The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-08-23
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hand to the plow Will get none Of the
plow-shares.
= Three Texans live hermit life,
having vowed never to look upon the
face of a woman.
= Half the ships in the world are
British. The best Of them can be
converted into ships of war in forty
eight hours.
= The right hand, which is more
sensitive to the touch than the left. is
less sensitive than the latter to the ef-
feet of heat or cold.
= Some girls can sweep into aroom
with style and grandeur, but when it
comes to sweeping ont a room-well,
that's another story.
= Yeast-"You say your ncighbor
is mean man % Crimsonbeak-
"Mean is no name for him. Why, he
takes his soup with fork so it will
last longer.
= Edward Bennett, aged 16. and
Ethel Allen, aged 13, were married at
Rockford, Texas. They are step
brother and sister, but married with
their parents consent.
= Mama: .'Susie, what do you
mean by all this noise? See how
quiet Willie is" Susie "Of course,
he's quiet, ma-that's our game. He's
papa coming home late, and I'm you. >
= The most magnificent tomb in the
world is the Traj NIahal, in Agra, Hin
doostan. 1t was erected by Shah Je-
han to the memory Of his favorite
queen. It is octagonal in form, Of
pure white marble, inlaid with jasper,
cornelian, turquoise, agate, amethysts
and sapphires. The work took $4,000
men 90 years to complete, and though
there were free gifts and the labor was
free, the cost was SIG, 500, 900.
The past six months have seen
another record broken. More freight
cars have been ordered than ever Be-
fore in like period the number,
88,0S8. If these cars we're placed end
to end they would cover more than
half the distance from New York to
Chicago to be accurate, 5G7 miles.
An average car is thirty-four feet long
= Religion is necessary and indis-
pensable element in any great human
character. There is no living without
it. Religion is the tie that connects
man with his Creator and him to His
throne. If that tie be all sundered,
all broken, he floats away, worthless
atom in the universe, its proper attrac-
tions all gone, its destiny thwarted,
and its whole future nothing but dark
ness, desolation and death.
The Rev. Henry Crawford Tucker,
primitive Baptist clergyman, 95 years
old, who died recently, in Florida,
built the first log cabin on the site of
Tallahassee, and was the first settler
Of that place. His wife was the only
white woman in that region. There
were hostile bands of Indians and
runaway negro slaves in the vicinity.
Mr.. Tucker was a native Of South
Carolina. He settled in Tallahassee
seventy-6ve years ago. He was thrice
married, his children numbering eight
cen sons and fourteen daughters. His
descendants, at the time Of his death,
aggregated ia.
A woodman named Oliver, living
in Tennessee. while cutting wood few
days ago saw two foxes remaining con-
stantly near fallen tree. Upon ap-
'proacning the tree he discovered a
large limb with cavity in which were
Two half grown foxes. Neither was
able to walk, and evidently had never
been out of their place Of confinement.
1t seems probable that the foxes
crawled into the hole in the limb when
very young and remained there until
they had grown SO that escape was
iu possible. They had been fed by the
old foxes through small aperture in
the limb.
Indefat;gable scientists and cx-
plorers long ago established the fact
that race Of people possessing high
order of intelligence dwelt on what is
now the soil Of the United States prior