The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-01-06
MISCELLANEOUS.


"A French doctor makes a business
OF curing snoring, and warrants a cure
for ten dollars.
1t takes sixteen barrels of flour daily
to furnish bread fer the Soldiers Home
at Dayton, o., and the hungry old vets
likewise g.t away with 1900 pounds of
meat ~ three meals. Detroit Free Press.
"A Plymouth. Conn man acci-
Ientally voted his butter bill. the other
day, and on discovering his mistake.
was allowed to drop in his ballot; and
that ballot elected the representative in
that Legislative district. --Neto HaUen
Register.
1T is a sign Of ill-breeding in China
TO mention the weather, unless as a
matter OF business. When Chinaman
Is introduced to stranger and wants to
say something, he asks him if he doesn't
prefer spotted hogs to plain white
Boston Transcript
"A Leavenworth (Kan.) woman,
nearly blind, cooked some gunpowder in
quantity of oat meal. The whole
family died except boy, and he is so
full OF the compound that his aunt won't
let him go near the fire for fear he'll 90
of.
"A novelty in the way Of legislation
IS announced from South Australia.
Mr.. Cotton introduced bin in the As
sembly making it a penal offense for
boys nnder eighteen years Of age 10
smoke in q public place.
"A singular fight was that at Lynch
burg, Va, between two negroes, one of
whom welded spade and the other
razor. Both men were horribly gashed,
but the man who used the razor won the
batflc by nearly killing his opponent.
"A mad butcher was he of Provi-
dence when = delinquent and spiteful
customer, who owed bill of sixty-two
dollars, paid in full in pennies. The coin
half filed water bucket, and weighed
forty-seven pounds. = Providence, fR. H.
Jou7nal.
Mr.. Henry Irving recently gave
dinner party, at which he invited many
professional takers, and Mr.. Stanley, of
Africa The professionals each arrived
witha copious assortment of impromptus.
Their suppressed feelings may be
imagined when Mr.. Stanley commenced
talking of his travels with the soup and
continued without one single flash of
silence until the party broke up.
lin the Union Workhouse at Tx
bridge, England, are two veritable CEN
tenarians, both women. Mrs. Ann
Franklin was 100 years old on Novem-
Der L; Mrs. Ann Wood was 102 years old
last March. The former has lost all of
her faculties which were worth preserv-
ing, but the mental and physical vitality
OF the latter is astonishing. She is,
moreover, an inveterate smoker, and the
authorities make no effort to control her
indulgence of that habit.
The great grave at Vienna in which
were buried the remains of the 400 VIC
tins of the Ring Theater fire was visited
on All Saints day and the day following
by several hundred thousand persons.
One of these was Mrs. Potter, of GJtha,
whose son persisted in the fire and whose
only daughter has since died. On re-
turning to her hotel the poor woman,
overcome with grief and despair, shot
herself, The next day her body was laid
in the common grave containing the
ashes Of her son.
-Pickpockets at Canton, O., an
nounced in crowded railway coach
that all persons wishing to stop at
certain point should take the coach next
in the rear. There was a rush for seats
just as the shrewd thieves expected. In
the crush hundreds of dollars in cash
and countless watches were distracted
from the pockets of the unsuspecting
travellers. And then the train went off
without them, for the car into which
they had crowded was detached from the
train.