The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-12-31


and the eighth time by>water. Every I
thirty-fourth destruction is by wind"
Such is the orthodox Buddhist belief in
the destructibility of the earth--a belief
that Celebrates and intensifies in a most
unpleasant manner the idea commonly
pictured in most other creeds of the way
our world must perish some day.
A FRENCH woman went to Guy Hos
pital, London, and offered a round sum
for the privilege of marrying a dying |
man. She is Elanie de Panard, a de-
scendant of Beranger's famous rival in
lyric poetry. She was left a fortune OF
500, 900 by her uncle, a baker on one OF
the less fashionable boulevards. The
money will not be hers until she marries,
and as no eligible young man appears,
she has been driven to the expedient OF
marrying dying man. To that end
her friends have applied Mt several Paris
hospitals, but the authorities would not
hear of such deathbed mockery. The
case was then presented to Mr.. Uthoff,
surgeon at Guys, who was informed
that if the dying man was widower
with children, they would be provided
for. The offer was refused.
ACCORDING to Sir John Lubbock's
observations, ants belonging to the same
nest never quarrel among themselves;
he has never seen any evidence of ILL.,
temper in any of his nests. Again, ants
appear to show great kindness to in
mates of their own nests which happen
to be in straits. In one of Sir Johns
nests of formica fusca was a poor ant
which had come into the world without
antenn@. Never having previously met
with such a case, he watched her with
great interest, but she never appeared
to leave the nest. At length one day he
found her wandering about in an aim
less way, apparently not knowing width
er to turn. After while she fell in with
some specimens of lasius flavus, who di-
rectly attacked her. He rescued her,
but she was evidently badly wounded,
and lay helpless on the ground. After
some time another formica fusca from
her nest came that way, examined the
poor sufferer carefully, then picked her
up and carried her away into the nest.
1t would have been difficult, Sir John
Lubbock thinks, for any one who wit
messed this scene to have denied to
the ant the possession of humane feel
ings.
A CORRESPONDENT of the London
Times gives the following account of
the beginning of the recent outbreak at
Cabul. Certain regiments, which had
already shown q mutinous spirit and
had made repeated and violent demands
for pay, had assembled in the Bala His
sar to receive arrears. Suddenly, and
apparently without warning, they broke
into open mutiny and stoned their Off
GERS. They then attacked the British
residency, but were received with a
heavy and. effective fire by the escort.
The repulse, however, was only tenn
porary. The mutineers were joined by
the city mob, and after plundering the
arsenal and magazine and the Ameer's
stores, the united bodies renewed the
attack on the Resideney The Ameer
states that he was taken entirely by sur
prise and did his best to restore order,
but in vain. He sent Gen. Daoud Shah
to Major Cavagnari's assistance, but
the General was attacked. by the mob,
endorsed, and so severely injured that
it is believed he can not. recover. The
Ameer then dispatched his own son with
the Governor of Cabul and other per-
sons of influence, but the mutineers and
mob had got beyond all control, and the
attempt at interference on the part OF
those sent by the Ameef was unsuccess-
full.
THERE has been a large settlement in
Eastern Oreoon and Wash;noton Terri
tow tb;s sosson Tho ;mm;g1at;on into
that rec;on has baen larger Than At any
time since the ORIGINAL settlement of the
ao,,s,tr,- ~, The w5;tss Tho canse Is NOT
little now 10 faar from attacks nv rov;no