The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-10-08
MIsCELLANEoUS.


New Zealand has fifty dollar poll |
tax on Chinese, and New South Wales |
is going to initiate her.
The wife of Mr.. G. Cheyalier, of |
rAssomption County. Canada, has pre-
sented him with his twe1ty-ffth child.
Five carloads of dromedaries were
recently shipped from Texas to Arizona,
to be used in transporting United States
mails. 49,
Six thousand dollars in q single day
is reported as having been picked from
pockets of people reading street bulle-
tins in Washington.
On the body of an outcast woman
who drowned herself at Detroit was
found q gold medal, which she had re-
ceived for remarkable scholarship on
graduation at an academy. Il
-Highwayman in California tried to
wreck q train the other day. for the
purpose Of capturing Millionaire Fair.
who they expected to hold as q hostage
until heavy ransom should be paid.
Miss Schaffer. young lady resid-
ing in Elmira. N. ", who took the $500
prize at Brockport recently for being
the handsomest woman in the State, has
gone crazy. Her insanity is the result
Of too much notoriety on weak mind
Morocco has been suffering from
heat that is described as all but insup-
portable. It was so great that the fast
of the Ramadan could not be kept, and
in the last removal of the Sultan's camp
over 200 camels persisted of excessive
heat.
I'm Nevada the cattle-owuers nearly
kill their critters by numerous brands,
and the loss in the value of hides, by
so much branding. is estimated at $780,
900 year. An old brand spoils hide
fOur-bits' worth and new one one dol
lar. Some bands of cattle are so much
marked as to make their hides worth
less.
General J. B. Gordon. OF Georgis,
has became wealthy since he left the
United States Senate. His good fort
une came through the sale of coal lands
in Alabama, for which he and his two
brothers and Governor Colquitt re-
ceived 500. 900, together with 81 co.,
go in stock OF the Richmond and Dan
vile Extension Company.
Brother Knowidon's polygamy is OF q
kind that even Mormons do not approve.
He has q wife in each of seven Utah
towns, 90 that In his travels he is pro
vided with convenient lodgings free OF
cost, for he lets the wives support them
selves. One of them became so pool
that she nearly starved to death, and
K~~.v:1ox> ~1.g ~nobbad the owf f;v,,o
he visited her.
An aged farmer in Turner, Me-.
disagreed with . neighbor about /,
boundary line fifty years ago, and on {
certain rock that marked it. as HI
claimed, no solemnly placed his well
worn family bible, covered it with ia
stone, and charged his descendants Il
let it lie there forever. 1t has not beef
touched since then until q few days ago
when q sacrilegious man from Auburn
lifted up the stone and found the oil
book still well preserved.
1t is said that President Garfield
walking with Colonel Rockwell on tn
beach near Elberon, just before tn
shooting. said: "Now, is it not strange
and is it not q striking commentary o.
the protection and security afforded b
FREQ institutions, that the President Q
the United States can go about in thi
way, practically unattended and with
out body guard, and without the pal
aphernalia that encompasses othe
rulers. / am as secure in travelling thl
way As any other citizen of the cour
try"
The people of Sutro, New, have
good thing In the largo artificial lax
near the town. About five million ga
Ions of hot water flow into it daily frol
the tunnel, thus keeping the tempers
ture at all seasons Just right for bathin
purposes. By analysis It is found thu
the water flowing from the great OF
channel Of the Ccmstock contains bol
gold and silver in solution. therefor
people bathing IN this lake absorb mo-
or loss Of the precious metals. Thus
poor man may in few months becon
regular bonanza in himself, assayir
high in the hundreds. q
Few people know that in bad Sc
sons honey Is apt to be poisonous. tn
arises from the fact that in such Sc
sons the bees are often obliged to gat
err It from poisonous flowers. Gre
care should Be taken 70 remove ,
poisonous plants from the neighbc
hood of hives. A specimen of hon
from Trebisond, gathered from t
rhododcndron popticun,, which Is col
mon In that neighborhood. was sent
1884 by Mr.. Keith f. Abbott, to q
Geological Society of London, and
1859 It still retained its poisonous qua
ties. In 1890 . great many people
Philadelphia died from eating hon
gathered from the flowers Of the kahn
latifolia. In good seasons the be
avoid poisonous plants.
Reports OF trouble in the armies
Germany and Austria. caused by
cruelty of the Subordinate ofiicers
ward the private soldiery, continue