The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-03-09
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All SOrts.
What is a slosh? It's snow mat
ter.
The war Of races Races for
Office.
Charity stays ut home in cold
weather. q
Everyday cheerfulness is one Of
the great virtues.
Dentist ballad-"O, who can tell
the jaws we feel n
A man may be properly said to
have been drinking like a fish when
he finds that he has taken enough
to make his head swim.
Never trust with secret mar
ried man who loves his wife, for he
will tell her, and she will tell her
sister, and her sister will tell every.
body. M
Benjamin Frankling used to spell
soap scope" and yet there isn't
day but that some one holds him
up as a great philosopher and :
good man. ~ 80 Ss9S
II thought Z was queer he didn't
boiler out the last time hit him."
said Mrs. Huse, of Alabama, to the
jury who were trying her for the
murder of her husband. Is 80
A Western poet who had express.
ed wish to die ''amid. the grand
solitude OF the eternal mountain
tops" was killed by the explosion
of a pint OF cheap Kerosene.
There is this difference in the
biography Of James Watt and the
legend of the pillar of salt. One
is the story of Watts life and the
other is the story of Lots wife.
A Nevada man who had seven
homely daughters, got q paper to
hint that he had seven kegs filed
with gold in his cellar, and every
girl was married in FIVE months.
A Virginia bridegroom over sew.
en- feet high is announced. The
affair created considerable sensa-
ton, but it. is believed she only
married him to 60 chestnutting
with.
Ladies should remember to keep
their mouths shut when going out
of q warm room into the cool air.
In fact, it wouldn't hurt anything
to keep them shut most OF the
tine. e i9ns
A genteel farmer Of Massachu.
sets, retired Bostouian, didn't
know how to take q wagon wheel
off to grease the axle, and so he
bored holes through the hub and
poured in the grease.
A gentleman said to his gards-
ner: George, the time will come
when Q man will be able to carry
the manure OF an acre OF land in .
one Of his waistcoat pockets" To
which the gardener replied: II be.
lieve it, sir; but he will be able to
carry all the crop in the other
pocket"
An energetic lady in Olwein.
Iowa, laments her inability to vote.
"Why, if were a man," she said
recently, I'D 60 to the polls if /
bad to be laid on feather-bed,
placed on . stone hoat, and hauled
by blind OK with one leg broken,
but I'd vote But what's the uss
Of talkingf"
II you put q hot coal in your
pocket it viii burn its way out Az,
and 80 will q bad deed that ID hid.
len make its self known. A fault
concealed is q fault doubled; and
so you will find it all through life.
Never hide your faults, bat confess
10 them. and seek through Gods
help to overcome them
Corpulent old lady-'I should
like licked Cor the train" Book
ing clerk (who thinks he will make
! joke Yes: will you 60 in the
passenger train or cattle trainY"
if you are . specimen
Of what ! shall experiences in the
passenger train, give me . ticket
for the cattle train by all means"
Yesterday was indeed an event.
fnl day in the life of a lady on west
Jackson. During trip on the
street cars to State street and back,
she saw the loveliest polonais pat
tern she ever saw in her life, the
handsomest fellow she ever saw in