The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-05-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Melbourne argus estimates the
Weld of gold in Victoria in 1879 rs less
than half what it was in 1868.
Designs in garden tools for orna-
menting bonnets are more odd than
pretty, but preferable to bugs and beetles.
Worth is said to have made this re-
mark to lady who was dowdily dressed:
{" Madame, l cannot risk my reputation
on YOU"
-Lettie Guy of Syracuse N. T.,
whistles for money. and it comes to her.
She gives whistling concerts, is young,
and looks pretty with her lips puckered.
Her performance sounds like piccolo.
On South Eel River, Humboldt
County, Cal, Mr.. Adams recently poi
soned bird of the vulture species which
measured nine feet across the wings,
four feet from beak to tail and eighteen
inches from crown to tip of beak.
Professor Curtiss, accompanied by q
Government land surveyor, has gone to
Greece to complete the archaeological
exploration of Olympia. For this pur-
pose the Emperor William has granted
the sum of $4,000 marks (about $780,
000).
Cooperation has proved highly sue
cessful in England, so far as management
of stores for the sale of dry goods. gro
ceries and family supplies are concerned.
The commercial classes are demanding
Parliamentary enactment for the entire
prohibition of cooperative stores, and
the question has been dragged into the
political arena.
The owners of cotton factories in the
East insure each other on the mutual
plan, and thus it is claimed save three
fourths of the premiums that the insur-
ance companies demand. Improvements
that have been introduced have greatly
lessened the risks ON such property,
though the insurance companies hold to
tho old schedule of rates.
Mathew Mckay, of Oswego, N. T.,
has been bothered at finding his clock
stopped mornings. He had It examined,
but the repairer could find nothing
wrong. He watched, and discovered
the family cat to be the cause of the mis-
chief. Attracted by the ticking of the
clock, she climbed up to the shelf, pulled
open the door, and paved the hands
around the dial till it stopped.
The story is told that some time
since the Prince of Wales took to wear
ing wash-linen neckties. The silk-tie
makers of London were in despair, fore
seeing that general adoption Of the new
fashion would be their ruin. They finally
hit upon the happy expcdient of furnish
| ing the West-end street-sweepers with
neckties similar to those worn by royal
ty, renewing them as fast as they became
soiled. His Royal Highness relapsed into
silk ties.
| Mr.. James w. Hale, of Springfield,
Mass, who died in 1868, directed that
the income of one-half of his property,
estimated at $50, 900, should, upon the
death of his wife, be spent for stoves,
fuel, and -four for the deserving poor,
three of the city pastors and the Clerk
of the Courts being the almoners of the
bounty. The wife, who was given the
disposition of the other half of his prop
erty, has just died.
The Emperor William has been foul
times attacked-by Sedeker in 1852, by
Becker in 1861, by Hoedel in 1873, and
by MODELLING in the same year. Now the
Emperor William, whose system of drill
has created better marksmen than the
French, has been twice wounded, Then
the other sovereigns of Europe have all
had to pass through the fire, and the
Duke of Parma and Prince Michael OF
Servia have really been sacrificed, while,
strange to say, as if it was as much hatred
of authority as of royalty that guides the
assassin's hand. we have as many at.
tempts against Presidents Of Republics,
and all have been successful. Thus Abra-
ham Lincoln of the United States, Bolts
of Peru, Morales of Bolivia, Garcia Nor.
cua of Ecuador. and Gill of Paraguay
have all been murdered within the Last