The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-08-04
MISCELLANEOUs.

/ MISCELLANEOUS.
South Carolina has . ladies societ,
| with the restoration of Mount Vernon
to its former condition, for its mission
The Bench Show having had it,
day in New York. it is now proposed t
get up Dude Circus, with prize O,
five hundred corsets for the ona with
the most parabolic back. IN. Y
Graphic.
"A Delaware boy recently lost one
OF his feet in consequence Of wearing
tight shoes These produced assesses.
which gradually ate up the bones OF
the foot, SO that surgeons were Obliged
to amputate tn =. Sun.
For the sake of variety try this fo,
breakfast: Buy some nice polk chops
with little fat about them; fry them a
delicate brown, and pour hot tomato
sauce over them. Make gravy, using
a little of the fat fried out of the pork :
send to the table with baked potatoes.
warm corn bread and coffee Countrv
Gentleman.
There were 982 fires in Paris last
year, and of these forty-seven broke out
in shops, thirty-eight in places where
alcohol and chemicals were stored and
fourteen in theaters. With less than
fifty exceptions, all the buildings in
which the fires occurred were insured.
and in more than 700 cases out of the
982 the furniture was insured as well.
The total amount of damage done was
estimated at rather more than S1.5OO.-
900.
Among the patients treated at a
dispensary in Albany, N. Y, recently.
was girl afflicted with what is called q
tobacco heart" The victim of the
disease is stripper in cigar factory,
an employment which superinduces the
cause Of her trouble. The affection
may result from constant life in an
atmosphere impregnated with tobacco,
or from excessive use of the weed. II
is a degeneracy Of the vital organ.
The law of New Jersey requires
railroad companies to make q return to
the State of all fatalities that occur on
their lines. During the thirteen wears
between 1869 and 1882 there were L.
9O2. 1t is probable the fatal accidents |
In other States reach no smaller pro-
portions, so that the aggregate of sta
tistics would be appalling, though little |
attention is paid to the factors as they |
occur from time to time. - PHILADELPHIA |
Press.
Near Rome, Ga, is about an acre
d the evergreen known as the Pente-
rerian, or Aqueous tree. 1t is q pecu-
iarity OF the tree that whenever its
body is touched by the human hand or
BODY in the summer season or in warm
weather. simultaneously with that
ouch shower of water falls from the
caves, which continues to fall as long
IS the human and vegetable contact
'ontinues.-Akdnta Constellation.
When western editor visits vii
ages in his neighborhood, he is wise
nough to speak of each particular
own as ''the coming metropolis The
of course, lay that flatter-
1g JUNCTION to their souls. and forth
nth each citizen exclaims: s.Send me
dozen copies of your valuable paper"
u such is the strategy of western
Y. Commercial Adver-
ser.
Mr. Gould, like every poor man.
an afford the luxury of joking. A II
ewspaper reporter went to him the 9TH
day and asked if the report was true
lat he had given Tiffany $500, 900
'ntract to decorate the interior of his
to which Mr.. Gould replied
lat the amount was incorrectly stated.
1t should have been 5000. 0OO.n he
nd. Then the reporter asked him as {
the truth of some absurd rumors !
bout what he was going to take with {
m In his yacht cruise around the
orld. Il have decided replied the
eat monopolist, " to take nothing l
it'll me but the Brooklyn bridge"
The daughter of q German Baron Q
mmitted suicide in New York. re- S
ntly, driven to that course by destitu- c
IN. She had been cast off by her father t
having married against his will. T
ter the death of her husband, which Il
CURED in q few months, she fitted a
rself as a nurse and physician by tax
a course CONSTRUCTION in the ROYAL q
edical College, of Saxony. She then Il
me to this country, but though she v
. an unusually intelligent and accom- I:
shed woman she failed to find enough Il
lployment to keep her from want, and 1
last took her life in despair.-N Y, g