The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-01-07
INSTANTANEOUS.

The Car is about to reorganize his |
army on the German system.
New Workers with nothing to do
play lawn-tennis on the top floors OF
private houses.
Queen Ranavalomanjaka Of NADIA
gascar is . strong temperance woman
and o rigid advocate OF prohibitory
laws.
-"Jim" Keene, the stock broker,
was once stationery peddler in San
Francisco. He saved . little money
and put it in the Savage Mine just as it
was being "pooled, and he thereby
cleared nearly $1,000 600
A woman teacher in Georgetown.
Mass, was driven out OF her school BY
the sight of q loaded pistol in the hand
of pupil she had reprimanded. but she
met one of the committee at tho door
and he went in and disarmed the boy.
"A tract of land in Oregon, between
the waters of the Santiam and Clack-
amas, about twenty by ten miles in di-
mansions, is covered by dense forest
of larches. The trees grow from 25O to
500 feet in height, many OF them rising
$50 feet without limb.
jay Gould's greenhouses, at MS
summer residence on the Hudson, which
were burned ten months ago, have all
been rebuilt. They are S72 feet long
bv eighty wide, and it requires sixteen
men. $50 tons of coal and five large
furnaces to transfer m the freezing air
to tropical during the winter season.
%, u;,,;.rd NJ washington Coun.
- =" = narhsns the greatest sufferer
- ~ TIE I ,o,,S He has been tbirty-three
n - ..o ~ he nod endnr;n0 the most ex-
SJr,c;.t;nc a0onv from rheumatism,
unable tn move anv part of his BODY ex-
o o h;s lower law and to slichtly shrug
his shoulders. For ali those long years
~ suffar;n0 his Joints have been as stiff
a. 70 orow5 touether aolid.
- az r,,st s.sh;or.hla New
" no =. sno , r. 10 horsa hon.,
~. 1870 soc;etv wom.n enoaoes
. ~ -; =; ,.,o,,rJs snd horses and then
; :nu t,ssa1tv.f;va or ;ftv If her friends
to be present. Two or three hours are
spent In cantering, galloping and dam
cin9 ouadrilles on horseback and then
the guests adjourn to the house of their
hostess. where they find an elegant
supper.
rHenrv CLAY. ! grandson Of tho
t.rons heerer ~ thai name. went to
Greenland s wear or SO AGO, with the
rnrrose ~ io;ninO the Howgate expe-
sa;s;pr thers RE exnedition. like
Csnta;n Howpate. was s failure, and
Mr.. CLAW was left to look for the north
mole on his own hook. He did so, trav-
| eled a great deal by dog-team and got
enough of it. He has Just reached his
home in Kentucky.
1 In some parts of the MARYLAND pen
manila the following IL believed to be a
SIGHT cnre for chilIs and feyers: a live
sr;der Is caught and placed in a thin
md . clofh tied over securely to
Zen - confned. The thimhle il sus-
nendcd around the neck of the afflicted
person until the spider dies, which moi
only cures. but prevents the chills. II
will doubtless tickle the spider to learn
that he is worth anything to anybody.
A.nb oont f,,rerel ~ tho r.rl n.
80 Ses1.rd IA, A;r,;e foil o,yad
n' m a. Ios";nr ~ ,ha arm ~ he,
Inc conln, Ao S;r,;a I.~;rc hear
e,aess sun ~. .i.n 1 s,r;,vv the nr9cass;o r
S ras hosSed hv ths miners. who playet
. u"s ..pcrtrc,,ase Hmm and 9Th,
tno 4h 10, y while before 4
Lana LAM .Sa ,,;,ers ~ ord Rread.Iban,
s.a' 49, -" sdh3er re rIsved IN trout q
az H1au C vis The n;hrocSs wero 81 och
.lo Saec No., md s.Ciemgsrrv,s =
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v.-;o,. o...s ~ v,,;eor;no a, from, III.