The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-08-12
MISCELLANEOUS.


Moses Taylor was the richest man
ever laid in Greenwood Cemetery,
Brooklyn. The next richest man buried
there was Stephen Whitney.
1T is said the sunrise and sunset
guns fired periodically at the United
States military posts costs the Govern
ment $lS. $50 a year.
"A Cincinnati doctor can take the
end of finger which has been cut oil
and grow it on again. Don't be afraid
of buzz-saws any longer.-Detrot Free
Press.
Courtney, the oarsman. has accepted
the challenge of William Elliott, of Eng
land, for a race with any oarsman in the
State of New York for 81 900. - Chicago
Journal
"A circus. Sunday-school conven-
ton, and sparring match occurred on
the same day in Springfield, Mass. If
you can't guess which entertainment
had the smallest attendance you don't
know much of human Naturalization
Post
We are forcibly reminded, says an
exchange, of an answer we once received
from an old Indian who was narrating
some Of the daring deeds done during
the uutiny. s'Aye, General. he was
brave man, we remarked. Brave!
not at all,'' was the unexpected re-
joinder. s.Brave! why he didn't UNDER
stand what fear meant! I'll tell you
who was brave-.there was Col. -,
who saved us at such point, and was
found dead Of fear at his post"
The year without summed" was
1876 Cattle were killed by freezing
weather in June that year in the New
England and Middle States. In Maine
and Vermont the snow was ten inches
deep. July was wintry and icy. Aug
ust was the same, but in September it
was little warmer. and then came Bit
ter cold weather until the end of the
year. The next year was fine, pro-
ductive season.
The statement that Nine. Nilsson
intends to take up her residence in Paris
is incorrect, according to the London
Truth, as. after her American tour, she
proposes to live permanently in England,
somewhere near London. Nine. Nils
SON fortune has been considerably d.
minished by unfortunate purchases of
houses and lands in America and by the
disastrous Bourse speculations of her
husband. but she is still in possession of
comfortable competence.
DR. Schliemann lives in princely
style in Athens, in an imposing marble
palace. 1t is said that his servants have
classic names, and at the family table
classic Greek alone is spoken. And this
language is also used by the classical
named servants when they get into row.
One day one of them was heard to threat
en- another with, :. Dhry up, We dhirty
spalpeen, or I'll knock yer two eyes into
want Classical Greek is very pictur-
esque language Norristown Herald.
-ssWaking the dead has for cen.
turtles been and still is practised in one
of the northern Scotch counties. A
house with a corpse in it, becomes, for
the two or three days between death and
burial, the rendezvous of the neighbors,
who sit and tell stories particularly
ghost stories ostensibly TO dissipate the
grief of the bereaved. Such gatherings,
which are largely attended by young
lovers, differ from Irish wakes in that
the Scotch bring their own tobacco and
pipes. The people of this district are all
free drinkers. Whisky abounds. Great
offence was given by teeto,allcr substi-
tuting milk, and it is opined that there
viii be few mourners at the next funeral
in that house. IN Y. Herald
LIN regard to Mr.. Weed, Of poker re.
nown, it is now said that tho wicked