The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-10
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= Atlanta is threatened with cake
walking fever.
- Biscuit companies are at war, All
of them have dough.
- The first letter envelope dates
back to May, 1896. 1t is now in the
British museum, London.
- To live without quarrels one must
keep his NIL upon essentials. Men
rarely qu' over essentials.
= He Why do they call women the.
fair sexY She-1'o distinguish them
from the unfair sex no doubt.
From the cotton seed that used.
to be thrown away there are now. it is
stated, $4,000 tons Of oil made every
year.
Personal matters should never be
introduced at chance meeting if the
third party is not conversant with the
facts.
The question has arisen, "Has
the devil wife?" He has several
wives, we think but they belong to
some other men.
1t has been proven by instanta-
neous photography that horse atfull
trot sometin. s has its four feet off the
ground all at once.
The entire population of the
world could be provided for in the:
United States, allowing each person
one and half acres in land.
= Doctor: "You want strengthening
medicine, sir" Mr.. Mulligan (em-zs
phatically): "Oi do that, doctor
Shure, my wolfe is much stronger than
Oi am, an she bates me onmercifully..
"NIy liveliest delight was in hay
ing conquered myself" It was Rous-i
seau who made this statement. 1t Isl
great thing to be master Of ones
self. 1t beats Nopoleon's greatness
A Kansas City cycler says the
bicycle has made him baldheaded. He
fails to explain whether he rode so
fast that all his hair blew OF or whether.
he refused to buy new wheel for his
wife. 35s
: King Humbert of Italy is the.
most heavily insured man in Europe:
The amount of life insurance he car
ries is overs7, 100000 The late czar,
Alexander III, was insured for S5,-5
100000.
"Oh, Clarence - exclaimed Mrs.
Mcbride, as her brother entered the
house, "baby's cut tooth. " 'sWhy#
do you let her play with knives ~
asked the unimpressed bachelor
brother. s.
In India there are 100000 boys and
627 900 girls under the age of fourteen
who are legally married, while 5000
boys and $4,000 girls who have not att
tained the age Of four are under mar
riage bonds as arranged by their pa
rents.
"A farmer near Owingsville, KY,
says he has hen that never lays any
thing but double eggs. He never
brings any of the eggs to market, but
insists that he is using them all for
setting and means to have breed of
twin hens.
"A preacher being requested to-
perform the last sad Office for young
woman at the point Of death, pressed I
her to believe that flesh and blood J
could not enter the kingdom of heaven.
II am SAFE" she said; II am nothing
but skin and bone.
The City Missionary Society Of Bos-
ton has been in existence eighty years,
and in that time has collected for the
poor s1,218,62O. For many years
Rev. Daniel W. Waldron has been its
efficient secretary, and last year
twenty-five missionaries were en-
ployed. Z
= One of the London theaters is
now heated by electricity. The first.
cost Of the plant is not less than that
of any other heating system, but the
running expenses are very low, amount
ing to only about 81 day. The dan
ger of fire is also considerably lessen
ed.
A most remarkable luminous tree
grows in Brazil. It is about six feet
or seven feet in height, andis so olumi-3
nous that il can be plainly distinguish
ed in the darkest night for a distance
of more than mile, while in its i'm
mediate vicinity it emits sufficient light
to enable person to read the finest
print.
= The name of the first ropemaker
and that Of the land in which he prac-
ticed his art have both been lost to
history. Before the beginning Of the
historical period considerable skill had
been acquired in that line. Egyptiah
sculptures prove that the art was
practiced at least 1000 years before
the time of Christ.
The owner of the Kentucky farm
on which Lincoln was born wants to
sell it to the government for $50, 600.
The log cabin standing there is said to
be the original one, but the relics with
which it is filled are thought to be
spurious articles palmed off by the
neighbors. The farm Of ll2 acres was
recently bought for $4,000.
In Persia the irst time man is
caught in the act Of stealing he is
"bastinadoed" (beaten on the soles of
the feet with an iron rod,) and made
to sign a paper declaring that it will
be his last offense. If he forgets this
when the soles of his feet quit burn
ing, and tries it again, the second
ofense calls for the amputation of his
right hand. If he goes at it left
handed, the third, and Of course last
resort, is decapitation.
- There is popular idea that June
is the favorite month for weddings,
and the young woman who loves ro-
nance and wishes fortune to smile
upon her nuptials in every way must
choose this of all months. Cold and
unromantic fact, however, shows that
the three most popular marriage.
months are October, November and
December. Fifty years records show
this to be true, and also demonstrate
the fact that the most unpopular
- Fah