The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-02-26
xIscELLArEous.

The sect 81 the entomologist-in-
sect.
The Prince of Wales started the
fashion OF wearing listers.
The census shows that Iowa is
ahead Of any other State on babies.
"A sixteenth interest in Goat Island,
at Niagara, has been sold for $4,000.
"A mermaid on exhibition at St.
Louis proves to be half donkey and half
Goldfish.
OF the seventy-six United States
Senators only thirty-three were born in
the States which they represent.
The horse which Wilkes Booth rode
to the place of his capture after Presi-
dent Lincoln's assassination belongs in
Abingdon. Conn. and is good traveller
though twenty three years old.
Michigan has female type-setter
who set up 5000 ms. made up the
paper. took in fifty dollars on subscrip-
tons and sued the editor for breach Of
promise. all inside OF day and q half,
SO says the Detroit Free Press.
"A Hartford Comm man, on
wager, drove from Manchester to Hart
ford, eight aud three-quarter miles, in
thirty-two minutes the other day. The
loser rode with him but took out an ac-
cident insurance policy before starting.
This year Florida has had the cold
est weather since 1857 and with one
exception since 1885. About one-third
of the orange crop has been marketed
otherwise it would have been a total
loss. 1t is thought that the trees are
not injured. but the oranges and lemons
are frozen solid.
-On each side of every compartment
in the railway car of India is a revolv-
ing lattice, which is constantly wet by
a reservoir of water on the top of the
carriage. A revolving lattice is in the
form of spokeless wheel and is con-
structed of fibrous particles Of bamboo,
cocoanut and rice straw. When this is
thoroughly wet the hot air passing
through becomes cool aud delicious.
Sir Walter Scott was SO persistent in
denying the authorship Of the "Waver-
ly' novels that when Samuel Warren
wrote to him, asking for some literary
advice, Scott replied: II am not the
author of those novels which the world
chooses to ascribe to me, and am there
fore unworthy of the praises due to that
individual whoever he may be. =
l cannot be useful to you in the way you
propose. "
Mr.. Isaac Farwell, of Dorset, VT,
who has just entered upon his 103d year,
appears to be acentenarian about whose
ano fharo oou no M do,1hf Ho uoe n
soldier in the war of 1872. and since
then has been farmer. So active is he
that he daily walks from his farm to the
village. more than mile away and does
the family marketing. He has had seven.
children, two of whom are still living at
the ages of seventy-fives and seventy.
There seems no improbability in his liv-
ing for several years to come.
Thomas Corwin. of Ohio, the famous
public speaker, once said: 1.-The trouble
with members of the bar is that they
don't get down low enough, They shoot
over the heads of the twelve numbskulls
before them. have seen Ewing. Stan
berry and Hunter, leading luminaries as
they are dumbfounded ct being beaten
by some stump-tailed, penny-r0yal bull
of country attorney with no more Law
in his head than snake In dog days.
l never score q successrin jury trial
that don't feclhumiliated. Even If my
side has the right, Iknow l have used
mea1grto win that ought TO shanne
down aoGt stock peddlor.' ~
--M{ss Coats had 3 SUSPICION that
WiIlin<0 Pullen did not mean I'd keen
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