The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-05-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A woman of North Troy, VT, is
asking divorce after fifty years OF
married life.
A cutting from an apple bough
that q lady Of Chester County, Pa,
stuck into pot last fall to support a
lily, began to bud and now has three
green apples.
"A medical Journal of Munich says
that diphtheria caught by kissing IS
likely to assume much severer form
than if the disease were contracted or
the contagion impaired in any other
way.
The farm house near Lille occupied
by Louis XIV. during his siege OF that
city, in 1867, is about to be RACED to the
ground. The capitulation by which
Lille became French territory was
signed there.
The Oswego On. W Times says
that the students of Madison University
petitioned the Faculty for vacation OF
week and, being refused, all left for
home, intending to take the vacation
without permission.
The stock of unlicensed Toronto
bar rooms is seized by the police and
once a week the contents of bottles and
kegs are poured into bath tub and al
lowed to run to waste. Three baskets
of champagne were in the last lot de-
stroyed.
-Remenyi twisted a string OF his
violin in a Cincinnati concert. In re-
| placing it he broke another. Being by
| this time excessively nervous he crushed
| the bridge of the instrument. The final
mishap SO overcame him that he tainted,
and the audience was dismissed.
Judge Mandy, of Louisville. KY,
recently sold to a Louisville undertaken
a coffin which he bought during the war
in order to be prepared for sudden
taking of by the guerrillas. The Judge
has outgrown his coffin and has no fear
of violent death.
"A passenger on the Boston & Prov
| idence Railroad, desiring to get off at a
station where the train ordinarily made
no stop, coony pulled the bell rope on
his own account. The company had
him prosecuted for malicious mischief.
The Court charged strongly against him
but the jury gave an acquittal.
William Randall was convicted of
| forgery at Mar.insbprg, Va. and sent
| to prison for two years. He became
religious while shut up, and since his
release has been an evangelist, the
peculiarly of his work being the paint
| ing of Scripture texts on rocks and
fences. He carries the paint in a hol-
low cane. and a small brush in his
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fective exhorter and never loses an OPP
portunity afforded by the gathering of
a crowd At present he is making a
tour of Pennsylvania.
"A murder of singular atrocity was
committed recently near Cherbourg.
France. A man named Lecomte en-
tered the house of d widow named Mos
quet, aged eighty. with whom he was
acquainted, seized her by the shoulders
and by his own confession, held her
head for twenty minutes over the flames
of the fireplace, till. although she cried
for mercy, she was burned to q cinder.
! He then robbed the house Of 200
francs, which he concealed with his
father in law, Jouan, well-to-do farm
er. The money was found concealed in
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were arrested as receivers.
Among the ctriosities connected
with q circus which recently visited
Moscow was Signor Tanti's learned pig.
Two wealthy and extravagant Russian
handles. actuated, perhaps, by jealousy
of the erudite porkers accomplish
ments, determined to relegate him to
his proper sphere by dining of him.
They opened negotiations with Tanti
for the pigs purchase, and the sum OF
two hundred pounds sterling was named
as the price Of the cultured slroat. This
the handles gladly paid. The pig was
put to an untimely death, roasted whole
and the triumph Of matter over mind
was complete.
| Alexander H. Stephens prides him.
self on always keeping his promises
strictly, and says he never broke but
two in his life. q AS you are such a
hirt," merrily suggested the lady to
whom hewas speaking, q suppose al
least one was promise of marriage
6 BY no MEANS" was the reply, " I'd
never break such promise as that, mol
didI ever make one. I've been flirting
all my life, buohave always been care.
full not to make any promises. The
only two promises l ever broke were
{ engagements to make speeches at tvc
4 different places in Georgia in 1913
When l was on my way to keep the ap
pointments / had my memorable en-
( counter with Cone and was so cut ant
bruised that could not make the prom
ised speeches."
An old man who had for half a cen
fury been known throughout New I'm
gland as the Wandering Jew" re
Gently died at Middlebury, Vt Hi
z real name was Francis William Alexan
der, and he was not Jew, but Scotch
man of excellent education, and pos
sessed of money enough to supply al
his wants. He wandered constant.
afoot, had weird aspect, and was tn
I fa,.,.o,. Of cIil1lran far. and vida Pom