The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-03-05

Tho new Congressional Library
building will cost about 100000 with
shelving capacity for z, 500, 900 volumes.
II viii be located in Judiciary square.
"A great many men are cottage built;
that Is to say, they have but one story.
And they are forever telling it.. Boston
Transcript. They, doubtless. look upon
such one as q telling story.
"A travelling party lost their dog at
Leipzig, and ten days afterward, when
at Berlin, about ono hundred miles dis
tant, the animal Joined them again,
ragged and gaunt. The dog had not
before been over the road.
1T is said that the new trunk line.
known rs the Baltimore, Cincinnati and
Western Railway. will touch two hum
dred and eight towns between Balti-
more and Cincinnati, Of which only
twenty have now any railroad connec-
ton.
Vice President Wheeler has pre-
sided nearly four years over the orderly
Senate and has never broken single
gavel. When'M Blaine was Speaker
OF the more turbulent House it is said
he used to break several gavels at each
session.
AN elegant picture of Mrs. Presi-
dent Hayes is soon to be placed in the
White House. 1t is the donation of the
friends of the temperance cause who
thus honor the recipient for her devo-
ton to their principles. The picture
and frame are to cost $4,000.
The threadbare conundrum: ssWhen
is cent more than cent?" was prac-
tically answered. in Baltimore a few
days since, at an auction sale of rare
and curious coins. A United States
cent of 1898 proved to be worth, to
somebody, $28, and three others of the
same date, but mutilated, aggregated
Sl6.25. Half-dollars of various dates,
from 1895 to 1852, sold Mt from 50. so to
to 81. 20 each. Dimes of 1896 brought
$4.00 and 81. 30. One dollar was paid
for an uncirculated half-cent of 1910.
while half-cents of 1894 to 18lftbroucht
prices ranging from fifty-five cents to
seventy cents. An 1904 cent was eager
ly taken at $1175.
"A convention of crows was wit
messed by James Hillman. of Orwigs-
burg. Pa. As he entered the woods sew
eral thousand crows were perched in the
trees. Soon sentinels took their places
on the outskirts of the woods. The
crows seemed engaged in an earnest
debate. Some appeared to argue one
way and some another. They separated
n groups of dozen or so, cawed and
shattered for while, and then met in
great fIocks. This continued for six
lays, during which time none of the
corn in the neighborhood fields was
ouched. On the sixth day they sud-
fenly flew away 10 the northward. They
vent in flocks of about 800 each, at in
ervals OF five minutes and each flock
lad a leader.
San Francisco has not yet been
'ured of its love of titled aristocrats,
md therefore continues to be victim
Il pretenders. The latest of these was
clever rogue who called himself Count
ION Schiller. He made acquaintance
n snobbish society and then pretended
fall dangerously III. He dictated a
etter to his father. directing him how
0 make remittance of $6, 600. and in
uced the young man who acted as his
manuensis to lend him 81 900 until the
money came. Then he feigned belief
hat he Was about to die and made will
. which his San Francisco friends were
berally remembered. On the strength
I these requests he borrowed numerous
mall amounts. He has ut last been ex-
osed and arrested.
The Dubuque Times tells a long and
tale Of how a young lady in
nat city dreamed thrice that she visited
his city and met here in big hotel
cry attractive gentleman, whom she
lbsequently married; Of how six years
ter she did visit this city and acct
entally met at the rooms of
lend in one OF our hotels the
cry man who had been the hero
I'D subject of her dreams; of how they
ere indeed married, aud lived happy
yer afterward. A Chicago girl, saws
le Tribune, had q somewhat similar
Sperience. She dreamed once that
Re visited Dubuque, and married man
erc. The next morning she resolved
'ver to eat mince-pie again before re-
ring. She lived happily ever after
1t is said that pencil drawings may
rendered ineffaceable by this simple
'ocess: Slightly warm sheet of ordin-
y drawing paper, then place it care
lily on the surface of q solution of
bite rosin in alcohol. leaving it there
ng enough to become thoroughly
Afterward dry it in a cur
mt of air. Paper prepared in this way
q a vary arnooffl e.sfro,o T. 3d.