The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-09-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

lie Dimenche, an Amiens paper,
has discovered that next year Is the
l,900th anniversary of the Virgin
Mary's birth, and advocates . celebra-
ton.
San Francisco has organized .
''Girls' Union" for the benefit of young
women who are strangers in the city
and who may need sympathy and as
sistance.- francisco Call.
A code of signals has been ar
ranged for Irritation by means of par
asols. but the code does not say what
carrying parasol just high enough to
scrape the ear of every man passed in .
crowded street means. Boston Post.
AT Naples the other day q steel
torpedo boat was launched. which had
been built there for the Italian Govern
ment. In her trial trip she not only
accomplished the stipulated speed
twenty miles per hour, but did
twenty one and . half miles, which is .
long way the best time on record.
The wealth of the United States is
estimated at $4,000, 900, 900; that Of
Great Britain at $40, 900, DOC, 900. The
wealth, per inhabitant in the United
States is $500, and in Great Britain it is
$1,000. In the United States seventy
two parts of the wealth go to labor,
twenty-three to capital and five to gov
eminent. In Great Britain forty-one
parts go to labor, thirty-six to capital,
and twenty-three to goyernment.-Chi-
cago Journal.
George Wilson, of Cleveland, O.,
has sued . firm of white lead manu-
facturers, his late employers. for $40. 900
damages, alleging that he and two
others were directed to clean out what
was called the cog-wheel room. beneath
the main floor of the factory, and that
he did not know the dangerous char.
acter of the work, ond was made iii for
q year, by the poisonous fumes of the
lead. and eventually totally blind. His
two fellow-workmen, he says, are dead.
Cleveland Leader.
DIR. Surge, medical missionary
to Siam, relates how q native doctor
administered an emetic to a iove-sick
lady who had swallowed q quantity OF
opium with suicidal intent The sci
enlist of Siam took live eel, clipped
off q part Of his tail to make him squirm
in lively manner, and then pushed
him. tail first, down the romantic
damsers throat. When the eel returned
to the stream of running water near
which the girl was made to recline the
opium quickly followed him.
Whats the matter with the bank?-
demand an excited Tourist Closed"
replied the calm citizen. 'What," ex-
claimed the excited one. mot closed?"
"Shut up tighter than wax" asserted
the calm one. swell, that's queer
said the tourist mot ten steps away
from where we now stand citizen told
me she was busted wide OPEN and
now you say she is shut up tight as
wax What liars some men are"
And he made an entry in his notebook.
Burlington Hawksye.
Recent defalcations and de6cien-
cies bring to mind the case of a colored
bank janitor who lived in Philadelphia
in 1857. He had been in the service of
the Pennsylvania Bank, the total wreck
of which was one of the incidents of
the panic of that year. As usual in
such wrecks. there was large de-
ficieucy. The books of the bank had
been kept in such mixed-up way that
its affairs were in great tangle. One
day it was announced that the directors
had found out how much the deficiency
was. The old darkey thereupon put
on all his dignity and remarked, 1--WE
don't care so much about knowing how
much de deficiency is; but de question
dat agitates my mind, and dat agitates
de mind OBJ de public, is, whar's de de-
ficiency gone to-" They never found
out exactly where the deficiency be.
took ITSELF Philadelphia Record.