The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A thirteeu-year-old girl in Leeds,
Ontario, weighs one hundred and sew
enty-five pounds and is twenty pounds
heavier than her father.
"A billiard room loafer at Denver
bet five dollars he could swallow live
frog. and live frog six il ches long and
two inches beam went down his throat.
-Denrer Tribune.
The London Medical Nesos, after
weighing the arguments for and against
the theory that consumption is caused
by specific bacteria, decides that the
balance of proof is in that direction.
The champion stallion stake organ.
lied by Pierre Lorillard was assigned to
the Louisville Jockey Club on its bid OF
$10,575, and will be run at the fall meet
ing of the club in September.
On account of the demand for ALI
gators Florida man has begun to cul-
tivate them, and has 1920 of the rep
tiles ready for shipment. They are to
be sent to all parts of the country.
twenty-five pounds of unmarked
dynamite were recently found trav-
cling by itself on a western rail-
road. The baggageman who had twice
started to sling it across the car didn't
stop sweating for four hours after he
discovered what it was.-Detroit Post.
"A visionary local financicr, who had
q thousand ways to make q fortune and
not a single one TO make living, is de-
scribed by a friend as "a man so SAN
guine that the mere getting hold of a
shoestring makes him think he is al
ready the owner of tannery.-W Wash
ington Sunday Herald.
DE Lesseps writes that the proposed
inland African sea is perfectly feasible.
Shafts have been sunk to the depth of
two hundred and twenty feet, meeting
with nothing but sand. and the entire
ground has been carefully gone over,
requiring only one hundred engines re-
presenting the labor of 100, 900 men to
make it a success.
|. Major Henry Bull owns large and
very valuable lot almost in the center of
the city of Providence, r. l., for which
no deed or title exists. 1t was purchased
from the Indians by one of his ancestors
in 1886 1t came very near passing out
of the possession of the Bulls about one
hundred years ago through game of
old sledge.
The Government Printing Office
has recently completed what is probably
the largest single order for printing
ever issued, namely $4,000, 600 of labels
in red ink for the Treasury Depart
ment. The job required I 200 reams of
fine paper and 81, 900 worth of red ink.
1t was completed within six days after
the order was received.
1t is said that in Helena, M. T., and
Portland. Oregon, servant girls get
thirty dollars per month. Even at that
rate of wages servant girls are scarce.
The reason why is that girl has not
been in the Territory or State q week
before she has an offer of marriage. So
pressing are the offers that the girls in
evitably succumb after short resistance.
Still, girls waiting for offers or service
will do well to learn the true facts in the
case before emigrating to the single
woman's Utopia--Chicago Nescs.
On the road between Bridgeport
and Trumbull is house which is minus
front stoop and the sill of the front
door is several feet above the ground.
This lacking stoop has a history. When
the house was built it had stone steps
which led up to the front door. A few
years ago man driving by the house,
seeing the steps, thought he would like
to procure some like them. He offered
the owner of the house fair price for
them, which was accepted and the steps
were carted away. The owner of the
house loved money. and it is said that
rather than go to the expense of putting
up another stoop, he has since used the
back door of his house exclusively
Hartford fCt) Courant.