The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-01-19
The kangaroo readily leaps from six

= The kangaroo readily leaps from six
ty 70 seventy feet.
= Baltimore cans 1,23O, 900 bushels of
oysters per annum.
= In England one woman in every six
earns her own living.
= Maine factories sold S25O,Oo worth of
wooden shoe pegs in 1897.
= The relative size of the earth as COM
pared with the sun is, approximately,
that of grain of sand to an orange.
= Men are becoming so scarce that
wien boy of twelve goes calling these
days he is allowed to sit in the parlor.
= While friends were preparing the
supposed corpse of Mrs. Alice Parker for
burial in st. Louis, she revived and is
now we'll.
- The old-fashioned boy asked his
father questions for information; the
modern boy asks his father questions to
''catch" him.
= The Good Habit Society now has >.
900 members. 1t was started by Harvey
Prentice. Chicago schoolboy. It's chief
pledge is to treat everybody with kind :
ness.
:. The old log cabin in Front Royal,
Va, in which George Washington lived
while surveying between 174S and 1852,
is still standing in fair condition and is
used as spring house.
! In an address the other eveningBishop
Hall, (Episcopal) of Vermont, referred to
Santa Claus as an imaginary parsonage,
whereupon small boy in the congrega-
tion audihly corrected him.
= It is stated that the Mormons have
| 1.400 missionaries. and that they are
pushing their work among the ignorant
with great enerny, and they are bound to
gain political control Of Utah.
"A schoolboy was asked to explain
1.-THE formation Of dew. His answer was,
"The earth revolves on it's axis every "a
hours, and in consequence of the tre-
mendous pace at which it travels it per-
spires freely"
A 5-year old city miss was visiting
in the country for the first time and she
happened to notice cattle enjoying their
cud. "Say, grandpar she exclaimed,
''does you have to buy gum for all them
cows to chew"
= Fuddy-'sNo, jim Farley isn't much
to brag Of; but there's one thing will
say for him-he's q true philosopher y
Duddy-"And for what reasoD?" Fud-
dy-"Wben hs lost bis hand in a hay.
cutter he merely remarked; We'll, there s
one hand the less to keep clean, any
how"
= This is how a native Of Bulawayo
describes railway engine: It's huge
animal belonging to the white man. 1t
has only one eye (the head lamp. 1t
feeds on fire, and hates work. When the
white man purnps it to make it work it
screams 1t comes from somewhere, but
no one knows from whence.
- The English have adopted new fad
in the shape of perfumed butter The
butter is of extra fine quality and wrap
ped 10 muslin. 1t is then placed upon a
bed Of rose leaves and the whole put in a
refrigerator, where it is allowed to remain
for ten or twelve hours, during which
time it becomes perfumed.
= Surgeons propose to use kangaroo
tendons to tie up the fractured bones of a
mans leg, in order that he may use his
knees while the bones are knitting to-
gether. Kangaroo tendon is as strong as
silver wire. II is taken from the tail OF
the kangaroo, and, being animal in its
nature, it is absorbed, and the leg does
not have to be cut open, as is necessary
when silver wire is used.
a statistician figures that New York
town has nearly 1000 hotels of different
grades, of which about 100 are of the first
class. about $50 second class, while the
remaining 600 are minor establishments
The money invested in these hotels is
more than Sl6O, 100000, and the sudden
arrival Of 100. 600 visitors in the city would
not overtaX 10 accommodations. He al.
Sc names the Imperial and the Metro
politan as the best paying properties on
the list.
1t is unusual for vessel to leave
port with her cargo on fire, but that is
what the steamship Lambert's Point did
last week. She had been lying at ST.
Johns n. T., for several days with hel
deck load of cotton atire, and it was de-
cided finally to put to sea anyhow, and
she steamed away for Liverpool. The
police had to be used to compel the crew
to sail. Ii the fire cannot be put out the
burning cotton will ne jettisoned.