The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-04-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A New York restaurant auVertlses
square meal for five cents, and now why
can't married couple live on $500 a
year.
Although it is certain that Judge
Wilkinson, of Boston, has left over $lOO.-
600 worth of property, no trace or evi-
dence can be found thereof in any bank
or place of deposit.
"A Western editor received letter
from subscriber asking him to publish
a cure for apple tree worms. He replied
that he could not suggest cure until he
knew what allied the worms-N. 4. Post.
"A woman recently walked with an
infant child from Philadelphia to Chica-
90. As there were no outstanding bets
on her, and no gate money, che had to
90 to the workhouse. Free
Press.
Fat men are always the very essence
of good nature. Nine out of ten will
only laugh when you accidentally poke
them in the stomach with yonr umbrella,
and the tenth will beg your pardon for
being so big.-Rochester Express.
Bismarck is a great man, but when
an English paper charges him with hav-
ing nose like trlrnip dug out of the
ground after long winter, he feels the
hit Just as much as if his salary was only
seven dollars a week.-Detron Free
Press.
President Arthur was first led to
feel the importance of women having
larger and fairer opportunities by the
sympathy he felt for a sister whose
health was quite broken down through
long years of struggling as a school
teacher for woman's pay and mans
work.
-Proverbial philosophy: 1t is never
too late to mend-and to mate. A stitch
in time is economy prime. The law s
delay is the lawyers chief pay. There's
many slip after many nip" It's
an i'll s'wind" that stabs one behind.
Fortune favors the brave-and the knave.
Evil communications divide close rela-
tons.
Mrs. Daniel Webster has sent this
little letter to New Haven school which
celebrated her husband S birthday: New
Rochelle, Feb. 4, 1882. Please accept
my thanks for your gratifying remem-
brance of my late husband on the Tooth
anniversary of his birth; also for your
kindly greeting to myself, My kind re-
CARDS to all your scholars. Yours, very
sincerely, Caroline Leroy Webster"
Mary Washington, the mother of
Washington, was buried at Fredericks-
burg, Va. In 1881 wealthy New York
man. Mr.. Burrows, proposed to erect a
monument over the grave at his own ex-
pense, and Andrew jackson helped to
lay the cornerstone, but, as Mr.. Burrows
failed in business, work was stopped half
way. The people of Fredericksburg now
ask Congress to have the monument fin
ished.
"A Troy On. Y. bell-founder has re-
coived an order for bell from Delhi,
Iowa, upon which the following inscrip-
tons are to be cast. On one side: "a
voice has gone before every great good
that has ever been achieved in this
world" The above words were taken
dress. On the other side of the bell will
be cast: ''In memory of servant of
Jesus Christ, our loved President, James
A. Garfield. 1884," = "a
On the death of Chief Justice Mar
shall, nearly fifty years ago, the lawyers
of Philadelphia moved for monument.
The project failed at the time, asis often
the case. and only 81, 000was contributed.
The matter was soon forgotten by almost
everybody. The last surviving trustee of
the fund died a few days ago, and
among his papers was found a careful
account of the money, showing that by
investment it had grown to $40, 900. The
monument will now be erected.
Several young men went from st.
Louis ballroom to get drinks at an adjoin-
ing saloon. All took whisky, and when
it was down they looked at one another
with disgust depicted in their faces. 1t
was the very worst whisky they had ever
tasted John Mackey, who had invited
the party out, refused to pay for the stuff.
More than that he whipped the bartender
for retaliation, and undertook to empty
the bottle on the floor. A policeman was
called i'm, who killed Mackey during the
fight that ensued.
o. Barnes Louisville revival has been
investigated by the Conrier-Journal.
Among those who had been anointed
with oil in the meetings were found indi-
viduals who firmly believed that they
had been cured respectively of sunstroke,
neuralgia, dyspepsia. headache, rheuma-
tism, bronchitis, malaria fever and kidney
disease. One man who had been i'll for
ten years. and was barely able to get to
the church, went away at brisk pace,
apparently in perfect health.
If the laws of hereditary hold good,
and the theories of some people don't
fall through, the manufacture of dis
titled liquors is doomed. They, the the
orists, maintain that child may be born
in such condition as to have through
all its life fits of periodical intoxication,
without having tasted strong liquors.
Nobody is going to spend money for
intoxicating liquor, when he can have
the periods just as intoxicating, and just
as often, without.-ZotoeH Journal.
"A young Brooklyn woman who has
been in the habit of reading a separate