The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-01-02
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

"A North Carolina judge recently
granted divorce to couple and two
weeks thereafter married the divorced
wife, who had considerable property.
"A lone woman in Texas put to fight
three burglars by simply throwing keTo-
sene oil in.their faces. Her idea was,
however, to strike match to the kero-
sene and burn them out.
Two men in Mississippi had fight
in room. One threw the other out the
window and, thinking he had killed. him,
jumped himself. They fell distance Of
thirty feet, and neither was hurt.
Ten year ago the teaching of sewing
was begun in the Philadelphia lschools.
Now there are forty-fve teachers and
nearly $4,000 children engaged in teach
ing and learning this art.
= Nathan White, of Rutherford Coun-
ty, N. c.. was born 100 years ago last
June, but he ploughed every day last
spring and split rails to mend his fences.
He can neither read nor write, but he mas
managed to accumulate nice little for
tune in his century of life.
- Ninety-nine Of every hundred hui
man beings, says DR. Cyrus Edison, are
unconscious for several hours before
death comes to them. ALI the majesty Of
intellect, the tender beauty ofthought or
sympathy or charity, the very love Of
those for whom love has filled all waking
thoughts, disappear. AS little baby
just born into the world Is but little
animal, SO the sage, the philosopher, the
hero, the statesman becomes but dying
animal at the last. A merciful uncon-
sciousness sets in as the mysterious force
we call life slowly takes leave Of its last
citadel, the heart, and what 1t has be-
comes what was. This is death.
A little blind girl in Towns county,
Ca, recently performed wonderful feat.
Her father had just returned home from
long journey on horseback, and on en-
tering the house he discovered that his
watch was gone. The little girl seemed
deeply distressed at the loss Of the watch,
but after few minutes she suddenly ex-
claimed: ooh! T see it see 1t! Take
my hand, and lead me, and will find
itr' Surprised, and merely to humor
her. the father led her out. They went
as far as the stable, when the girl ex-
claimed: "Look therein the corner ~
Her father did so, and was amazed to dis (
cover his watch, where 1t had fallen from
his pocket as he was descending from the
loft above, with fodder for his horse.
The little girl is now regarded as
prodigy, and her parents are at a loss to
account for the strange gift she has devel-t
oped.
Says the Washington Messenger: }:
"Mr. D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, sur
veying the world, comes to the conclu-
sion that the south must make up its
mind to grow scent cotton hereafter. If
this should turn out to be correct pro-
phecy then most of the States will have
to abandon cotton or go into bankruptcy.
That year which witnesses the curtail-
ment Of one.third of the crop will see
cotton up again, perhaps not to the old
figures of IL, II or IA cents pound, for
India and Egypt will prevent chat, butt
will go up to 9 or 10 cents in all probable
ity. North Carolina cannot afford to
make scent cotton. If 1t Is wise it will
not attempt 1t. There Is no doubt, we
take it, that the great law of supply and
demand has brought cotton down to Al >
cents. Less grown for two years will
put cotton up. II is worth trying. It is'
suicidal for most farmers to fool over
cotton for 5 cents"
About IA per cent of the entire num-
ber of medical graduates drop out of the
profession within few years, says the
Chicago Herald. Some few never prac-
tice; others are tempted by better induce
ments into other fields of work some are
driven to suicide on account Of failure;
others succumb to contagious diseases;
still more lose their health on account Of
exposure to inclement weather and acci-
dent, or on account Of mental anxiety.
Among these we must include those who
become insane. who contract the alcohol,
morphine or cocaine habit. Worse than
all else, few are driven into quackery.
Anyone may make mistake in the
choice of life work, and 1t is no discredit
to abandon practice. There are plenty Of
honorable employments for unsuccessful
physicians; there are schools to teach,
merchandise to sell, drugs to dispense,
news to gather; at any rate there Is coal
to shovel and wood to saw. It doubtless
seems pity to sacrifice the investment
of three or four years. hard work in the
study of medicine, but 1t is cheaper than
to sacrifice honor and prostitute medical
science TO quackery.
- Julian Ralph says that the Chinese
are not nation and that they do not
know what patriotism las We use the
word) means. To the men Of one pro-
vince the men Of the other provinces are
foreigners. Their customs are different; (;
sometimes they speak different Lam
guages. They are ruled by strangers,
whose one idea is to get all the money in
sight. The governments are rotten from
top to bottom. He says: "Let US Inn
| apiue that China is the United States, and
that Maine is the battle-ground that the
capital is there and that Ii Hung Chang
has his army there, meeting the Japanese.
That would be war by Japan upon one
viceroy's army, and such is the fact in
China to-day. Down here, about where
Virginia would be, ships Of war are lying
idle in the harbors, and tens of thousands
oftroops are massed in temporary walled
camps, such as have seen scores Of in a
trip down the coast, from which have
Just returned. These Southern folks or
Virginians and Carolinians and Floridi-
ans, (you can look at the map and SUBJ
stitute the names of the Chinese States,)
are States rights men. They have been
asked to send their troops and ships up
North, but they reply that they cannot
safely do 80; that they have immense
interests to protect down here; that great