The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-07-03
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English language.
Papa, do lawyers tell the truth?'
Certainly, my boy, they will do any
thing to win their case.
- Chewing gum main component,
gum chiclc. is the sapof the sapodilla. I.
Mexican tree.
- Silk is so cheap in Madagascar
that the poorest people wear clothing
made Of it,
: Rev. .Allcn Thompson, of Bor-
dcrtown, n. y, now 9? years Of age,
is the Oldest active preacher in the
State, if not in the country.
- Wife-Well, Eugene, dear, do
you ever regret being married man :?
Ilnsband-Only when l sit down to a
roasted chicken just big enough for
one.
-"Oh, yes, my husband has been
collector of curios and such things for
a number Of years. ''Was helm that
business when he married you?'
"Ycs, indeed" 81 thought so. :"
= \ match Routing machine is an
automatic curiosity. 1t cuts ten mil
lion sticks day, and then arranges
them over a vat where the heads are
put on at a surprising rate of speed.
Stockings made from human hair
are worn by Chinese fisherman as the
best preventative of wet feet. They
are drawn over ordinary cotton stock
ings, being too rough for putting near
the skin.
= She poutingly)-Bcfcre We were
married you used to bring me candy
every time you came. He-Yes, my
dear, and it cost good deal less than
the meat and potatoes | bring you
now.
Women are gradually winning
recognition in China. Twenty years
ago You could buy pretty good sort
of wife for s25. Now the price is
$3.50, and the market has an upward
tendency.
= "No one but wife knows how
many hours women spend waiting on
men" True, and no one but hus-
band or a lover or father or brother
or son knows how many hours men
waste waiting for women.
- \ female moonshiner from Polk
County, n. c., was convicted Of max
ing whiskcy contrary to the laws end
sentenced to pay a fine Of 5000 or so
to jail for three months. Woman s
rights prevail in the mountains.
"Young man, said an apostle,
solcmnly, "do you realize when you
retire at night that you may be called
before the morning dawns p eyes,
SIR responded the young man, II
realize it fully. / am the father of
three -wccks-old baby.
- \ railway engineer saying the
usual life Of Il locomotive was only 30
years, a passenger remarked such a
tough-looking thing ought to live
longer than that. "Wcll," responded
the engineer, perhaps it would if it
did not smoke so much.
From the top Of the cathedral
spirc in Mexico you can see the entire
city, and the most striking feature of
the view is the absence of chimncys.
There is not chimney in all Mexico;
not CRATE, nor stove nor furnace.
All the cooking is done with charcoal
in Dutch ovens.
Be sure your sin will find you
out. Twenty ycarf ago a man at Ko-
komo, Indiana, killed another and OBJ.
tained $50, 900, which he buried on
his farm. Recently he committed
suicide and left letter giving this
murder as a cause.
Johnnie, DEAR" said his moth
er, who was trying to inculcate les
son in industry, "what do you sup
pose mamma would do if you should
come to her some day and tell her that
you loved your studies % Click me
for telling a falschood," said dear lit
tie Johnny, with the sweet frankncss
of youth.
= y Minnesota paper says that a
farmer of that place raised |, 900 BUSH
cl of pop corn last year and stored it
in barn The barn caught fire and
the corn began to pop and filled ten
acre field. An old mare in q neigh
boring pasture with defective eyesight
saw the corn, thought it was snow and
lay down and frozc to death. Mind
you, thatis what Minnesota paper
says.
1t is said to require the lives Of
5000, 600 song birds annually to keep
the hats on American women in prop
cr feather The swamps and marshes
of Florida have already dcpopulated of
their cgrcts and herons to supply the
demands of fashion. AS for the Eng
lish women they have been sending
hunters to scour the wilds of Africa
for fcathered ornaments. Our own
section of the country is made to pay
tribute to this whim of vanity fair
abroad as we'll as at home. In sin
gle season 10000 fern have been killed
on Cape Cod for expectation.
Down in Georgia lives very pc
culiar black COW. She is very much
attached to her master childrcn--so
much so that she is never willingly
separated from them. If the children
are at home, the COW will stay in a
pasture with fence three feet high
but if they 20 away the COW will throw
down even high fences to follow them.
vt ditfcrlnt times when the COW would
be in the pasture the farmer has slip
ped the children away from home, but
when she missed them she would get
out and track them as dog would do
until she found them, and then follow
whenever they went.
- Tom Davis. a young man about
~ years old. and Geo Edwards, about
225. were killed by lightning Saturday
afternoon about five miles from Society
Hill. :. {. The latter leaves 4 wife
and two children. ltappcars that the
two men had started on trip to
Chesterfield County on business. and
stopped at the house Of Mr.. j. W.
Edwards. their cousin. for refuge
from the approaching thunder storm.
While standing under shelter ada
r.