The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-09-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

Sauuci DeerDrOW, OF Uppe
East Tennessee. has married 5,i5
couples since 1S49, receiving thereto
about $1,000 in fees. The lowest fee b,
took In was five cents in coppers.
AT Omemee, Canada, they have I,
curious plant grown from a seed sup
posed to have been turned up with til,
earth taken from well at the depth q
nifty feet. 1t resembles century plant
and is nearly seven feet in height.
-Ah-wa-ga-hah Blackface, AGED 10S
years, the Oldest squaw on the iona
wanda reservation, near Buffalo. N. "
has Just received from the Government
her pension of eight dollars per month
on account of her husbands services IN
the war of 1912.
"A policeman saw a woman dioo;no
In her garden at Paris, KY, before day.
ilgnI She was not noted for industri-
Gus habits. and therefore he eoyertly
watched her until she brought out 4
box containing 500. 900. the proceeds of
q recent bank robbery.
An old and excellent engineer ON
the Central Pacific got q new fireman
the other day, who after throwing the
org pine blocks for an hour or SO. got
very tired of it and thought it no more
than fair to take change. He looked
up to the engineer sitting OF, his com
Portable seat and said: !. Here. Won
throw chunks for a while. and 7 will
look out for cows"
The will Of the late David X. Car
roll, millionaire manufacturer. who
died at Baltimore few DAYS apo. has
been admitted to probate in the Balti-
more County Court, and in one re-
spect Is remarkable document. After
bequeathing all his property, estimated
TO be worth several million dollars n
his large family about equally. he places
the sum OF SIOO.O 900 in the hands of his
executors to defend the will in case of
litigation.
Australia has added to its other
natural anomalies fish on legs. A re-
cent expedition has dredged up one of
Them, and, placed upon the decks. the
creature raised itself on its four lecs
md walked! Yet to all intents and |
purposes the thing was fish, with fins
md tail and gills. Another wonder
u the same expedition was the rats.
Inc yoyagers stopped on a small island 1
which was overrun with rats-but the
ats were yellow, chestnut and tortoise
hell.
CONDUCTORS on the New York Gem
RAJ Railroad are bitterly complaining
I overwork put upon them by the man.
cement. they ailege, out of considers
IONS OF economy in money and time.
he Utica Herald satirizes the present
ystem by saying that plan is under
onsideration whereby the train en-
loyes' meals are to be condensed into /,
ne form OF cartridges and fired into
ne open mouths of hungry conductors !
nd others as they rush past the lunch
)unterS.
"A Rhenish regiment of artillery.
aartered at Metz. were thirty-six DAYS
1sent from barracks on an excursion.
pom opening one of the rooms a dog =
:ionging to the regiment was found :
III awe, but in a state of extreme :
eakness and emaciation. OF ordinary
cd, or even water, it can have had =
'ne. There were evidences that the :
Dor brute had gnawed some pieces of Q
ood lying in the room. 1t was SO weak a
at 1t could not even lap. and for two +
Us it was fed with milk through a 4
be. but it quickly rallied. =
"A British officers wife in Burmah "
scribes the climate by this incident: p
A friend gave my husband some owls b
gs, which he left in a place in the b
awlng room, the coolest place in the e
use, being in the center and sur W
lnded BY other rooms. The eggs were
table in the corner, and were for
Item. Some days after saw one of
eggs moving, and slightly Clipped.
esently out came little owlet. The r.
Ter eggs followed suit, till they were 70
hatched. This may seem impossible b,
any one who has not lived where the a
rmometer is generally los degrees" W
"A little son of Abraham May, of ye
Ter Township, Blair County, Pa, CT
bitten bya copperhead snake few Dr
IS since. After biting, the reptile 81
It fastening and coiling around the ia
8 legs, and it was only torn from its Ga
by the brave little brother of the De
:, who, seizing it with his hands. re- IN
'ed the sufferer and killed the snake. In
boys leg was greatly swollen. ta'
ugh the free flow of blood from the CO
md perhaps washed away much of crl
virus of the copperhead. The usual ap
nc remedies were employed, and at lay
accounts the lad was in fair way ma
ecoyery. ~e 1ssr-.. pli
"A baby's grave at Glasgow, Md. on
lived for nine years the most care ~,
flowers being frequently iar
tied on it, and the sod always kept ~
erfect order. Mr.. Brown and Mrs. r.;
son. each unknown to the other. a.
Q doing this work of love. Each so-
lost an infant, and supposed this Tho
its grave. Brown erected tomb oh oh
e lately. and then a controversy r 1.tl
9, Mrs. Ellison insisting that it If i
be taken down. The church au- co-
ties held several meetings of in A.,
igation without reaching any con- dow
on. and then somebody suggested ls,i
NEGLECTED grave near the disputed mo