The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-10-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS. -
in France wedding ceremonies now
last three days. = m
Ceramic buttons are coming into
fashion. Some are painted with minia-
ture landscapes.
The Parliament of JERSEY, where
some of the French Jesuits have set
tied, is to be moved to expel them from
the Island, under an unrepealed statute
of George LII.
"A Maine man has regularly received
the Constitutional Globe and Record for
the last thirty-six years, and has read
every copy. The Boston Post calls him
a walking waste-basket.
The English sight-seer must guzzle.
An English nobleman who allowed the
public free admission to his beautiful
grounds has been obliged to close them
up, as the British tourist leaves beer
bottles, debris of luncheons, and greasy
paper all over the park.
Jack Everman, a bank burglar, left
$4,000 at his death in Philadelphia. He
made no will, and his natural heirs re-
fuse to touch the money, because it is
the proceeds of robberies. The legal
question arises whether, there being
heirs, the State can take the property.
-Twenty-three English bicyclists
have been visiting Calais. They wa
gered that they would reach BOlOgne
twenty minutes sooner than steamer
starting at the same time. The steam
er won by quarter of an hour.
The polite reporter of the New
York Sun, who interviewed Thomas
Hughes on his arrival, in place of de-
scribing him as baldheaded, writes: 1.-THE
fine outlines of his head are not hidden
by any growth of hair, except at the
sides and back, where there is q fringe
Of iron gray"
The elephant hunters of Ceylon and
India corroborate Sinbad's story that
elephants, when they feel the approac b
OF death, retire to solitary and mac
cessible valley, and there die in peace.
Mr.. Sanderson, superintendent of ele-
plants to the Government of India, adj
mits that no living man has yet come
across the corps of a wild elephant that
has died a natural death.
Among the stonelayers employed
upon the building of the new House of
Parliament was one of o peculiarly
thoughtful turn of mind, man of
speech and ambition above his trade
That man now sits in the House he
helped to build, and he is Mr.. Broad
hurst, the member for Stoke, whose
speech on the Employers Liability bill
has marked him out for Parliamentary
success.
New Zealand, whose first railroad
was built twelve years ago, has now
over l, 100 miles in successful operation.
All the roads are three feet six inch
gauge. They are all owned and oper-
ated bv the Government, and under the
control of a minister of public works,
with commissioner of railroads for
each island, who has a general and
traffic manager under him.
"A Welshman was on exhibition in
London for some days as a faster. He
was to forfeit $50 for every day he tasted
fool during two weeks. A watch wss
organized, and the public were adj
mitted on condition of purchasing
drinks. The man made a strong at
tempt to carry out his undertaking. but
after six days he fell from the sofa in a
state of coma, and only revived when
fed.
Among the many Heidelberg ira
ditions of duelling is the following: Two
students fought, and each sliced off the
others nose. The noses fell to the
ground, and, being picked up by the
seconds, were plastered again on the
faces of the duellists. The operation
succeeded, but in the hurry the noses
had been changed. The aquiline man
henceforward had snub, and the snub
man had an aquillne. iAit4
"A girl was found nailed to plank,
so that she could move neither hands
nor feet, and floating on the Yangtse
River, in China. Beside her was the
head of Buddhist priest, and some
coins. An inscription said: This
money is provided for her coffin when
she is dead" She belonged to a wealthy
family, and her two brothers, petty
mandarins, used this cruel treatment
because she married the priest whose
head was on the plank with her.