The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-02-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

The city OF London requires year.
" supply Of twenty million gallons Of
milk.
Matching chickens BY steam, as q
business. is about to be started In De-
troit.
There are 3d. newspapers print
ed in the world and over half of these
are printed in the English language.
LIN the window of fashionable
fruit and vegetable shop in Paris was re-
Gently exhibited bunch of asparagus
valued at sixty dollars.
"A Hartford company has paid $780,
900 to George Capewell of Cheshire for
the patent right Of q machine for max
ing horseshoe nails.
The winters of Southern California
are not severe enough to make snakes
dormant. The other day q farmer
plowed up rattlesnake and the reptile
instantly struck at him twice.
Douglas Jerrold says shat respecta-
bility is all very well for folks who can
have it for ready money; but to be
obliged to run into debt for it, is enough
to break the heart Of an angel"
There is . Moqui Indian living in
one of the seven villages of those peo-
pie in Arizona who is said to be worth
at least $4,000. He trades in silver
ornaments and il also an extensive
raiser of sheep.
1T is estimated that it win take five
hundred years to exhaust the coal in
Wise County, Va, at the rate of 1000
tons q day. A company of Western
Pennsylvanians has bought &C, 600 acres
Of these coal lands.
Emma Abbott is having blue satin
dress painted with daisies to wear in
i" Paul and Virginia. She has given
the order to Marian Foster, the lame
artist of Cincinnati. Miss Foster is not
able to move at all save in rolling
chair.
The Winona (Minn.) Herald says
that w. B. Mitchell, editor Of the St.
Cloud journal Press, is the largest indi-
vidual taxpayer in St. Cloud, and offers
to bet /" another such an instance don't
exist in thirty-nine States where an ed
tor of q newspaper il the largest tax
payer in his bailiwick." Now here's .
chance for sporting men.
Mrs. Long. of Baltimore. was until
lately retiring. sedate woman, the
widow of wealthy merchant, and de-
voted wholly to domestic affairs. Now
she is preaching on the street corners
q religion which she says she has
been commissioned by God to make
known to the world. Though insane
on that subject she Is rational in other
respects.
Professor Swing says the Alliance:
" At the risk Of trial for heresy will
affirm that the Sunday dinner should
be great advance upon the wash-day
repast, or upon the picked-up affair Of
Saturday. On Sunday the laborer, in
body or In mind. does not eat out OF a
bucket or . basket, but at his home
table. In honor of such an event the
meal should surpass the common stand
ard and be reason for loving the in
stitutes Of religion"
The prediction that the years i'm
migration would exceed all former rec
ords has turned out to be true. The
prodigious aggregate of 800, SOB arriv-
ais at Castle Garden surpasses anything
before known there, and no doubt the
same is true regarding the arrivals dur
ing 1880 at the other seaports of this
country. The new year, nevertheless,
bids fair to Guido In this respect even
the unprecedented one just ended.
The edict Of Joseph Emanuel, King
of Portugal, published in 1869. is not
without its interest at this time. By
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fifty years of age were forbidden to mar
~. "because," the preamble recited.
I" experience has shown that women of
that age commonly marry young men
of no property. who dissipate the fort
unes such marriages put them in pos
session Of, to the prejudice of children
and other relations" Spinsters were
not apparently considered so liable to
be beguiled.
The Mozzi Palace, opposite the
bridge of LIE Giraffe. at Florence. one
of the oldest and most historically i'm
portant edifices Of the city, will shortly
be sold at auction. The Mozzi family
built it IN the year 1900 and for nearly
seven centuries gathered there untold
treasures of art and history. while ex-
ercising the most splendid hospitality.
Kings, popes, cardinals, ambassadors,
generals and statesmen were welcome
guests. They were wealthy and power
full merchants. and for centuries the
bankers of the holy see. Now they are
one Of the poorest families in Florence
and are compelled to part with their
ancestral palace.
Frederick Won Rodenstedt, the Ger
man poet. has been Occurring in the
Cursad in Wiesbaden about his visit to
America. The American, he said. loves
his country. but his patriotism is not
local, his home-feeling does not cleave
to the soil. That is why his house and
it, adornments do not express indi-
vidual taste and why > certain Uniform
ity prevails in his living and his activi-
ty and his labor. The advance Of Amer
Jean population may be likened in gem
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