The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Sixty telephone wires hang on the
poles ON Harrison Avenue, in Leadyille,
almost obscuring the sky at that point.
As regards telephone wires, Chicago
claims the championship, having three
hundred and fifty on single pole.
AT the recent town election in old
Concord, Mass, only twenty votes were
cast for the School Committee and all OF
these by women. The result was that
| three men and one woman were elected;
the men for a period of three years, and
the woman for only one year.
Experiments have recently been
made in England as to the maximum
speed that skater can attain, Mr.. fish
Smart, one of the champion skaters of
the world, has made twelve miles in 28{
minutes. This nearly represents the
time made by the best bicyclists.
"A fig tree still fourishes, and is an
object of worship by Buddhists, was
planted by Divinipiatissa, in the year
2SS B. c., in Ceylon. Its history is pre-
served by mass of documentary evil
dence and tradition. 1t was described
by the Chinese traveller, Fa Ham, in the
year 414, and by the earliest Europeans
who visited it.
The old family Bible that belonged
to MARY, the mother of Washington -
is still in existence, and is kept in a
branch of the Washington family in Vir-
ginia. It contains the family register,
recording the birth of George Washing
ton, February %, 1892. The binding
has a cover of cloth, woven by the hands
of his mother.
Mr.. McCulloch, of Australia, takes
no thought of expense about his cattle.
Lately he gave $35, 900 for the cow
" Duchess Of Lancaster" and $22, 800
for Berkely, Duke of Oxford" buying
them to replace two valuable Oxford cat
tie which the sanitary authorities of Mel
bourne killed by giving them poisonous
water in quarantine.
Thirty attempts were made against
Louis Philippe's life. Seven of them
have become historical, and are set down
among the records of his reigns In the
year 1888, pistol shot BY Bergerou;
1885, Internal machine by Fieschi; 1885,
pistol shot by Alibaud; same year, another
pistol shot by Meurier; 1910, gun shot
by BARNES; 1886, rifle shot by Pierre
Leconte; and in 1916 q pistol shot BY
one Joseph Henri, who, while the King
is assuring the crowd that he is unhurt.
fires again, and again misses him.
The French Duke of La Tremouille
has shooting preserve in the forest of
Rambouillet, and to protect it against
poachers has studded It with man traps
Of his own invention. The other dav
The gamekeepers heard the electric |
alarm jingle, and rushing to the desig- |
mated poacher trap found the Duke, who |
IN roaming about his estate had stepped
INTO one of his own snares and found |
himself in the twinkle 1T an eve dumped |
INTO deep narrow pit, out of which he
could not Chamber.
There are hard times in New Zealand |
where prosperity has been the rule. The
abor market is overstocked and thou-
'ands are idle. Relief boards have been
and to add to the misery
here has been large influx of French
communists, generally conwicts from
New Caledonia, many of whom are
'scapes. Altogether the outlook is q
,ioomy one at the present time. Victoria
also suffering from the effects of an
labor market and q stapna-
ion OF business generally.
"A telegraph messenger boy, while
assing along Clifford Street, Rochester,
'. T.. few days since, heard strange
oise in some shrubbery beside the walk.
IN investigation he found cat which
fas completely enveloped by huge
triped snake. The snake was wound
ound and round the body of the feline,
nd the latter was completely exhaust
d in its efforts to free itself. The
make was killed and the BODY dis
ngaged from that Of the cat, but the
'tter died almost instantaneously. Its
ody was covered with bruises, while [
lat OF the snake was bitten in many
|aces.
Joseph X. Emmett, the former ne I
70 minstrel, and now the prosperous !
,tor OF German-American Characters.
IS accumulated large fortune within ]
few years. He has bought q place ON q
le Hudson. near Albany, and begun the
'ection of magnificent residence. Z
here is large music room, furnished d
it'll an immense orchestrion; the parlor Z
modelled after that Of an English b
amor, with timbered roof, every room a
the main story is an octagon. with . n
y window and balcony. A feature of t
q grounds will be big windmill Of p
e Dutch sort, which will pump water v
r picturesque cascade. n
AFFLICTED France. b