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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-04-01
PUNGEST PARAGRAPHS.

"A two foot-rule-Keep your feet
dry.-N- Y. Post.
Even a successful Arctic expedition
would be an ice-elated affair. Baltimore
Every Saturday.
"A spoon-holder-a chair occupied
by pair of clean gone lovers at twelve
o'clock at night.-Totedo american.
Twenty million false teeth were
made in Delaware alone last year.
Please chew on that.-Dctroit Free
Press.
What relation is loaf of bread to
steam-engine? Bread is a necessity.
A steam-engine is an invention. Ne
cessity is the mother of inventions; there
fore, loaf of bread is mother to a
steam-engine.
An exchange prints an able article
on ''Hints and how to go to Sleep" 1t
is the most convincing article we ever
read of upon the subject. We were
fast asleep before we had got half
through it.-Boston Transcript.
"A little girl once took letter from
her mother to an old lady friend. '.Many
thanks, my child" she said; "you may
tell your mother that you are good child
and are a faithful little messenger
Thank you, ma am; and / shall tell her
too that didn't ask you for ten cents,
because mamma told me not to-
Personals: Will the young lady with
a wart on her nose and a diagonal slant
in her optics, who stepped on a gentle
mans corn as he was leaving the post
Office, please send her address to Shor-
toesp To avoid mistakes, she will please
mention the flavor of her breath? p White
hall Times.
Did You know that the DAYS are
growing longerP OF course, they are
growing longer just now. But what we
intend to say is that the full day of
twenty-four hours,-.it is discovered by
science, isgrowing longer, not very fast,
perhaps, but 10 rapidly that after about
a million Of years the day will actually
be twenty-fou hours and some three
miuptes inlength. Are you going to sit
up to see it2--N. r. EUcni,sg Post.
Jim Webster and Gabe Snodgrass
met on Galveston avenue. Jim was
dressed in the height of the style, and
upon cross-examination explained that
he had jest been attending his brothers
wedding. ssWho did he marryP'' asked
Gabe. A 'ooman,' responded Jim.
"Well, reckon knowed dat ar, as q
matter of course" "Dar amt no mat.
ter of course about it in our family - re-
piled Jim, flor when my sister Matildy
got married hope may be shot If she
didn't marry man. Hits fact and
I'll swear to Galveston Neus.
-sTain't feeling very wellto.day. My
head aches, my liver is Outof order, I've
got the sciatica, my pulse is feeble. and l
expect I'll die before night if I dom take
care Of myself" And you won't go
to the Office to-day, dearest?" tenderly
inquired his wife. "No," he answered,
groaning, and looking very pale. I'm
SO glad, deary. You can tend the chill
dren, then, while l 60 shopping" and
she skipped up stairs to put on. her
things, with . joyous, heart-easy laugh,
that only the true wife ever gives vent
to.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-04-01
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
In China $3.50, Ooo,o 900 are speI

I'm China $3.50, 600, 900 are spent
every year in craftsmanship.
The Baptist church at Tewesbury.
ENGLAND. Is one of the oldest of that de-
nomination in the world. 1t recently
held its 226th anniversary.
The faculty of the State University
of Oregon have decided not to permit
students to carry more than three
studies at one time without special per-
nit.
The West Presbyterian Church in
Forty-Second street, New York, Tor,
merly DIR. Hastings, not only called
Rev. Mr.. Paxton, of Washington, 10 DC
their pastor, but put q $l2,OO0 salary
among the inducements.
!. The venerable Enoch Pond, the
Ganlaliel at whose feet in Bangor SEM
mary several generations of preachers
have sat, is now ninety-five years old,
and says that he has not had headache
for the past sixty-six years.
DIR. Emilio Fuentes, highly Gull
tured and influential ex-priest OF the
Roman Catholic church, in Mexico, has
been received into the Methodist church.
He is in the prime of life, thirty-eight
years of age, and clear, earnest and
influential preacher.
The pupils of Mr.. Gaugengigl,
Brooklyn teacher, are in the habit OF
calling him "Gouge-and-giggle." As
this interferes with the discipline and
his inability to keep order on account of
his ridiculous name, he has lost several
places. He has got permission to
change it to Giel.
"A Presbyterian church in Deep
Greek, w. T., has roll of 100 Spokane
Indians, and number of the Umatilla
Indians, who are under the care OF the
Catholics, have expressed a desire to
have Presbyterian organization on
their reserve. Nearly one-third of the
whole number of the Ncz Perces In
dams are church members, belonging
to churches located in Kamaiah and
Lapuai, in the Presbytery of Idaho.
One of the most encouraging evil
dences OF educational progress in this
country is the attention which school au-
thorities are beginning to give to the in
telEgent study Of the English language.
Under the system, which is now being
gradually changed, pupils were made to
commit to memory vast array of rules.
which served them not at all in speaking
and writing. Many have been the gradiI-
ates of Normal schools incapable of writ
ing a commonplace letter correctly and
with ease.
Student writes: (Which is best, to
sit up late at night aid study when every
thing is still, or to rise early in the morn
ing. can study best at night, but the
next day l am apt to feel tired and
weak" Undoubtedly the best time for
brain-workers is the early morning, and
when one has formed the habit of going
to bed early and rising early, he viii find
that he can do better work, and with less
exhaustion, than when he works at night.
might work." says the Lancet, ''during
student life and after years is the fruitful
cause of much unexplained, though by
no means inexplicable, suffering, for
which it is difficult, if not impossible, to
find remedy. Surely morning is the
time for work, when the whole body is
rested, the brain relieved from its ten
sion, and mind power at its best."-M
2. Tribune.
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The Khedive of Egypt says he is OPP
posed to polygamy, and is working TO
make his people content with one wife for
each husband. He wants to inspire
them with liberal feeling toward ali re-
igious beliefs. and to make them re-
spectful to Christians and Jews, as well
as to people of their own faith. He has
given land at Cairo for Protestant mis-
SION, and in upper Egypt for another.
He does notexpect to change his religion
nor to ask other people to change theirs.
He has about $500. 900 q year spending
money, and is obliged to be much more
economical than his predecessor, who
spent $40. 000.00 year on his harem.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-04-01
That "MOdel'' Administration.

The model Administration of Hayes,
concerning which SO much has been
said, does not seem to stand investigation
as well as .'model' should. Reference
has already been made in the Free Press
to the maladministration disclosed in
the Star-route frauds and other swindles
of a similar nature; but recent develop
ments surpass even those gigantic rob-
berries in the amount of odium thrown
upon the Hayes Administration.
The chief glory of that Administration
next to the total-or nearly total-ab-
stinence at the White House, was the
Cabinet; and it is this glory which is
now being shorn of its gloriousness. 1t
looks as though in addition to the ex-
posure of the tricky Sherman as fraud,
the fame of the ''bright particular STAR
in the Cabinet would be taken away as
secured on false pretenses. 1t is not
quite easy to be reconciled all at once to
the theory that the amiable, piano-play-
ing doctrinaire of the Interior Depart
ment was jobber, or the tool of job
bers; but his course in relation to the
Northern Pacific land grants can hardly
be explained upon any other theory
even upon that of guileless innocence or
absolute ignorance.
1t is not to be wondered at, perhaps,
that an Administration which was
founded on fraud of the most colossal
description should have been. in so many
essential particulars, fraudulent, But
it is to be wondered at, with all these
facts coming to light, that men still
speak of Hayes Administration as .
model of purity.-Erchange.
=" Poor man," exclaimed the Good
Samaritan, feeling for his loose change
and depositing quarter in the tramp's
extended palm; chow my heart bleeds
for you. You will go and get something
to eat now?'' mot Immediately" an
swered the grateful wanderer; a. stole
bottle of whisky this morning, and I've
been begging all day to try and get
money enough to buy a corkscrew. v
Brooklyn EAGLE,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-04-01

intoxicating liquor, when ne can have
the periods just as intoxicating, and just
as often, without.-ZotoeH Journal
"A young Brooklyn woman who has
been in the habit of reading separate
novel every day in the year, went into
paint shop the other day, came home and
sat down to sing and play on the piano
song called I'm SO lonely Suddenly
she stopped, and, wheeling round toward
her mother, casually remarked: II may
as well tell you have taken Paris green.
Just as said would. l wouldn't take
the trouble to save me, for / will kill my
self some other time" The doctor gave
her antidotes but they did not save her.
Since receiving a severe blow in the
head year ago she has often wished and
tried to put an end to herself.
Olive Logan writes from London to
the Philadelphia Times: AT tea
drinking with agnostics the other day, l
was told that the stone bench in Batter
sea Park, upon which George Eliot and
G. H. Lewes were wont to sit in the
early days of their heart-yearnings, be-
fore they cast the worlds dictum at der
fiance and went and sat comfortably on
chairs and sofas in . mutual ownership
drawing-room, is daily decked with fresh
flowers by devout disciples of the philo-.
sophy which these two brave and origi-
nal thinkers fully believe in, and had the
courage to proclaim to the world both
by word and deed"
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-27
THE pEopAE RESPONDING.

Early il the campaign Of 1852, says the
Washington Post, Senator Hale raised
his voice in a pjercing.ca!l to the business
men of the country not TO let a Demo-
cratic Congress be elected, because that
would be putting their great material
interests into the destroying hands OF the
enemies Of those interests. The people
responded by eIectiug an overwhelmingly
Democratic Congress. Last week Sena-
tor Hale uPended himself once more, this
time TO make an e~vasiye, dodgy defense
Of Hu0bellism. The people are respond
ing as satisfactorily as they did in the
other case. Mr.. Hale's predecessor, the
venerable Hannibal Hamlin, never under
took to paddle his canoe against the
stormy tide of outraged public sentiment.
and that was why Hannibal held a
sturdy grip on his place in the Senate
until he saw fit to let go Of his own
motion
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-27

The New York Tribune advises the
Republicans in Congress to abolish all
internal revenue taxation excepting on
liquor and tobacco" The sun states
that such a change would be a great i'm
provement on the present state Of things,
and asks: but why not adopt the idea
of u Republican President and strike
off the tobacco taxes also? They are
peculiarly oppressive. They interfere
with the industry and the privacy Of
thousands Of people Of small means, who
pursue their trades in their own houses
and in little shops, where they are
worried by detectives and hlackmailers
who belong to the internal revenue estab-
hshment or hang upon its skirts. The
liquor taxes are collected with compare
tive ease and freedom from immortality,
They may stand, but the tobacco taxes
should be wiped out"
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-27
FACTS AND NEWS.

The island of Skye is now owned by
eight men.
Prairie Dog Jim is the name OF a new
town in Kansas.
Philadelphia street railway companies
are taxed S50 yearly for each car run.
More than St. $50, 900 worth of ostrich
feathers are exported from South Africa.
Upwards of so couples celebrated
Thanksgiving in Cincinnati by getting
married.
The New Jersey Legislature will be asked
this Winter to forbid the sale Of tobacco TO
minors.
The salary of a Connecticut Methodist
minister was S25 a year and half the fish
he caught.
In 1881 Berlin births numbered 45, 246;
52l twins: 4 ~triplets, males; l quadruplet,
females; 81 ,055 died.
Over 1000 car loads Of freight arrived in
the Buffalo yards of the New York Central
Railroad one day recently.
The State of Texas has over 81, ZOO, O0O
in the treasury, drawing no interest. The
public debt Is about $4,000, 900, chiefly in
bonds, which are not redeemable, except ut
the option of the holder, until maturity.
Feel bad to think I put that faro chip
in the contribution box by mistake 2" said
the Louisville man. Il reckon | do. Tina,
was { So chip, aud they'll go and get it
cashed and get So out Of NE, whom | only
intended TO give them so cents"
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-27
ZOE OH

An experienced dealer in diamonds in
Paris recently bought a magnificent,
large and pure white diamond, for which
he paid 81. 900. Thinking to increase its
beauty by thoroughly cleansing it. he
washed it in soap and water, when, to
his CONSERVATION and horror, 1t came
forth with a decidedly yellow tint. 1t
was as big as before, but only worth
about half as much. He went to the
Academy OF Sciences with his car
boniferous puzzle. and there learned how
easy it is to bleach a yellow diamond for
temporary increase of its value. Al! that
is necessary is to dip it into a violet
tinted fluid, when it instantly becomes
white, without losing its brilliancy or
transparency. D~ampening and lightly
rubbing it will bring it back at once to
IS original color.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-27
NEW TO-DAY.
Notice to LienhoIders.

II THE DISTRICT COURT OF TIE SIXTH
l. Judicial District Of the state Of Nevada in
and for Euresu County.
john Mclv.r plaintiff, vs.. The Shoe Els
hlnlts and SlEelung Company, Ben amin q.
Levy, Thomas j, Taylor and the shoe Fly No.
2 Nine. d fea3ants,
Notice If here given thatJohn McIver, the
p!aihtif Auu' t nsmed, ia, this day commenced
~ action in the ah We eutilI'd court against
forecio~e -tvtu rrrtsIn lieu against tie Shoe
Fly Mining and Sm'lu 6 Company, benjamin
o Levy, houuas J Taylor Auu the Snoo Fly
No. z Inluet sHld liens amounting with the
cost Of hliug and recording the same to $500
with interest IL S7-7 thereof { 0u the 10Th day
OF June l-S2, and interest on S35 thereof from
tA- I4fh day ot July, lss2, until PAID. aud for
costs OF suit; anu also against all improve
nIrnts on, and HppurtrnAuces belonging 10
said Mise said mine being situate in he En-
reka Mining Dtstr CT, III RAID county aud State.
Salu mems are claimed under 4nl by virtue of
an act of the legislature If the St.te of Ne
vsda entitled An Act 10 Secure Liens to Me-
chanics Hld Others" approve March 9, Is s
ana al persons holding rF claiming liens
AZ iustu Hpan said mine under The provisions
Of sa1d Act or any Of thaIu. are hereby notified
10 be and appear b. fore said Court, at the
Courthouse thereof Ia the town of tdreks in
sid aouuty o4 FONDA the E~WENTY-s4XTH
DiE or Fl BhUARt 1853 at 10 O'clock A III.
81 that day, lie same UiuS u drY y Il regular
term Of said Cuu t, then and tn re- e. exhibit,
the roof Of any liens by them nt!d or claimed
% provided in said Act aad all liens not then
90 exhibited aad proved viii be d+eiIed waived
as in said Act provided.
JOHN MOWER,
BY DAy T.. bAILY. His Attorney.
Anresa, New, De. 20, 1882. d27 4w
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eurrka Dailp 5entluel.
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 81, 1882


December l6 a python, 10 feet long,
and FIVE cobras and black snakes, which
had lust arrived from Europe, were
taken to the Central Park menagerie,
New York City. No blankets had been
provided by the exporter. The serpents
had been merely tossed into a large
wooden box, with some loose hay. When
the snakes were taken out at the Parktney
were found to be rigid, and so strongly
knit together in a common mass that 1t
seemed impossible to separate them.
Superintendent Conklin Of the Park
thought they were dead, and asked the
engineer to throw them into the engine
room to thaw them out. as he desired to
have them stuffed. The engineer did as
requested, and his surprise may be better
imagined than described, when the mon
ster serpen.s began to wriggle and I'M
carl ana dart out their tongues, while
their large eyes glisteued like stars. Anet
was speedily brought, and their snake
ships taken to the hot quarters Of the
m~enagerie. where they became full Of life
and objects Of great curiosity.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-27
OVER The WATER.

Riot i'm limerick Between the
Soldiers and Civtiians-Harring-
ten Ordered Prosecuted-Trytng
tn Conceal the objects of the
Military EN- petition 90 ZnIniand
Persons Searched Under the
Curfcw Clause OF the Repression
fore - Magistrate.
ESPECIAL TO rHE sENTISEL.l
LIMERICK, Dec. 26.-There was a riot in
Denmark street Christmas night between
the soldiers and civilians. The latter
attacked the military and a free fight
occurred, the soldiers using their bells.
The soldiers were badly handled, owing
to the numerical superiority Of their
assailants. The police eventually quelled
the disorder.
DUBLIN, Dec. 26.-The Government has
ordered the prosecution of Harrington,
Secretary of the Organizing Committee Of
the Irish National Land League, for a
speech delivered by him at a meeting held
in Mulligan on Monday night. He said
the most prosperous farmers must be told
that if they did not throw themselves into
the new League they would have the whole
force of the laborers' agitation directed
against them. There are prosecutions
pending against the proprietors Of various
provincial Journals for publishing articles
melting crime.
An average of 100 persons are searched
nightly here under the curfew clause of
the Repression Act.
Westgate was arrsigned in the Police
Courtand discharged, Murphy, the Crowns
counsel, stating that the authorities are
satisfied that he could have had nothing to
do with the murders in Ppnix Park.
LONDON, Dec. 26.-The authorities are
making efforts TO conceal the real objects
Of the military expedition to Zululand,
besides reinStsting Cetewayo. The troops
will probably be employed in an effort to
secure the annexation OF a large tract Of
Zululaud adjoining Natal.
The Times correspondent at Rome. re-
f%erriug to the demonstration growing out
of the execution at Trieste of Overdsuk,
says that the language of the Intransigeant
press is becoming atrocious. One Of the
papers expresses the hope that the En-
peror Of Austria may be choked in blood.
There was a serious riot on Christmas
among the soldiers of the Enuiskillen
Bluffs, stationed at Canterbury. Nearly
200 men were ~iercely engaged for an hour,
using bells and b~ayonets. Many were in
jured. The men were finally confined in
the barracks.
TRAUTERAU tBohemia), Dec. 26.-Fifty
Spirituaiists residing here have been sum
moned before a magistrate. Tit local
press urges the Minister of the Interior to
institute an inquiry on the subject of
spiritaalism, owing to the number of men
tai arrangements arising from its practice.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-27
MARRIED

On knhy Hill Dec. &c. 1882, a. Horrtsh to
Mrs. William Fray.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-27
CONSTITUTIONAL.

Hubbellism got its hardest blow in a
decision Of the supreme Court Of the
United States that the law under which
Gen. n. NJ. Curtis was convicted is
constitutional. Hubbell escapes prose-
cution and conviction because he is not
an officer of the Government within
the meaning Of the law, hut his course
has been more reprehensible thar Curtis.
In reality both men are cat's-paws. Be-
hind them is the Republican party,
which has been kept in power for
years by the use of public plnnder.
That is beyond the reach OF courts,
and must be dealt with by the people.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-27

French finance may be in a bad way,
owing to the recklessness with which
immense sums of money have been Law
ished upon the public works, but the
wonderful prosperity of French trade
and commerce does not appear to have
sustained any check. Daring the last
fiscal year it is announced that there was
ali increase in exports Of l46, 600, 600 and
in imports of log. 900, coo francs, That
looks as though French interests were
tolerably active and iiourishiug. despite
the enormous burden Of taxation. and as
free-traders would say. the stringent
adherenoe to the protective sYstem.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-27
GOOD EOn V

A short time ago a young lawyer asked
permission of Senator David Davis to
pay court to a younglady Of wealth, his
ward. Senator Davis took the case
under consideration for a day, and rem
dered the following decision 81 cannot
give my consent" it ran, mot because
you are poor and dependant upon your
profession. but because you are in the
habit Of mourning needless debts. with
out knowing or caring how you are to
pay them"
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-27
THE WHITE EEDsSE.

Mrs. McElroy, President Arthur's sic.
ter, will return the last part of the month
and take up her residence in the White
House with Mr.. Arthur when he moves
in. She will receive with him on New
Years day and at erward, as is custom.
AIRY on specified days. The White House
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PETERSBURG [Va1, Dec. 26.--Samuel
Rives became involved in a quarrel with
his cousin, Williams Rives, whsn a colored
mau named Parker endeavored to restore
peace, which so enraged the former that he
shot the negro. Rives then shot himself,
blowing his head of.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-27

We heard an old darkey say to his wife
at the circus; Look ahere, suse, yer just
got to make up yer mind; ei yer gwiue to
take de shoes yer cant so to de circus, an
ei yer is gwine to de circus yer can't git de
shoes" Just about this time the band
struck W a lively air, aud Suse told the
old mau she would go barefoot a while
longer. She was bound to see the circus,
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Change of Ownership

THE SALOON AND BrsiT ,he town of Flu.
rsss h hare , SisF Ssy ben s.sian d AM sCr" cor ~
me r. Mich ael walsh, who VII ITooNtY.
duct the same. dltlw
Eureka, Doo, IL, 1851
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1882-07-29
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Livery and Hiring Stable.

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