The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

osanicy Is accused OF employing
chained gangs of slaves in making
road in Africa. ea
boston merchants hang up cards
which say: No petition for Office
signed by any member of this firm."
] "A Philadelphia drug clerk blum
dered in compromising q dose for his
own taking. and lost his life thereby.
-Jerusha Revell, OF Wakully Coun.
ty, Fla, has 262 descendants. Eight
OF them are ministers of the Gospel.
She is cighty-five years old, and for ten
years has been blind. eet
| -Ex-ReAfesentative Burleigh has a
scheme to. domesticate the buffalo,
which, as he argues, is much better
beef animaNfor the cold Northwest than
the OK. He wants Congress to help
him.
That human bite is as as danger
Gus as that of any animal is shown by
an occurrence in the German city of
Munster. where q man who was bitten
in one of his fingers during fight has
had the alternative of losing his arm or
his life. Blood poisoning set in, and
speedy amputation at the shoulder be-
came necessary.
The elaborate bronze balcony rail-
ing made for the house of William II.
Vanderbilt, on Fifth Avenue, New York.
is now on exhibition in PHILADELPHIA.
1t is wonderful piece of hand beaten
work. and, with other bronze railing
ordered for the house. will cost S60,-
600. Each section is seventeen feet long
and two and quarter feet high.
Two children, born few weeks
ago in the Canton Vaud, Switzerland.
were joined together in the same man.
ner as the famous Siamese twins. 1t
was believed that. as infants. the liga-
ment which joined them might, with
success, he severed, and the operation
was accordingly performed. Noappar-
emit permanent injury was caused by it.
and several days afterward the twins
were reported to be doing wen.
With the expressed purpose of
keeping dogs out of the Stockton House,
at Cape May, dnringthe present season,
the Directors issued an announcement
that they would be charged for board at
the rate OF ten dollars a week apiece.
That this scheme for carrying out a
praiseworthy purpose is an utter failure
is proved by the fact that six dogs are
now registered at the Stockton House.
that is to say, three Skye terriers, two
lap-dogs and one pug.
"A large natural cave has been dis |
covered at the head of Williams Greek,
in Josephine County. Oregon. 1t con-
sists OF a series of subterranean caverns.
or chambers. through which person |
can walk for some four or five hundred |
yards from the entrance, and there are |
still other chambers beyond the en-.
frances which are too small to admit
a person, but could be enlarged suffi. |
GENTLY, 1t is thought, by little labor
with pick and hammer.
-Four disappointed Arabs are in
Boston. They were Sheiks of distinc-
ton in their own country, and one
claims to be the head of Moabite tribe
descended directly from the Mohabites
spoken of in the Bible. They were
brought here for exhibition, and were
told that they would become objects of
social honor here. On the contrary.
they proved unattractiye as q show.
md, being abandoned by their mana.
gers, are paupers, without much pros
pect Of getting back home. i "a
Three women were standing side
oy side in dry goods store of London,
Ontario. One hung her umbrella by
he handle on the edge of the counter
Ind moved away. Another laid down
Ter pocket-book where It fell into the
Umbrella unseen, and when il was
missed the third woman was accusedo OF
tealing it, searched by an officer md
inally released without being able 70
elievc herself from suspicion. Thc
umbrella was rolled up, with the lost
money still in it, and. only after a
apse OF a week was the truth revealed.
"A striking instance of mnemo-
lies is communicated to Notes and
lueries by one Of its correspondents:
lilies de Rctz, Marshal of France (said ,
o be the veritable Blue Beard,) was
entenced to be led in chains to the
lace OF execution and to be burnt alive
I the stake. The day appointed was
october %, 1880. "a date" says the
istorian, s'about which there can be .
o doubt. for all the people of Anjou !
nd Maine, by common consent. !
rhipped their children on that morn :
ig, so as to impress the precise day !
pom their memory" This strange
mennonite process is still a favorite
18th the peasants of Anjou and Brittany. :
"A recent writer describes the foat- {
g vegetable gardens of Lake Grina- q
ar. in Cashmere: They are made by q
rst planting poplar poles. twenty-five b
twenty-cight feet long, in two or G
lree rows, twelve or fifteen feet apart. v
hen the gardener gathers from the a
Ike lot of aquatic plants and inter- a
caves them between his poles. This (
rms the support of the garden. Then a
ore plants are collected from the lake e
adrpiled up to the height of three or n
ur inches. These soon rot, and form n
Ie soil, and the garden plants first T,
'routed on the land are then trans i,
auted to the Garden At frat fhov sro | 81