The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-23
MISCELLANEOUS.


"A st. Louis Judge proposes to put
down flirting. II shall. he said in
discussing case, .'dismiss every case
of Misunderstanding where it can be
shown that the woman first fIirted with
the accused"
A Hartford photographer had posed
a pretty country girl for a picture.
When he came out with the prepared
plate she smelled the chemicals and
rushed out, declaring he was going to
'chloroform her.
The word Dcseret, SO commonly
used by the Latter-Day Saints, is term
found in the Book of Mormon, and sig-
niles ''boney-bee. 1t has no reference
to the desert. rs has been commonly
supposed.
This country is enthusiastically
spoken of by an English visitor as q
land where the reaper runs all summer.
beginning in Texas in May, and some-
times earlier, the harvest travels north
ward by steady marches until it ends
in September in Northern Dakota and
Minnesota.
The Schuyler mansion at Albany.
now occupied by Gen. Charles Tracy,
is the historic house where Burgoyne
was entertained after his surrender,
where Alexander Hamilton courted and
welded his bride, and where. in later
Years, billiard Fillmore was married.
Troy IN. ~ Times.
The bad effect upon the digestive
organs of the unnatural, if not cruel,
system of clipping horses is thus noted
by the Breeders Gazette: "a newly
clipped horse will eat everything in
reach, thus overtaxing his stomach,
while the removal of warm outer COW
ering-which over the abdomen is rarely
artifcially eplaced-produces chilled,
collicky condition that sometimes ends
in chronic arrangement of the entire
intestinal canal"
Emma Bode, of New York, aged
seventeen, alleges that Henry May
burger, aged twenty, promised to marry
her. Her father brought suit in the
Marine Court demanding $4,000 dam
ages for the loss of her services. She
testified that every Sunday from No
vember, 1881, to February, 1882, she
went out with Mayburger He used to
sit on q fence near her house and wait
till she came out. The jury gave the
father a verdict for the full amount
claimed and costs. IN. Y Sun.
The proposed bridge across Niagara
River, at Niagara Falls, for the Canada
Southern, is decided fact. The con-
tract has been given to Buffalo bridge
company to build double-track steel
truss bridge, with stone piers on each
side of the river from the waters edge.
Work will be finished by December l.
Men have been cutting trees from the
bank on both sides. The site is about
four hundred feet to the falls side of the
railway suspension bridge.-N. Y. Her.
aid.
Near the steamboat wharf at La
coma, N. H., is a nearly air-tight brick
vault with capacity of five to six hum
dred bushels in which are deposited the
wood ashes made by the steamer Lady
of the Lake during the summer season.
The other day the vault was opened the
first time since, the steamer stopped
running, period of about five months,
for the purpose of taking away some of
the ashes, when the astonishing discov-
cry was made that the center of the
mass was as hot as when taken from
the furnaces and the Goals were still red
hot.-B0ston Herald.
"A novel chase was witnessed in East
Marlborough, Pa, the other day. Two
foxes were discovered chasing a COM
mon cat in woody hollow. The chase
was nip and tuck affair when first
noticed, and so continued for few Sec
onds, when it was suddenly terminated
by the cat bounding up a tree, and in so
doing displayed cunningness thatmust
even have surprised the foxes. They
were close upon the heels of the cat,
and tabby, realizing her danger, ran,
first behind the tree and then up, so
that before her pursuers could stop and
get in position to jump she was up out
of their reach Philadel phia Press.