The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-03
One of the largest poplar trees that
grows upon the mountain-side had
been blown down and now lay at right
angles across the track. Twenty yards
farther and we would all have been.
hurled into eternity.
GEORGE MARSHALL MOORE.
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

| All Sorts Of Paragraphs.
Dora-He kissed me twice before
could stop him. Cora-Did you hear
some one coming Il
Girls are more courageous than
men. They are ready to make a match
with fellow twice their size.
= There can be no greater folly in
men, than by much labor to increase
his goods, and with vain pleasureto to 9
lose his soul.
When the queen of Italy enters
store to do her shopping, the doors
are closed and the public excluded un-
til she hss left.
He--Is anything wanted to make 4;
your happiness complete, MY dear
She-Yes; about fourteen yards Of
silk at s6 yard.
: Daughter-''Did you give Charlie q
any encouragement Father-9Well. Il
1 suppose it amounts to that. Ho
called it 8, loan, however.
= Mrs. Whipp-"Ah--if I we're
only man p Mr.. You'd 4
be as foolish as men are-go marry
some idiotic woman, I'll bet a fver. -
Is the social life of your neigh
borhood all that could be desired ?s
Cultivate the friendship of good neigh
bors; it stimulates one to better life. b
.-"My friends were right about
John" sighed the young wife:@ aTbey
said that after married him [ Should =.
find him out. So I do--out every
night
= According to the statistics Of the z
weather bureau, the property loss from 3
tornadoes during the last 10 years las
been FIVE times as great in Missouri:as $
in any other State.
= Mother-stI gave yon penny
yesterday to be good, and to-day YOU i
are just as bad as can be. Willie
eyes; I'm trying to show that you
got your moneys worth yesterday" M
"My boy said old Drywater,
Sin all creation you won't find any Il
animal except man who makes habit +?
Of smoking" eyes, sir. But neither
do I know any other animal that cooks &.
his meals.
= Teacher (severely) Tommy
Smith, come here Why haven't You
learned your geography lesson 81.
Tommy "Cause the papers say y
there's going to be change In the q
map Of Europe"
"A bushel of corn yields about 40
pounds Of glucose. There are only
about half dozen glucose factories In
operation in this country. The small ST.
est of them grinds 10000 bushels Of;
corn a day, the largest 10000.
The ancient copper mines Of 8
Sinai have been re-explor.d. These
were worked by the Egyptians, or
their slaves, thousands of years ago, s
and are believed to have been aban-
doned about 5000 years ago.
= Scientists claim that the daily
use of onions by children will prevent
diptheria, scarlet fever and worms. 3
While the children may be able to y
stand it, the delicate aroma Of the fra
grant onion is too much for bacteria
and microbes. SIS
There are 50 penitentiaries and
over II 900, jails in the United States.
They cost $500, 100000 to build. Over
900, Ono persons were incarcerated in
the year 1895. The criminal expense
to the country is not less than 300,
600, ,00C annually.
= Paris policemen have been sup7 q
piled with electric dark lanterns, BY
means of which they see 100 feet
away. They were employed success:
fully in recent raid in the Bois de-
Boulogne on the homeless persons who +
slept there at night.
"A boy was asked which was the
greater evil, hurting another s feelings z. e
or his finger. "The feelings" heaaid &
"Right, my dear child, said the graf
ifed questioner. "But why is it'Horse
to hurt the feelings ?" Because you
CAM tie rag around them T
"A schoolmaster in Cleveland,
Ohio, offered prize Of one dollar to
the pupil who produced the best
aphorism. Here is the wise advice
that won the prize: eff you have q s.
good temper hang on to it; and il you
have bad one, don't lose it. " 81
Our people are growing more and
more in the habit of looking to the
Hill-Orr Drug Co.. for the latest and
best of everything in the drug line.
They sell Chamberlain Cough Reme-
dy, famous for its cures Of bad colds,
Group and whooping cough. Whenin
need of such medicine give this REM
edy trial and you will be more than
pleased with the result.
A father, in consoling his daugh
ter, who had lost her husband, said =:
II don't wonder you grieye for him, Il
my child. You will never find his
equal" ''I don't know as / can, re-
piled the sobbing widow, "but I'll do
my best ~ The father went home
comforted.
The most thoughtful and generous
bequest recorded Of late is that Of the &
late NJ. Challe mel-Lacour, president
of the French assembly, who died
leaving his large fortune for the poor
in the quarter where he lived. He
directed that it be distributed in sums
of twenty and thirty francs at periods
Immediately preceding rent day: y:7--see
- The little daughter of MIR. Fred
Webber, Holland, Mass, had very &
bad cold and cough which he had not
been able to cure with anything. /
gave him rs cent bottle of Cham aber-
lain's Cough Remedy, says w. !.
Holden, merchant and postmaster at i
West Brimfeld, and the next time | [
saw him he said it worked like a. charm.
This remedy is intended especially for =
acute throat and lung diseases such as
colds, Group and whooping cough, and
it is famous for its cures. There is Z
no danger in giving it to children, for
it contains nothing injurious. For
sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co.
At a recent dinner party the sub &
ject of eternal life and future punish
meat came up for lengthy discussion,
in which Mark Twain, who was present,
took no part. A lady near him turn
ed suddenly toward him and exclaimed: 8
"Why do you not say anything / :