The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-03-24
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

- Inere are more Germans than
Irish in the United States.
1t doesn't take many pints Of
whiskcy to make peck of trouble.
= Historians believe that the horse
was first domesticated either in central
Asia or northern Africa.
= The Inhabitants of the United.
States consumed more than half the.
quinine produced in the world. e
= Horseshoeing with iron was un..
known in England until introduced
after the Norman conquest in 1866.
Darwin declared that insanity is
not peculiar to human beings. He
asserted that animals often become.
insane.
"Violet Ray? What a pretty.
name!' said the unpopular suitor..
eyes" replied Miss Ray, s'too pretty
to change"
= Married men have been heard to-
remark that talking through a hatis3
far antedated by being talked to-
through a nightcap. b
= The deepest gold mine in the,
world is at Eureka, CAL, and is 1920
feet deep. The deepest silver mine is
at Carson City, and has depth Of 81
300 feet.
Thirteen letters written by George
Washington over 100 years ago were.
sold in London recently for 50, ,350s
This is an average of about $3.50,
apiece. 3:g
- The Bank Of France has camera
SO trained that the picture Of any sus-E
picious visitor may be secured with
out the suspected individual knowing
that he has been caught.
No kissing ever occurs in Japan
except between husband and WIFE.
not even between mother and child;
no shaking Of hands in salutatien. H
one were to offer kiss to a Japanese
maiden, she would probably think she:
we're going to be bitten.
The Lacon Qlls.) Fur company;
has been organized, the purpose being.
to raise Maltese and black cats. As.
farm of 160 acres is to be purchased
In one years time the cat family is
expected to number 10000 and in two
years 100000. The furs sell for from
10 to Is cents each. ssB5
The horses which have been turned
loose to forage for themselves in the
eastern part Of Washington have null
tiplied very rapidly, and there are
said to be as many as 100000 now
roaming about. The farmers look
upon them as pests, and are hoping
that the cold weather will kill them!
of. AZ
Java has thunderstorms, on am
average, 81 days in the year Italy, /
38, Belgium 81, Holland 18, France
Austria and South Russia 16, Spain
and Portugal Is, England and the high
Swiss mountains Z, Norway 4, Cairo!
8. In east Turkestan, as well ASSN
the extreme north, there are scarcely
any thunderstorms known
Needles are all made by machinery
The piece of mechanism by which the
needle is manufactured takes the rough
steel wire, cuts it into proper lengths,
files the point. hattens the head,
pierces the eye, then sharpens the
tiny instrument and gives it that poll
ish familiar to the purchaser. There
is also machine by which needles are
counted and placed in the papers in
which they are sold, these being after
ward folded by the same continuance.
"A leading fruit grower Of Mis-
souri, killed peach tree borers in 1894
and again in 1895 by digging the dirt
away so as to expose the spur roots at
the top of the ground and using the
dirt to form a basin about the tree
extending six or eight inches above
the ground level and then filing this
basin with boiling hot water. This
kills every worm in the roots and
lower six inches Of the trunk Of the
tree, and does not injure the tree in
the least. The worms crawl out before
dying. Ele asks those who are afraid,
to try it On one or two trees and be
convinced.
There is a good lady in Marietta
who has false teeth. The other night
just before retiring, she took: the
teeth out of her mouth and placed
them beneath her pillow. Next morn
ing when she looked for them they
were gone. Every nook and corner Of
the bed beneath and above, was ran
sacked to find the teeth, without avail.
The sorely distressed lady informed
her landlady Of the fact and asked her
to have mush prepared for her diet, as
she would be unable to masticat, any
solid food on account of the loss OF
her teeth. She partook heartily Of
the soft food at breakfast, went to
church, and at the noon meal the same
diet was prepared for her, but she was
prevailed upon to take some very juicy
and tempting meat, and was told that
she could cut it up very fine and par
take of it that way. She consented,
and placed it in her mouth. It was
natural for her to masticate solid food,
and to her astonishment she found
that her missing teeth we're in her
mouth, and had been all the time. She
had placed them in her mouth at night
and was not aware of the fact