The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-08-07
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

= A racchorse clears from ~ TO "a
feet at bound.
The first census was that taken
by Moses of the Israelites.
In ordinary English writing "z
only occurs % times, while "e' occurs
1000.
= The longest name in the Bible
is Maher-shalal- -hash-baz. 1t occurs
in Isaiah vii, 3.
"A statue is to be erected in France
to Ernest Michaux, the inventor ON
the velocipede. enc
A path may look pleasant and
yet be filled with footprints made by
the cloven hoof.
Better is little, provided it is
your own, than an abundance OF bor-
rowed capital.
= The hardest people on earth for
an editor to please are those who
borrow the paper from regular subscrl-
bers.
He that would save his feelings
should beware how he shoves his
cares or his corns in other peoples
way.
The waters of North America are
stocked with 1900 different varieties
of fish.
Men with gray Or blue eyes are
usually better marksmen than those
with dark eyes.
The color of snuff depends on the
extent to which fermentation has been
allowed to so.
The huge guns Of modern nayies
can be fired only Is times when they
become worn out.
If you must worry, worry over
the mean things you have done until
you compel yourself not to repeat
them.
The best and much the quickest
way to clean lamp chimneys is to
dampen cloth in alcohol and rub
them clear.
= A new sect that has sprung up
in Russia, holds that hair is sinful,
and that baldheadedness is the mark
of sancity.
- At sea level an object 100 feet !,
high is visible little over 13 miles. =
If 500 feet high, it is visible nearly 80
miles.
= Among the attributes Of God, a.
though they are all equal, mercy
shines with even more brilliancy than
justice.
There are something like 10000
public schools in Japan. The build
ings are comfortable and education is
compulsory.
Spending So where the income is
only 81 will soon lead us to bankruptcy.
This is law Of economy that all can
understand.
He who is false to present duty
breaks thread in the loom, and will
find the flaw when he may have for
gotten its cause.
= If people would but provide for
eternity with the same solicitude and
real care as they do for this life, they
could not fail Of Heaven.
A flea can jump over barrier
500 times his own height. At that
rate a man could jump over a wall
more than half mile high.
The railways of Ohio are said to
have carried 85,0O0,OOO passengers
during the past two years without
fatal accident to anybody.
Fresh milk, applied every week with
a soft cloth to boots and shoes, has a
freshening and preserving effect on
the leather.
= It takes about three seconds for a
message to go from one end of the
Atlantic cable to the other; this is
about 700 miles second. 'z'
1t is curious fact that on i'm
mersing one hand in cold water cor
responding reduction Of temperature
occurs in the other.
The government Of Switzerland is 1
the most economically managed in
Europe. The president Of the Swiss
republic is paid $4,000 a year.
- A noted pianist says that the
sound of the instrument is marred if
the piano is left close to the wall. It!
should be at least three inches from
the wall.
- Mount Ararat, the resting place
of the scriptural ark, is, in reality,
two mountains separated by valley:
The higher peak is 1910 feet, and
the lesser, $4,000 feet above sea
level.
A man should never be ASHAMED
to own he has been in the wrong,-,,
which is but saying, in other words,
that he is wiser to-day than he was
yesterday.
Glady's-"I suppose your brother,
Henry hasn' t done much walking since
he bought bicycle?" Berenice-"No.
He broke his leg the first time he tried
to ride it.
Vinegar and yeast should never
be kept in stone jars, for there is an
acid in them which attacks the glaz-
ing, and mixing with it has poison
ing property.
i Players of wind instruments often
devote SO much time to music, to the
entire neglect of their minds, that they
may literally be said to have blown
their brains out.
= We shall always accomplish more
with the assistance Of God, even
though we be few in number, than we
will without his aid, even though we
be large army.
= The highest temperature on the
globe is at Death Valley, Inyo Coun-
ty, Cal. Its surface is 159 feet below
sea level, and in summer the ther-
mometer occasionally marked 122 de-
grees.
THAT some men think they can
still do what they have been able to
do is natural enough; that others
think thew can do what they have