The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-10-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

cruz Win Inc ASTONISHING Nance: "Saw
Wood and Say Nothing" One of its
rules is: Church one Sunday, yacht.
ing the next"
The price Of wife in Siberia is
eight dogs, and some of them are con-
sidered dear at that When the wife is
dressed up the difference in the article
OF barter is. to all appearances, very
slight.
"A salt lake in Kenn County, Neva-
da, is very valuable and quite curiosi-
ty. In the winter the lake
fills up with water, and when the water
recedes from the shore it leaves very
fine quality of pure SALT Chicago
Times
Young Andrew Hall, of Brooklyn,
whose mother is wealthy, has married
a negress, and the family are endeavor-
ing to have the marriage set aside on
the ground that he is lunatic. But
Andrew VOWS he is not a lunatic, and
that he would sooner loose $500, 900
than his black Mary. Brooklyn, IN.
w. Eagle.
I'm several States there are laws
against selling liquor to common drunk
ards. The method of posting up in
conspicuous places list of all drunk
ards in town has worked wonders in
several communities. A man has to be
pretty far gone to desire to see his name
posted in such a list.-Chicago Times.
"A Nebraska farmer says hay is ben
eficially fed in his State. The hay is
cut short, mixed with bran, shorts or
middlings, and fed as other feed,
though hogs like it better if soaked in
swill or slop. 1T puts on flesh as rap
idly as anything that can be given
them"
"A tarantula fight was one of the
interesting events the other day at Los
Angeles (Cal.,) saloon. First a scor-
pion and a tarantula were pitted, the
latter killing the former, but losing
leg in the contest. The wind-up was
between the victor and large black
tarantula, in which the latter killed the
former.
The brontosaurus is one of the ami
mails now extinct which once inhabited
America. 1t is probable that we have
no occasion to be sorry that he is ex-
tinct. He was about fifty feet long,
and must have looked like a snake
mounted on four legs set under the
middle third of the body. He had q
small head and a large tail, and weighed
about twenty tons.-N. Y. Sun.
"A rather singular accident hap
pened to Mr.. Keeny, at Moscow, Ida
no, recently. While riding horseback
he observed lying on the ground a
small package. and, dismounting,
picked it up and got into the saddle
again. He proceeded to examine his
find, when revolver exploded in the
package, the bullet narrowly missing
Keeny, and lodged in the horses head,
killing the animal instantly.
"A Hallettsville (Tex.) boy shot at
rat that was crawling along a joist
near the cornice of house. The bull
let struck the joist, killed the rat,
struck knot, glanced, and, at an an
gle of ninety degrees and downward,
struck the boys father. who was walk
ing some fifty yards distant. The gen.
tleman's thumbs were in the arm-holes
of his vest, and the bullet entered his
arm at q point directly over the heart,
penetrating to some depth, but drop
ing out.-M Y. Times.
There seems to be growing belief
that Boston is losing her position of
the center OF culture, partly because
great literary men are decreasing in
number and partly because Bostonians
do not demand the best class of litera-
ture. Some one from the West said
recently: 1--WE know we need culture,
and we are determined to obtain it.
in ho oof hs,,k
bibe' it in the atmosphere. Consequent
~ we are gaining, while you are los
ing Chicago Herald.
Orders having come from Europe
that tight pants must go, the days of
the full-fedged dude appear to be num-
bered. 1t is hard to imagine dude
attired in any style of neither garment
other than that which fits him so close
ly as to impel the suspicion that it
must have grown ON him. The dude
of the future will be a dude only in
spots, and posterity will deplore
fashion which has stolen from the dude
of their daddies his most distinguishing
feature and most conspicuous trade
mark Chicago NeUs.
Miss Lille Grub, the comely young
lady who excited much masculine adj
miration while member of the Rice
Surprise Party last season, was married
the other day to George d'Eberhard, an
attache of the Mexican legation at
Washington. The Surprise Party seem
to have been veritable matrimonial
bureau on wheels. Two of the girls were
married in Frisco, three more in other
western cities, and two have jumped
the broomstick since the season closed.
Lone-lorn females would do we'll to cut
this piece out, paste it in their bonnets
and act upon the suggestions herein
= Chicago Tribune. ~
The large number of children left |
by the late lamented Gen. John B. |
Hood, have been adopted by various
parties throughout the Eastern and |
Southern States. A singular coinci-
dence is related in connection with |