The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-12-24
MISCELLANEOUS.
"A white robin was recently captured
In Gaysport, Pa.

"A Wnite IOuiu was Iccensiy o"PsuAoo
In Gaysport. Pa.
The Earl of Mount Cashel. who is |
about to marry widow, Mrs. Moles. |
worth, is in his nineticth year.
AT an expenditure OF 100000, I'M
der the Stock Protection act, 469, 900
kangaroos and wallaby dogs have been
destroyed in New South Wales in q
year. 49,
DIR. McCreery, Of Louisville, KY,
believed that thoroughly acquired APP
petite for rum was incurable, and there
fore, when he found himself possessed
of one he committed suicide.
Robert Warnock, veteran of the
war of 1872, and 102 years old, has just
become an inmate of the Veteran Sol.
diers' Home in Dayton. O., hoping ia
pass the remainder of his days there.
The long dry spell caused bees
to tap the grape. They extracted the
juice so thoroughly in some vineyards
about Thomaston, Md. that nothing
was left but the skin and seeds.
Three Philadelphia girls, ranging
from eleven to thirteen years of age,
agreed to test the pleasures OF getting
drunk. They bought bottle of whisky
and drank it. A policeman soon after.
ward found them lying insensible In the
street.
The Sioux have fashion of NAM
ing children in the order in which they
are born. So the roll has many such
names as Winona, Hapan, Hepi. Wa
noke, Hake, etc., which mean first
born, second-born, third-borns fourth
born, fifth-born, and so on.
The identical table used by Thomas
jefferson for tea service at Monticello
| is in the possession of w. N. Ruflin, Of
Danville, Va. one of his lineal descend
ants. The table is neatly made OF hard
oak, about six feet long and four feet
wide, with two small folding leaves.
In ten minutes ''cane rush. be-
tween Union College sophomores and
freshmen, at Schenectady. N. r.. the
other day, most of the contestants were
shirtless. After the fight bits of tat.
tered clothing Uttered the ground. The
faculty were unable to stop the fracas.
and will hereafter make expulsion the
penalty for such exhibitions.
The farmers of Maine ought to put
up monument in honor of the cater
pillars which devastated their apple
orchards few years ago; for since that
time the trees have regularly borne in
what are elsewhere s'off years." This
years crop in Maine Is enormous. the
quality is superb and the farmers are
getting three dollars o barrel at theil
own doors. owing to the scarcity every
where else.
/ Apple peels and apple cores an
low shipped from Chicago by the bar
rel to makers of apple butter. When a
shipper asked the freight clerk what
rate he would charge on them, the clerk,
thinking the customer was joking
him, asked: '.Do you want q separate
rate for stems and seeds2" He wa!
very much astonished to learn tina
cores and skins are regular article o
merchandise.
NO one can contemplate the stats
tics which reveal the wholesale slaugh
ter of railroad brakemen, while they ar
engaged in the duty of coupling car
without being shocked into the convic
ton that some means for preventing ]
ought to be enforced. A law compel
ling the use of safety couplers was in
troduced in the Connecticut Legisla
ture during the last session and lai'
over for year to afford the Railroa,
Commissioners of the State time to con
slider the subject.
"A Cincinnati boy brought hom
some caps and Illuminating powder fror
the fireworks factory in which he wa
employed, and put them under his bed
/ His mother struck them with broor
: while sweeping, and caused IN explos
| ion which almost killed her. Tho Ia
did not let this mishap hinder his d
, version. He brought homo niue
) larger quantity Of the explosives. an
kept them in box on the roof OF th
, house. Anew DAYS ago r0ofer pickle
{ up the box, rubbed the powder betwee
: his fingers, and was blown into frae
ments
, -Jemima Burke, of Fleming. Ky
: was visited simultaneously by two sui
ors, Royce and Rogers. Neither wa
a inclined to retire and leave the othe
, alone with the girl, because both knee
that they had alike como to pop til
, question. After two hours OF obstinat
: sitting, Rogers remarked that ma
! was selling moonshine whisky in
: lonely place half mile away, and il
. vited Royce to go and drink some. The
: went together and got the whisky
Rogers then said he guessed he woul
: return to Jemima, as ne wished to sc
her alone. Royce replied that he ha
. precisely similar intention. Thu
: made Rogers desperate, and he sh'
. Royce TO death. 80 go
!. Queen Ranavalomanjka, of Mad
& gascar, has always been . strong ten
= perance woman and rigid advocate I
g prohibitory laws. In Imerina, her ce1
l. trail province, . new prohibitory Ia
. has Just been promulgated. which.
4 she shall be able to enforce it, ought
= result in the strictest sobriety. Und'
Il penalty of q fine of ten oxen and Il
" dollars. it prohibits the manufactu
and sale of intoxicating beverages. al
Furnishes with lighter penalties tho