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

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. drummer kissed her 500 times on
the last day he was at home.
A 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 !a'o
Mrs. Elizabeth Skeats, of London, was
that she was the mother OF SIX po-
licemen
A Chicago magistrate recently fined
man s25 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 accountof the Jail name.
An old clock given to a 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 its works he found
roll OF bills, amounting to s22422 s242,
clogging She machinery.
a Nineland, n. j., girl was fright
fully burned last week by the explo-
sion Of coffee pot boiling on the
stove.
A pet fox in West Chester, Pa,
bird store upset gas stove and as
phyxiated a number Of the birds.
a lot Of Bourbon county, KY, cat
tie went into a tobacco barn for shell
ter during the last snow and 20 of
them died from eating the tobacco.
A pineville, Ky, barber has this
sign displayed: eff you don't come
in and let me shave you, I am going
to close my shop and go to hoeing
corr.
4 Massachusetts farmer is being
sued for sneezing so loud on the pub
lie highway as to cause the plaintiff S
horse to run away.
a farmer near Noblesville, Ind, SO
years of age, has never had teeth, and
all four Of his children are toothless.
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 celluloid
combe they wore.
IN Indiana man, S2years old, hang
ed himself last week with a clothes
line.
A Michigan legislator proposes to
make liquor drinkers pay license OF
s5 per year for the privilege Of drink
ing.
4 New York man advertises that he
has the addresses Of 30, 600 red headed
women.
Twelve thousand dozens Of eggs arc
shipped every week, it is said, from
Sloan Springs, Ark. It would mean
ruin to close the hatchways of that
town.
a St. Louis man committed suicide
last week by putting rubber tube
into barrel of whiskey and filling
himself beyond the limit.
4 kentucky farmer noticing tree
on his place filled 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 a joint resolution to
appoint comYission 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 Il
glass eye until after they were marri-
ed.
y mouse threw a womans prayer
meeting at Chester, Pa. into wild dis
order one evening last week by run
ming down the aisle.
In Cumberland County. n. J. J, the
farmers arc 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 citl-
zens who was shy a leg.
Nine people we're burned and IL
frozen to death in kentucky during
the recent blizzard
4 New England coal miner was
troubled with a pain in his back and
one day last week he went to a doctor
about it. The doctor looked him over
and took four inches of knife blade