The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-05-25
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= Teach your children to help them
selves but not to what doesn't be.
iuug to them.
Men will refrain from evil.spcak
ing when their fcllow-men refrain
from evil hearing.
= A coquette is a rose from which
every lover plucks a leaf-thc thorns
are left for her future husband.
Why is the letter S likely to
prove dangerous in argument Be-
cause it turns words into swords.
= There is a boy in Boston so
bright that his mother has to look at
him through piece Of smoked glass.
\ man who is not at heart
ashamed of himself, need not be
ashamed Of his early condition in life.
- At sea level an object 100 feet
high is visible little over II miles.
If 800 feet high, it is visible nearly
80 miles.
- Minds of great men may run in
the same channel. but somehow the
channel seems never to become over
crowded.
- Although the flap Of skin which
covers an elephant $ ear is Of consid-
cradle size, the ear itself is very small
in proportion.
- It's pretty hard for some people
to distinguish between what they
think they know and what they know
they think.
= The generalin-chief of the Gu
ban revolutionary army in the field is
Maxine Gomez. The lieutenant gem
cral is Calixto Garcia.
= a very nice imported fan. plenty
good enough for woman whose hus-
band earns SIP per week, can now be
purchased for $500.
- We don just see why woman
should like her mirror better than a
man, for the man will fattcr her and
the mirrow will rot.
- When a laboring man undertakes
to support family and saloon at the
same time, the saloon will grow rich
and the family grow poor.
- Wiedcn, suburb Of Vienna, has
the largest dwelling house in the world.
1t contains 400 rooms, divided into
400 suits, and affords shelter to 2 l12
persons.
"Well, my little man. aren't you
barcfootcd rather early this season p
said benevolent gentleman to a
youngstcr. Guess not Wux born
barefootcd
- You arc coward if you fear to
tell the truth when you should do so.
You arc Il coward when you insult the
weak. You are coward if you are
afraid TO do right.
- Bricks made Of plaster Of paris
and cork are now used in the construc-
tion of powder mills. In case Of ex-
plosion they offer slight resistance,
and are broken to atoms.
Yellow fever prevails each year
in the .:eaport cities of Cuba, begin
ming toward the end of June and dis
appearing in September Foreigners
only are attacked by the disease
- The rainy season in Cuba begins
in May or June and ends in Novem
Der. The most rain falls in Scptem-
Der and October The average num-
bcr of rainy days In a year is 102
These is terrible hard times, -
said AIeandcring Mike. "You bet
they is, replied Flooding Pete. "a
fellow cant go nowhere lookin fur
work nowadays without hcvin' some
offered him
- The distance from one end of
Cuba to the other is about as great as
that fron, New York to Chicago. I,
will therefore be seen that the island
i !, capable Of furnishing some pretty
big battlcticlds without crowding.
= Woman is an enigma. She will
face a frowning world and cling to the
man she loves throaah the most bitter
season of trial and adycrsitv, but she
wouldn wear Il hat three weeks be
| hind the stvlc IN SAW tho COvarnmapf
| = Good Ministcr-"I don't see how
| am to get through my sermon to-day
It's almost church time Fonc
Wife-What is the text? SIT i.
about the wise and foolish virgins
"But you were writing at that sermon
last night. Why didn't you fnisl
it p Il couldn't the lamp wcny
out y
a pool room in the board o.
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