The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-09-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

An indianapolis dog lived five
weeks without water or food, its faith
full and sagac;ous master having for
gotten that it was locked in.-indian-
Gpoiis journal.
The most entcrprising street-car
line in the world is run between Bill
'ings and Coulson, Montana. the faro
being twenty-five cents, which includes
two glasses of beer at Coulson.-Dcnrer
Tribune.
The laborers employed near Al
bany, on the West Shore Railroad, eat
between 1000 and 5000 loayes every
day. Half of it is made of rye flour,
and the other half of wheat Troy
IN. y. Times.
Notice in Hoboken ferry boat:
''fhe seats in this cabin are reserved for
ladies. Gentlemen are requested not
to occupy them until the ladies are
seated. IN Y. News.
"A Young English lady has shown
what the fair sex can accomplish in the
severe sciences. She had been refused
admittance to series of lectures by
Prof. Huxley on biology, but at last
gained his consent, and has beaten her
250 male opponents.
The portraits on the new postage
stamps that come in use October l are:
one cent, Franklin; two cent, jackson;
three cent, Washington; five cent, Gar
field; six cent, Lincoln; seven cent,
Stanton; ten cent, jefferson; twelve
cent, Clay; fifteen cent, Scott; thirty
cent, Hamilton; ninety cent, Perry.
L. - A. n
Pioneers of California has been en-
riched by the donation from Gilbert
Palache of two five-dollar gold pieces
coined in San Francisco by private per-
sons in 1919 and 1850. Other additions
Of early-day relics are continually be-
ing made.
John w. Shipp, of Nashville. on
being assigned to room in hotel at
st. Augustine recently, gave the bed
ding an examination. Under pillow
he found pocket-book containing
S3l 900, which proved to be the prop
crty of w. j. Green, banker from
Utica. N. Y.--Chicago Times.
Sixteen completely petrified human
bodies are said to have been recently
discovered in Pine Mountain, Campbell
County, Tennessee, in solid limestone
rock with fragments of petrified wood.
Near By is also a cave, the walls of
which are decorated with paintings OF
extinct or imaginary animals.
"A Boston lady had dog which,
when it or its friend the cat wished to
go into the kitchen, stood by the door
aud allowed the cat to jump upon its
back. The cat could then reach one
paw over the latch, and by pressing the
other paw on the thumbpiece was able
TO open the door. The cat would then
drop on the dogs back, and ride into
the kitchen in triumph. Boston Post
AT Milbrook, Canada, during a re-
cent thunderstorm, according to the
Messenger of that place, horse harm
essed to a buggy was fastened to fence.
During terrible lightning flash and
thunder crash the buggy was thrown
completely over the horse, the shaft
stuck into the ground and broken, and
one wheel thrown some distance away
The same storm shattered to splinters
eight telegraph poles in the vicinity.
"A piece of lime which boy carrie,!
in his pocket was the cause of his death
from blood-poisoning. 1t is the first in
stance on record of boy s pant's-pocket
go NJ back on him. To think that brass
wire, rusty old knife blades, decayed
fruit, cobbler's wax, fish hooks, putty,
mice, hedgehogs, Gan be carried with
impunity, yet there's all this fuss about
little bit of lime that looked as inno-
cent as piece of chalk. --Chicago News