The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-09-20

The watering-place landlords have
made money this season.
MAJOR MOE, one of Barnum's dwarfs,
died few days ago at Hartford.
WILLIAM QUIMBY of Mendheim, N.
j., has 1000 peach trees on his farm.
Ex-Governor BROWN of Georgia
says there is not millionaire in that
State.
A swORD-swALLOwER in Vienna died
from an injury received during bis per-
Torrance.
In st. Paul, Mimi, the Librarian of
the City Library is lady, while the as
sistants are gentlemen.
ALEXANDER III. STEPHENS helped So
young men to get an education, and
they all repaid him as soon as they were
able.
MISS AGNES HosFoRD is the Superin-
This city of 1000 has women's liter
airy club who are strongly working for
woman suffrage.
Two ladies took occasion to walk far
enough away from their hotel in the
Catskill Mountains to get lost. They
were found at 5 a. m. sitting on a log
and talking about the fall fashions.
SEVERAL of the ultra fashionable la
dies at Cape May have pets of small
bulldogs, spaniels or cats, which they
lead around with fine chain attached to
blue ribbon or collar around the
dogs neck.
REMEMBER that the sunshine is a
good medicine, but that it is liable to
kill in Over-doses. A cabbage or plan
tain leaf in the hat of laborer, or a
sun-umbrella in the hand of one not
used to out-Of-door exercise, may pre-
vent sun-stroke.--Dr. Foote's Health
Monthly. &m
THE New York Times is melting
wealthy fathers to give their daughters
marriage settlements after the English
fashion. The American system, it says,
"prevents many women from making
highly desirable marriages, and tends
more than aught else to swell the rapid
~ augmenting ranks of mature spinster-
hood
MIR. FLOOD, the banker and miner OF
the Pacific coast, is described by cor
respondent of the Troy Times as man
in the prime of life, weighing about 220
pounds, with light mustache and chin
whiskers that hardly conceal peculiar,
half-mistrustful expression of the mouth.
He is evidently not fond of personal dis
play. He wore plain gray suit, straw
hat, calico neck-tie, and no jewelry ex-
cepting miniature compass on his
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THE correspondent of Swiss news
paper warns collectors of antiquities to
beware of fabricated articles purporting
to belong to the age of bronze and to
have been found among the remains Of
lake dwellings, and in the beds of rivers.
He says there is regular mandatory
Of these things near the Lake Of Biennc,
md that bronze swords are offered al
20 francs each which are not worth az
many centimes.
The people of San Francisco do not,
like those of Eastern cities, go to the
country In summer to find cool resort,
but, on the contrary, the country folks
go to the city for that purpose. The
weather has lately been cool enough in
the city mornings to make overc0ats de-
sirable, and fire is occasionally COM
Portable. II the San Franciscans go in
to the country in summer, it is to get a
temporary change, and to exchange the
land for the accustomed sea breeze.
The Moscow journals relate an extra
ordinary escape Of q young Nihilist girl
named Gobieslawska from the hands of
the police. The latter had discovered
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