The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-07-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A Danielsonville Conn. cat is
nursing two gray squirrels.
Accounting to the latest order OF
General Melikoff, all vessels are forbid
den. under the severest penalty, 10 an
Choir opposite the Winter Palace on tne
river Neva.
A census enumeration got a terrible
whipping in Pittsburgh because he
pressed q stalwart Irish woman for an
answer to the question, Are you white
or black?n
st. Paul's Church at Troy. N. r.,
is to have two organs. one in the choir
aud one in the chancel. A pneumatic
apparatus will enable single player to
play both instruments at once.
"A Sheffield manufacturer is re-
ported to have told his workmen to vote
just as they pleased in fact, / sha'n't
tell you how I'm going to vote" he
said. After it is over shall have a
barrel of beer brought into the yard. "
e. Hear, hear,' shouted the men,
g But sha'n't tap it unless Mr.. Wort
ley, the Tory candidate gets in"
AT Cardiff, England, lately. a hotel
porter was sent to get change for f25
and went off to London with the money.
Arrested, he was discharged, because
said the magistrate, there was a con-
tract between the parties, the prisoner
having undertaken to bring back some
thing different to what he received and
this took the matter out of the range of
criminal proceedings.
Dcf ar.I Eao~on Man nrloovc
pugilists, were rivals for the hand of the
same girl, and they agreed to settle the
question by ring fight. There were
ropes and stakes, referee and seconds,
police raid after the encounter and
other characteristics of such occasions.
Butthe victor did not get the prize
aftsr all, for she said she had never in
tended to marry either.
The crown of Hungary has lately,
1t is greatly revered by the Magyars.
who believe that the inner portion
forms part of the original crown pre-
sented to the first King of Hungary by
the Pope, A. ID. 1000. The regalia are
kept in a chest secured by eight seals
and the royal seal in the center. These
may only be broken by those who af-
fixed them.
The British Medical Journal says
that garlic has already had agreat repu-
tation among neutrality-suspicious. RENE
dies and is found as principal integral
portion in large number of formul@
long kept secret. A young man bitten
by mad dog was shut up in loft. In
his delirium he seized upon some bum
dies of dried garlic, ate greedily of it,
fell into deep sleep and awoke calm
and cured.
"A writeri in the Scotsman ayers that
out of 80, 900 hams imported into Ham,
burg last year, 297 were found to con-
tain trichin@, while of IA, 600 sides of
bacon eighty-ive were found to be more
seriously infested. He adds that re-
cent commission in this country report
ed that of the pigs slaughtered at Chi
cago no fewer than eight per cent. were
thus infested. Z At Liverpool and Glas-
gov there is no examination made as at
Hamburg.
"A boy in Augusta, Me-, recently
found a nest with twelve young rats.
These he placed in basket and pre-
scented them to the family cat, who is
the mother of two small kittens. Pussy
bounced upon the rats and devoured
ten of them. Then, taking the two re-
manning rats in her mouth, she carried
them to the basket and tenderly placed
them beside her own young, and there
they remain, living in harmony and
drawing sustenance from their natural
enemy. The cat evinces as much solic-
itude for the safety and comfort Of each
new protege as she does for her own
Naspring.
"A young man, nineteen years of
age, was discharged from the Connec-
ticut State Prison, few days ago, who
certainly has full claim to the title of
an unfortunate Utterly ignorant of
his parentage, never having known a
home, mother or father, deficient in in
tellect and moral capacity, his earliest
and only memory of childhood as the
inmate of an almshouse, his whole life
to the present time as the veriest drift
wood of society, he finds himself now
discharged convict, after passing
through the various stages of aims
house. Juvenile reformatory, reform
school, jail and States prison. What q
retrospect! What a prospect!
Two young Basques have just been
condemned at the Bases Pyrennees
Assizes to two years. imprisonment for
burning an old gypsy woman, much
venerated in the country as a NEGRO
mancer and sorceress. The men found
this aged female lying in the road, help
lessly Intoxicated, and set fire to her
clothes, thereby causing her death amid
horrible agony. Extenuating circum-
stances were, however. found. the doc
tors declaring that the old woman was
SO inveterate drunkard that they could
not state positively whether spontaneous
combustion had not forestalled the effect
of the pyre to which she had been so
ruthlessly subjected.
Several cases of death resulting from,