The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-10-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

AlSCELLANEVOOs
The most beautiful woman at Sara
toga this season is said to have been ,
circus rider.
An EngIishman says of the House
of Lords that it is naturally strong
upholder of injustice to women.
The usual cost to the candidate OF
an election to the German Reichstag Is
about million of marks.
A Mexican says that the Govern
mcrt Of the United States is less reiia-
bic than that of Mexico and has more
disturbing elements.
"A traveller was lately killed on an
English railroad by his own portman-
teau, which he had placed ON the rack
above and opposite, and which IN the
collision struck him with fatal force.
Jay Gould has started his son.
George, in business with capital Of
| $500, 900. George is twenty-five years
| of age and has been clerk for his father
for i've years. He is now broker.
"A ragged tramp, who was try.
! ing to sell jewelry in the streets OF Cnl-
cago, was arrested because the articles
offered were of real value, and it was
surmised that they had been stolen.
The prisoner proved to be n girl in dis
guise, and the jewelry was her own.
"A man rolled out of bed the other
night and was killed. q. A. Rogers
fell $50 feet in collapsed balloon, with
- uncomfortable velocity" struck upon
i his nose on the beach at Lynn, Mass,
and Is still alive to describe his sensa'
tions during his descent.
Mr.. James r. Keene has purchased
for SIS. 900 an estate in England or
which he intends having stables erected
solely for the purpose OF training MS
horses himself. going over to see them
run and experimenting all affairs con-
nected with them.
Mr.. Fawcett, the Postmaster-G Cen
eral of Great Britain. was made totally
blind when young man by the bursting
of q gun. But in spite of that he is one
of the best-informcd men of the day. 9
profound mathematician, and widely
read in literature and history.
Professor Henry Draper. the as
tronomer, is about to start on hunting
expedition to the Rocky Mountains
Professor Draper is said to be first
rate shot, and the floors of his house al
Hastings on the Hudson. New York, are
decorated with the skins OF bears and
other Western marauders that have
succumbed to his rifle.
United States Senator John S. Will
Jams recently sold his crop OF tobacco
raised on seventy-five acres in ths
s.blue grass section Of Kentucky, fol
s2l. 1886. There were ninety-fivs
hogsheads, and the yield from eacf
acre was nearly $780, He was assisted
by a flock OF 700 turkeys, who kept the
,, plants clear of worms.
Lone of the first theatrical failures Q
I the season was that of q new comic OPP
era company. the members OF which
made street parade every afternoon
circus fashion, in the costumes to bt
|. worn at night They drew immense
: crowds outdoors, but not in the thea
tres, and, after visiting several New
|. England cities, their manager deserte'
! them.
' There is peculiar religious sect il
q Russia which is characterized BY rar
|. purity of doctrine and practice. endeav
(: oring to live in the closest possible con
r formity with the letter Of the Scriptures
' No member is permitted to possess an
& property beyond the frugal needs Q
/ existence. Purity and chastity ar
v among the first requirements. 1t suff
4 ciently describes the brutal character {
i the surrounding population to say this
!, the followers of this sect have bee
g subjected to much suffering and perst
o cution.
It AT Zurich, in Switzerland, in th
/ olden days, when man and wife qual
y relied and applied for divorce, tn
n magistrate never listened until they ha
!? made trial of State remedy. The
d were locked up together for three day
t. and nights in one room, provided wit
: one chair, one table, one bed, one plat
y and tumbler. Their food was passed
IS them by attendants, who neither sa
Of nor spoke to them, and the records a
rs sert that when let out neither OF the
d wanted to be divorced.
y Old newspapers are highly prize
g in some New England towns. Mr.. Jam'
Is S. Barnett, OF Hartford, Conn.,, had
y copy of the Connecticut Courant date
70 October 1854. It had been preserve
, in his mothers and grandmother far
= lily for III years, and the older it gre
70 the more valuable 1t became. One d.
s ]: last week Mr.. Barnett, desiring to sho
y it to some friends, put it in his co
70 pocket when he left home in the NOR
:: ing and took it to his place of bushes
=: - He hung his coat up in the back roo
u and went about his work, awaiting Il
- arrival Of the friends who wished to !
40 spect the venerable sheet. When thu