The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-07-08
MISCELLANEOUS.


Roscoe Conkling was the other even
ing admitted to membership in the New
York Bar Association.
They begin to regard bicycles and
tricycles as pest in England, and want
70 put tax on them.
"A London telegram SAYS the people
OF an entire township on the Isle of Skye,
numbering one hundred souls, have de-
cided to emigrate to Canada.
The longest drouth that ever occur
red in America was in the summer Of
1852. No rain fell from the 1st of May
to the LIST of September. Many of the
inhabitants sent to England for hay and
grain. Chicago Journal.
In his early days, when q slave,
Frederick Douglass was employed as a
ship-calker He has recently received
from the Chesapeake and Marine Rail-
way and Dry Dock Company. of Balti-
more, finely wrought set of calker's
tools as a memento of the days when
Mr.. Douglass was an employee of the COM
pany, forty-six years ago ourier-Jour-
nal.
"A Vermont paper relates that
farmer living near st. Johnsbury hired
Frenchman to work for him. The first
morning the Frenchman was called at
four o'clock for breakfast. After eating
a hearty meal, he arose from the table
and remarked: "This best place / ever
get into. Two suppers in one night.
Hurrah for bed again." and retired, not
appearing again until eight o'clock.
The Baptist ministers of st. Louis
have come to the conclusion that re-
form is needed in the manner of conduct
ing funerals. They think that they are
unnecessarily expensive; that the prac-
tice of preaching dead people into
heaven Is becoming too general, and that
II ministers conducted the services at the
house or church they were not in duty
bound to visit the grave.-Detroit Post.
"A gentleman who had been giving
a description of friends wife, but
omitted all mention of her hair, was
asked the color of it. His delicacy of
feeling overcamc him to such an extent
that it was several moments before he
yentured to give any answer, and then
said, in very reluctant way s'It was
that-that indiscribable shade that sug-
gests the thought that it would explode
powder. Brooklyn Eagle.
The town pump was the principal
issue upon which the election in Norris
town, N. j., was decided. The Council
ordered the town pump to be removed,
u physician having stated that the water
was not as pure as it might be. The
majority of the people thought different
ly. They rallied to the defense of the
pump, and the hands that would have
stricken it down are now paralyzed. The
pump had quite handle to work on
N. Y. Graphic.
With climate which might pro-
duce an endless variety for every month
in the year, the Brazilian raises only
little corn, few tomatoes, squashes
and watermelons. Common groceries
are sold at enormous prices. Fruit is
abundant and very cheap. Bananas and
the plantain or pacova can always be
had, while oranges are sold at eight cents
a bushel at the trees. Many other
fruits, such as alta or custard apples,
alligator pears, pineapples, mangoes,
pajurd, guavas and copuassu, are given
away or cost almost nothing. Indian
ap0lis Journal.
Mile. Rhea talked to Boston Her
aid reporter in a matter uncommon to
actresses. She did not say that the city
she was then in was the finest she had
seen in America, but expressed prefer
ence for Washington; and she had found
nothing here at all equal to Paris. She
likes American audiences, now that she
has become accustomed to them "They
seemed strange to me at first" she ex-
planned, land missed the outbursts l
had become accustomed to. But soon
learned to know your audiences better.
They are just as appreciative, but not SO
demonstrative, that is all. think, how
ever, the actors would enjoy a little
more noise. Applause always inspires
me, and l believe it is so with every one
on the STAGE She admires our women
greatly, and their style of dressing; but
she condemns their free use of paint and
powder, of which she never uses any of
the stage.