The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-08-30
MIsCHILAyBOUs.


The experiment. Of ostrich farming
In Florida has proved failure. Chi
cogo Times.
-Yaller Dog and Raw Dog are the
names oftwo little towns south of Hepp-
ner. Oregon.
Telegraph wires were recently
worked from Chicago to London
1000 miles. = Chicago journal.
a Baptist lady in Texas devotes to
the Lords cause ali the eggs laid by
her hens on Sunday. Chicago Tribune.
IL am so much in sympathy with
nature" remarked a young Gusher to
lady friend, as he plucked bunch of
grass in the Seventh ward park.
YES" she replied; "all shades of
green do harmQnize." Gusher says he
can't imagine what she was driving at.
-Peck's San.
Maggie Lee, magnetic girl, !"
gave performance in Frankfort, Ky,
the other night, in presence of Proctor
Knott and . large audience. A man
weighing 225 pounds sat in q chair, and
she easily lifted him and the chair by
touching the chair with the tip of her
fnger.-Louisriiic Courier Journal.
"A painful episode of disappointed
love has just occurred in Paris. Some
watermen found the bodies OF q young
man and woman, tied together, floating
In the Seine. 1t was evidently case
of double suicide, and. from informa-
ton afterward acquired. it appears that
the hapless couple, who belonged to o
respectable class of society. had been
thwarted in their desires Of union by
the father of the girl, who had other
views for his daughter.
"A regularly organized band OF
young thieves, calling themselves the
Ozark Spirits" has been unearthed in
Sumter, Ga. They have a captain,
signs and passwords. Ten boys of re
spectacle parentage were identified as
members Of the band. They have been
very successful in thieving, the pro-
ceeds of which consisted Of watches,
knives, cuff buttons, silk handkerchiefs,
money, etc. Some ten-cent novels were
found in their possession. y Chicago
Times.
"A man from the country stepped
Into gun shop on Austin Avenue to
buy gun. Several muzzle loading
guns were shown him. but he said he
preferred breech-loader. IL suppose
you prefer breech-loader on account
Of 1t being easier and>quicker to loadp"
mo, 1t isn't that particularly l had
an old musket that loaded at the muz
zle, but one day it went off at the
breech and nearly blew my head off
Instead of . gun that loads ut the
muzzle and goes of at the breech,
want one that can load at the breech
and fire of ut the other end. - Tezas
Siftings.
AT the single yard of Mrs. Matilda
Seymour, on Raft River. about thirty
miles from Mobile, Ala, may be seer
an unusual and interesting sight in the
shape Of pet alligator. The pet is over
nine feet long, aud as gentle and docile
rs kitten. At the sound of his name
called by any one of the Seymour
family, be will Immediately crawl out
OF the water ard perform whatever is
required Of him In the way of carrying
baskets, picking up sticks. etc. One
peculiarly of the saurian is his intense
fear of dogs. He cannot be induced to
come ashore If there is dog in the
vicinity, and II on shore when one APP
pears will at once take to the water
81 Louis Post.
The Treasurer Of one of the coun-
ties of Maryland says it is even won
der to him that defalcations are moi
more numerous than they are. tempta-
tons are so strong. 'When l first
took hold of the Treasurcship of our
county," says he, II was literally be-
sieged with letters, circulars and con-
fidential communications from New
York banking firms of doubtful noto-
riety. They came in every mail. They
were marked private personal and
all that sort Of thing. They proved to
neon paper, of course--how / could
easily double all investments. They
showed that by putting my money up
was absolutely certain to win, and
that it was an impossibility for me te
lose"
1t is proposed to enact law pro
hibiting fishing with nets in the Poto.
mac for five years, in the hope of re-
storing the ancient piscatorial glory Of
the river Three hundred thousand
shad were often caught at one good
landing on the Potomac during the
spring fishing. beginning about the
middle of March and terminating early
in May, and half q million herring
were taken during the season. Stur
geon, rock, and other fish were CORES.
pondingly numerous. Shad brought
from IS to S12 per hundred, herring 81
per thousand, sturgeon three cents pei
pound, and rock from e3 to 81 pei
thousand. The sturgeon weighed from
forty to one hundred and fifty pounds
the rock one to seventy five, aud shac
three to six pounds. b. Washington Post
COlOra6oss Climate.