The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-10-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Derby hat will be very much
worn again this autumn,
Greek mothers are very careful in
training their children to good man
ners.
"A little daughter of Mrs. E. C. Vim
cent, at Union, 5. c., was killed by a
fall from her mothers lap. -
Sir Edwin Landseer could draw two
different objects at about the same time
One with his right hand, the other
with his left.
The deadly quicksand in the San
fedro River, Arizona, lately swallowed
up a carriage containing gentleman
and three ladies.
+ Mile. Sara Bernhard is, by the Off
cial utterance of the Paris Conserya-
toire, declared to be thirty-six wears of
age. having been born in iS44.s' 81
!. For forty-eight days Lowhill, Pa.
hen was in grain stack, where she had
been accidentally covered up. When
released she toppled over in a fit, but
soon recovered.
VIII. Vanderbilt is to have in his
new house a splendid square block of
stone containing 1856 solid feet, which
has Just been shipped from an Indiana
quarry.
The wife of wealthy Boston sugar
reliner was caught stealing lace shawl
IN store, though her wallet was
-crammed full of money, and her hus-
band permitted her to spend all she
wanted to.
Make your winter bonnet look really
sweet. Ornament it with the paw of a
bears cub with French steel claws. The
thing can be bought in New York and
it will be the most charming thing of
the season.
Charles Greenburgh loved the widow
Cleveland, in whose boarding house he
lived, at Norwalk, Conn, but could not
make her realize the fact. After assur-
ing her of his devotion again in vain.
be seized rope and ran to the woods.
The widow gathered the neighbors and
went in pursuit. They found him hang
ing to tree. He recovered, however,
and she, convinced at last of his sim
cerity, has promised to marry him.
For some reason only to be appre-
ciated by Frenchmen, NEUROLOGICAL
names cannot be given to children de-
clared at the Offices of the French
Mayors, names taken from sacred his
tory only being allowable. Among the
personages considered sacred are
Anadine, Faustine, Azemia, Chloris,
Dejanire, Leda, Medore, Maya, Norber-
tine, Podalire, Zirphe and Zulmar.
"A farm servant blowing near Rosen-
berg, in West Prussia, a few days ago,
turned up an earthenware pot contain
ing about six thousand gold coins.
They were so-called hollow pennies
of the old Teutonic knights, and be-
longed to the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. The " hollow penny" is
silver coin with raised rim around it;
the center displays the arms of the
Grand Master of the Order for the time
being. There were twenty-one differ
ent sorts among the coins found.
While a party were watching
storm at night from the front room of
brewery in tombstone, Arizona, sud-
denly the apartment filed with a daz-
cling light and an explosion like that of
a ton of giant-powder followed. The
whole party were lifted several feet
from the floor, and thrown in a con-
fused mass. When one of the party re-
gained consciousness he found the cell
ing in flames, the contents of the ban in
woeful confusion, the doors wrenched
from their hinges and the weather
boarding of the house torn into ribbons.
Nobody seriously hurt.
The Faith Doctor, as Virginia
clergyman named Miller is called, is
credited throughout that State with mi
raculous power to cure diseases. A
physician who has made an investiga-
ton reports that he is wonderfully full
of electricity, which strongly affects
nervously disordered persons with whom
he comes in contact. But Miller firmly
believes that his gift is directly from
God, in answer to fourteen years of
prayer, and he proves his sincerity by
money for his services. He
will accept nothing but food and lodg-
ing.
The Philadelphia enterprise of q
thousand one-horse coaches, of light and
novel construction to carry eight per-
sons each and run to all parts of the
city, is to be speedily put in operation.
The fare is to be five cents, or six tick |
cts for quarter of dollar. The routes
are so arranged that, for ten to fifteen
cents, trip can by transfer be made to
almost any desired point; while single
fare will secure ride on any one of the
main lines, lengthwise or crosswise of
the city. The movements of the We
hicles will be arranged to suit the traf-
fic. The street car companies antici- |
pate serious decrease in their BUSH
ness.
MIR. Fawcett, the Postmaster-G Gen.
eral of Great Britain, has hit upon a
very clever device for the purpose of
the saving of money among |
the lower classes. The Government has
issued at its various postofices an OFF,