The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-04-21
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

- The inhabitants of the United
States consume more than half the
quinine produced in the world.
She-Pfwin did this GREAT money
question start? He-Pfwin Eve ask
ed Adam for her weekly allowance.
The combined ages of a Virginia
couple who recently eloped were 1703s
years-groom 80, bride 80. The silly
youugutt:~gs.
Old Gentleman-You had gold-
en- hair when I saw you last. Old
Lady-Yes, senator; but now I Ihaye
gone over to the silver party.
"Why, frankie, what are you
reading in that book about bringing
up children p ''I'm just looking to-
see whether I m being properly brought
up" Is
1t is calculated thatth Missis-
sippi annually deposits into the Gulf Y
Of Mexico sufficient mud to cover "a !
square mile of surface to a height of
240 feet. IS
James Mcconnell, 70-year:old
negro, swan in twice and saved a.
mother and her stepson, who had been
thrown into the water near Chattanooga
by frightened horse. e
= Insects are fer their size the
strongest members Of the animal crea-s
tion. Many beetles can lift a weight
equal to more than five hundred times
that of their own bodies.
If men were az jealous for the
Christian religion as they are forpar-
tisan politics, Jesus, the Prin,,e Of
Peace, would soon become practically
the ruler Of this country.
81 am plain man, said Blough-
ly, "and I believe in being practical.
I love you and I want you to be my.
wife. )" "Well, replied the fair one,
Chow much are you worth. %f:
Two Irismen were disputiug. One
Of them, speaking Of himself, said
II am brick" Sure, and I am a
bricklayer, said the other, at the
same time knocking him down.
= A Missouri mother has hit upon
an excellent plan for getting her
daughters home at satisfactory hours
in the night. She requires the last
one in to arise first and prepare the
family breakfast.
Bobbie-''Mother, were ali the
bad men destroyed by the flood r"
Mother-"Yes, my son." Bobbie :
(who has just received a whipping
from his father -"When is there
going to be another food 2"
The cheapest summer resorts are
in the mountains of Japan. There
are mineral springs there to which
peasants bring their own bedding and
rice, paying only three cents day for
lodging and use of the water.
Daniel Clay, of Strafford, N. H.,
carried bag of meal weighing 100
pounds distance of three miles re-
Gently on wager without putting it
down. He is seventy-six years old,
and the feat was test of endurance.
The oldest actor in the world is
Henry Doel. He will be 93on his
next birthday, and was an actor for
sixty FIVE years. AS child he was.
rowed out to Plymouth Sound and
saw Napoleon walking the quarter deck
Of the Bellerophon.
1t will be an agreeable surprise
to persons subject to attacks of bilious
collie to learn that prompt relief may
be had by taking Chamberlain s Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. In
many instances the attack may bepre-
vented by taking this remedy as soon
as the first symptoms of the disease
appear. 25 and so cent bottle for sale
by Hill-Orr Drug Co.
r. NJ. Grover, blind justice
of the peace of Topeka, has collection
of more than 100 razors, each with
history, and he can Identify each one
and the case which belongs to it. If
strange razor is placed among them
he detects it at once.
In a ledger Of 456 pages which
was found in an Auburn, Me-, curios-
ity shop among set of business books
used century ago by New Glouces-
ter firm, there is not blot, though all
the pages are full of entries. The
books were kept with quill pen and !
home made ink. 81