The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-11-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A lunatlc aesthetic In England re-
Gently paid $4,000 for y couple of blue
china ginger-pots.
"A member of the New Hampshire
Legislature denounced bill that was
under discussion as sstreacherous as
was the stabbing of Cesar by Judas in
the Roman capital"
Leonard Hook was taken to the
alms-house in Cambria County, Pa, q
short time ago as pauper. On exam
ination bank certificate OF deposit for
$40 and twenty-one dollars in cash was
found in his clothing.
"A young man of San Antonio, Tex
fractured his jaw-bone so completely
the other day that his attending phys;-
clans drilled holes through the bones
and bound them back into place by
means of thread wire.
In one of the Switzerland land
slides q whole tract of wood slipped
down hillside and spread over some
meadows without uprooting or even in
luring the trees. thus converting at one
stroke tract Of pasturage into piece
of forest land.
In most States the Jews and Sew
enth-day Baptists are by law exempted
from keeping Sunday, provided thew
keep Saturday instead. Pennsylvania
Is one OF the exceptions, and in several
counties of that State the Sunday law is
very rigidly enforced against Seventh
day Baptists. A movement to change
the statute is to be made.
The use of the American word
:" caucus" is becoming common in En-
gland. and the London newspapers are
puzzled over its derivation. Il is said
TO come from caulkers' meetings.''
held BY Boston shipyard employees in
ante Revolutionary times. ALL confer
ences to arrange for concerted political
action were soon called " caulkers,''
and in time the term became ..caucus."
"A Chicago correspondent, looking |
over . mercantile directory for 1871
finds on the black list the entry: ~
Guiteau, Charles j., lawyer" Turning
to the definition of the letter ..Z'', he |
finds: 'Z-lncome uncertain and often |
precarious. Defer indefinite the paw
ment OF debts. Lawsuits to collect
same would be useless. No credit or
favors should be shown"
Even the ''King of Kings'' suffers
occasionally from toothache. Not lono
ago the Shah OF Persia underwent, in
the presence of his entire Court, the
dangerous operation of having one of
his teeth extracted. The operation was
q success; certainly financially, for not
less that 5000 ducats were sent to him
in single day by his faithful subjects
as ''congratulatory offerings" The fee
of the European dentist who attended
him was 100 ducats.
-One of those romances Won read
about, but which are rarely actual oc-
currences, is related in the New York
papers. A young man who had rescued
. young woman from drowning last Au-
gust, walked up to the Mayors Office
one day last week and was married 10
her. Some OF the sentiment of the
story disappeared, however, when it
came out that the couple were engaged
before the little scene of the rescue was
Mrs. Judge Mann, of Granville. and
her son-in-law, while visiting Washing
on some time ago, says the Troy (N. /,
- Times. were courteously shown 1
through the White House grounds by q
Granger who took pains to inform them
hat he was a Chicago lawyer and an
applicant for Office. Two days later the ! &
country was Mortified by the shooting
" President Garfield. and in the Dor.
rats OF the assassin Guiteau Mrs. Mann I
ecognized the oficious guide.
AT services held in the Orthodox I
synagogue in Washington ON the day Of {
for President Garfield death. I
member who delivered discourse
allied attention to the fact that s.curi- 7
usly enough. this day is coincident {
nth an assassination prominent in jew 7
81 history, that of Gedayah, Governor {
{ Judea, who was brutally murdered !
y one lshmael; and even at this remote r
ay, 2.240 years after the crime, his c
nemoryis held in contempt and detes- '
I'd. B. Eicheles, pale young man, {
istinguished himself at ballroom in o
he rear Of beer saloon in New York r
waltzing from eight o'clock in the q
forming till eleven o'clock at night q
'ithout cessation. When the clock n
.ruck eleven the dancer struck into = o
vely Jig amid the cheers of the specta- il
)rs. As . reward for the hard work >
he dancer received the money result 81
g from an admission of fifteen cents q
ON each spectator. An accordion g
applied the music. b
There are reports in German Jour- o
ais OF many emigrants who have been
arting out for America with only
cans enough to get to Liverpool or
me other seaport. There, utterly :,
sstitute. they have been subjected to q
uch suffering. and have finally been ~
sisted in returning to their homes o.
18th public funds, merely to prevent q,
cir becoming permanent burdens on r,
Q public charities. These poor peo- !!
Q set ont with . vague notion that u
ey would in some way be enabled to p
mplete their journey. as. e
"A curious custom prevailed in Paris ~