The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

bellevue. Idaho, is log-cabin
town. with about 600 inhabitants.
While Mrs. Benjamin Webster, of
Limerick, Me-, was dressing fresh fish
$3.50 gold piece dropped out of it.
Coyotes have killed hundreds of
sheep in the northern part of Washing
ton County, Oregon, during the past
season.
An insurance company in Fargo,
ID. T., insures crops against hail stones.
In sudden storm the company is like
ly to '.bust" up.
"A Delaware editor, who is also a
physician. offers as an inducement to
new subscribers to vaccinatc every one
who will take his paper.
Stained glass is being largely used
in New York mansions. The stained
glass in Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt's
home will cost upwards of $4,000.
MIR. Edward Thornton, the son of
the British Minister, will remain in
Washington as attache of the British
Legation after his father departs for his
new post.
The Ciristian Union tells of an af-
fectionate husband who said, ~ can t
afford to lose my wife these hard times,
for it would cost at least thousand do
lars to bury her respe ,tably.'
"A brother and sister, aged twelve
and ten, of Bclleville. Canada. desired
to see the world, but had no money for
travelling expenses. To overcome this
obstacle they stole COW. drove her ten
miles, sold her for nine dollars and were
arrested.
Young men in Boston wear their
yellow kid gloves protruding about
three inches from the breasts of their
the promenaders on Beacon Street that
their wealth is not all locked up in I'M
productive real estate.
An old man in Lewiston, Me-, re-
fused to ride at his wife's funeral, say
ing that he wanted to take his last walk
with her, and SO. in pouring rain, un-
protected by umbrella or overcoat, he
followed the hearse with bowed head a
distance of more than mile to the GEN.
etery.
Mexican names many times battle
the most learned as regards pronuncia-
ton. Almost invariably we hear the
town of Tucson, Arizona, called Tuck
son. This is an error. the native pro-
nunciation being much pleasanter to
the ear. viz, Too-son. Another similar
mistake is made with the town of Ucate,
N. NJ, which is commonly called Oh
kate, instead Of Och -ah- tay.
"A Providence Or. u paper relates
that servant girl in that city, who has
been in this country but a few weeks,
was frightened into Mysteries by seeing
her employer. who had just thrown
away cigarette, emitting smoke
through his nose. When she revived
she told the gentleman's wife that her
husband must certainly be relative of
his Satanic Majesty to have fire in his
head.
DIR. Joseph Jones, President of the
Louisiana State Board of Health, has
completed the investigation of the cases
of leprosy discovered in the delta of the
Mississippi lat summer, and, while he
finds the number of cases to have been
less than reported. he urges the thor
ough isolation of the victims and the
erection of leper hospitals by the State
and city authorities, denouncing the
practice of introducing such patients in
to crowded wards OF the Charity Hospi-
tai of New Orleans.
According to the new orders the
British regiments will in the future
adopt a national badge as follows: En-
glish regiments, rose; Scotch regi-
ments. thistle; Irish regiments, a
shamrock, and WEIGH regiments, a
dragon. The title of each regiment will
be borne on the shoulder strap. The
facings and officers lace will be, for
English and Welsh regiments, white
facings, rose pattern of lace; Scotch
regiments, yellow facings. thistle lace;
Irish regiments. green facings. shamrock
lace; royal regiments, blue facings, re-
tanning the national lace.
1t is said that fifty miles to the south
of Leicester, in North Bucks and Bed
fordshire, England, the farmers are so
badly of that the laborers, on whom
their employers condition tells disas-
trously. cannot be trusted with week s
supply of bread on credit. 1t is also
stated with respect to an estate on the
northern edge of Salisbury Plain that
all the tenants have left and the land is
now covered with grass and weeds.
Farms are also let at reduction of fifty
per cent under the ordinary rent, with
the first year free. The results, in fact,
everywhere, attributable to continuous
wet seasons, are alarming.
-Ayoung Alsatian laborer. having
got into brawl with some soldiers at
Strasburg. was arrested by the patrol
an! taken to the station. On his way
he slipped from the grasp of his custo-
dian and took to fight. Refusing to
stop when summoned the chief of the
patrol shot him down, inhicting so
deadly wound that he died before he
could be removed to the hospital. As
this was the third case within a few
months of the shooting of unarmed cit
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