The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-09-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

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a man over seventy years OF age il
Said 70 be In jail at Penn Yam because
ms son, to whom he gave fortune Of
21o,VV. can : aiiorf to pay few hun
9red dollars for his release. Troy AZ.
III Tunes.
Oscar Wilde told Liverpool audi.
ence that while Gu the Pacific coast of
tne United States he saw seal basking
on rock on whose back was painted
tne announcement OF manufacturer OF
Tooth powder.-N. r. Graphic.
Headlines in the Louisville Courier
journal: "Murderous-At tornado steals
out OF the quiet of a spring day and
sweeps from Chattanooga nearly to the
1au q path OF death and devastation I'M
equalied In the history OF that section"
Recently occurred in New York the
annual distribution of $4,000 appro-
priated for distribution among the des-
titute blind Of the city. Each bcnefi-
ciary receives this year thirty-eight
dollars The object of the gift is to
keep the recipients out of the public
institutions. -N. Y. Herald
The steamship Great Eastern has
never been success financially. but is
TO be employed in carrying coal from
the Forth to the Thames in Great
Britain. She will be able to carry about
1000 tons on each voyage, and from
this fact the owners are led to hope that
the scheme will be remuneratiye. Chi
cago Inter- Ocean.
AT barbecue given Mt Safartia by
the citizens of Yazoo County, Miss, q
Mr.. Warrington objected to the way
his son was cutting up q sheep. This
enraged the son and he attacked his
father with the knife, cutting his body
almost two. The elder Warrington
died I'M few minutes. The son escaped.
st. louis Globe.
Al family in Craftsburv. VT. is
terribly afflicted. The father has a
cancfr on his forehead; two daughters
are tapidly running down with the con-
sumption; son, on whom the family
haf largely depended for supper Is IN
vefy poor health, probably in consump-
tidn, and the mother, worn out with
lsbor and anxiety, is raving crazy
Huttand Herald.
Mot especially handsome married
women make the most elaborate expo-
lsition of finery and Jewels at Saratoga
lthis season. They seem to have gone
there for the express purpose of ex-
hibiting their wardrobe. and if YOU do
not stare at them and make remarks
they seem offended. This is the way
the social wind is blowing lust now
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The London Lancet stoutly opposes
the practice of putting binders ON horses.
1t says: ut seems to us that they are
useless, ugly, and. to some extent. in
furious to the eyesight. The most beau
tiful feature of the horse is the eve. If
it were not hid from our gaze it would
serve to denote sickness, pain or pleas.
ure. Many time would the driver
spare the whip on seeing the animals
imploring eye.s'
ALTHOUGH IL might he reasonably
expected that any husband would know
his own wife. vet STRANGE tn saw. .Tosenb
Millen. of Baltimore. Whose wife went
on the excursion which ended in the re.
cent frightful accident, recognized her
features at q glance among the victims
on the wharf, further identified the
body by q close inspection, and went
home crushed with grief and horror.
There he found Mrs. Millen in perfect
health, to the utter bewilderment of his
senses. She had returned to the city
by an early boat and was at home
when the accident occurred. Baltimore
.American.
A writer in the Portland (Oreoon)
Neus, describing a recent tourney, saws
in the exaggerated language of the rreat
West: From New York to St. Paul
the ride was Commonplace. unmarked
by special incident save a few DAYS
stop at Chicago, that busy CITY where
men 90 on the run from eirht O'Clock In
whether they have anything to do or
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