The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-01-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A Frenchwornan cannot bring suit
for divorce without the consent of her
husband.
"A Harvard student was fined $15
and costs in the police court at Cam
bridge, Mass, for carrying away gro
GERS sign.
drunkenness is spreading so much
in Germany that b new measure for its
punishment and preventioni is being pre-
pared for presentation to the Imperial
Parliament.
"A San Francisco merchant says that
he picks up from six to dozen pistol
bullets on his fiat roof every year,
striking illustration of the number of
chance shots fired in the city.
"A bat found in the Bakersfield
(Cal.) Courthouse measured twenty
inches from the tip of one wing to the
other, and its body was five and one
half inches long from the tip of the nose
to the extremity Of the tail.
David Davis smokes big meer-
schaum pipe with a very long stem.
Hannibal Hamlin caresses cob-pipe
with very short stem. Sometimes,
however, he INDUCES in the extrava-
gance and luxury Of five-cent cigar.
BY the sumptuary laws of Pekin no
subject of the Chinese Emperor can use
sedan chair without His Majesty's
special permission. Exceptions are made
in favor of foreign representatives,
bridal parties and funerals.
The committee of the Spinners'
Association of Fall River, Mass, offer a
reward of twenty-five dollars to any
minor or woman who will give testi-
mony that will convict any corporal ton
of violation of the ten-hour law. They
claim that violation of the law is quite
general with the manufacturers, while
the latter deny it.
AT the recent election in Connec-
ticut town q clergyman put his ballot
for Representative into his vest pocket
with other papers. When the return of
the town was made up it read as follows:
John NJ. Smith RepJ. ........... -. -. 101
William Richmond Dem.l. 80
Mrs. Anderson desires the prayers of the
congregation for erhusband. gone to sea.
The fact that the number of regis
tered female voters in Boston is 217 less
this year than it was in 1879 attracts
some attention and various excuses are
given for it. Mrs. Stone of the Wons-
ans Journal, says: " Probably the fail
ure to elect any woman on the school
committee last year has had a depress-
ing effect. Then we had no torchlights,
no flags, no newspaper leaders to en-
courage us. Why, if we had one third
the appeals to do our duty, to rally at
f1.o lie nd 70 ho hat
the men have, we should show a great
increase in registration instead of afall-
ing off,"
Two officers belonging to the gar
rison of Klausenburg, in Hungary, hav-
ing taken offense at something that had
appeared in the newspaper, the Ellen
zek, proceeded to the residence of the
editor and attacked him with their
swords. They struck at him right and
left, wounding him severely on the head,
neck, arms and hands. They then fed,
taking refuge from the inturiated crowd
in a neighboring house. A detachment
of soldiers came to their rescue, and had
to keep the people at bay with drawn
bayonets. Five of the latter were more
or less seriously wounded in the scufiie.
Toward night the excitement among the
population became threatening, and at
tachments of cavalry patrolled the town
every quarter of an hour.
The story of the Ameer of Afghan
istan's murder appears to have arisen
from his having made too prolonged a
stay in the house of a lady to whom he
is betrothed. All business was ut a
stand-still, no one knowing what had
become of him. Rumors of his death
then began to spread. and acquired such
strength that he was obliged to ride in
state through the streets of the city ia
dispel them. He is said to have angered
his tribe by marrying or permitting the
marriage of two of the late Ameer Shere
Ais widows to men of inferior race,
which is q bitter insult to naughty
people.
1t seems that the rabbi teacher of q
Sabbath-school in Washington was anx-
ious to secure full attendance of his
confirmation class on the then approach
ing Shebuoth FESTIVAL and urgently re-
quested that none be absent without
good and sufficient cause. After the
holiday the rabbi accosted q bright
black-eyed little daughter of Judah -
with the inquiry, "Why were you not
in the synagogue yesterday After
twisting in her mouth for some mo-
ments the end of obviously clean
apology for pocket-handkerchief
Rebecca, with downcast look, replied,
because my hat was not clean, sir. -
"Not cleanp" said the rabbi, somewhat
sternly. "Don't you know that God
cares not for outward appearances, that
He looks to that which is of infinitely
more importance-that which is with.
IMP" But" quickly interrupted the
seven-year-old matron as a perfect solu.
ton of the difficulty, "the- lining was
dirty too" And that settled the con-
tro7ersy without further argument.
The Peanut Club.
The Peanut Club has lately taken
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