The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-03-15
Queer Happenings.

there was no ground, as her husband, ,
drummer, kissed her 800 times on
the last day he was at home.
\ Pennsylvania coal miner was
frozen to death last week standing up
in snowdrift with his dinner pail in
his hand
The pride of the life Of the late
Mrs. Elizabeth Skeats, of London, was
that she was the mother of six po-
licemen.
a Chicago magistrate recently fined
a man SO for being liar. He was
probably from St. Louis.
The authorities Of Wellington,
Kan, propose to give the name of the
first prisoner confined in the new jail
to that institution, and it was called
Horton Jail, because Mrs. Horton was
the first. She proved to be innocent
and now she is suing the county for
damages on account Of the jail S name.
An old clock given to Warren, ILL.,,
academy to be used before the class in
physics to demonstrate the laws Of the
pendulum, refused to run, and when
the teacher got into it's works he found
a roll of bills, amounting to $2422,
| clogging the machinery.
y Nincland, y. j., girl was fright
fully burned last week by the cxplo-
sion Of coffee pot boiling on the
stove.
\ pet fox in West Chester, Pa,
bird store upset gas stove and as
phyxiated number of the birds.
A lot of Bourbon county, Ky, cat
tie went into tobacco barn for shell
ter during the last snow and 20 of
them died from eating the tobacco.
a pinevillc, Ky, barber has this
sign displayed "if you don't come
in and let me shave you, am going
to close my shop and go to hocing
corn.
\ Massachusetts farmer is being
sued for sneezing SO loud on the pub
lie highway as to cause the plaintiff
horse to run away.
A farmer near Noblcsville, Ind, 52
years of age, has never had teeth, and
all four of his children are toothlcss.
Three young women in various parts
Of the country had all their hair burn
ed off their heads last week by the
accidental ignition of the cclluloid
combc they wore.
An Indiana man, SO years old, hang
cd himself last week with clothes
line.
a Michigan legislator proposes to
make liquor drinkers pay license of
50 per year for the privilege Of drink
ing.
\ New York man advertises that he
has the addresses of 20, 600 red headed
women.
Twelve thousand dozens Of eggs arc
shipped every week, it is said, from
Sloan Springs, Ark. 1t would mean
ruin to close the hatchways of that
town.
\ St. Louis man committed suicide
last week by putting a rubber tube
into barrel Of whiskcy and filing
himself beyond the limit
a Kentucky farmer noticing tree
on his place filed with something that
looked like black fruit, inspected it
more closely and discovered that hun
dreds of black birds were frozen TO the
limbs.
Mr.. Daggett, member Of the Wis
consin legislature from Bear Creek,
has introduced joint resolution to
appoint compassion to draft laws
preventing women from tight lacing.
Charles Kraus. Of Cincinnati, is
suing for divorce on the ground that
his wife never let him know she had
glass eye until after they were nlarri-
ed.
\ mouse threw woman's prayer
meeting at Chester, Pa, into wild dis
order one evening last week by run
ming down the aisle.
In Cumberland County, n. j., the
farmers are catching crows and selling
them to trap shooters.
lola, Kan, gave big dance recent
ly to raise funds with which to buy a
cork leg for one Of her INDECENT citi-
Zens who was shy leg.
Nine people we're burned and II
frozen to death in Kentucky during
the recent blizzard
A New England coal miner was
troubled with pain in his back and
one day last week he went to doctor
about it. The doctor looked him over
and took four inches of knife blade