The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-04-25
All Sorts OF Paragraphs.

a good conscience is TO the soul
what health is to the body.
- Many man gives promise
simply because he doesn't want to
keep it.
= Twenty million acres of the land
Of the United States are held by Eng
lshmen.
= 1t is more important to be true to
the truth which one knows, than to
know much.
- No one can keep hold of Gods
hand while stepping on the rights of
other people.
= The temperature of the planet
Neptune is estimated to be 500 degrees
below zero.
= British government expenditure
is running now $1,000, 900 week
beyond revenue.
Edison invented the phonegraph,
but the first talking machine was made
from Adam rib.
Children are afraid of COLLINS and
ghosts, but are their elders any wiser?
They have as great fear of tomorrow.
= The Methodists Of New York city
have adopted a resolution to raise ST.
100000 before December 81, 1900, to
clear the churches from debt and aid
homes and hospitals.
= The marriage Of John and Hen
~ Paine, twin brothers, of Claiborne,
Tenn, to Misses Mary and Hannah
Youcum, twin sisters, Of Lee county,
Va, took place at Middlesboro, KY,
last week, in the presence of 1000
spectators.
= The Labor Commissioner of the
State of New York says in his annual
report that the number of persons
killed and injured in factories in the
Commonwealth last year was greater
than the number who were killed and
injured in the Spanish American War.
Chicago possesses a natural Gu.
riosity in the form Of man who has
just paid off in full his father out
lawed liabilities, the result of business
Teverses sustained several years ago,
amounting to $4,000. Some Of the
creditors had forgotten all about the
transaction. His name is Simeon B.
Chaplin, and the world would be better
with more men of this kind.
- A clergyman, upon introducing
some new hymn book to his flock,
instructed his clerk to give out the
notice just before one Of the collects.
The clerk forgot, and instead read out:
"All those who have children that
they wish christened, let me know
after the service" The clergyman who
was very deaf added blandly. "Aud I
should like to add, for the benefit Of
those who have none, that they may
obtained in the vestry any day be-
tween 3 and 4, the ordinary little ones
at twenty-five cents, and the special
ones. with red-backs at thirty.five
eente."
- The Colorado river is again play
ing havoc with the cities, towns, crops
and cattle along its bank. After
being swelled by the rains of week,
On last Saturday the river broke the
great dam at Austin and swept away
in few hours property that cost more
than $2,500,000. The dam wes the
base of = reservoir 80 miles long and
60 feet deep. It was here that the
city Of Austin got its water. light and
power. The tremendous body Of water
went down the valley in a great food,
several miles wide, sweeping every
thing before it. As many as fifty
people are reported dead, and thous-
ands OF cattle have been seen floating
down the river. Many houses have
also been. washed away. The Brazos
and other streams are also high out of
their banks, and thousands Of acres Of
oorn and cotton will have to be re-
planted. Railroad transportation has
been interrupted by the washing away
cs bridges, and altogether the entire
Colorado valley is in almost as bad fix
as last year.