The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-08-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

some benefactOr Of the human race can'S
invent some other excuse besides sea-
bathing for appearing without impro-
priety in scant costume.
"A German barber who never spoke
except for some dish he wanted at the
table, has committed suicide in Philadel-
phia. 1t is pity that such jewel OF
the profession should have felt compelled
to take himself of. Chicago Herald
This is indeed an unfortunate sum-
mer for picnics. A huddle of men,
women and children in summer clothes
out in grove this season, shivering
around picnic table and calling for
"more mustard on that ham, is not an
inspiring sight.-Nev Haven Register.
The New York Senate passed bill
compelling the burial of the telegraph
wires. The San Francisco Wasp asks:
How would this do for an ep;taph to be
given on the headstone If a telegraph
wire?
Once, overhead my lightnings flying.
Imade an art Of lofty lying.
Now here behold beneath your toe
The lofty liar lying low.
The art Of lying men have found
So sweet they've run 1t In the ground.
How many young ladies we daily
meet who are pretty-some beautiful
who dress richly and with taste, and
whose manners are apparently above re-
proach, until the wabbling of her mouth
reveals the fact that she is chewing gum.
Then all the charms she possessed van-
ish, and we observe only the rudeness of
her habit. Criterion. The Criterion, it
should be said, is published in st. Louis.
IN o. Picayuae.
The Albany On. ~ Times says that
the SON of wealthy parents in New Hamp-
shire. who is attending school in Albany,
was lately visited by two men, whopro-
duced deed purporting to be signed by
the boys parents, and conveying valua-
BILE farming lands in Pennsylvania, and
asked him to certify to the signatures
and thus save them the time and expense
of journey to New Hampshire to rem
edy the defect. The boy did as requested
and has since learned that the signatures
were forgeries.
General William Raymond Lee, OF
Boston, carries in his pocket-book lit
tie slip of paper bearing the single word
'sDeath." It is the ballot he drew when
prisoner of war in rebel Jail at Rich
mond, when he and two others were
chosen by lot to be hanged in retaliation
for the sentencing to death of certain
Confederate officers convicted of piracy.
The sentence of the pirates was, hap
PLY, committed, and General Lee and
his comrades were subsequently ex-
changed. Boston Post.
The City Collector of Baltimore had
a call, the other day, from prominent
! Presbyterian minister, who paid him
$3,899.71. The minister stated that one
of his congregation had handed him a
stout envelope marked, "$3, 1893. II, !"
with the request that he would take it to
the City Collector, and pay it over to
him for the city treasury. The giver
stated that he had received it from an
unknown party, who had intimated that
it was to pay what he thought he
owed the city for back State and city
taxes. Collector Taylor opened it and
found it contained the amount named,
mostly in 800 and $50 bills. The
clergyman said he was entirely ignorant
as to who the party was whose con-
science had stricken him.
"A rumor was circulated in Mechan-
icsville, N. T., the other evening, that a
human hand, apparently that Of full.
grown man, had been found in the ruins
Of Justice Talmage's Office, which was
burned recently and caused considerable
excitement. The man who found it took
it to shop, locked it up, and informed
the officers. The next morning it was
examined, and was found to be man.
glove with the fingers burned of, and
the remainder closely filed with ashes
While parties were looking in the ruin!
for other portions of the body to which
the supposed hand belonged, jimmy
was found, thus giving an assurance tina
the building had been entered by burg
lars and set on fire
When the Rev. Henry Ward Beechel
was preparing his famous Lectures t.
Young Men, he held long interview
with one of the most notorious gambler,
in the country. and then used the infor
nation about gambling and gambling
dens obtained from him in his wonder
fully realistic discourse on that subject
After the delivery of the lecture sstot
previous" young man tried to turn thu
laugh on Mr.. Beecher by asking hin
how he could describe gambling -hel
50 accurately if he had never been il
one. "H you never have been in on,
yourself, !" retorted Mr.. Beecher. "hov
do you know my description is accu
rate pis-n b;cnno .L1axya0f