The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-14

MIS-. JENNIE CdfT, WIG OF ITOi.
Ezra Carr, State Superintendent of Pub
| lie Instruction in California, was elected
State Lecturer of the Grange for the en-
suing year. Mrs. Carr has acted as Dep
uty Superintendent the two years past,
lecturing in the different counties. In
consequence of her husbands frequent
and protracted illness, she has dis
charged all the duties pertaining to the
Office of State Superintendent Of Public
Instruction, and done it acceptably.
Foreign Notes.
Russia has been questioned as to
the concentration of troops in Poland.
The Emperor William himself went
about Berlin before Christmas, buying
presents for his trusted friends and
servants. Day after day his carriage
stood waiting for him before the fashion
able shops in which his elderly Majesty
was rumagiDg.
"A French company has secured the
privilege of constructing railroad in
the interior of Palestine. 1t may be
valuable for strategic purposes, and 1t
will undoubtedly develop the CONNER
cial resources Of the country. The
greatest obstacle to the introduction of
workshops and factories has been the
want Of fuel. Egypt, Syria and the
coasts of the Red Sea are destitute OF
wood, and the imported coal commands
from $50 to 200 francs $3.50 to S4O) a
ton. The asphalt of the Dead Sea indi-
Gates probable subterranean deposits OF
fossilized vegetable matter and evidence
of inexhaustible beds of Ignite have
been found. The Ignite and asphalt
can be easily combined into artificial
fuel, at cost of from II to 25 francs
(s2.40 to $5) per ton.
The wisdom of the German postal
and telegraph authorities in determining
to connect Berlin with the chief cities of
the Empire, by means of a system of
underground telegraph wires, has been
fully confirmed during the severe
weather recently prevailing. While the
violent storms of wind and snow have,
/ in many districts, been the cause of con-
slant stoppages in the telegraphic CON-
munication between places connected by
overground wires, the traffic between
towns connected by subterranean lines
has gone on through the worse weather
without the least interruption or incon-
venience. A considerable extension of
the Underground system is looked upon
as probable both in Germany and other
Continental countries.
Odds and Ends.
Bachelor smokers admit that an am
Der mouth-piece isn't as pretty us q
cherry-red one temptingly puckered.
I'm a game of cards good deal de.
ponds on good playing, and good play
ing depends on good deal.
Since the LIST of January, when nav.
igation of the Mississippi River was re-
sumed between st. Louis and New Or.
leans, over 1,000, 600 bushels of corn have
been started for Europe by way of the
Gulf of Mexico. More grain would have
been shipped this way but for the scar
city of barges.
An acquaintance from New Hamp.
shire called on us the other day, and re-
quested us to direct him to a lawyer fol
legal advice. recommended one we
thought fully competent to look after
our friends affairs, and he departed
with many thanks for our kindness.
Matters were, we thought, progressing
satisfactorily, when the gentleman from
the White Hills burst int6 our Office one
day with the exclamation: "Look a.
here, now, that lawyer of your'n don'i
know nothin'. Every time l go to see
{, him he pulls down two or three big
books and looks inter them. l want q
man that can tell me suthin' out of his
own head. "--Erchange.
Young Julep, who is a young man
of wide experience, says that hugging a
girl with one of these fashionably broad
! belts buckled around her, is just as sat.
/, isfactory as hugging life-preserver
! All, well Julep, it can't be helped; it's
one of the comcomitants of the degen-
eracy of the times. There didn't used
to be any such nonsense in belts. When
we were boy, and You caught hold Of
a girl in big sleigh for a respectful but
not too formal squeeze, you could hear
the corset rods 60 one after another
like skirmish line firing by file. That
is, if you we're half man, and did what
was expected of you. But times have
!, changed sadly since then.-Burlingto,
Hd,okeye.
Excited and anxious patient" Doc
tor, do wish you'll tell me what's the
matter with me; I'm clear out of sorts
this morning and I'm afraid I'm goine
to be down sick. What is the matter
with meP" Doctor, (gravely)-" Lei
me see your tongue" Patient thrust;
it out. "What have you been eatingP
"Patent (rehectively)-"Well, l was
out last night, had bit of supper al
midnight, oysters, raw and stewed, lob
ster salad, cold tongue, pressed chicken
curds and cream, coffee, some fruit
cake, little cheese, and handful Of
hickory nuts" Doctor (doubtfully)-
"Let me see your tongue again" Looks
at it thoughtfully, then in authoritative
tones, "Ah, yes, l see; you've beer
| eating samafhinu that doesn,t anrek