The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

| Princess Louise will visit Saratogs
Springs this summer.
"A Boston man has carried one
leather pocket-book fifty-two years
and still uses it.
The streets of Cairo, Egypt, are tc
have their names inscribed in Arabic
and French and the houses numbered
1t will be the first Mussulman town
with such indications.
MIR. James Bonwick. British ethnol
ogist, concludes that the Welch are q
decidedly mixed people, the chief ele.
ments belonging to the early Iberian
and the later Celtic type.
"A German girl of Sheboygan, Wis
consin, has been married to Chippewa
Indian, and has followed him to the
lodges of his tribe, where she dwells
with him in the usual attire of squaw.
Queen Isabella is reported to be a
property owner in Washington. Her
possessions there are thirty acres on
Capitol Hill and row of brick houses.
The purchase was made through a Phil
adelphia firm. -
Among the latest fashions for spend
ing money by lady millionaires is the
purchase and fitting up of special rail-
way carriages. Mrs. Mackay has set
the fashion, and many others are fol-
lowing her example.
Those women who have been re-
joicing in sealskin sacques and other
costly iuxuries of feminine apparel may
as well prepare to die with envy. An
English woman has just come out in a
velvet cloak that cost $500.
ID. o. Mills, the California million
aire, whose daughter was recently mar
ried to Whitelaw Reid, gave carte
blanche to furnish his new New York
home and the bill was $426, O0O, which
he refused to pay as exhorbitant.
"A japanese General who boasts of
the euphonious name of Fekaokina has
arrived in Paris with two aides de-
camp for the purpose of studying French
military institutions. and more especial
ly the school at St. Cyr and Saunur.
Louisville, KY, furnishes the
"boss" needle story. Mrs. Harry
Isaacs ran q needle full length into her
foot nine years ago, when she was a
maiden. Thatneedle black and corroded
has just been drawn from the thigh of
her third child, who is now year old.
The invitation by the Sandwich
Island Government to Chinese emf
grants has resulted in such q deluge of
them that they outnumber the native
male population. They continued at
last accounts, to arrive by the hundred
and the authorities were considering
mode to stop the influx. ~ a y
The frog sellers may now be heard
crying their merchandise in the streets
of Paris. The edible parts of the frog
are the hind legs, which are sold by the
dozen on q skewer. The frogs are OBJ
tanned by hunters armed with smalfj
bows, the arrows Of which are attached
to a string and thus perform the Office
of harpoon.
An autograph fan is the latest So
cial instrument of torture in Paris. 1t !
is made of pure white parchment and
hangs unnoticed by the fair wearer's
side, until the lady meets with any ce-
lebrity, when she -unfurls her fan and |
begs her victim to inscribe his signature
or any impromptu which may occur to
MN at the moment
~ = o.-,n snansnire, England Is
p ts,;s o "a Louge-on-,ne-M olds' con-
' ne VI one nouso o1,y anu one lam-
~ " pto.nels. nalneu rietcner- !ney
lnasy 'nem late' anu one Is appointed
pai isaa cohssa1ie, announcer rs overseer'
a .Iu - Oh Lney are con.lnualiy quar-
te M anu were recen.ly charged with
la savasely assaulted one another.
=. iney eseo ag TT implements IN
.ne anIay. Inc iour orotners were sent
= a. lor Two months Ior assauiting one
a am 80 'na' tne wnoie parish Is IN
anL a.
Inc great cavern known as Pick
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