The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-04-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

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| Travelling theatrical companies new,
er sell family tickets at Salt Lake City.
The bronze railing alone of Mr.
vanderbilt's new house costs forty
thousand dollars.
"A New York store is occupied by
two firms; on one window is the word
Dyeing, and on the other {" Under.
taker." aa ~
Mary Anderson travels in a special
palace car, in which she has an upright
| piano, a small library, file of papers
and swinging hammock.
Mrs. Mary B. Post has been re-
elected Town Clerk and Treasurer OF
Georgia, VT. Her husband held these
Offices nearly thirty years. He died in
1878, and Mrs. Post has acceptably filled
them since. ~.
Six members of the Senate are for
eign born. Mcssrs. Farley, of California,
Fair, of Nevada; Jones, of Florida, and
Sewell. of New Jersey, are Irishmen.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, was born in
England. and Senator Beck, of Ken
lucky, in Scotland.
A young lady of Gait, Canada,
having for some time been afflicted with
the receipt of anonymous poetic effu-
sions OF most amatory complexion, at
length resolved to submit them to an
intimate married friend. who at once
recognized the handwriting as her dar-
ling husbands.
DIR. Herman Wendell died at Hazel.
wood-on-the-Hudson, New York, re-
Gently, aged seventy years. He devoted
the last thirty years to the cultivation
Of what is now one of the most COM
plete orchards in the country, contain
ing 5000 to 10000 fruit trees, every
one of which he planted himself.
"A woman fell on an icy sidewalk
in Hartford, Conn.,, and broke her Leo.
She recovered $500 damages from the
city. The owner of the premises in
front of which she was hurt was then
sued by the city, on the ground that he
had violated an ordinance by not clear.
ing the walk of ice.. The Supreme
Court has decided in this case that the
city and not the property owner is liable
for injury to person falling on an icy
sidewalk.
MIR. Lancaster, near London. has
forty six acres of celery and his celery
commands the highest prices in market.
His plantation, at 10000 plants per
acre, requires AGO, 900 plants. They are
set in trenches. and vast quantities OF
manure are used. Seven horses are
used in his eighty-acre vegetable gar.
den.. Radishes between the celery bring
about $40 per acre and the celery $3.50 |
per acre. The labor comes to $3.50 per
week in summer and autumn.
The official head of all the der
wishes in Egypt has issued an order for
bidding devotees to cut and slash them
selves with swords and knives, to beat |
themselves with great balls of iron, and, |
finally, to howl themselves into epilep- |
tic fits on fete days. He also commands |
them not to eat snakes. swallow burn
ing Goals and crunch glass. He saws
that all such rites are inconsistent with |
the purity and simplicity of the Moham-
medan faith.
"A robin with a broken wing fell in
to the hands of twelve-year-old New
Hampshire boy. He took it home and I
cared for it in vacant attic till it was
able to fly, when he took it out in a
basket mile away in the woods and
set it free. The next spring the same
bird with little lop in its wing came
and pecked at the window of the bows
house. The boy made shelf for it out
side, in the middle of the window. A
nest was soon built by the bird on this
shelf, and brood of birds was success
fully reared thereon.
The culture Of bees in North Italy
has given rise to an industry which APP
pears likely to increase in Importance,
namely, the supplying queen bees and
'warms to various countries in Europe
and to America The queen bees travel
N wooden boxes, accompanied by 200
bees. The boxes have four
'lits for air; inside are two small frames.
one containing full, the other an emp
y honey comb; they vary in size ac-
,ording to the distance they are sent.
The Italian bees have the reputation of
being more docile and productive than
my other kind of bees, hence their value.
Miss Allison, the feminine corre-
pondent who brought suit for $4,000
lgainst the proprietor of San Francis
% garden because he sent her up in
'alloon with an unskillful aeronaut,
allied to recover anything. Her adven-
ure in the balloon was frightful, the
eronaut having completely lost his
enses. The balloon, after a perilous
lescent, plunged into the BAY, drench-
ng both occupants, and finally drifting
lgainst the wharf, where the aeronaut
capped to safe place, leaving his femi-
line companion cut and bruised. to save
lerself as best she could.
"A certain New England farmer of
ld-time ideas, bvt sound ones, is noted
or his success in raising and keeping ,
weet potatoes. They are found on his
able the year round. A visitor to his {
otatoe cellar noticed two turtles crawl /
az around and, asking the reason for
heir presence, was told that when a {
urtle would crawl agound the floor the