The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-08-25
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

bho yoAJ
culture.-Ihe State.
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.
Five counties in Illinois have
chosen women as auperintendents OF
schools.
= An insurance policy often makes
a man more valuable after death than
during life.
= There will be two sizes in the
new postal card-both smaller than
the present card.
The president Of the Republic Of
Andorra, in the Pyrenecs, receives 81
salary Of SIS a year.
The habits Of ants are more like
those of a man than are the habits Of
any other of the lower animals.
-"Bertie, you cruel boy, how can
you hear your baby sister cry
"Why that's easy; everybody in the
block can"
Species of snakes that are ene-
mics of one another in captivity will
coil up into their winter sleep in the
same bundle.
The rattlesnake gives warning
before it strikes; the slanderer strikes
before he gives warning; the snake,
therefore, is the best of the two.
= 1t is said that the flesh on the
forequarters of the beaver resembles
that of land animals, while that ON
the headquarters has a ishy taste.
The new species Of rabbit, Of o
diminutiye size, ~tailless and with
short ears, has been found near the
volcano of Popocatapetl, in Mexico.
= Caterpillars have been doiDg,a
great deal of damage to hay and pota-
toes around Gainesville, Fla, going
thoroughly over one field after another.
= In 1875 Italy abolished capital
punishment for murderers. That was
twenty-five years ago, and since then
there has been an increase of AZ per
cent. of homicides.
- Railroad engineers in Germany
are rewarded for carefulness. II they
run ten years without accident, each
engineer receives a gold medal and
about $500 in cash.
= Mother-What would poor NAM
ma do without her boy if he went
away Her Boy-You could whip
Fido when you were cross and just
pretend it was me, couldn't you?
eff I didn't love my husband,
I'd stab him to death T. exclaimedthe
warm-blooded lady from New Orleans.
II wouldn't" said the Chicago wo-
man "I'd get a divorce and stick
him for %alimony."
= A queer pig story is told by the
London Telegraph. A SOW that lost
her tail by an accident had a litter OF
ten pigs, but seeing that they all had
tails placed them in a row and bit of
their tails one by one.
= He-"Now that our engagement
is ended, I suppose we should return
each others letters p She-'I sup
pose so. And, George, while W., are
about it, why not return each Others
kisses 2" Engagement renewed on
the spot.
= To understand the world is wiser
than it is to condemn it. To study
the world is better than it is to shun
| it. To use the world is nobler than
to, abuse it. To make the world bet
ter, l~ovelier and happier, is the noblest
work of man or of woman.
= Mr.. Moody is c~ultivating optim-
ism. He concludes that "New York
is not as bad as Babylon" Boston is
not "harder than Egypt when Joseph
went there" and Chicago is not
"worse than Samaria in the days Of
Elijah" so he will still labor on.
= A. countryman who had lost his
wife asked an editor to write her
obituary. "Gentle and loyablc, was
she ?" asked the editor. "Well,
toll able-'ceptin' when she wuz ril-
ed" "What was her age "She
never did tell it. All I know is, she
wuz purity lively fer her age
= Senator Mason recently asked
Senator Morgan, Of Alabama, how
long he could talk on a subject Of
which he knew absolutely nothing.
"Well," answered Morgan with a
smile, eff it was a matter about which
I knew absolutely nothing I do not
think I could talk more than two
days."
DIR. F. L. Yoakum, of Los An
geles, believes he has made a%discoyery
through his X-ray investigation which
will rcvolutjonizc the present method
of mining valuable ores. He says
that it is now possible to detect by
the use of the X-ray gold and other
ores in the rocks in which they may
be hidden.
= There has been recently deposited
in the British Museum what is prob
ably the most venerable piece of fur
! niture in existence. It is the throne
of Queen Hatasu, who reigncd in the
Nile Valley some 1000 years before
Christ, and twcnty-ninc years before
Moses. This now dilapidatcd object
seems to be Of lignum vitae, the carv-
ing of the legs being inlaid with gold,
and those Of the back with silver.
OF a Tennesseean IS years old,
who attended a Methodist Conference
at Murray, KY, it is said that he has
never drunk CO C, bought a drink Of
whiskcy or been i'll. Neither has any
Of his seven children been i'll. His
wife, it is said has never missed cook
ing a meal. To this record of deadly
monotoDy is added the statement that
the man has never missed adistrict
meeting, and has attended 156s quar,
terly church meetings. .ne