The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-02
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

= Over 5000 species of butterflies
are known. and Of this number 900
are peculiar to North America.
-"You have nothing to regret,
brother ?" tentatively asked the min-;
lister. "Nope, said the dying rounder.
ri amt leavin cent"
- If you want to be miserable think
about yourself, about what you want,
what you like, what respect people
ought to pay you, and what people
think of you.
-"Mosquitoes are hateful, aren't
they ?" eyes. I don't mind their
eating me if they didn't keep up such
an everlasting complaint about the
way I taste.
- The banana is one of the most
prolific of all the fruits Of the earth,
being a. times more productive than
potatoes, and 131 times more produc-
tive than wheat.
= The meanest man is dead. He
killed himself in Jersey City. His
last act, except suicide, was to burn
So, 1000 which his wife had laboriously
acquired and saved.
Mr.. Popleigh-"What would you
think if I were to tell you I had been
| dying by inches for you for years ?"z
Miss Wanterwed-'I should think it
it was very sudden"
| - The interest with which young
man watches hair comirg out on his
face is only equalled by the intelest
with which an older man watches it.
coming out Of his head.
=" "Dis free silver" said Wraggles,
the tramp, ''is er blessi11' in disguise
fer de profession" Chow do you
make dat 2" asked Weary Walker.
"Because it won't work.
= The man who will not accept the
Bible, because he cannot see through
everything it contains, might just as !
we'll stay in bed on cloudy day, be-
cause he cannot see the Sunshine.
-"What gave Mrs. Crossgrain the
lovely expression she has in her last
photograph p ''The photographer !;
told her that she had more negative
beauty than any woman he ever saw.
= A French anti-tobacco society
has petitioned the Chamber Of Depu-
ties to enact law forbilding school,
boys and postofice clerks to smoke
cigarettes, and Furnishing tobacconists I
who sell smoking materials to children.
YES" sighed Mary, queen Of
Scots, "my life has been very un.
happy one. And yet she added,
with CLEAN Of gratitude in her eye,
ri have always had something to be
thankful for No one has ever called
me Mamie" !"
= Hearing tine note Of redbird
high in tree, while on picnic, a
Louisville bird fancier determined to
capture the songster and climbed al
most to the branches where it was
perohed, when he slipped and fell,
fracturing his skull.
-"I am the end-of -the-century
woman" she remarked strongly when
he dared to suggest that she was q
triac too bony for bloomers. (Which
century ?'' he asked softly, and then
he slid away before the explosion and
got dinner at the little hotel.
"A remarkable demonstration oc-9
Cured at Pawnhuska, Oklahoma, after 7
the national Usage election. Half
thousand Indians and as many white
men Joined in q mixture of war dance
and political jollifcation in celebration
of victory Of the full bloods.
Robert Louis Stevenson's re-
mark, that no doubt woman would
like to marry man who could propose
to her repeatedly, but not quite one
who had done so, is recalled By the
experience of girl Of Hede's Station,
KY, who has received FIVE proposals
from the same man.
= Wife-I u1ended the hole in your
trousers pocket last night after you
had gone to bed, John, dear. Now
am I not thoughtful little wife 7
Husband (dutiously)-Well- ell-er-ye-es,
you are thoughtful enough, my dear :
but how the mischief did you discover
that there was hole in my trousers
pocket?
"What should afellcr say, asked
the young man anxiously, "when his
| wife asks him if he would marry again
if she were to die ?" "Say nothing,
Of course answered the elderly ad-
| wiser. eff he says he would, she'll
thind he doesn't like her. If he an
nounces his intention Of staying single,
| she will have the idea that he is tired
of matrimony."
- Henry Ward Beecher, in his
famous speech at Manchester, England,
in which he talked to a bowling mob
of rebel sympathizers before he gained
their attention, was interrupted by
man in the audience who shouted,
"Why didn't you whip the Confeder-
atesin 60 days as you said you would ?"
because, replied Beecher, eve found
we had Americans to fight instead oil
Englishmen."
= Some careful experiments which
have been made in England prove that
the life of a locomotive is about 500,-
900 train miles-in other words, that
locomotive Of the latest approved
pattern will run 100000 miles before
wearing out so as to be useless. In
making this run of half million
miles the frebox will have to be re-
newed three times, the wheel tires
FIVE or six times and the crank axles
from three to FIVE times.
= The first planting Of cotton seed
in the colonies was in the Carolinas
in the year 1921, when seeds were
| planted as an experiment in garden.
Winthrop says that in 1643 "men fell
to the manufacture Of cotton, whereof
| we have great scores from Barbados"
In 1876 it was cultivated in the gar
dens along Chesapeake bay, especially
| in the vicinity Of Baltimore, and at
| the opening Of the Revolution it was
garden planti in New Jersey and New
York but its real value seems to
have been almost unknown to the
planters up to about ITO years ago.
- The case of John Allen. an g.
year-old boy of Jacksonville, Fla, is