The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-07-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

No one can look into the future.
Voltaire's house is now used as repos-
itory for Bibles. m. Y. Graphic.
Flowers decorate the horses, drive,
and footman of the carriage in which
brides are carried to church this season.
Omaha reports the cost of living
there thirty per cent. more than in
other cities of similar size in the region.
The Empress of Austria is learning
to set type in her boudoir at Vienna, so
as to print with her own hands some
poems she has written.
A paper published in Biddeford,
Me-, contains an advertisement offer
ing for sale "a cottage of nine rooms,
all furnished, with stable, including nice
boat and piano directly fronting the
ocean," This gives the piano q grand
opportunity.
A Vermont editor wants to know
what gives color to pure water. We
don't know what they generally use up
in Vermont, but down this way it Is
generally something that is not legally
sold except under icense.-LOCeu
Commercial.
-Four slaves were recently sold in
the public street at Tangier, only few
yards from the British legation. Euro
pean visitors were naturally shocked at
the spectacle, and have been wondering
ever since that such traffic should be
tolerated within twenty miles Of Europe.
"A wretched old digger of clans.
Asa Dyer, recently died at New Bed
ford, leaving several thousand dollars
in a bank and several hundreds hid
away in tomato cans and under the
flooring of his miserable howell, of which
$500 in greenbacks was so mutilated as
to be worthless. Boston Herald.
When Ira Phillips, Deputy Mar
shall of Pittsboro, went to an illicit dis
tiller's house, the other day, to arrest
him, the moonshine dropped quietly on
the floor, stretched himself at full
length, and told the officer to take away
the goods. As the distiller weighed
800 pounds, the revenue officer was
obliged to go for help, and when he re-
turned the bird had flown. Louisville
Courier-,Journat.
The necessity for some regular sys-
tenn of railroad time Is illustrated by
the fact that traveller going from
Boston to Denver over the Hoosac Tun-
mel, Ne W York Central, Canada South
ern, st. Louis & Pacific, Wabash and
Kansas Pacific lines, has to set his
watch no less than seven times-fof
Boston, Albany, Hamilton, Chicago,
St. Louis, jefferson City and Denver
Chicago Tribune.
of course Mr.. Talmage must have
his say about topics of the day. In the
course of his sermon last Sunday he
spoke of ssthat creature with pointed
shoe-toe and tight-bandaged limbs and
elbows drawn back and infinitesimal
cane and sickening swagger and idiotic
talk, born in America, yet poor copy
of foppish Euglishman, the nux womb
ca of modern society, commonly called
the dude. IN Y. Herald.
Judge David Davis. while on his
wedding trip, said to San Francisco
reporter: You newspaper men are the
most persistent and aggravating people
alive. / declare, have not had q mo-
ment's peace from them anywhere.
There is consequently but one place
which 1 can look back upon with q
sense of enjoyment-Santa Fe-for
there, thank heaven, finished my stay
without running foul of even one of
Them"
The largest block of stone ever
transported, not excepting those in the
Chinese wall and the Pyramids, was that
from which was cut the pedestal of the
statue of Peter the Great, in St. Peters
burg. 1t was block of granite weigh
ing 1900 tons, and was found isolated
on marshy ground about four miles
from the Neva. Its shape was that of
an irregular prism, twenty-four feet
high, forty-seven feet long and thirty
feet broad in its largest dimensions.
do you know the prisoner?" asked
Harlem judge of witness. Eyes,
sir, I do; know him intimately; he and
were in bank together at the same
time" ..Ah, when was that?" was the
question of shrewd lawyer, who was
counsel for the prisoner. ''Well, as
near as l can remember, it was five
years ago, and about three o'clock in
the morning; none of the bank officers
were present at the time" The wit
ness was speedily excused. - arlem.( NJ
~ Times.
Sophia Williams, of Philadelphia,
is foreigner, but that doesn't prevent
her from having three husbands. all
alive and kicking, because she has not
received at least two divorces. She il q
practical poisoner, too, in small way,
having tried to do away with her third
better halls children by former wife,
and now charged with having attempted
to poison two of her own offspring.
Give Sophia fair field and no favors
and there will be no marketable hus-
bands or children left in few weeks
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