The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-07-07
MISCELLANEOUS.


General Hazen complains that Con-
gress made no appropriation for cyclone
reports this year. We shall probably
have to get along without our cyclones.
N Y. Herald.
"A while ago y Englishman be-
queathed his two daug hters their weight
in FL bank notes and one of the girls
received 81, 200 to 81 ,344 for her sister,
over quarter of million of dollars
each.
1T took sixty-five hours straigh,
work to print the $4,000, 600 rebate to-
bacco labels made necessary by the tax
reduction, and the labels. when printed,
II placed in line, would reach from
New York to San Francisco.--N. Y.
Times.
with watchmen on all Sides" the
New York burglars break into safes
and help themselves to the contents.
Thus far they have stolen none of the
watchmen, but much apprehension il
felt--N y Nescs.
Omaha wonders why she can't pro-
duce . great actor or poet, and then
turns around and tells of citizen fall
ing beneath a wagon loaded with two
tons of stone and having . wheel pass
over his head without cracking his
skull. Detroit Post.
Lyman Potter, of Albany, who
pushed wheelbarrow from the Hudson
River to San Francisco in 1873, started
recently to walk from New York to
New Orleans within q certain time, but
was struck by q train in North Carolina,
and killed.-Albany IN. ~ Journal.
An Anti-opium Prayer Union has
been formed in Great Britain, of which
the members residing in different parts
covenant to pray at least once . week,
on Thursdays, for the overthrow of the
appalling and accursed opium trade in
China and elsewhere.
I'm many parts of Spain farming OPP
erations have made little or no progress
since the expulsion of the Moors. The
same sort Of pillow is used now As then,
oxen tread out the corn after the an
cicnt Oriental fashion, and women sep
arate the chaff from the corn by tossing
the grain up in the air during breeze
of wind,
Over in California the picnic season
is in full blast Over there it is "Ho
for Santa Cruzr' no for this place, and
no for that. 1t is little out of the
way, but il any of our people happen to
be ON the other side of the mountains,
they will find these excursion rates very
cheap. A man can go so far for three
dollars that it will cost him twenty dol
lars to get Virginia City fNer.)
Enterprise.
Daniel Haun, of Huntington, Pa,
now eighty-three years old, became in
sane in 1928, and ever since has been
chained in a room shut out from the
world and cared for by his two broth
ers, about as old as himself. He escaped
once and went short distance, but 9TH
erwise has not been out of the house for
sixty years, and for twenty has seen no
face except his brothers. The Hauns
are farmers, live alone as bachelors and
are very well off, Philadelphia Press.
did you hear about the Sprig-
ginses?" mo, what is it?'' ssYOu
know how loving they were? Well,
they haven't been married a month,
and hard words have already passed
between them" ssIs that so? What
was it all about? How did it happen?-
why, she happened 70 come across q
sentence she didn't understand. and he
passed her the dictionary, which Is full
Of hard words, you know. III Boston
Transcript.
"A cure for rheumatism an English
doctor has found in total abstinence
from food. He declares that many
cases of acute articular rheumatism
have been cured by fasting from four
to eight days, while chronic rheuma-
tism was also alleviated. No medicines
were given, but patients could have
cold water and lemonade in modera-
ton. The doctor states that rheuma-
tism Is only phase Of indigestion, and,
therefore, can be cured by giving COM
plete and continued rest to all the d.