The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-18
MISCELLANEOUS.


"A swiss colony is about to settle 4
Laurel County, Kentucky. -
The Russian Czarina ia said tn !,
in terror for her children, and to sus
pect her maids of honor of complicit'
with the NihiIists. -
-Ruskin says that "cheap dres
| bought for cheapness' sake and cost,
dress bought for costliness' sake ar,
both denominations"
-One hundred and fifty students il
New York are studying the Irish Ian.
guage, and meet twice a week to listen
to song and addresses in Irish.
Lord Beaconsfield insisted on din.
ing out five or six times week and at
tending all the very swell parties, old
as he was and caught the cold which
ended him coming home from one OF
them.
AT Ramapo, N. j.. black snake
SIX feet long attacked farm hand and
he stood paralyzed with fear. The snake
crawled up on him and encircled his
neck and the man made no resistance.
/ A negro ran up and killed the snake.
Baltimore has quite large-sized
congregation of Mennonites, who meet
In hall over the Old Town Bank.
They practice the ceremony of feet
washing, the minister waiting on the
men, and the oldest woman on the
women. = : =
Frank w. Hammond, who died re-
Gently at Syracuse. N. Y, had be.
culiar curvature Of the spine. AS a
precaut,on against the body being res
directed" by unfeeling medical stu
dents, his mother authorized the UNDER
taker to put two torpedoes into the
grave. which he did.
The German Emperor's health il
causing much uneasiness. He has nat
urally been In the lowest spirits
SINCE the murder of his nephew, and
mas therefore been the less able to resist
an attack OF influenza, which he caught
some weeks ago. His family are very
ANXIOUS to get him away from Berlin.
The workmen in Troy knitting
mill are paid according to the weight 81
heir completed work. Lately Il was
ound that the product of the concern
vas much less than the aggregate of
ne amounts represented by the nav
oil An investigation explained ali.
The knitters had inserted iron WEIGHTS
It weighing time.
SELMA Ditzeil, a Chicago domestic
ervant, being threatened with arrest
n . charge OF stealing seven dollars
rom her mistress. declared herself |
'uilty. She was thereupon forgiven and
etaIned in employment. That night
ne took poison, and just before her
cath solemnly protested that she was
Innocent, having made false confess
ION to save herself from imprisonment.
The people of Damascus. Pa.
1ink they know of woman up in New
hampshire whose prayers for the sick
re always answered. When a Damas-
Us person falls i'll this miracle worker
written to and certain hour an
olnted when she and the patients
1ends shall pray for recovery. The
aughter OF the postmaster and another
Irl are said TO have been cured of
lronic diseases in twinkling.
"A South Carolina plantation is tn
ceive Chinese laborers from San
rancisco by way of experiment. They !
e 10 De sent there under the watchful
pervision of an overseer, who is to
e to it that none of them take adyan-
ge OF having their expenses paid to {
e Atlantic States to Slip away and s
tile down among their countrymen in 8
le OF the larger cities. If they prove 8
,sirable laborers others will probably /
low. '
"A fashion ofillustrated insiuuations '
8 been introduced into London So
,ty by means of picture cards. A per- /
having forgotten TO return a Dor c
wed book receives, with the owners I
mpliments and name card repre- v
ntlng an empty bookcase and a per 3
a with a face aghast staring at the d
elves. Another card is designed to {,
cure the return of borrowed umbrellas d
q is said to be a very telling and eff o
tive appeal. 2
-Gambetta, when presiding in the t,
snch Chamber of Deputies. ALWAYS d
cps glass of red wine on one side of u
desk and what appears to be glass Il
lemonade. He drinks from one or al
other every few minutes. Besides a
occupation, he is ringing big bell in
rapping with heavy paper e.
ter every minute. or two to So
'p the noisy Deputies in order. He b,
an opera-glass On his desk. and now eI
then takes a long and sweeping 81
K into the crowded galleries. E
SO seldom does the Queen of En- no
nd appear in the capital now, that th
sight of her the other day driving St
"a Inc station to Buckingham Palace re
atea quite sensation She kept
sen closely yelled as she drove
ough the streets, but there still re-
ms one fibre of the Londoner's heart
'e touched at the sight of the royal
rage and the guards and the glitter In
the clatter, as the outriders trot ce
~, always in the middle of the road u