The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-10-18

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3 names arc often dicult % decpher became Of the
pazeless manner In which thes arc written
GENERAL BREvITIES.
An English hotel claims public favor
on the ground that it is {" patronized by
royalty, American Presidents and the
Rothschilds."
ABOUT soc, 900 square feet of glass
and IS tons Of putty have been sold in
Boston to repair damages by the recent
great storm.
Rev. THOMAS K. BEEcHER of Elmira.
N. Y, brother Of the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, is advocating cremation,
and offers to subscribe for stock in .
company to conduct the business.
A COMMON way of imposing upon ig-
norant prospecton in the mining re-
gions of Nevada 10 to shoot gold filings
into the ground from gun. Even
brass is made to serve the purpose; and
by this means many worthless claim
il sold at high price.
NorHINa is lost in France. The
orange blossoms and grass in the pub
lie gardens of Paris are sold to the high
bst bidder, and at . country railroad
station visitor lately saw q sale Of the
grass on the embankments. The pur-
chasers were peasants' wives.
PROF. CHANDLER Of the New York
Health Board says scarlet fever caused
more deaths in that State last year than
yellow fever did in the South, and yet
lailed to excite public apprehension or
10 make people ordinarily careful to
prevent infection.
JAMES G. FLOOD, the bonanzaite, has
built stable at Menlo Park, N. j., at
post of nearly S65. 600; but he can we'll
afford it, Among his light investments
Is 90, 0O0, 600 in Government four per-
cents., be having ventured o second five
millions recently.
TULARE LAKE, California, is still said
10 be receding. Should it continue to
lau a. rapidly rs it has during the last
Two years, it win be but few years till
lhe bottom Of the large lake 10 dry land.
Crops are being raised this year on land
Dver which steamer sailed three years
hgo.
A WISCONSIN, fish story: While
Judge Reed Of Ripon was fishing, re
bently, Ut Green Lake, . fish took his
line with such force as to wrench the
pole from his hand, and the whole tackle
disappeared under water. The fish that
book the rod was moderate-sized perch,
Ind he was swallowed by . large-sized
pickerel, and the pickerel in turn was
caught by fisherman and the lost line
md rod recovered.
In Russia, as we'll - in Germany,
Austria, and one or two minor northern
realms, nobleman's title is inherited
by all his sons, who transmit it to their
male offspring, ard 20 on I'D infinitum.
Needy mobiles necessarily abound.
There are 40 or 80 Count Zichys in Hun
gary, three or four of whom are wealthy
6nagnates, and the rest pass their lives
In the army or Government Offices on
the smallest pay. In Galicia there are
entire villages where every peasant ma.
live has the right to preface his nsme
with the title Of Prince.
HERETOFORE all letters insuficiently
stamped have been forwarded to their
destination and the amount due collect
ID Of the person to whom they were ad-
dressed. The amended law requires
Postmasters to- place upon letters not
fully prepaid the additional stamps, and
10 send the office at which the letter is
10 be delivered q bill for the amount of
stamps advanced. The Postmaster re-
ceiving the said bill collects the amount
due from the receiver Of the letter and
returns it to the Post-ofice from which
the letter was addressed.
lone BEAN, . teacher in the public
Bchools Of Cedar Falls, Iowa, is devoting
her vacation to securing . homestead Of
160 acres in Dakota. She has brother
who. has Just established his claim to .
homestead by the necessary residence.
Now his sister takes 160 acres adjoin-
Ing, and he viii move his home to il,
where they can occupy the homestead,
And In due time viii have large farm.
WHILE man In Maine was moving
meadow with machine last week he
drove over bumble-bee's nest, and in
IN instant his horses started ON run,
Ind, maddened by the stings Of the bees,
bounded through the field ct . headlong
gAllop. The driver was thrown from
bis seat, but escaped with bruises. The
machine was stove to pieces, and one of
he horses, valued 1t $500, was 90 seri-
Dusly cut by the knives that Il was neces-
barry to kill it.
An Indian, Joaquin Miller explains,
b never honored with . distinctive name
until be has done something noteworthy,
Ind which reveals . marked trait Of his
character. When Sitting Bull was :
young man he IVES shot in the legs in
battle and disabled, but he sat bolt up
right on the ground and continued TO
light with the fierceness Of q wounded
buffalo bull, and it was this incident
which drew from the tribe the appe1la.
HON of Sitting Boil.