The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-04-06
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Materia lied spirits--Frozen wlfis-
KEY.
/, A matchless maid-An ancient I'M
married lady.
Plain satce-Au interview with a
Saratoga hotel clerk. s,st.-.
U"w unjust it is tn accuse a bald
headed man of putting on false
hairs.
How to make good pufs-Sehd
the publisher twenty cents u line for
them.
Here's view of the Christmas
stocking--The boy Says he ''set il,
Int didn't catch anything"
"Wl,at station do you call this ~
said al man. as he crawled cut of the
debris 81 a railroad smash-up. "De-
vastation, replied the conductor.
Some Of the students at Eastern
colleges can board themselves for
,hirty-tive cents per week, but they
don't feel like tearing around much.
"a man who fears the Lord and
can carry llo,ue an intoxicated menu
ter" is t;ie kind of Sergeant-at arms
they want fvr the Minnesota Legis-
iarure.
Short dresses are coming into fash.
ion again, aud yenng ladies are ex-
pcyieDcing the old. old diificultyiof
getting No. d foot into No. 4
shoe.
A Michigan has hit npon a happy
exp-,iieai Tor getting rid of the rheu-
matisn. He crowded it down tn his
two fingers, aud then had them am
putated. f4 Bill .e.a
A Scotch divine recently praying,
said: 20 Lord, give unto us neither
poverty nor riri,es,' and pa,isiug
moment, lac added, Tea
peeiaiiy poverty"
A hacl,elor Is one whose stock of
love. sympathy, and affection, is so
snall that Il. canEot afford To share
il with another, but must cen keep
It all for himself. afts d2
The st. Loaisian never dies sud.
denly. lie walks aropnd halt u doz-
Ell Years, telling people about his
liver aid chewing qainiDe, before
CROSSING the river. ~ ftH't -
Ii you want to know whether your
t,.A.rt.... a,,...,
where rnuf great uncle stond in his
arithmetic class, just run fol Office,
aud you'll know il all.
Nabody requires a larger stock of
Christian anii:ibility aud iorbe;lra ice
than TIN. eo,ug man vito Ike pa
matelies ia his r"oln whe:e the otter
boar'iers eau get at EN-.
The Chicago. Times describes an
officer holder us collector of the
port III Ararat, when Noah arrived
there with his ark. and has aBimter-
held office ever silice.n
Kill him, kill him! slouteda
crowd in Virginia City as they gath
cred around "A hotel. "What for 7"
inquired Il stranger. 'slle's got on
alligator ls'ots and velvet coal.
i!as.i i'm"
"Nell. my-,l,ey.- asked a gentle-
man Of little eight year-old boy,
"wliar are ,oI crying for ~ ''Cause
| cant lind my dad. told the old
food Ii hs went of too far he'd ioss
me-" Was the ii!ial reply.
John Erode Is no more. Yoa
didn't know him. He
lived III Western Missouri, and on
the sinske- loasss III a friend
Ia ste now the hams col along a trap
gun blew hi, bead off
IL hate ANYTHING that occupies
more space than it is WORTH" say,
William iIazlitt, :" 4 late to see a
load ID ba,idDoxes go along the street
and | hate 10, see "A parcel of big
words without anything in them"
a good deacon making an official
visit to dying neighbor, Who was
n very churlisl and universally Wn-
popular man, put the usual Ques-
ton: "Are YOU willing to go, my
friend r 20, yes,r said the siek
man. 4 am." SWELL said the elm
PIE minded deacon,'I am glad Sou
are, tor all the neishbors aie Will
lng." nif@ fta-i uh9
Mary wos the nr,,nr;cf,esa ~ \ Al.