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A Relic OF the War.

In excavating at the corner of East
and South Battery for the new asphalt
roadway number of huge timbers
were unearthed. They are part Of the
foundation built at that point upon
which to mount one Of the two huge
Blakely riaed guns which were pre-
sented to the Confederacy by John
Fraser & Co. for the defence of
Charleston. Each of these guns
weighed with their carriages thir-
ty-eight tons. At that time they
were the largest rihed guns in the
world, and would doubtless have done
fearful execution had an enemy ever
come within their range.
It is curious fact that these guns
exploded theory which up to that
time had universally been held by all
artilleries, to wit: That a vacuum be-
hind the charge Of powder would burst
a gun. The guns had a small cham
Der in the base Of the bore. Upon
the theory above alluded to the car
tridges were so constructed as to fill
this chamber and upon being fired the
gun cracked at the breach. It was
then ascertained that the small cham
Der was intended: by the inventor to
act as an air cushion, and should have
been left empty. The cracked gun
was very skillfully repaired by the
late J. NJ. Eason, Of this city. Heavy
wrought iron bands were put around
it, making it as strong as it's sister
gun, which was mounted elsewhere on
the city water front.
The sizes of these monsters may be
estimated by the fact that they, with
two hundred rounds of ammunition,
formed the cargo Of the blockade
steamer Sumter. The length Of the
guns necessitated their being loaded
in an upright position in the hatch
ways of the vessel, thus making it, at
sea, appear to have three smokestacks.
The gun Of which the logs just un-
earth formed the foundation, was
burst by the Confederates upon evac-
uating the city to prevent it's falling
into the hands Of the enemy, much to
the injury of the fine residence at the
corner, then owned by the late MIR.
Louis D. DeSaussure, and fragment
Of the gun, weighing upwards Of five
hundred pounds, is now lodged in the
rafters of the house of the late Gen.
Siegling on East Battery.-Ne,cs and
6n,,r1or
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-30
The InscrutabIe Cat.

It is remarkable that few people are
Indifferent to that familiar animal, the
domestic cat. Arousing either love
or dislike, the cat moves along beside
us in our daily lives, quaint, baf-
fling and mysterious being, as dainty
and as delicate as princess royal, as
fastidious as woman, as inscrutablc as
the sphinx. In all ages cats have
been associated with the black art in
the minds of the superstitious and
whenever, in period Of ignorance,
there has been crusade against
witchcraft, the unfortunate victims Of
popular prejudice have been accused
of sustaining peculiar relations to
cats. Sometimes they are supposed to
change into the form Of cats, and a
black cat has always been imagined to
be in the fayorite shape into which
the eldrich woman was likely to trans
form herself.
We have outgrown much Of the silly
and stupid fear Of cats which disgrace
ed a former and more credulous time,
but there are still people who believe
that cat will kill an infant by suck
ing it's breath. Loving a soft nest in
which to lie, caring for ease and lux,
ury as few animals do, a cat may find
baby's crib very delightful place
to repose. The cats weight on the
delicate form might easily crush it,
and the feeble little spark Of life
might go out by sufocation, but cats
do not 20 prowling about bent on the
destruction Of tiny morsels of human
ity. No cat lover will assent to the
SANDER.
Not long ago pet cat was observed
in certain house to creep softly up
stairs every morning, with an evident
intention to enter the nursery. The
door was left open for her entrance
and Madam Puss was followed.
Swiftly and surely she took herself to
the small white bed where the young
est child, her playmate all day long,
vast fast asleep. Springing to the
pillow, she tried to wake the sleeper,
carefully extending each paw, with its
claws sheathed, and touching the rosy
cheek and chin, as if to say, "Get up,
you lazy little friend p Finding she
could not succeed in her purpose, she
laid herself patiently down at the foot
Of the bed, biding her time till the
little one should awake. 1t was a
pretty sight. The petted cat is al
ways pretty and gentle.-Harpcr's
| Bazaar.
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He Put Him OHt.

George Ashmun used to tell story
about an auctionccr who was provok-
ingly annoyed while in the exercises
of his profession by the ludicrous bids
of fellow whose sole object seemed
to be to make sport for the buyers
rather than himself to buy. Atlength
enraged beyond endurance, the auc-
tioneer, looking round the room for a
champion to avenge his wrongs, fixed
his eyes upon biped of huge dimen-
sions, very monarch in strength, and
called out:
"Marlow, what shall I give you to
put that fellow out p
IT will take one IS bill. "
"Done done you shave it..
Assuming the fcrocious-knitting
his brows, spreading his nostrils like
a lions and putting on the wolf al
over his head and shoulders old Mar.
low strodc off to the aggressor, and
scizing the terrified wretch by the
collar. said to him in whisper shat
was heard all over the room
"My good frin, you go out with me
I give you half the money T.
"Done done!" said the fellow.
"Hurrah ! Hurrah y shouted the
audience. The auctioneer had thu
good sense to join the laugh and coolly
forkcd out the V.-Truc Flag.
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The Groom Wound up His Watch.

''It is remarkable" said promi-
nent city clergyman lately, with
what nonchalance some bridegrooms
20 throug the ceremony. I don't un-
derstand it, for when I was married
my knees wobbled so that | was pro-
voked because I had not strapped them
together before the trying ordeal begun.
But the GOODNESS and complacency
with which some of the men who
come to the parsonage to be married
20 through the thing arc q revelation
to me, and make me believe that [ had
no nerve at all.
"Of course" he continued, "the
people who come unannounced to the
parsonage to be married are generally
of the plain sort. They dress plainly
and frequently have delightfully."- fresh
and original manners and ways Of doing
things. But you must acknowledge
that even to a clergyman who has read
the service over hundreds of trembling
couples-it is startling to have the
bridegroom at the most solemn part
take out his Waterbury watch and be-
gin to wind it up in the most method
ical way imaginable. But that is just
what happened here last week. I was
reading the formal charge to the man
and woman, and reading it in a way
that I considered most impressive and
awe-inspiring. The bridegroom, who
was big, numbering fellow, followed
me for time with considerable inter-
est. Then he suddenly took out his
watch and began to wind it. | let him
90 on for few seconds, and then |
realized that it was a Waterbury, and
might last all the rest Of the cere-
mony. So I stopped short and looked
at the man in friendly way, but he
did Mt comprehend at all what was the
matter-and all this time the steady
click-click of the winder was to be
heard.
sIt was very mortifying to me that
my dignity was not overwhelming
enough to make that man stop short,
but it didn't, and 1 had to speak to
hin"
The clergyman sighed as he thought
of his trials. "Then q pair from the
country came here last night-a cou-
pie Of pumpkins, green, clumsy and
good.natured. When I said the man
and woman may join hands, meaning,
of course, right hands, they clasped
hands as they stood side by side, and
swung them back and forth like cou-
pie of little schoolgirls.
wRight hands I said in low
voice, but with considerable empha-
sis. 'Oh, yes, of course said the
youth with blush, and he seized his
brides hand and shook it most cordi-
':As I said before I Iconsider myself
one Of the most digni6ed clergyman in
the city, but | am slowly breaking
down under the strain Of keeping my
face duly solemn at such moments as
thoaa ~
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-30
More Profitable Than Begging.

A couple Of tramps who are now
touring through the country arc max
ing quite little ''pile," owing to the
cleverness and wit Of one Of them.
This is how they worked their little
dodge the other day in village
through which they were passing:
Going to the only inn in the place,
they called for drinks, and perceiving
o number of men in the corner, the
witty tramp engaged them in CONVEX
sation.
After time he offered to bet each
of them a dime that he could show
them something they had never seen
before, and would never see again.
The men were surprised, and deemlng
the tramp's assertion an impossibility,
agreed and duly deposited the stakes
with the other tramp, closel y watching
him the while, to see that he did not
escape with the money.
"Well," replied the bettor, taking
from his pocket plum, "none OF you
ever saw this plum before, and (eating
IT'D none of you will ever see it again. .
The pair then walked out, having
pocketed dollar by the maneuver.
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- Miss 1mhof, missionary in Ja-
pan was recently mobbcd and her eyes
were put out for talking against idol
worship.
- Labor is the life of life. Ease is
the way to disease, the highest life of
an organ lies in the fullest discharge
of its functions.
To despond is to be ungrateful
beforehand. BE not looking for evil.
Often thou draincst the gall of fear
while evil is passing thy dwelling.
To be a gentleman is to be hon
est, to be gentle, to be generous, to be
brave, to be wise ; and possessing all
these qualities, to exercise them IN
the most graceful outward manner.
There are truck ''farms" in New
York which are assessed at $3.50, 900
an acre. About forty such acres are
to be seen in the vicinity of the King
dom Come Curve, on the 9th avenue
"L," between the 104th and 10th
street stations. They used to be
leased for one or two years at a time,
but no lease falling in is now renewed
for more than six months in advance.
= The strong facial resent blance which
married couples often acquire after living
together long period of years, harmoni-
Gus in thought and feeling, and subject
to the same conditions in life, has often
been commented upon. The Photogra-
phic Society of Geneva recently took the
pictures Of IS couples for an investigation
of this subject. The result was that in q
cases the resemblance in the personal ap-
pearance of the husband and wife was
greater than that Of brother and sister (;
ia 80 cases it was equally great and in only
"a was there total absence of resem-
blance.
Lawson TAFT exonerates the human
race from the imputation of being the
only creatures that naturally take to
drink. Wasps, he says, have the pro-
cliyity. Mr.. TAFT has watched the wasps
eagerly attacking overripe fruit, when
sugar has n some degree been converted
into alcohol. Around such fruits, es-
pectally rotten plums and grapes, the
wasps may be seen fighting and stru!g-
Cling for precedence, and afterwards,
when they are absolutely drunk with the
spirit, they crawl away in torpid con-
dition and hide themselves in the grass
till they have slept Oft the orgy.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-30
Finding Lost Sheep.

Here is story as told in substance
by Dr.. Dio Lewis which suggests it's
own lesson or moral. II visited, !"
said he, "the Southwestern part Of
Dakota, and saw sheep ranch. The
focka, numbering several thousands,
were driven in at nightfall to be cor
rallied or put in the folds. They were
counted, and from one flock fifteen or
twenty were absent. The head ranch
man said to one of the herders ::
These sheep must be found or they
will be killed by the wolves. What
is to be done p The other replied {:
Send these dogs They were two
fine large animals, apparently Of the
shepherd breed. No, Flora must 60.
But, urged the herder,' Flo has
lame foot, and besides, she has four
young puppies Of the best breed.
Why not send Caesar and Hector :?
Are they not good dogs 2
"'Good dogs T? Of course they are.
But we want to find sheep, not to
hunt. Caesar and Hector are brave,
and they would fight every wolf in the
mountain, and whip him too they'd
hunt every owl in the canon, and chase
every jack-rabbit on the prairie. But
where would the sheep be in the
meantime !? I tell you Flo will find
the sheep, and she must go.
$50 he called for Flora, who came
limping along on three feet, holding
up the lame foot. He gave the com
mand, Go and seek the sheep She
lifted her foot as if to show it, and
crept off to the kennel where her four
little blind whelps were cuddled in the
straw. No. said he sternly, you
must 50 and seek for the sheep. And
calling to her in harsh voice, he
took her to the flock from which the
sheep were missing, making her see
that some were absent, and then or
dered her off on the trail. She start
ed at once, limping, indeed, but never
hesitating more. The doctor went
to the ranch for the night, but he says
he thought of Flora almost all the
time, and started in the morning to
see the result. Said he: II was on
hand just as the morning star came up
over an Eastern hill, and almost at
the same time Flora came in driving
the sheep-every one-before her.
She was still limping, her fur was wet
with the dew from the bushes, and
her tail knotted with burrs. She
gave one little bark, as much as to
say: There, see your sheep. And
then she hobbled off to the kennel,
and was asleep apparently before the
hungry pups had fastened themselves
to her dugs. '-Erchange.
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Hints About Driving.

When driving you must watch the
road. Turn out for stones, so that the
horse shall not stumble nor the wheels
Jolt over them avoid the mudholes
and places where the going is bad let
the horse slackcn speed when the road
becomes heavy, and if you want to
make up time to do it where the ground
slightly descends.
It is a common mistake to think
that horse can haul a carriage easily
on the level. On such road he has
to be pulling every moment; there IS
no rest: whereas when the road now
rises and now falls the weight is tax
en- off him at times and he has a
chance to recovor his wind and to rest
his muscles. AS between level road
in a valley and an up-and-down road
over the hills the latter is by tar
the easier for horse to travel. When
YOU come to long level stretch
let your horse walk a bitin the middle
of it.
Almost everybody knows that for
the first few miles after coming out of
the stables horse should be driven
slowly and especially if he has just
been fed. On journey it is of the
utmost importance to observe this
rule. Be careful, however, not to
check young nag too quickly when
he comes fresh from the stable. Give
him his head, talk to him soothingly,
and presently he will come down to a
moderate pace. If you pull him up at
once you vex him extremely, SO
much SO that he is not unlikely to
kick.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-30
Everyday Farm Philosophy.

The more you love yourself the less
you are sure to love others.
A trifing dog is generally not half
as triAing as the man who keeps him.
Some fellows kick horse every time
they enter his stall and then wonder
why he does not love them.
The stalk Of corn that grows the
tallest and appears the most conspic-
uous, nearly always bears a blasted
ear.
Prodigality is no sign Of generosity.
It rather indicates narrowness OF both
mind and heart too contracted to COM
prehend the real value Of things.
If some men would hoe with as much
devotion as they appear to pray in the
prayer meeting, they would not have
nearly so much complaint of hard
times to make.
The man who will spend the most of
his time in the harvest season talking
politics, is generally the one who is OF
least account to either himself, his
neighbors, or the government.-An'er-
ican Agricultwist.
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Wanted His Share.

"Iz you Mr.. Hoyne?" asked frost.
bitten old negro, dressed in an old
cavalry jacket, as he entered the room
of the commissioner in the custom
house. Mr.. Hoyne never denied his
identity. IT dunno eff I come in the
right place or not, but [ was told fo'
to see you," continued the relic, at
the same time looking around the
room. Then he handed the commits
sioner slip of reprint, which read as
follows: California raised in 1893 a
bushel of wheat for every man, woman
and child in the United States" The
commissioner asked what Of it.
"Iz California pawt OBJ de United
States p
eyes"
"Her owes 'legcncc to dc CUB
ment ?"
Eyes"
Then he pulled gunny sack from
under his coat. When unrolled it
stretched across the room. He then
counted on his fngers-"Dar's Me
Indy is one, my old woman ; dar' $
Jackson Van Buren, my oldest boy,
dats two, an Aberham Linkum. de
last bawn, dats tree, an dat's foh.
Amt dat right ?"
"That's right.
ri want ter ak you fo' to send dis
hyar gunny bag by de pos offs fas'
mail down to Wash 'nton an put it on
de penshun list for foh bushels OF Cal
ifornia wheat. All [ ak OBJ de CUB
ment is fab play. I neber got muffin
out of it yit, and ef de gubment'ss s
gwine to do any ting for de culled
man now's de time.
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Husband-"T "They say of married
people that they are but one. Which
one, wonder ?" Wife-"The woman,
of course. You are the winner, you
know, consequently l must be the
won.
= The little one, being guest Of
her grandma, had been literally feasted
when a second dish Of pudding came
along. Looking at the dish, she ex-
claimed, with sigh: "Say, gran ma,
I wish T was twins.
In a good season Windham Coun-
ty, VT, produces about 1900, 900
pounds Of maple sugar. 1t is calcula.
ted that the sap of Vermont's annual
product would give 50 to every per
SON, young or old, in the State. About
one-fourth of the entire maple su-
gar product of the country is made in
Vermont.
There is church in London,
near Charing Cross, from the steeple
of which every day at noon a bushel
of wheat is thrown out as donation
to the pigeons. The wheatis provided
by funds left over 200 years ago by an
elderly maiden lady. The pigeons
understand the custom perfectly and
when the noon bells begin to ring may
be seen flying by thousands from every
direction toward the church.
= Among the Sioux Indi ians COM
mon custom exists. When one family
borrows kettle from another, it is
expected, when the kettle is returned,
small portion Of the food that has
been cooked in it will be left in the
bottom. Should this custom be dis
regarded by any one, that person would
never be able to borrow again, as the
owner must always know what has
been cooked in her kettle.
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Dldn,t Work Both Ways.

"And you will always be pleasant
and loving?" he said tenderly.
''Oh, yes, always, Harold" she re-
piled.
"And when things goes wrong at
the Office, and I am cross and out
of temper, you will be sweet and kind
TO me 2"
"Ye-es, Harold" : *
"And when I am tired out with
my day. s work-and you know man
is always a little cross and dis.
agreeable when he is tired out and
worried-you'll be loving and sympa-
thetic F.
"Ye-es. But, Harold, don't | get
q chance to be cross sometimes p
"You!"
eyes. Cant I get tired and irrita-
BILE once in a while ? That's no more
than fair, you know. l don't want to
be an angel right away.
He withdrew his arms, and-well,
that's when the engagement was
broken. The rule did not work both
WAYS.
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What is
;1Sl.ii|;l,L;!| '.;|;|,|';;,'||

n Samuel Pitchers prescription for Infants
Children. It contains neither Opium Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance 1t Is harmless substitute
Drops Soothing syrups, and Castor OIL
It ID Pleasant Its guarantee Is thirty years use by
Iions OF Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and alays
Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd,
cnres l3iarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castora relieves
troubles, cures constipation and datulency'
Sastori. assimates food. regulates the stomach
ia lgels giving healthy and natural sleep. Case
toria ia The Children's Panacea-tne Mothers Friend.
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Lemonade, says the doctors, is
best'when made of boiling water, COW
cred up closely and allowed to cool.
In this way it is more full Of flavor
and goodness and best suited to inva-
lids, and one lemon will 60 as far as
two.
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Father-''Do you really desire to
make my daughter happy Z" The
Suitor-"Certainly,'' Father--"Ttea ea
don't marry her !"
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.Castoria,.

acastoria Is 80 we'll adapted to children that
recommend it assuperior toany prescription
known to me-" -
iii So. Oxford ST., Brooklyn, N. z.
aom physicians In the chlldren's depart
ment have spoken highly Of their expert.
ence In their outside practice with Castoria,
and although ne only have among oar
Iaedlcal supplies what Is known as regular
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favor upon It. !"
UMTED HoGerrA1 AID DIspENsARy,
Boston, Mass.
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