The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-07-12
MISCELLANEOUS.


Nine hundred and eighty-four men
enlisted in the navy last year.-N Y
Herald.
Pals of water in which hay has
been stepped absorbs the smell of fresh
paint. A saucer Of ground coffee will
serve like purpose.-7roy Times.
"A marine insect or worm, the tor
redo, has honeycombed seventy feet Of
piling at large steamship pier in New
ferk. making the pier too weak for
safe use.
New spring bonnets are certainly
very beautiful, but it would interest
horticulturists to know where the
flowers grow that are represented on
some of them.
"A San Francisco woman seated
herself in the opera house aisle and
threatened Ito holler fire" if the police
man removed her. She sat the opera
out unmolested.
Belgian citizens, to be entitled to
vote, must first pass an examination in
geography, Belgian history, constitu-
tional laws and ethics, unless they are
property-holders.
$40 lady or gentleman" emphat-
ically remarks rural Vermont paper,
mo matter how costly or fashionable
their raiment, will sit in church and
eat peanuts.
Nellie Fargo, an inmate of the
Charlotte (vt.) Poor-house, starved
herself TO death recently because a
blind man to whom she was attached
had died.-Rutiasd Herald.
The Hindoo beggars pursue their
calling on horseback. A writer says
they will stand all day before a house
unless given aims, and are quite capa-
bic OF pursuing anybody who runs away
from them.
The Coroner's jury found that John
c. Cobb, of Darien. Ca, had died from
the excessive use of alcoholic liquors.
the evidence showing that he absorbed
four pints within twelve hours. Chicago
Herald.
"A child recently born in Bangor,
Me-, is of the fifth living generation
of its family. Its great-great-grand
mother is eighty-five, its great-grand-
mother sixty, its grandmother forty one
and its mother twenty years of age.
There are $500 Edison lights in ten
cotton mills in Fall River. and so popu-
lar are they that the hands in one mill
struck against all work by gaslight in a
mill where they refused to put in cleo
tricity. Boston Herald.
1T is calculated that there are now
residing in the United States nearly q
thousand Japanese, and of this number
1t is said that not one has ever been
convicted of any criminal offense in an
American court
"A crank who represented himself
to be the slayer of President Lincoln,
and who said he was then on his way to
see President Arthur to recover 81 900,
600 due him, was recently arrested at
the White House. = Washington Star.
is consumption an infectious dis
ease? The results of recent investi-
cation by the British Medical Associa-
ton give strong color to the theory that
it is. Circulars were sent out to over
1000 physicians asking for opinions
and experiences in that connection, and
of the number who replied decided
majority expressed belief in the at
firmative. OF the cases reported there
were 1872 where the disease was COM
municated from husband to wife. OF
evice versa, and in 130of these cases the
fact is distinctly noted that no family
prcdsposition to consumption existed
In the person who caught the infection.
-"Mugwump' is new Slang word
in New York. The Sun says it is ar
ancient New England term, and smack'
of the language of the red man. 1t i.
used to signify, when gravely spoken
q man Of Importance, but more com
monty a man who thinks himself of inn
portance. Governor Waller, of Con
necticut, is responsible for the renewed
and widened interest in the word, hs
having discovered it in some recently
published letters OF his. A leader such
as Governor Waller is in Connecticut
or an authority like Lindley Murray i.
mugwump. A synonym for the wore
in its other sense is the New Yorl
term, big Bug" or the Washington
expression, ''Swellhead."
TIM To1efuO Gov