The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-03-18
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.
: The Christian is like the ripe,

= The Christian is like the ripen-
ing corn the ripper he grows the more
lowly he bends his head.
= 1t is said that 1852 trains arrive
at and leave Chicago daily, about one
fourth being freight trains.
A dictionary recently issuedia
England devotes III columns the
various meanings of the word adevil.
= When a pound Or q brshel Of
corn is burned it yields about one
twentieth of its original weight in
ashes.
= He-Don't you think [ look well
in this new hat ? She.-Yes, but you
would look better still if you would
wear a veil.
= Between the years 1860 and 1889
more than 15,000,0 900 bision {(bnfalo)p
were killed within The limits Of the
United States.
- The entire book Of Genesis was
written on gold plates by ascommittee
of the "Fathers Of the Church in the
year 400 Il. D.
= O7er one.third Of .he en..;7e pop
ulation Of the globe, or. about 100
900 people, speak nothing but the
Chinese language.
= The onion is an historic yegeta-
Bile, having been used since the dawn
Of history By the Greeks, the Romans,
and the Egyptians.
The most valuable Bible inthe
world belongs to a Chicago man. He
bought it at the BraytonIEes sale Of
rare books for 81, Q
- Taking the whole land surface Of
the globe into consideration there are
twenty-five and a half acres for each
inhabitant on this planet.
= Some cleaners Of human family
statistics say that 3 man or woman of
correct proportions is six times as
high as the right foot is long.
= Charles Davenport. nov, ofsvery
recently, a resident Of Cambridge,
Mass, claims to be thc person who
built the first American railroad car.
-"What made the car upset as it
went around that curve !" There
were two men on one side and three
women with big sleeves on theother.
-"I'm sorry stole the preserves,
ma" "Ah, your conscience is troub
ling you, is I'll" 81 don't know
exactly. Where lis my conscience,
map
= Cotton wa first planted in the
United States in 1921 in agarden, and
for a long while was grown as an orna-
mental plant as far North as New
York.
= China supplies Europe with hum
dreds of tons of human hair annually.
Last year the Chinese shippedover
$500, 900 worth Of that staple out Of
the kingdom.
A bug bites the oyster, and 10
a pearl begins to grow. A bug bites
a hotel guest, and lol he leaps out Of
bed and wants to knock somebody's
eyebrows off.
Mamma, teacher whipped boy
to-day for whispering in school,
"Well that was right" "But, mann
ma, he hollered ten times as loud as
he whispered.
= If you wish success in life, make
perseverance your bosom friend, ex-
p%erience your wise counsellor, caution
your elder brother, and hope your
guardian genius.
"A young man Of a neighboring
town, entered a ballroom after the
guests had departed, picked up q rose
from the floor and exclaimed: "The
last rose of some her!"
= The silverw'are belonging to
Queen Victoria's table would keep her
from starvation for the rest of her
life, if the worst came to the worst.
It is valued at $12, 500, GOD.
= Chauncey M. DepeW gives the
recipe for success in these words:
1.-THE main elements Of. successin this
world are good sense, cool temper and
minding your own busineas.
- An astronomer calculates that II
the diameter of the sun is daily
diminished by two feet, over 5000
years must elapse ere tho astronomi-
cal instruments now in use could5d de-
tect the diminution.
"A "hole in the ground 1890
feet deep, is to be zone Of the attrac-
tions at the Paris EXPEDITION. Peo-
pie will descend and ascend BY eleya-s
tors, of which there are to be eight,
each 600 feet in extent.
= Fogg says that there is only one
objection, so far as he is concerned,
to riding a trotting horse. The hors
SEES back is always coming up when
the rider is going down, and going down
| when the rider is coming up.
John G. Wills, who lives on the
farm formerly owned by his father in
Talbot county, Ga, says there are
good chestnut rails now in Use ON the
farm that were split by the Indians
when they owned thst country.
= An authority OH deaf mutes says
that the ratio of deaf mutes to hearing
is about one to each 1000, according
to which there are about 10000 such
persons in the United States and
about 1000, 900 in the worlds entire
population.
II Declare said Bella, sweetly,
"your thoughts u exactly in unison
with mine, Augustus. I had those
very words in my mouth" asYes, and
I saw him put them there, toe. said
little Johnny, who had seen the kiss
ing going on.
= In 1913 postage rates in the
United States were s'Single letters
by land, 40 miles, 8 cents /; 80 miles,
10 cents !; 150 miles, 124 cents; 300
miles II cents double letters, twice
the single rates ounce at the rate of
four single letters.
Il Texas man made a bet that he
could invent a question to which SCI
people would give the same answer.
He won the bet. The question was !:
"Have you heard that Smith had com,
mitted suicide p The answerip each;