The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-04-16
MIsCELLANEOUs.


The Smiths Of New York City now
number 2.430.
Jacques Seebo, Frenchman, dled
near Detroit recently at the age OF loo.
Out in California an enterprising
peddler has been selling small tin boxes
Of axle-greese at ten cents box, assur-
ing the purchasers that it was q new
kind of corn salve. Several neighbor-
hoods are now anxious to see him
The wife of a certain M. G. wore
dress to the Inauguration Ball which cost
$1,000. Its front. breadth OF satin,
was garden of roses, violets, pansies
and pinks, while not to set aside fash.
ions stern DEGREES. sun6owers turned
their constant faces to the light.
An English farmer who had emf
grated to Canada returned not long ago
taking with him as great curiosities
about twenty Colorado beetles. Some
of them escaped and the farmer was
fined rs for allowing them to get away.
The matter has been made the subject
of an inquiry in the House of Commons.
EARLY in February two German
women, Frau Schmidt and Frau Feustel.
living at Zeitz, in Prussian Saxony, and
in addition living in the same house and
on the same floor. were each on the
same day, delivered of three children.
and they were all boys. Probably such
singular coincidence never before oc-
Cured.
Mr.. f. D. C. Robinson. former
n IL 70 rtIn
bought q mill site just south of San An
tonic. Texas, year ago, has returned
to England with the intention of induc-
ing a number of well-to-do masters and
operatives to form cooperative COM
pany and engage in the manufacture of
cotton goods.
"A New Hampshire farmer recently
agreed to sell his farm for 1900. but
when the day came he told the expect
ant purchaser that his wife was in hys.
terics about the trade. and he "guessed
he'd have to back out" The purchas-
err complained, and finally asked How
much more would induce him to sell.
"Well' replied the thrifty SON of the
Granite State, s.give me $3.50 more,
and we'll let her cry"
Women seem to be rapidly sup
planting men as travellers not travellers
for wholesale houses, but travellers into
dangerous and unknown lands. There
is Lady Anna Blunt, who went among
the Bedouin Arabs; Mrs. Brassey, WHO
has been around the world in her yacht;
Mrs. Bird. who dared to go into regions
of Japan where no European had ever
ventured before, and Lady Florence
Dixie, who went . through Patagonia,
and who now has gone to Zululand.
The Duke of Edinburgh has Just
distributed prizes to swimming club,
making at the same time speech upon
the exercise. He declared that he was
glad to find that it is gene al rule in
public schools that those boys who are
most proficient in healthful exercises.
cricket, football. etc., are not behind
the others, II not in advance of them in
school teaching, and he added that in
his opinion the more exercise which is
health-giving is induIged in the more
ready the mind will be to receive the
tuition which is given in the schools.
DIR. William Sharswood. of Philadel-
phia, in recent lecture on sound, gave
the vocal compass Of number Of the
artists in the Mapleson Opera Company,
now performing in this country. MIRA
mons compass is from c to + in alt.
Gerster's from b to F sharp in alt;
Carey's from F to B Hat. The present
principal soprano (boy) of Trinity
Church has compass from E to b,
with voice light and flexible; another
from b fiat to G., full and strong, though