The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

are older than the present century.
Two polite messengers attend to
the betting for women at the Saratoga
races.
A nine-year old Boston girl, OF good
training and pleasant home surround,
ings, voluntarily went of with blind
beggar, to lead him and hold his cup.
Every cat in the Government
buildings in London is regularly al
lowed ia the estimates 13d per week. a
sum sufficient to keep Tabby' in health
and comfort.
in the trial of Mrs Fletcher,
Boston spiritual medium, for swindling
dupe. she asked the Courts permis-
sion to introduce the testimony OF dis
embodied spirit. Ills Honor said no.
The Canadian Parliament last year
voted subsidy of $50, 1000 a year to any
company that would establish steam
ship line to Brazil. The offer has not
been accepted, but All effort is now be-
ing made to get French capitol for the
enterprise.
"A plague of rats has appeared near
Dagncux, in France. lnnumerable
swarms, which come from the direction
of Lyons, have invaded many COM
munes, doing much damage to the
crops. Some farmers have killed from
| five to six thousand rats in their fields
in single day.
Mrs. Gaines. rendered historical by
her suits for the recovery OF valuable
property in New Orleans, who now is
in feeble health. since the death of her
son and only surviving child at the
hands of his brother-in-law, has the
care of six grandchildren. all under six
teen years Of age.
People who have Aattered them
selves that lightning never strikes
twice in the same place may see the
ruins of a barn near Council Bluffs,
Iowa, which has been burned by light
ming six times in ten years. 1t was re-
built five times. and tho owner then
concluded that Providence wanted the
site for some special purpose.
"A twenty months old baby in YER
non, Texas, ran away and was lost one
night in the woods. The whole neigh
borhood turned out, and the next morn
ing the little one was found mile from
home, but in the twelve hours that had
elapsed it had become apparently as
wild as a hawk. 1t knew no one. and
bit and scratched with all its little
strength when any one approached.
| A curious freak of nature is re.
corded by the Round Brook IN. J.)
Chronicle: =" Mr.. John King. our whole
sale teamster, had pair of black no ses,
as all who have seen them can testify.
During one Of those very hot days last
week one of the horses was Frustrated
by sunstroke, and. now the horse is a
light dun color and presents quite a
striking contrast to his black mate, that
so we'll matched him before his misfor-
tune. We have no recollection of ever
hearing parallel case"
"A correspondent of London paper
warns people against throwing broken
bottles among sun-dried grass or heath
at this time OF the year, as the bottoms
of such bottles frequently act as burn
ing glasses. The Australians know that
extensive and damaging bush fires have
taken place in Australia in consequence
of broken bottles having been carelessly
thrown down among the dried scrub.
So. too, camp fires at Aldershot and
bush fires on English commons may
have their origin in parts of broken bot
ties acting as burning glasses.
-Mcs. Julia Ann Estep, residing il
Forestville, Va, is now in her ninety.
first year, and has enjoyed good health
until recently. She is the mother oil
twelve children-nine sons and three
daughters; the grandmother of eighty.
six children; the great grandmother o.
: l46 children, the great-great-grand
mother of ten children 25l souls in all
One son has only one child and another
,, son only two children; so the other ten
children of Mrs. Estep have eighty
three sons and daughters, an average oil
over eight to each. More the mer
rier." it is said, and happiness great,
abounds in this household.
, "A young lady of Johnstown, N. Y.
, while bathing at Chautauqua Lake, hat
: novel experience. A snspping-turtl'
caught her by the ear. Her screams
brought friends to her assistance, or sh,
would certainly have been drowned
: but the turtles grip was like bull
dogs, and after his head had been Gu
: off it took ten minutes to pry the jaw
| apart. 1t will take q good deal of thu
) poetry out of bathing in Chautauqu'
! Lake. Sharks at Long Branch an,
8 Coney Island, and snappipg-turtles a
Chautauqua are not soothing to thu
. nerves of timid bathers.
: Two babies were born in the sam
: house at Oakland, Tenn. The mother
! were sisters, closely resembling eacl
. other, and the infants were both girls
: In the excitement of the occasion tn
3 little ones got mixed. and this happened
. before they had been dressed, or in an
9 other way marked for Identification
l There seems to be no way out of the I'm
Q certainty, for three months have passe'
0 without developing any resembl inc
> to the father in either case; and if tn
: children grow up, as they seem likel
t to. with the physical characteristics O
4 their mothers, nobody will ever kno,
their exact parentage. The presen