The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-04-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

pert shearers being engaged in clipping
the fleece from 200, 600 sheep.
"A man assisted at the burial of a
person who had died of smallpox at
New Britain, Conn. Then he got drunk
and went home without changing his
clothes. His children are now down
with the disease.
AN old man was seen to fall in a
fainting fit while at work in Carson
City mill. A letter in his hand had
caused the attack. 1t brought the news
that his brother, who had for sixteen
years been mourned as drowned in a
shipwreck, was still alive.
lit requires two hours to cremate a
body. The ashes of the deceased are
placed in a tin box, sealed, and can be
carried away by the friends. They
weigh from five to seven pounds. The
cost of cremation is forty-fiye dollars,
which includes all expenses. -
Z -Dr. James Alternately and John F.
Alternately, although not related, were
born on the same day, married twin
sisters on the same day, and, after liv-
ing to be three score and ten years of
age, died recently, at their homes in
Castor, N. c., on the same day, but
their residences were five miles apart.
Baltimore centenarian, Mrs. Mary
Orem, is los years old. She is the
daughter of Robert Peake, British sol
der, who deserted from the British
army during the Revolution and Joined
that of George Washington. Mrs. Orem
has twenty-five grandchildren and fifty
one great-grandchildren.
ut was stated in the Philadelphia
City Council that no less than nineteen
telegraph companies have been success
sively authorized to run their wires in
that city. each promising determined
competition with the Western Union.
and that one after another of these
nineteen have been Is consolidated"
though the wires still remain.
Mrs. Judith Twombly of Chelms-
ford. Mass, has Just celebrated her
102d birthday. She is a constant
reader of the Bible and daily finds CON-
fort in spiritual song, but her mental
powers are failing. She was the mother
of nine children, only two of whom are
living. In her native town. STAFFORD,
N. H., she has a great great great
grandson living who is in his fifth year.
If We are willing to accept the opin-
ions which sanitarians of other nations
have formed, says the Medical and Sur
gicat Reporter, we have very decided
one ready to our hand in Switzerland.
That republic enacted law last year
prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors
under fifteen years of age, and making
it an offense against the law for them to
smoke. Hence boy of twelve or four
teen who parades the streets OF Geneva
or Berne with cigar in his mouth is
liable to be arrested and committed to
the police station; and as they have
habit in that republic of
enforcing the laws they enact, such
would be pretty certain to be the juve-
nile smokers fate.
The following is verbatim the Lam
guage used by a complainant in coun-
try court in Germany. 1t was suit by
man and wife against neighbor whom
they accused of having caused the death
of their two little pigs by witchcraft:
4" You couldn't see any marks ON their
bodies at all. In the evening they were
ate heartily, the pigsty was
locked. and in the morning one of them
was already dead. The defendant
crossed the yard during the night and
bewitched them. lspeak to you. Judge,
as to a father, and / implore you to
make her give you the doctor books
she has got. In there it stands how to
bewitch. Besides, she has before this
made me and my husband lousy by
When the suit was dis
missed. the compliments said they
would appeal, and as they went out the
husband exclaimed: "This we cannot
lose; it is impossible
"A curious incident occurred re-
Gently at the Vatican. An unknown
Cardinal appeared in the Loggia OF
Raphael among the many persons gath
cred there on the occasion of the ami.
of Leo Kills coronation. For
. few moments he was supposed to be
q foreign Cardinal whose appearance
was unknown to the officials, and some
ladies' present are said to have kissed
his hand and received the benediction
from him. 1t was, however. soon noticed
that he wore a moustache and that some
Of the accessories in his dress were in
and on his being then ques-
toned it was found that the supposed
Cardinal was poor mailman who had
On several occasions presented himself |
at the Vatican asking to be presented
to the Pope. Having managed to pass
the Swiss Guards he had made his way
70 the apartmentof Cardinal Jacobini,
where he changed his clothes for suit |
Of his Eminenee's robes, and was pro-
seeding TRANQUILITY to take his place |
among the members OF the Sacred Col |
ege in the Sistine Chapel when he was
He was removed quietly |
by the guards and taken to the asylum. |