The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-08-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

Helena, NJ. T., imprisons all Chiha'
men caught smoking opium.
Mr.. Kick is quiet and inotfensIve
member of the St. Louis police force.
John Bull has invested $50, 900, 600
in American railroads since the LIST OF
last December.
1t is said that in New York many
teachers and school girls are employed
as "spotterS" on The street railway
cars.
According to Secretary Blaine there
are more than 100000 applications for
Office on file in the various departments
at Washington.
One species of cactus plant in Cali
fornia and Arizona contains tank
holding about pint of water. 1t is
palatable, and used by the Indians to
make soup OF.
The New York City Directory for
I88l-'S2 contains 2S5, Al names, an in
crease over the previous year OF III, 761.
The population of the city is estimated
at /, 257, 54i, or 3d. 54 more than when
the census was taken.
If one wishes to pass for a young
girl at a ball she must wear no jewelry
in future, unless occasionally row OF
pearls round the throat, but generally
a simple satin ribbon-wbite, blue or
pink-which is tied at the back OF the
neck.
M Harold larry, a member of the
French Sahara Commission, has dis
covered south of Wargla the ruins of
the large city of Cedrada buried under
tue shifting sands. A mosque and nine
houses have been excavated, containing
columns, statuary and charred manu-
scripts.
Mrs. Logan, q Milwaukee widow,
received legacy of $4,000. and at
once became an object of matrimonial
interest. She seems to have become a
little confused by her suitors. for she
promised to marry Mr.. Kelly and then
married Mr. Spencer. The consequence
is a breach of promise suit by Mr.. Kelly
for S25, 900.
The .Gridley (Cal) Herald is re-
sponsible for the story that sand-hill
crane, which was killed near that place
recently, was not less than ninety eight
years old. A wire was found around
the birds neck, suspended from which
was silver qlarter-dollar, bearing this
Inscription: Captured at Fort Du
Quesne. May IS, 1888" g Released
az Fort Dearborne, November IL, 1Sl6.'
The doctrine of cremation. while
it langnishes in the New World, is max
ing rapid strides in the Old. To the
crematories in Milan and Gotha will
be added one in Copenhagen. where the
movement has met with exceptional
favor At meeting of the Danish Gre
nation Society, held in Copenhagen, it
was shown that it counted 1,400 mem
beers, among whom were eighty-three
physicians.
Egypt has been surprised by the
disclosure of vast false-cOinage organ
ization, which for over ten years has
been making fortune by flooding the
country with dcbased coin. 1t appears
that the Egyptian piastre. a small sill
yer coin worth two and a half pence is
very easy OF imitation, and is SO thin
that the ordinary test by sounding the
money is not available. Literally mill
ions of these small silver pieces have
been made, containing thirty per cent.
less silver than the standard.
The old-time Texan believed that
no crops could be successfully grown
in his State west of the Colorado. Rev.
w. FL. H. Murray. who is farming in
that region. writes to the Boston Herdtd
that such is far from the fact. He in
stances the Capota farm, the largest in
the Southwest, which is owned by
Northern capitalists and worked Accord
ing to Northern ideas. This years crop
is rs follows: Indian corn, $50 acres;
rye, 400; wheat 20; barley, $50; oats,
250; alfalfa, so; miIlet, 80; sorghum.
10; artichokes, 10; turnips. 200; hay,
200. But Mr.. Murray thinks that
greater profit could be made out Of cot
ton and tobacco. under energetic man
agement.
--lrishmen are more numerous among
the actors of America than their as
sumed names indicate. George Clark's
real name is ONeil, Frank Mayo's is
Mcguire. James A. Herne's is Ahearn.
Robert K. Graham's is Magee, John
Thompson's is McGlory, Henry J. Mon
tague's was Mann, Dan Bryant's was
O'Brien, Edward Icons is Glassery.
Horace Vinton's is Fargy, VIM. j.
Florence is Conlin, Barney Williams
was Flaherty. Frank Little's is Kerri-
gan. Tony Harris. is Cannon, John Il.
lnce's is Mulcahy, James Peters, is
Fleming, John H. Days is Mccarthy,
Earnest Linden's is Hanngan, and John
L. Raymond's was o Brien until he had
it legally changed; but Lawrence Bar
rett once published denial that he was
born Brannigan.
The roll-call of the veterans of 1912
was answerad nv tWaIvp fa jterin.y voicac
at Paris, KY. The youngest member
of the band was eighty-four years and
the Oldest one ninety-seven years of age.
The united ages of these twelve patri-
archs extend through | ,l05 years of life.
Last year at their reunion twenty-four
members answered to the roll-call But
twelve of these have since gone to
muster on the other side of the river of
Time. The united ages of the twelve
departed veterans extended through