The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-01-15
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

-"Yep; pa called them Thunder and
Lightning as soon as he heard about
them.
= Deacon Dyer guess Brother
Goodleigh is not feeling we'll Deacon
Wyld-What makes you think so %
"He did not go to sleep during the
service this morning
- Letter writer's in Spain receive
about 10 cents page for writing let
ters if required to take extra pains,
as with the young woman's love let
ter, they charge 10 cents.
- One who has probably had expe-
rience remaks: The man who says to
his wife, give me the baby dear, and
l will try to put it to sleep, is greater
than he who taketh city.
"My frien's," said a colored
preacher, "a mans character is like
fence. You can't strengthen it by
whitewash, though you can cover up
the places where it is worm eaten"
In Mexico and also in Siam,
judge, jury and lawyers all smoke in
court, if they wish to, while case is
being tried. Even the prisoner is not
deprived of his cigar or cigarettee.
- Fights a mighty good thing
to have a retentive memory. Fogg-
That depends. If the memory is
yours, it is a mighty good thing, as
you say; but if it happens to be the
property of your wife, that's another
matter.
- Prince Bismark received about
218,OO0 postal cards from as many
admirers, ongratulating hira on his
80th birthday. The cards have total
weight of 1920 pounds, and piled up
in one column, would reach height
of $50 feet.
- The lines of no two human hands
are exactly alike. When a traveller
in China desires passport, the palm
of the hand is covered with fine oil
paint and an impression is taken on
thin, damp paper. This paper Off
cially signed, is his passport
"A Philadelphia man says that
the last time his wife ever said eyes"
willingly to anything he was interested
in, was when he proposed to marry
her. She would no doubt be happier
to-day if she had not made an excep-
tion on that occasion.
= Mr.. Blinks-"I wish to get some
hairpins for my wife" Great Mer-
chant-"This is wholesale house,
sir" Mr.. Blinks-"Of course. You
don't suppose I'm fool enough to go
on buying hairpins at retail, do you
[ want barrel. "-New York Weekly.
= The wettest place in this country
is Neah bay in Washington; oyer 123
inches of rain fall there eveFSysssas.
The dryest place in the United States,
at any point where regular ~observa-
tions are taken, is Fort Garland, Col.
less than six inches Of rain fell there
during the year.
- The great charm of queen of
Madagascar is said to be her uncon--
ventionality. She chews tobacco,
uses palm oil on her hair, drinks
champagne, wears $4,000 worth of.
costumes, at the same time going bare
footed, and is a member of the ortho-
dox Congregational church.
There is no error which prevails
more widely, even am SIG educated
people, than the beliI: that a man
has one rib more in his right side than
in his left, the deficiency being sup:
posed to have been inherited from
Adam. AS fact, men and women
each have twcnty-four ribs, twelve on
each side.
DIR. NJ. G.. Jenison, of Minncapo-
lis, recently reported that electricity
has been successfully employed by /.
him in checking hemorrhage fromthe>
extraction of teeth. The current
caused instant coagulation of the
blood and gave relief where the usual
remedies were without effect.
Il September, 1880, IS years
ago, well-known lady of johnson,
| To-, accidentally dropped pin in her
ear. Seven or eight years later it
worked around into the back part of
the woman's mouth, and was swallow
ed. Last week the family physician
and surgeon removed the pin from her
left leg at a spot about fou. inches
above the ankle.
A reporter for the Cincinnati
Tribune lately overheard dialogue be-
tween two suburban gentlemen. Chow
did your daughter pass her examina-
tion for position as teacher?'' asked
the first man. "Passr' was Ibe ans
swer. "She didn't pass at all. Nay
be you won't believe it, BIT they
asked the poor girl about things that
happened before she was born.
Not few who read what Mr..
Robert Rowls, of Hollands, Va, has
to say below, will remember their own
experience under like circumstances :
"Last winter 1 had la grippe which
left me in a low state of health. l
tried numerous remedies, none of
which did me any good, until I was
induced to try bottle of Chamber
lain Cough Remedy. The first bot
tie of it so far relieved me that I was
enabled to attend to my work, and the1
second bottle effected a cure.n~Fon5
sale at 25 and so cents per bottle by
Hill Bros.
= An odd practice prevails in re-
gard to mourning for deceased relaz4
tives in Corea. Any one who M
suffered such loss gees ab9ai 81 u
year wearing kind of poin @ |'9|
on his head, which completeY S
his face, and no one is permitted tY
address or speak to him. 1t was by(
adopting the mourner's bonnet as q
disguise that the early Jesuit mission !
aries succeeded in entering the count
try, and making their way about un
questioned by anybody.
- \ gentleman in town near BoSz
ton. invited home to dinner one das
one of the dcacons of the church hi
attended. The guest offered the bless1
ings at the table which proceedi iH
greatly excited the curiosity of
gentleman five year old son, who {
boe;do +bn deacon and intorvie{