The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-29
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All Sorts.

SOuuu cOuCiuSlOu--Au CChhOs
Consuming time-Eating dates.
Mere airy nothings-Bald heads.
A rare picture --One that lie no.
we'll done.
Stone weight is pounds i stons
measure is quartz.
Is the flying artillery one of the
wings of the army
The bt 1T policy-In the insurance
Office that don't fail.
There is one good thing about
mules IA good appetite.
Who pays for the bayOnets when
the soldiers charge themf
A volume that will always,brine
tears to your eyes-a volume OF
smoke.
Pastime-When the other fellow
has the two bowers and ace of
trumps.
Holland discounts the American
Congress. 1t has ten thousand
windmills.
The Hawkeye wants to know if
the past tense of stave factory is
stove factory.
A prima donna who lately sung to
good crowd in Philadelphia has
r., n.,.~l 80
An exchange newspaper says many
plant is ruined by too much soak
ing. So is many man.
There are indications everywhere
that the dandelion and the lamb are
about to lie down together.
Railroads are built on three
guages nowadays; broad gnage,
narrow guage and mortgate.
1t requires strength and courage
to swim against the stream, while
any dead fish can float with it.
Don't spank your children with
the boot jack. 1t is too hard to hold,
and is apt to make bunions on your
thumb. -l+i4
The difference between cow and
milk man is that the former gives
pure milk. This may be chalked
down as a fact.
a touching obituary:I" He knew
the value of an editors time, and
never trespassed long upon it."
Peace to his ashes.
When the sheriff seizes the con-
tents of sample room to liquidate
a debt, can he not be said to have
the proprietor by the hornss
The true pleasures of temperance
and the many benefits that follow
sobriety, cannot be imagined by
those who live dissipated lives.
An old lady, hearing somebody
say that the mails were very irreg-
ular, said: at was just SO in my
young days-no trusting on EN-"
What is the difference between
grass plat during drouth and
washerwoman's house One is a
dry lawn, and the other laundry.
'"Have You ever read the tale of
Bundle Bee p" asked George of
Sara Jane. No. said she, as she
turned the color of red paint; ''but
I've felt en-" o
"Oh, had the wings of dove"
sighed the closely pursued Ithiet.
He dove down side street, but the
spry patrolman reached for his cote
and took him in.
"Your dog, what does he want
here 7" inquired a dry goods dealer
of customer whose big Newfound-
land was upsetting things generally
"Muzzlin," was the answer.
No great man or woman has ever
been reared to great usefulness and
lasting distinction who was un-
sclIooled by adversely. Noble deeds
are never done III the calm sun
shine of summers light.
A Yankee humorist was giving
an account of his experience as a
hotel-keepcr. "Did you clear any
thing by it" asked listener. 81
cleared six-rail fence getting away
from the sheriff." was the answer.
Imaginary evils soon become real
ones by indnlgiug our reflection on
them as he wh) ia q melancholy
fancy sees something Ike face on
the wall or waiDscot, can, by two or
three touches with lead pencil,
make 10 look visible, and agreeing
with what he flncied.
A negro appeared before magis-
trate charged with some trivial Of
Tense. The latter said to the man:
"You can 20 now, Samb0, but let
me warn You never to appear here
again. Sambo replied with broad