The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-05-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

Low as the grave is. only faith car
climb high enough to see beyond it.
-Justice consists in doing no injury
to men; decency, in giving them no Of
Tense.
Pleasure is the mere accident of our
being, and work its natural and most
holy necessity. fs
-Seventy-six towns in Connecticut
(about one-half the State) have voted
against licensing the sale of liquor.
Alexander H. Stephens is growing
fat AT the end of the war he weighed
seventy-one pounds; now he weighs
ninety three.
The Japanese doctors cure with
herbs and roots altogether, and their
charges are so low that it is cheaper to
be sick than well in that country.
-Horse-shoes of artificial flowers are
now used to ornament tables or brackets.
They are so perfect as to deceive the eye,
and have the advantage of being unfad-
ing.
"A centennial birthday party in May
is to be given to Mrs. Sallie Pressier by
the citizens of Plattekill, N. Y. She
employs her time knitting stockings, and
every day performs some homework in
the home of her son. She is in excellent
health and spirits.
"A remarkable feature in the history
of William Smoak, of Charleston, S. g.,
is that he has lived to see his youngest
and thirteenth child grandmother. He
has Just entered his ninety-seventh year,
has one hundred and four grandchildren,
three hundred and ninety one great
grandchildren and seventy great-great
grandchildren.
The widest dream never surpassed
! the romance of the widow of the third
| Napoleon sailing from England to touch
ut st. Helena on her way to look upon
| the spot in Zululand where fell the fourth
and last Napoleon. The Empress is
said, as she left, to have looked sadly
broken, and her hair has turned gray.
General Kaufman has just presented
to the Geological Garden at Moscow a
hairless horse from Central Asia The
animal belongs to hybrid species, and
is considered great rarity; it is well
formed, but its skin is red and without
the slightest trace of hair, and in cold
Moscow it has to be kept covered with
blankets.
Partisan toy dealers are in trouble.
| There have been several cases of poison
Ing of children who have played with,
and doubtless sucked, colored toys, and
now the Project of Police has ordered
that all colored toys offered for sale and
supposed to contain. poisonous matter
shall be seized and sent to the municipal
laboratory for examination.
"A new and curious case of death from
poisoning has occurred in Philadelphia.
A young woman who wore colored stock
ings and shoes with copper nails, had her
heel punctured by one of the latter. In
flammation Immediately set in, and in a
4 few days she died. Physicians do not
know whether to attribute the poisoning
to the stocking or to the nail, or to both.
| Nathan Orlando Greenfield, who is
nnder sentence to be hanged at Syracuse.
N. T., bushes himself with. building card
houses. The largest of these structures,
which he hopes to complete before he
goes to the gallows, is composed Of !, 800
bits of colored card aboard, and is COM
plete model of his father sresidence. This
employment, he says, enables him for
the time to forget his doom, and makes
the time pass pleasantly.
/ The {" dark day. in America COM
menced at about 10a. m. May 10, 1880,
and continued until the middle of the
next day. The Arizona Miner says that
q woman living on the Little Colorado
was twenty-eight years of age at that
time, and remembers the circumstance.
She is now 12S years of age. The dark
!, ness created great CONSERVATION among
her people, the Spanish and the Indians.
The Spaniards buried their saints and the
Indians took to feasting
An account of recent ARRAY in
Prussia shows that the old brutal spirit
of Junkerdom has lost little or nothing
of its ferocity of late years. 1t seems
that % party of German officers took Of
Tense because their salute was not re-
turned by the civilians in an inn at
Georgenburg which they entered. There
upon one of the former drew his sabre
and ran one of the refractory civilians
through the body, by way of giving him
q lesson in good manners.
!, The railway system is extending rap
! idly in Japan, two lines have been re-
Gently completed in the island of Niphon,
and a third in the island of Yesso, the
J most northerly of the Japanese group.
The rails are Of English make, but the
rolling stock and engines have been or
dered in America. The two first en-
, gines are to be named Benkei and Yosh-
itsze, after two celebrated early Japan
csc heroes. 1t is the first order of the
kind that has been given by Japan to
7 American houses.
! While a travelling menagerie was on
view at Bath. England, and number OF
persons were present to witness snake
performance, one of the reptiles coiled
itself around the exhibitors throat. Aft
er some struggling he fell from exhaus-
ton. There was much CONSERVATION
among the crowd, and the ladies
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