The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-06-10
MISCELLANEOUS.


Ice lying in the interstices On ROCKS
will explode them as effectually as dyna-
mite.
BY n new process very handsome
meerschaum pipes are now made from
potatoes.-M o. Picayu'ae.
A western circus man offers the
mother of the late Jesse James a large
salary to travel and exhibit herself
| Courier-Journat.
-Jarius Fisher, aged twenty-six, q
| theological student at Leesport, Pa, has
become violently insane from six years.
effort to memorize the entire Bible
Philadelphia Record.
The New York Court of Appeals has
required husband to assume the ex-
pense of the maintenance of his insane
wife by the pauper authorities. although
she had long ago abandoned him.
Oscar Wilde felt i'll upon his arrival
in Leadville, the change from low to a
high altitude being too much for him.
Mr.. Wilde says that he doesn't like Dem
yer, because the young men in the streets
called out to him as he was riding by:
Oscar! Oscar, deah! put out your head
and let us see you. "-DenUer Tribune.
Captain Bertram, of Salem, Mass,
lately deceased left 500 to each person
in his employ for every year that they
had served him. James Riley, his ship
and boat keeper, would receive SO, 100;
Michael McCue,- his gardener, $1,000,
and Daniel Foley, his coachman and
man-of-all-work 1890.
When General MCGEE was riding
along near Corning, N. Y, in his special
palace car, recently, he was surprised at
| the sudden entrance of man who came
crashing through the plate glass door, the
intruder having been cast in by a special
train which had struck him, and thrown
him from the track into the presence of
General MCGEE, dead.-Detroit Post.
An example of stern military dis
cipline is reported from Dresden. At a
late final examination of the Saxon corps
of Cadets it was discovered that several
candidates for commissions had availed
themselves of prohibited assistance in
doing their natural philosophy papers,
The delinquents were instantly sent back
and ordered to enter the army as pri-
Yates.
Recently a woman called at savings
bank in Boston and deposited S4O0 in
gold, saying she had keptit in her house
for ten years, fearing to deposit it in any
savings bank. Had she sold the gold in
1872, and deposited its proceeds in cur
rency in savings bank, and let it ac-
cumulate, her $500 would by this time
have increased to about $700.-Boston
Journal.
AN association has been organized
in New York. one object of which is to
provide houses of reception for female
immigrants, where they will not be ex-
posed to temptation or subjected to in
justice, to help them to employment and
by correspondence between societies here
and in Europe, to regulate their coming
by the conditions of supply and de-
mand.--N. Y. Star.
-Garibaldi showed, on his recent visit
to Sicily to attend the celebration of the
Vespers, how weak and infirm he has
become. He was placed in a carriage to
be taken to the villa prepared for his
reception, and rode doubled up, with his
head on the knees of his wife who sat
opposite There were 10000 people in
the crowd gathered to welcome him, but
in sympathy with his sufferings they
stood in silence with uncovered heads,
as their illustrious guest passed among
them.
When Sir Charles Lyell, the emf
nent geologist, was in America, he seems
to have had some curious advice given
to him about travelling on the Mississippi
steamboats,. "Never pay your fare I'M
til you are compelled to-" was the first
piece of wisdom thrown at him. .sAnd,
pray, why not?n he asked. because
your chances are better in case of
trouble ''Will you kindly explain your
self, sirP" said Lyell. "Well,' answered
the American, "when was travelling up
the river last March, somebody cried
out, Passenger overboardr The cap
tain hurried to the Office and asked, Has
the man overheard paid his fare?' On
being answered in the affirmative. he
turned to the pilot and said, indifferent
ly, Go ahead, it's all right Chicago
! Herald
Three Trinity College seniors, act
ing as committee of the students who
recently branded and padded three
sophomores, have sent letter to the
Springfield Mass. ) Republican defend
ing their conduct. They say that the
sophomores issued " low, profane and
obscene publication and that thirteen
seniors, considering that their position
entitled them to protect the dignity OF
the college, undertook to inflict upon the
sophomores a punishment which their
0ffense merited. "All this was DONE y
they add, ''by the grand tribunal. an or
organization which has existed for a
number of years among the upper-class
men of Trinity College for the purpose
of checking any reprehensible conduct
on the part of the members of the lower
classes"