The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-09-20
MISCELLANEOUS,

Canada refuses to allow Kentucky
whisky to 60 through the Dominion, en-
route to New York. IN. Y. Sun.
Who wrote the most, Dickens.
Warren or Bulwer? Warren wrote
SHOW and Them Bulwer wrote
"Night and Morning." and Dickens
wrote Gall the Year Round. Dry
Goods Bulletin.
-Gustave j. Lowengart, of San
Francisco. having lost heavily by gamb-
ling, threatened the life of his uncle
unless 81 600 was given him. When an
officer arrived to arrest him, LOwengart
killed himself with revolver.
The British Consul in Galveston
has word of warning for ne'er-do-
wells intending to emigrate from En-
gland to Texas. He says: young
men from desk in an office, unac-
quainted with country life and unaccus-
toned to manual labor, had better stay
at home. find many such are induced
to come here, and the result is that they
become 'loafers,' and rapidly descend
in the social SCALE"
There Is law in Minnesota pro-
viding for the punishment by fine and
Imprisonment of the crime of stealing
or destroying fruit, and much heavier
penalty for wilfuily or maliciously mu-
tilating in any way trees, ornamental
plants, or vegetables, upon any street
or highway in any city or village. This
is good law and deserves to be adopted
by every State.-N. Y. Examiner.
1T was the punishment of Sisyphus,
who was an original seller of strawber
ries, that he had to forever roll q huge
stone up an impossible hill. The mod
ern strawberry dealers punishment is
somewhat similar. He is doomed to
the perpetual attempt to put quart Of
berries into pint box. He always
fails, but he keeps at it with pluck
that deserves commendation.- Toronto
Globe.
"A young Jerseyman sued young
lady who rejected him for the engage
ment ring be gave her. whereupon the
maiden father sued the youth for the
firewood and oil that were consumed
during the courtship; also for the meals
the wOoer ate at the house and for the
fodder the horse consumed during the
the same time. The most discOuraging
part of the affair is that the father of
the tickle maiden won the suit. But it
must be rendered that this happened
in New Jersey. Chicago Herald.
How little some business men know
of their ncighbors, says the Philadelphia
Call, is well illustrated by story told
by gentleman in the street car. He
has been living in his present home for
nearly year, and his nearest neighbor
was in the street before he came there.
The other day his little boy broke a
window next door while playing ball.
The father called that evening to apol-
ogize, and to his surprise recognized
in the gentleman of the house an old
school friend who had once saved his
life at the risk of his own.
MIR. w. w. Graham read paper
recently before the members OF the
Royal Geographical Society, London,
On Travels and Accents in the Hima-
lays" There can be no doubt, he
thinks, that mans range is increasing.
In describing the highest point reached,
he said the last slope was pure ice, at
an angle of from forty-fve to sixty de-
grees. Having surmounted this peril
Gus mountain, he reached the lower
summit of Kabru, at least $500 feet
above the sea. This is the highest re-
corded ascent by LOO feet.
I'm a voyage from Rio Janeiro to
Bordeaux two French savants carefully
Investigated the quality of sea air.
They found in all instances that over
the open sea, at distance from the
vessel, the air was singularly free from
the multitude of organisms which are
found in land breezes. tits now believed
by these and other investigators that
none of the germs of an epidemic can
cross an ocean with the wind, but that
all low forms of life contained in it must
soon reach the water and die. Sea
voyages are now sometimes recon-
mended on this special ground.