The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-10-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

employ over 10, 900 clerks.
-Coney island takes in $4,000 Wis
itors on fair Sundays, and disposes of
16, 600 dinners and 100000 schooners OF
beer.
The desk of English oak, on which
George Mason wrote the Virginia Bill OF
Rights, has been given by his great
grandson, MIR. George Mason, of Alex
andria, to tie Virginia Historical So
ciety.
An irrepressible war is going on
between the birds and squirrels of the
Sierras in Nevada The latter are
hardly out for an airing before the blue
birds and wrens pounce upon them and
drive them to their holes.
AT the meeting of photographers
in Chicago one of them made the state
ment that men should be taken with
their right side toward the camera and
ladies with their left, as their noses
generally point different ways.
"A gay and festive blonde young
man named Clarence H. Barrett, OF
Providence, r. l., has left for parts un-
known, and eight young women in
that region claim that he is their hus-
band. just before his wholesale mat
rimonial proclivities were exposed, he
was counting his ninth intended victim,
and she had a narrow escape.
Acting on theory that human be-
ings were made to stand upright. and
therefore ought never to lie down. a
Californian sleeps in an apparatus
which sustaius him comfortably in a
perpendicular position. A Nebraska
physician is equally certain that the vi
tai organs are injariously affected by
being iolted downward in walking. and
to counterfeit this he gravcly stands on
his head five minutes every day.
There is to be a new king in Eu-
rope. The German authorities will re-
quest the Grand Duke of Baden to as
sumo the regal title on September 20.
which is the twenty-6ith anniversary OF
his marriage with the only daughter OF
the German Emperor. If the Grand
Duke accepts the proffered gift, the
marriage of his daughter Victoria with
the crown Prince of Sweden and Nor
way will admit of being celebrated at
Carslruhe.
"A fish propagating company of
California is experimenting with frog
pond. New Brunswick furnished the
material to start with, $50 frogs being
sent from there packed in fresh moss in
box plentifully supplied with perfora-
tions for the admission of air. The moss
was frequently moistenei on the way.
| On the arrival of the box at its destina-
ton only 112 frogs were found and OF
these ten were dead. 1t is supposed
that the eighteen that were missing had
been eaten during the journey by their
companions in confinement.
The population of Canada, accord
ing to census taken on the 4th of last
April, is 1850. 933. or about that of our
single State of Pennsylvania. The in
crease during the last ten years has
been 500, l73. or little less than a
quarter. The proportionate gain,
| therefore, was not equal to that made
| in the United States between 1870 and
1880. for we added to our population in
that decade something over thirty per
cent, and our increase alone was nearly
three times the total population of the
Dominion to the northward of us.
Thirty years ago Burr forbade Plat,
to walk across his land, at Plattville,
Conn; but Platt could save many steps
by going that way to his milldam every
day, and so did not heed the prohibi
ton. Recently. after Plat had worn 9
path unmolested during the intervening
years, Burr told him he must stop, a.
the trespass had lasted long enough
that he had, after mature deliberation
resolved to shoot him If he walked thai
way again. Platt did take the usua
route next morning and received I
charge OF buck-shot from Burr's gun.
"A cat belonging to John Pool, OF
White Oak branch, says the George
town (Ky.) Times. had litter of kit
tens, which were taken from her ant
drowned. The cat was determined t.
have something to nurse, and went b
the woods and brought in five youns
rabbits, which she proceeded to car
for in motherly manner. Gettin.
tired of the rabbits, Mr.. Pool gathere'
them up, took them out into the bushe
and gave them their liberty. A secon,
time the cat went out and brought bacl
three of the rabbits, all she could find
The Newburyport (Mass.) Heral
relates this incident: "a little cir
about eight years old on Wedncsda,
went into the house and asked he
mother for two cents. This request wa
refused. whereupon the girl picked u
revolver that was lying on the shell
and. raising it, pulled the trigger. Tn
ball went through a stove funnel
knocking IL down, and the mothe
tainted. The girl was thorough
frightened, and, rushing out of tn
house, did not return for the night
She very evidently was ignorant of tn
serious nature of the act, and did nc
know the revolver was loaded"
The peculiar sickness that has pros
trated number of persons in the Hun
garian city of Pesth, is the occasion Q
an interesting letter to a journal Q
that city by prominent physician
stating the cause of the disease to b