The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-01-05
All Sorts.

The first lucifer match was made
in 1929.
Great works are performed more
through perseverance, thar force.
A man can lick a postage stamp
with bis tongue, but boy in %
much bigger that he has to lick
BIN with his slipper.i '''-t
Honest ducks dip their heads
cnder water sto liquidate. their. lit
tie bills. =
The latest dodge in books-Re-
tnrDing ones borrowed volumes as
Christians presents.
Arkansas has more newspapers
in proportion to population than
any other State in the Union.
A lawsuit over fifty cent dog in
South Bend, Ind, has involved one
of the litigants in 800 costs.
The human heart is made forV
love. as the household hearth for
fire; and for truth. as the honse-
hold lamp for light.
Josh Billings says:- "Success
don't konsist in making plumbers,
but in power making the same one
the sekond time"
An indianapolis paper says Of an
Indiana Senator: His chagrined
look when he clutches that pointed
beard to milk his brain, and they
won't ''give down" is most depress-
ing to all beholders.
eve neasuredrsthe fastess baby
against the cottage WALL" is the
beginning of a poem in a Milwau-
kee paper. This is certainly an i'm
provement on the old plan OF sit
ting on the refractory squaller.
A New Orleans paper says the
dollar stores in that city are places
where you may buy twenty-five
cent article you don't want, for four
times lis value.
Thirteen is an unlucky plumber
of persons to sit down to dinner
if there is only enough to go around
for twelve. 4 :::s-E .rrsa
1t is now believed the feed stars
were placed 80 far away in order
that the patent medicine man could
not get there to paint the rocks.
When faithful mother goes on
a whaling expedition, she never
fails to get all the blubber that she
wants.
Weary person on evening visit
Jaw, I'm Just out of a sick bed"
Terrible boy: Say, Mr.. johnson,
what ails yer Cd 2"
SIS it proper to say Il see the
sun rising or Il see the sun rise?'
he asked. "Sir, the proper thing
is to get home before it rises,r re-
piled his friend.
1t is an excellent rule to be oh
served in all disputes, that men
should give soft words and hard
arguments; that they should not
so much strive to vex rs to con-
vince an opponent.
"How fast they do build houses
nowl' said H.; they began that
building last week, and now they
are putting in the lights" EYES,"
answered his friend, "and next
week they will put in the liver"
'Och," said love-sick Hiberni-.
an, "what recreation it is to DO
dying of love! 1t sets the heart
aching SO deiicstely there's no TAX
ing wink of sleep for the pleas
ure of the pain!"
The following puzzle is again on
its rounds: ITO five and five and
fifty-five the first Of letters add
twill make thing that killed the
king and drove a wise man mad"
1t was published first about twenty
years ago, and mas never been cor
rectly answered. But they say it
has an answer.
The saving Of time is true wis-
dom, for when that is allowed 10
pass without profit no effort in the
future can replace the loss; for he
who allows the seed time to pass
unimproved cannot expect the hsr-
vest to bestow her bouuties.
Some jackass says, "Cheer mp,