The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-01-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

nese laundry-man in New York.
The editor of the Guadalupe Zeal.
Telegraph, De Witt Hubbell, edits his
paper week days and breaches on Sun.
day.
The Austrian Government is con.
templating the reconstruction of its
railway system and its transfer to State
proprietorship.
"A correspondent describing Mace.
donia says every town is a picture sci
In pleasant frame of green meadows
and green trees.
Anew ladies' political club has been
opened in London, with a membership
OF 1000 women. Gentlemen Will be adj.
mitted on lecture-nights.
On one of the postal cars near
washington letter was found directed
to Hand Over Cart-Horse." 1t was
sent to Hanover ourt-House.
AT Chattanooga a wedding dress
was made for bridesmaid five hours.
She had lost her trunk in railroad ac-
cident and there was no time to spare.
The Patent Museum, South Ken
sington. London, now contains Mr..
Edison's Original lamp" accompanied
by certificate stating that it burnt for
1890 hours.
i'm 1880 all gentlemen in Washing.
ton smoked corncob pipes and planta-
ton tobacco, while only the diplomatic
corps smoked cigars, according to a
writer in the atlantic Monthly.
-Secretary-of-War Ramsey was a
school teacher at Kurtztown, Pa, liz
1888. He fell in love with Kurtztown
girl and asked her to marry him, but
she refused him because he was poor.
Senator Burnside is one of the great
dinner givers of Washington. He en-.
tertains like Prince. He has his camp
servants and cook retained since his
army days. The butter and vegetables
he uses are raised on the Senator farm
in Rhode Island.
Sir Frederick Roberts, an English
admirer writes. is an exceptionally for
tunate man. as he may before he is
forty-eight, without help either from
birth or interest, have obtained by fight
ing full Generals commission, baro-
netcy and the Madras command, worth
$4,000 a year.
In his essay on " Dress" Mr.. Roth
declares that "modern taste is so via
tiated that when a woman tried to avoid
deforming her body and possesses a
natural waist, unless she is very thin,
remarks are made about her clumsy
figure and these as frequently by men
as by the deformed of her own SEX"
Professor Won Langenbeck, the
celebrated German surgeon, saved the
life of the Emperor when wounded by
an assassin and is consequently adored
by the Berlinese. He attained his sew.
entiethyearthe otherday, and was over
whelmed by kilograms and addresses of
congratulation from all parts of the EN-
pire. and by decorations from foreign
sOvereigns.
The Finnish Government has hit
upon a plan for Kidding the grand
duchies OF. wolves and affording its SOL
diers practice in shooting. Enormous
numbers of wolves having appeared in
the forests of late years. it has been de-
cided this winter to dispatch against
them a battalion of rifles. The men will
be allowed unlimited ammunition and
will be told of in squads to attack the
enemy, and at the end of the contest
money prizes will be given to those who
have killed the greatest number of
wolves with the fewest shots.
"A thrilling incident occurred at the
American Iron Works in Pittsburg the
other day. A piece of white hot iron
in the shape of ring with long stem
flew from one of the rolls and fell over
the head of workman named Morse.
With remarkable nerve he instantly
seized the long stem with his tongs, and
the white hot ring with his hand, and
gently removed the fiery thing from his
shoulders. His face was badly burned
and the flesh of his hand was cut into
the bone. After the iron had cooled he
put the ring over his head; it was but
two inches larger in diameter than his
head. a;, 49,. ..t,
-Corpulence has made an end of
Marie Speiz. She used to live in
Brunn, where she was famous for her
vast proportions and the excellence of
the sausage she sold in the market
place; but wearying of her life there
ohC DCtOOk ucIScl W itlud anu SOuONb
a situation as u domestic servant A
short time ago her sister-in-law re-
ceiycd letter from her, in which poor
Marie said that all Vienna was laugh
ing at her because of her great size,
and that, having found the flesh an in |
tolerable burden, she had determined
to shuttle it off. She felt that she was
too fat for this world, and consequently |
should leave it. A few days afterward
she dropped solidly into, the beautiful
blue Danube. @t e
"A law reducing the fine for public
to one dollar for each Of |
Tense has been in force year in Massa-
and is an acknowledged fail
ure. The idea was that the .lightness |
of the penalty would cause it to be in
fiicted in every case, and thus drunken
ness would be reduced. The period of |
Imprisonment was heightened to thirty
days or more, with view of incarcer-
atinp hahitual drunkards Tho Snrin0.