The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-05-06
MISCELLANEOUS.


The Canadian banks were forbidden
last July to issue. any more "a bills, but
by some queer freak the public demands
them. and the Dominion Government
will hereafter issue bills OF that denomi-
nation. -Ciicogo Herald ,rsssl
AT q recent dinner party in New
York the colored servants were dressed
in the style of century ago, and looked
as II they had stepped out of pictures of
Mount Vernon in the good old days
when George Washington was lord of
the manor.
The disposition of colored people to
visit and console sick friends is Illus
trated in case in Georgia. A colored
woman was attacked by collie. About
one hundred of her sympathizing
friends collected around her bedside.
The floors gave way and the house was
wrecked Y Herald.
Out fashionables will be disInayed
to learn that the most polished nation in
the world has decided it is not now ''the
thing to wear a watch chain in view.
What in the world is to become of the
massive plated chain cables to which our
watches are suspended ?--Detroa Free
Press. e.,s s.s,,s - 80 .,r 49,. 49,
In Duyal County, Florida, -dwells a
polygamist with three wives. A negro
deemed it duty to prosecute him, and,
after gathering the requisite proof,
started for the Court House to make .
complaint. He had gone only few
miles when the polygamous husband
overlook and shot him.-Chicago Nstos.
Mr.. Vanderbilt is now perfectly con-
tent to be admired and envied simply as
the driver of Maud S., whom he has just
brought to New York. He is to be seen
in the Park every pleasant afternoon, is
often accompanied by General Grant or
Mr.. Lorillard, and would rather talk
about the turf than anything else.-N y
"A Brooklyn man gets $500 from a
dentist who broke one of his teeth and
let the fragment fall into the windpipe,
where it stuck The patient was under
the influence of gas at the time, didn't
know what had happened, was doctored
for bronchitis, and only sued the dentist
after coughing up the ivory at the end
of long sickness. tA eos
One British boast is, that they de-
test the shams of America. When they
construct a work it is constructed for all
time. And vet, corps of British en-
gineers built 80, 200, 900 breakwater at
Madras, but when it was lately finished
and announced as ready for business, a
storm came up and tore out the break
water by the rOots.-DetroI Post and
Tribune.
Don't talk to me about the advan-
tages of an education" Indignantly ex-
claimed certain manufacturer lately.
"Here l spent $1,000 on that boy of
mine. be came out OF college with n.y.
ing colors. put him in charge of the
factory while I went off for little vaca-
ton, and what do you suppose he did P
Shipped $50. 900 Of my new patent i'm
proved snow-shovels to South America"
Philadelphia Netos.
The estate of Ko Kun Hua. the late
Chinese professor at Harvard College. is
valued at g.. 900. His widow. who was
appointed administrators. signed her
name "Ko; before marriage, Yas.''
The children are named Ko Poh-fu Ko
Joona ia, Ko Wan-Lan, Ko Wanting,
Ko Wan-Ku. Ko Shu-Ju. The rights Of
administration were transferred to Mr.
Horace ID. Chaplin by Mrs. Ko Just be-
fore her departure for China.
Said the Texas man to his Northern
quest: " There isn't much fun poinp on
This week Now II vou,d come a week
oco oo,,ld have faLar x,o,, 20 thraa
lynchings and dance, but lust now
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