The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

'-AN Az" "so cOltcScS IN THIS COun-
Try mat received last year gifts that
amounted to $1G.6l3. .an3
Inc town OF Glen Flora, Wis, has
inst been sold for the sum of a2sOO un-
ue' inc 1orclos;irc Ct q mortgage. !
- Canada has made great strides in |
cotton manufacturing in recent wears
1t is said that her mills are prosperng
- The value of tho Christmas tur-
keys eaten by the American ne.o.;,
| during the late holidays is estimated
Mt 81, 100000.
- The Humane Society of Illinois
contemplates series of lectures
throughout the State in the interest of
the horse especially, but looking to tho
better treatment Of all domestic ami.
| mails.
Cuba viii! send representative
delegation to Washington and ask Con-
gress for reduction in the duties on
Cuban products, but they will probably
get nothing except the trip for their
pains, as tho Republican leaders will
not consent to reduction.
= Hartford County, Md, is rejoicing
over bequest of $58,OO0 for road i'm
provcments from William WOolscy.
who specified in his will that the money
must be used in certain amounts on
certain roads and within stated time.
Mr.. Woolsey will hnvc monument
worth tho having.
- The idea that people who arc con
sumptivc should be known seems to- he
spreading. The Philadelphia board of
health, at its last meeting, discussed
tho question of the compulsory regis
tration of all cases of consumption.
The society believes this step will act
ms check to the disease.
Two weeks ago New York CITY re-
ported 10000 cases Of grip under treat
ment. In tho United States Mt that
date two million people were said 10 be
under the weather with that disease,
while 100000 were hid up with small
pox. Of the latter less than 300 died,
while grip sent $4,000 to the grave
yards.
That intellect expands early in tho
great west is shown by Miss Belle
Flemming, of Pauls Valley, Ind. r.,
who is only II years old and yet has
been admitted TO practice law ut tho
bar of the United States Court of the
northern district of the territory. Miss
Flemming has been amusing herself
with Blackstone and Kent since she
was II years old.
= The tallest man living is said to
be Lewis Wilkins, who is now arous-
ing great interest in the science circles
of Europe. Wilkins was born on a
farm near st. Paul, Minn., in 1874.
When he was but 10 years old he meas
ured six feet III height, and now has
grown to the tremendous height of
1O7 Ia inches-just three quarters Of
an inch less than nine fcct-and weighs
364 pounds.
- Frog farming is new industry in
Massachusetts. Adjoining tho town
of Ware company has leased ten
acres, with running stream. a series
OF artificial pools will be con-
structed, whero the eggs will be hatch
ed and the young frogs cared for dur
ing the two years necessary to fit them
for market. The demand for frogs
comes from colleges and medical
schools, as we'll as from restaurants.
simultaneously with the agree
ment to give $4,000 to Carson Newman
college of Messy Creek, Tenn, John
D. Rockefeller proposes to give the
samc amounts to Des Moines, Iowa,
and Mercer university, of Macon Ga.
All three colleges must raise 800, ,750
each in subscriptions by Juno /, of this
year. These amounts are to be paid in
four annual installments. Tho propo-
sitions como through the Baptist Edu-
cational Society, of Washington, D. C..
= According to Sir Walter Bosant
liquid air is the force of the future. 1t
is an explosive of q most dangerous
kind; it may be used as IN anacsthetic;
it may be used to purify anything. In
n word, it is another giant caught, i'm
prisoned and made to work the will of
man. 81 have not the least doubt"
MI. Bcsant continues, "that before
many months arc past liquid air will
be captured by the inventor and used
for the destruction of n whole army
many miles distant by tho hands of
n drummer boy"
= Because Hiram Adams, an cngi-
nccr on tho Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western, was forgotten and left three
weeks on sidctraelS the company will
be asked to pay handsome sum in
overtime. There had been wreck on
the road that blocked the line and in
structions were wired to Adams to lay
over at Hampton Junction, Pa. These
ne obeyed and when timc passed on
and he did not get orders to move, he
won't to the hotel and engaged board.
The days passed into weeks, and three
| weeks from the time the order wns