The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-10-18

- Reports from Alabama counties |
show heavy decrease in tho cotton
- Sc true bills have been found
ageinst n. g. Dougherty, &c Peoria,
Illinois.
-- The country is threatened byss
serious freight embargo, owing to o
shortage OF cars, which railroads are
trying to gelieve by heavy equipment
orders.
-- 1t 10 said that ex.Congresamau
IL. Cass Carpenter, Of Denver, owns
the fret American edag fred on in che
Civil war. Il is 6x3 feet and Yas che
storm Gag effort Sumter.
-. Ine discovery Of diamond mineo
IN Iexas, coming 80 soon astor tho
discovery Of oil, would mean perhaps
more prosperity than the common.
wealth could etand without being
hitohed.
- A special train on the Santa Fe
road made the run from Los Angeles
TO 'Chicago, 2,244 miles, recently in
Soar minutes less than as hours, or ct
sse average rate, stops deducted, Of
= Rockefeller got off one of his fa-
mous ones the other dey. He said to
party Of young men: ""Turn your
thoughts higher" The next day he
boosted up tho price OF oil Two oente
she lights oouid not be turned up
quite so high. j Cl GEsS,
"A recent calculation Of the Ca
loric force in radium reaches the as
tonishing oonolusion that one ounce OF
that wonderful substance would con-
tain power enough, If it could be 80
utilized, to lift 0,OOD tons q mile
above che surface Of che earth. Or,
by the same calculation, twenty.two
avoirdupois, would contain energy
enough TO Tow ship Of 1900 tons
5000 miles ae the speed Of seventeen
knots an hour. .:.$, -. H.. =. -, =
= Japan 10, 20 establish a line Of
steamers with South America. The
purpose is 60 get cheap. wheat from
Argentine. 4: Rise eating in Japan lie
giving way to bread made from wheat,
or from mixture Of wheat and rice OF
ether cereals s Japsn's q representative
IN Bsrlin is INSTRUCTED by: his Govern.
ment TO- COLLECT data Of trade possi-
biiities between the two countries,
Japan, as 10 her right, seems deter.
mined, saya Daily Consular Reports,
to 50 to: the ends Of the earth 70 buy
sd sell. ~. -: :. .:@:.:. -,a: :.,5 :.
- :, 81 3 Former Japanese Foreie: Min:
lister Okuma, referring to che sudden
expansion OF Japan's finance, said
that when the withdrawal Of the troops
is completed she will find herself CON
'fronted with o debt, OF 81 ,25O, 900, 900,
the annual interest on which alone,
roughly speaking, will be s75, ,00O, 900
or: nesrly twice the revenue Of the
country ten years ago. The per capita
rate OF taxation before the war was S2. /
Now it lis: :$6.: The per capita share
in the national debt; before the war
Waa Sc. It is nov s25. "a: t:.}: s. ,a&:,.':
s!s / - - The Japanese are experts L on
smoke rings, and it Is said 10 Japan
it is5 considered no Suncommon trick to !
blow three Kings Of smoke in aucces.
sion, the second travelling through tho
first end third through both: Some
stsge perf0Fmars are credited with be.
coming i so expert in smoke blowing
that they arc not only able to multiply,
the number Of rings sthus: made,. but
actually form j Japanese characters rep.
resenting words and sentences. One
Japanese jnggler, it is declared, pro!
posed 10 his by wife forming che char
aoters representing bis; a7oRal Of. love
through q thin stream Of smoke. =.: ,..a !.
!: l5s B g. ~ i is not uncommon for d dia-
'mond to explode soon after it reaches
the surface; some have been known I'd
burst 10 the: pockets OF the miners or
ghen held in the warm hand, and the
loss is the greater because large stones
are more lisble 10 explode .or =fy.: In
pieces than smal ]! nes, :, says the Lon:
don Chronicle. II: Il: " aiuable stones have
been destroyed 10 this way, and: il is
Whispered that cunning dealers are i
mott averee TO. allowing responsible
Clients .toS 'Eandle or carry in their
warm poekete lorge crystals fresh from
the mime 3 ? way OF =. safeguard
against explosion some dealers imbed
large diamonds in raw potato to iu-
aurs safe transit to England. : & { 5,5
w curious story is; ousrsnt among
leading French i Royalists in Paris.
Princess Waldemsr Iof Denmark be.
csn,s1 PSsssFsed Of: :s% suspicion that |
her. letters TO her mother, the Duchess |
.ofi ghartrss, we're opened and read ID,
their passage through the French
'postofhos, aays Lond dpn;: Tit Bits. @In
order tu, make sure she had recourse
To che tstrategem of sending 6 note in !
3EhiehS 3, leg che informed her mother that
she wac inclosipg some .Danish rio.
let's. Whieh, i'd fact, she did not in- |
CLOSE. By return :she received "a note |
from tho DueEess sxprsssing delight |
= sat lhe bean tifnl frsshness of The saow4
srS. The ofiieiai ho 81 opened The let
tets thinking the siolets' TO have been
loss IA the opesst stipn, had replaced |
them Eaiim ffn Paris n III. at 5.a. :