The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-01-05

y whipping post for tho rorrcction
OF BAD boys has been set Up in Evans
vile, Ind. Tho Judge of the local Police
curt is r"am,isiDlo 'or ,lio innovation.
II" was puzzled what to do with hoys in
dl'l'rcnt 10 parental control, and hcsi-
tatrd 10 inilict the penalty of Il fine,
which ga rraily a punishment ON The
parent. Hedisrovcrcd that an old statute
permitting th" iloggin;, Of iaw breakers
! iia'i .Int !'ccH repealed. and at Onco set up
IN" whipping post. NOW, when "A boy is
found guilty 81 mi>lemcanor. his father
is sent inr and given his choice OF uayin,
i'n". seeing his boy go to Jail, or giving
MN a SOUND HegElnE with strap in the
iresrnc" of an officer, whose duty it is to
80" that there IL no sham about tho nun
i-hrncnt. There is seldom need of the
mentors interference. tho angry parent
wiclding the strap 10 good purpose The
humane society felt impelled To interfere.
but tho Judge stood upon tho law, and
thrrc has been a marked decrease in tho
number OF boys brought before tho
Court.
- That thero is al honesty rising SUI
pcrior To business avarice oven in this
sordld ago appears from the experience
| OF n Topeka sporting man. lie wrote to
cigarette company that he had saved
tho pictures Of 200 packages Of cigarettes
which he had smoked, and asked what
| prize the company would offer for them.
He received an answer saying that the
company would givo him a coffin if he
would smoke that many more
= 1t il estimated that the amount of
gold taken from tho earth and nut into
circulation III the United States in 1897
was, in round figures. s1;;,oOoNW. This
is far below the output of grain or of the
185o 'iiotais, but IL shows worry substan-
tial addition to the money wealth of the
country If the Alaska mines fulfil half
what is Claimed for them these figures
Will be largely exceeded in lS9S. and
may reach S70,oO",OOO.
= The most curious use to which paper
| Is to DO put Is that suggested by the blot
tirg paper towel. 1t is new style of
bath towel, consisting of full suit of
heavy blotting paper. A person, upon
stepping out Of the morning bath, has
! only to array himself in one Of these
suits, and in aecond he will be dry.
= An electric road will soon he built
from New York to Philadelphia that will,
1t is said, enable the passengers to max 9
the journey at the rate of 200 miles an
hour. Tesla says the scheme is feasible
| and that the speed can without difficulty
be attained and without Inconvenience TO
the travelling public.
- No less than 900 ships have cleared
| from baltimore during the year 1897.
carrying moro than I'll ,0OO,OO bushels of
grain, and great volume of food sup
plea coal AMI merchandise. So that the
foreign trade OF the port shows remark :
able gains over last year
- Lake city, Fla, has set out TO max @
! the dancer pay the fiddler in novel
way The town has appointed single
night watchman and decrced that he shall
be paid At the rate Of $50 for each arrest
made. the prisoner to furnish the money.
= Chicago's drainage canal, on which
SO '."m.0"" has already been spent, is to
he finished within two years more.
= Let us be Of good cheer, remember
ing that the misfortunes hardest to bear
are those which never come.