The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-07-16
MISCELLANEOUS.


The Danes are said to be the most
expert linguists, and remarkably quicA
and accurate telegraphists-
Walking parties are amongst inc
summer diversions practiced at the
White and Green Mountains and at the
smaller seaside resorts.
Mrs. John B. Gibson, of Cincinnati,
has planned home in that city for
German widows, and will assist IN Sc
curing the $4,000 necessary to makels
a success.
The Chinese Government has estao-
lishcd school of telcgraphy at Hart,
ford. Conn.,, where Gorham b Hupoeii
will instruct forty young Celestials IN
the construction and operation OF lincS'
The average yearly allowance OF
pins to each young lady in the unitea
States is 40. She uses more than tnat
in a week, but the average is small be-
cause the sqnaws in the West don't use
any and vet must be counted in as
those who do.
The desire of two Florida young
men to tight duel was taken advantage
of by their friends as an occasion for
some fun. After one discharge OF
hI.nt 90 ~ d,ros tho n;stoIs were loaded
u ,,;.l, ,,ovJar an, corn tho iokers sup
m.sn pv 49, 10 sar;o,s harm would be
gI ovs hmts Lornel mt ont an eve of one
o 81 sSsn n'' $500
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a "a, ".. erN,,'', 90. =. n ,,,,;ab no
slgneu an ocean ,s stons IS ,;f,v tons If
say VI ooasunps.vn ~" h3,,s will
cross from Queenstown to New York in
four DAYS. and on occasion can make
forty miles an hour. The suggested
steamer has twin screws forward and
aft the how screws pulling and the
stern ones going ahead.
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There are at present. In the Old
World and the New World, more than
hundred thousand railway locomotives.
Their total force is equal to 30,00O,OO0
horse power, AMI all the other steam
engines on the globe are estimated at
4o'ooo'Voo morse power. Inc tecahicai
horse power however. Is really equai
! 10 three average norses' anu ea:h morse
10 ABOUT seven men; .ne aggregate
power thereiore VI all the engines oeinS
vastly more tnau 'ne enect'se iorce oi
an the human workers liviug. four-
niths Oh the sieain engines no" NJ WORK
nave peen maue WITHIN quarter oi
century or SO.
The house of Hob enzollern is SIM
ply the result of successful money lend
. ing. The Emperor Sigismund, who
flonrished in the first ha of the fifteenth
century, being almost chemically hard
up, borrowed repeatedly of Frederick Of
Hohenzollern, Burggraff OF Nurnberg.
one of the few Christians at that date
who had much money to lend. AT
length, seeing no prospect OF paying
what ne nau oorroWea' anu wanting
yet more, the Empofer saiu' advance
me Szoo'VVo queen more ana take inc
marx OF branaennurg IN payment OF
my whole DEBT 10 you. mus the
nurggrau % TTS ,,g c'''ne o. - De Inc
ancestor o. ElnPetors' Oaks from
acorns mignt wen DC the motto OF Inc
iamiiy.
-Godin. Paris iron-master, has COM
| bined comml1nitv of work and the 90