The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-09-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A Colorado man who took in Lon
don says he couldn't get thing to drink
at Temple Bar. Chicago Tribune
The value of the products of Texas,
sold outside the State for the past year,
was nearly sl20, 900, 600, and this year
will show no falling off.
Although the introduction of horse
railroads in Germany is of recent date,
forty-four towns of the empire have al
ready constructed lines.
in the next four months 5000 Nor
mon converts from Europe are expected
in New York. Why not strain the anti
pauper immigration order and send
them back ?--Ufica IN. ~ Herald.
Statistics show that the growth Of
timber in Kansas is yearly increasing
beyond the consumption. 1t was feared
at the first settling of the State that the
timber would disappear in a few years.
Chicago Tribune.
Goethe condemned the practice Of
congratulation upon marriage. sit is"
he said, las absurd as congratulating q
man on having drawn lottery ticket
before you know whether it is prize
or blank
"A brother of Professor Henry Rug
giles, of Dartmouth College, said, on
going West twenty years ago. ''You
will never hear from me unless l can
come back rich" All trace of him was
lost He has just returned with his vow
well kept IN Y. Sun.
An esteemed New Orleans contem-
porary declares that dignity kills pic
mic. Such may be the case in the South.
Up this way heavy shower of rain,
lasting about an hour, would kill the
most undignifed picnic deader than the
middle mackerel in the barrel.-CAi-
cago Herald.
The Philadelphia Ledger thinks
that, on reasonably fast railroad time,
a train should run from that city to San
Francisco in four and one-half days in
stead OF the proposed six days, of which
some people have been Dragging. For
about a dozen years the time from ocean
to ocean has been seven days.
1T is said that nature has written a
letter of credit on some mems faces
which is honored everywhere it is pre-
sented. The New York Commercial
Advertiser conjectures that perhaps that
is the reason why barkeeper always
sets out a bottle before red-nosed man
without asking any questions.
He was looking for the cashier, and
asked the paying teller if Mr.. Blank was
. in. 'Gone to the springs" was the
reply in the terse manner and courteous
tones usual to bank, hotel and various
other kinds of clerks. "How much is
it?' asked the visitor. The teller didn't
seem to catch on.-San francisco Post.
There is deposit of $l3,500 in a
q bank at Corsicana, Tex, surrounded
by some queer circumstances. A man
was arrested for the theft of horse
and deposited 81 900 for his appearance.
He was searched by the sheriff, who dis
covered S13,500 in his pockets and de-
posted it in the bank. The man dist
appeared and has not been heard o.
since. Chicago Times.
"A lady from Boston upon entering
the East River on board of Sound
steamer asked the names of the large
institutions as they passed, and feeling
a warm current of air sweeping off from
shore remarked it. At this moment her
informant said: "And this is He'll
Gate" II thought as MUCH" she re-
piled, and sought the seclusion the
cabin afforded. IN. Y. Graphic.
Fishers Landing, on the st. Law
renee, has sea serpent. 1t was seen
near that place by fisherman, who,
seeing what he supposed to be log,
took his boat and went out to get it for
firewood. When some little distance
from the supposed log, what was his
surprise to see it coming toward him
with wide open mouth and displaying a
row of teeth about three inches long
Chicago Times.
Sam Carroll, Kentucky ten-year-
old, was in the habit of lying down in
the road and compelling teamsters to
by the wheels of wagon loaded with
corn. He had four ribs broken and an
ugly cash cut on his breast. For
while he looked more like a corpse than
anything else, but the next day he was
out on the ash hopper playing the jews
harp Chicago Tri6ane.
Professor Wright, of Oberlin, has
lately been investigating anew the signs
of the glacial period in America, and
finds that the great sheet of ice must
have covered the territory between its
northern limit at Allegany County, N.
T., southwest through Pennsylvania,
entering Ohio few miles north of the
Ohio River, which it crossed on the line
between Campbell and Pendleton coun-
ties, KY, and recrossed near the SOUTH
ern boundary of Dearborn County, Ind.
All this territory bears marks of glacial
action, and is dotted all over with
boulders, which now lie hundreds of
miles south of their source. When the
glacier extended across the Ohio it must
have formed dam from five to six
hundred feet high.