The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-11-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

MlSCELLANEOUSs
-Spelling-bec at Carson, New: "Tri-
antular,' ''tirantler," ''tarantler," stu
rantel." s.trantler," ..turtleanter," "ty-
rantlee."
The Salt Lake Tribune speaks of
pheasant" polygamy and tells of a
woman who was made $50 happy by it
that she jumped into we'll"
According to high legal authority.
= man is twenty-one years of age and
entitled to vote on the day preceding
his twenty first birthday, which is really
the first day of his twenty year.
Io,oa State Register.
"A novel question is agitsting the
residents Of Tucson, Arizona, as to
whether female who went through the
marriage vows with man on his dying
bed is maid or widow. The technical
proposition is that the physician ex-
claimed, just as the minister was pro-
nouncing them man and wife: my
God, he's dead"
"A school of sportive whales carried
away the propeller of the ocean steamer
Mount Lebanon and left her almost help
less far at sea. A passing steamer towed
the disabled craft to Halifax, where she
was found to have experienced so great
damage that she was unloaded and dry
docked for repairs.-M Y. Sun.
Nowadays, when the traveller in the
Holy Land asks to be directed to the
Mount of Olives, he receives some such
reply as follows: go to the telegraph
station; turn to the right and follow the
railroad until you see beer-garden;
then steer for the beer-garden, and you
can't miss it.'-N. Y. Independent.
Eastern ladies have a very pleasing
and fashionable habit of knitting silk
stockings for their very particular gen.
tlemen friends, and the very particular
gentlemen friends evince very pleasing
and cheerful alacrity in accepting them
in lieu of the inevitable smoking cap or
embroidered slipper Christmas Hint.
The model for the Lee monument
to be erected at New Orleans has been
completed and accepted by the Monu-
mental Society. General Lee is repre-
sented standing in an easy attitude.
wearing the full uniform of Lieutenant
General, the hand resting on the hip. a
favorite and almost constant position Of
the great leader of the Confederate
armies. The bronze statue will be fifteen
feet three inches in Chicago
Times.
Some genius has invented little
article called ''fire-kindler. Unless
it is made in the shape of coal-oil-can,
the newly imported girl will not touch
it. If it contains something that will ex-
end over two or three chairs, and burn
off her eyebrows, without doing any
other damage, there may be large de-
mand for the ''fire-kindler. Chicago In.
ter Ocean.
During a Deadwood quarrel the
other night woman was seen to rusl.
between the combatants, and throwing
herself before one of them exclaimed to
the other: "Don't shoot, oh. please don't
shoot him." Greatly affected, the foo
lowered his revolver and asked in tremu-
lous tones: " Are you his sweetheart.
wife or sister?' I" No. answered the
peacemaker, " but this man has room
at my house and owes me three weeks
board.-DenUer Tribune.
AN eccentric but very handsome
" turnout recently seen on the streets
of London is described as follows: It
consisted of dark green dog-cart OF
very light structure, with the wheels,
body and shafts picked out with red.
drawn by beautifully symmetrical mule
with light brown harness. The gentle
man who drove this equipage was a well
dressed, swarthy personage-a West In
dian Creole-attended by an English
groom in irreproachable livery.
1t is the good old CUSTOM OF the
Flutes. who believe in the survival of the
fittest only, to kill off all the children
that are deformed or idiotic. Near
Dayton. New, lives a squaw who has a
deformed and idiotic boy. The other
day delegation of braves went to her
hut to kill the boy, but the mother fought
so valiantiy with tongue, teeth and nails
that she held the executioner and his as.
sistants at bay until some of her white
neighbors, aroused by her outcries, went
to her rescue and drove off the attacking
force. Chicago Times.
For long time the art of making
what is known as Egyptian black pot
terry has been lost to the world. The
black is Of peculiarly brilliant appear
ance which modern makers have been
unable 10 produce. But the owners of
pottery works in Devonshire, England.
are now putting forward the claim that
the lost secret has been found by them.
In support of their claim they recently
exhibited at the county fair an example
of their work in that line which was
generally thought to furnish an admirable
argument in their favor.
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