The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-07-21
MISCELLANEOUS.


There almost seventeen hundred
horses which can trot mile in 2:3O or
better.
In a seyenty-mile race between
ncyalist and horse. at Altoona, Pa,
o.cently, the bicyclist won easily. The
ace was for two hundred dollar wager.
The Supreme Court of Kentucky
has decided that wife may recover
money lost by her husband at gambling
That is more than the husband can 10
for himself. -L0uisrille Courier-Jour-
nal.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stone has given q
large lot of land near Nineteenth and
X Streets, Washington, and s25, 200 in
money for the erection and maintenance
of home for needy widows of the Epis-
copal persuasion.-W Washington Star.
"A Montreal clergyman was too in
to preach on Sunday, but he wrote a
sermon, and, by the use of telephone,
heard it delivered in his church by an
other preacher as he lay on his sick-bed
in his chamber.-Ch Chicago Journal.
There are nearly a million less
males than females in the United States.
If anybody doubts this he has but to
to spend week at summer hotel, or
keep his seat in a crowded horse-car
without feeling like hog and a villain.
-Boston Transcript.
There were thousands of Irish in this
country prior to the Revolutionary war
but not five per cent were Roman Cath
olics. Nearly all were intensely Profess
tant. In rural New England Roman
Catholic was a rarity half century
ago.-N. Y. Sun
New sunshades and parasols repre-
sent almost enough money to start a
national bank in the country, and they
are rich and beautiful almost beyond
description. Happy the maiden who is
engaged, and whose intended brings
her one of them instead of the obsolete
box of candy.-N. Y Mail
The Weldon On. c. News SAYS:
Some time since we published a long
unusual Christian name which belongs
to colored man living near here. We
have since heard another, this time a
woman's. 1t is: Clarissa Sophronia
Teddy Whitehouse De Appletree Bur-
ton.
A Vermont man bet a neighbor
that he couldn't walk half mile with
out looking to the right or left, and
just as the man started on his walk set
two dogs to fighting about halfway
down the track, and won his money as
easily as could be.-Boston Post.
Last winter Missouri girl leaped
into river for suicide, but, finding the
water distressingly cold, she got out as
soon as possible. She declared that
she simply postponed her death until
she could drown more comfortably; and
now, with the first warm weather, she
has executed her purpose.-St. Louis
Globe.
Sir Arthur Kennedy, the Governor
of Queensland, who has set diplomatic
circles in fiutter by his annexation of
New Guinea, is seventy-four years old,
and, before assuming the Governership
of Queensland, had successfully ruled
over Sierra Leone, West Australia, Van
covers Island, the West Africa settle
ment and Hong Kong.
Abbott Lawrence, William Clafiin,
Josiah G. Abbott. Oliver Ames, Alex
ander H. Rice, Frederick o. Prince and
Leverett Saltonstall are among the in
corporators of company formed at
Boston under the title of ssThe Ameri-
can Ballot Box Association" whose OBJ
ject is 1.-THE manufacture and sale of
ballot boxes designed for the prevention
of fraud at elections. "-Boston Herald.