The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-02-17
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.


often twins.
Law wears iron suocs, and don't
care where it steps.
Two hundred thousand barrels Of
souvenir buttons made and sold in the
last three months is the record of one
factory.
= The Chinese condemn criminals
to death by preventing sleep. Suffer
ers last from 12 to 20 days, when death
comes to their relief.
A Californian has invented a bed
that will turn sleeper over without
awaking him. This ought to encour-
age some Brooklyn man to invent a
bed that will fold up without killing
it's occupant.
= A stranger called at 48 different
houses, and asked "Is the boss
home ?' There was no man at home
in any one instance, and yet AZ Of the
| women promptly replied: "Yes, sir---
what do you want p 80
= The oldest love letterin the world
| is in the British museum. It is a
| proposal Of marriage for the hand Of
an Egyptian princess, and twas made
$500 years ago. 1t was in the form
of an inscribed brick. 9
= The election Of women as officers
of Huntington Qnd. bank betrays a
tendency towards giving the sex q
hold on the purse-strings, against
which every husband in the land will
doubtless enter vigorous protest.
If the spring puts forth no hlos-I
SONS, in summer there will be no
beauty and in autumn no fruit. So,l
if youth be trifed away without.im.i
provement, ripper years will be con-!
temptible and old age miserable.
= Fully as important as the matter
of saving portion Of ones income
for rainy day is the matter Of maxi
ing provision for the time when The
bread winner may be taken away. L.
is strange that many men are SO neg
ligent in this regard. II
= Charles Stratton, better known as
General Tom Thumb, was thirty.one;
inches high at twenty-five year, of
age. His wife was thirty-two inches,
high at twenty-one. Their child is
said to have been the most minute
speck of humanity that probably ever
appeared on the earth.
Don't get angry at trifes, Look;
at vexations as you will view thera 30
days from date. The angry man who
gets the wrong key and pushes and
rattles the door till he breaks the
lock, looses more time than if he had
quietly gone for the right key, and
pays for new lock besides. s
= Study to be kind. Not much
danger Of carrying it too far if you are (.
guided by good common sense. How
ever kind and thoughtful you may be,
the day may possibly come when you
will wish that you had been kinder
still. Thoughtful kindness to the |
living is better than tears for the dead.
Jack and Tom when they first
went to school were asked what were
their names. Tom, who was first, re-;
Piled, "Tom, sir" 'You must not
say that, my boy. You should say
Thomas Jack determined he would
not fallinto that mistake, and when
he was asked proudly replied, Jack
ass. i4
Irate Customer-Those shoes j
bought for my boy last week are worn.
out already, and l "ound thick piece
of pasteboard in the soles. What
have you to say to that Dealer
My dear sir, the pasteboard is put in
to keep the feet from touching the
ground when the leather wears out.
You wouldn't want your little boy to
catch cold and die Of consumption
would you?
- The consular reports made to-
the State department have disclosed
one interesting fact recently. That is
that the most expensive manufactured
product in the world is the charcoal
flament used in incandescent electric
lamps. These threads, which are
made by secret process in Paris, are
SO valuable that pound Of those In
tended for lamps of 30-candle-poWer is
worth $4,000. Even the inventor
and maker Of the filaments keeps his
name a secret, in order that the yalua-
Bile invention may be still more secure
ly guarded.
"A weird story is floating about to
the effect that four American million
aires have recently had made in Shef-
field, England, steel waistcoats and
coats which are warranted to secure
them immunity from death in ordinary
cases of attempts at assassination.
The armor is Of chain mail, so iighs
that when one has worn it week or
two it is no encumbrance to him, and
strong enough to turn a dagger .or
sword thrust, though it would not
stop bullet. A number OF English
statesmen, the tale proceeds, have
been using this armor since the days
of the Fenian riots.
= The little daughter Of Mr.. 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. Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy, says W. z.
Holden, merchant and postmaster at
West Brimfeld, and the next time l
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 I:
it is famous for it's cures. There is
no danger in giving it to children, for
it contains nothing injurious. For
sale by Hill Orr Drug Co.,
= A disgusted newspaper man ngives
the following philosophical 1sason
for retiring from the business. a
child is born, the doctor in attendance
gets $40, the editor notes it and gets
o :; it is christened, the minister gets
81, the editor writes it up andZgetss
90; it marries, the minister gets an.
other fee, the editor gets a piece OF
cake or 900; in the course of time it
dies, the doctor gets from s. to sl0,z
the minister gets another 81, the un-
dertaker from s25 to s40-the editor