The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-08-19
INSTANTANEOUS.

ago, and cradle full of twins, born to
him within a few months.
-AnEnglish smoker predicts that hops
will soon be mixed with tobacco for
using in the pipe. He states that smoker
will soon learn to prefer mixture OF
three-fourths hops and one-fcurth to-
bacco
FORTRESS Monroe is the largest single
fertilization in the world. 1t has already
cost over $3.0O0,000 of money. The
water battery is considered to be one of
the finest pieces of military construction
In the world. - Chicago News.
The new coal mines ON Green River,
Washington Territory, have been pro-
nounced superior to, and more extensive
than, any other mines on the coast.
There are prospects that they will soon
be developed and connected with Seattle
by railroad.
Two children were found starving
ct Patrick, Va. They had been deserted
by their parents in lonely house, with
only small supply of food, and for .
week lived on bark and roots. Their
discoveries let them eat all they would,
and they gorged themselves SO much
that death ensued.-N. Y. Sun.
The Marysville (Cal) Appeal tells
of mongrel cur in that city which was
recently tied behind a wagon and taken
to Brownsville, a distance Of forty miles.
Upon bci-g released the dog immediate
" returned to Marysville. travelling the
eighty miles in about twelve hours.
John Gyumber, so long known as
the sleeping Hungarian, is again an in
mate of the poor house in Allentown,
Pa, the victim of probably mortal dis
ease. He recently refused an offer to
travel with circus at twenty-five dol
lars per week, preferring to work hard
for few dollars to making an exhibition
Of himself. - Philadelphia Record.
"A feather foundry has at last been
established. 1t is in Texas. Its owner
raises geese for their feathers only, and
three crops year are confidently looked
for. If the enterprising farmer should
discover why geese walk in single file he
will have benefited the world even
should his pillow factory prove an igno-
minious failure. - Chicago Herald.
"A Kentuckian was sentenced in the
court at Frankfort recently to one year
in the penitentiary for stealing eighteen
head of cattle. Then negro who had
stolen twenty dollars worth of copper
received a three-years sentence; and he
told the Judge that he had nothing to
say except that he was sorry he hadn't
stolen drove of oxen.
When John Jacob Astor came to-
this country he brought with him six
flutes, which his brother in London had
made. He started his modest little BUSH
mess in furs with the proceeds of the
sale of the instruments. One of the in
struments is now in the possession of
gentleman in Hoboken, and by him was
sent to flute maker for repairs. Time
had cracked the old flute and the keys
were bent and worn. 1t has been made
whole again and restored to its pristine
vigor, though its value lies in its associa-
tons rather than in its musical qualities
IN Y. Times.
The mania for reviving old things
I in England has just led to the proposed
resuscitation of the pillory. Its use is
to be limited, according to the Parlia-
mentary measure. to cases in which
women are unlawfully beaten or wounded
by men, and, accordingly, above the
head of the occupant Of the pillory is to
be printed his name and the epithet
woman beaten or wife beaten. as the case
may be. The practical object is, of
course, to shame men into rcfraining
from cruelty toward women; but it IS
rather queer to find the revival also ad.
vocated on archaeological grounds.
"A family Of negroes living in the
bend OF the riter, short distance from
Shubuta, Miss, placed their infant in
care Of some children, among them a
| girl of some size. It seems they went
into the woods to play, and becoming
tired of the baby, and wishing to rid
themselves of its demands for attention,
broke its neck with sticks. and threw the
body into slough near by. When they
returned home, later, the child was in
| quired for. and several conflicting stories
were told, which led to suspicion. The
larger girl was taken out, and. by means
OF threats to shoot or beat to death, was
forced to confession. = chicago Times.
"A San Francisco man who was work
| ing soap-stone mine in the interior OF
the State was recently visited by his
wife and child. They were all three re-
turning to their cabin short distance
from the the mine, when the wife, tell
ing him to go on with the child. turned
to go back to the tunnel for shovel he
wanted. As she started she turned
around and said: s'Kiss me first He
didso. Just before she reached the tun-
mel she again turned around and laugh
ingly said: kiss me once more" Her
husband complied. She reached the en-
| trance. of the tunnel when the rocks and
dirt gave way, burying the unfortunate
woman and causing her instant DEATH
81. Louis Globe.