The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-06-14
MISCELLANEOUS.


Henry Barnes, five -year-oId boy
in Springfield, o.. recently died ter
rible death from the effects of eating
the peel of half an orange. 4
Women are becoming very popu-
lar in Valparaiso, Chill, as street-car
!. conductors. Travel has increased fifty
per cent. since their advent in their new
role.
Many of the Arabs captured in thu
battle of Teb said they knew nothing Of
the English forces, had never heard of
their victory over Arab, had never
heard of Arab himself, and had never
heard of Tewfik.
Captain Austin, who calls himself
n crack rifle shot, was cowardly enough
10 attempt recently in England the feat
of shooting potato of his wife's head.
He succeeded in his first shot, but at the
second his bullet struck the unfortunate
woman in the forehead where it glanced,
saving her from death, it is true, but
making frightfnl scar three inches
long.-N Y Sun.
w. s. Cooper. employed in Brook
lyn newspaper Office, has adopted a
novel plan for paying his landlady for
board. He took the lady to the theaters
very frequently on free tickets, and
when she presented her bill for five
weeks board. he met it with another
bill charging her full rates for the en-
tertainments she visited with him,
bringing her in BROOKLYN Eagle.
Speaking of Mexican women, a
traveller says that 1.-THE daughters of the
wealthy pass their lives in vacuity; those
of the poor are half fed and half dressed,
and nearly all look hunger-bitten and
badly developed. The health of the
higher class of women is wretchedly
poor. A plump, healthy woman is
rarity. The picture SO often seen on
the cigar boxes of a beautiful senorita,
swinging in voluptuous languor in a
hammock, is pictorial fraud.
"A Comstocker, writing from Eagle
City TO the Virginia New Enterprise,
saws: 1.-The Cpur d. Alenc liar is the
boss liarof the Western world. Neither
the Arizona liar, the Colorado liar, the
New Mexican liar, nor the Nevada liar
can stand before the Ceur d Alene liar
half a round. He has cold, hard
cheek of marble mule and the eye of
basilisk. When he goes for the poor
pilgrim it is equal to n stroke of
paralysis
There is place in the Blue Ridge
Mountains, in West Virginia, where
snow melts as fast as it falls, and where
the temperature of the ground never
reaches the freezing point. Vegetation
is ALWAYS a month ahead of the sur
rounding sections. There is about one
acre of this warm area. The State
g. g h. hof thnr
may be volcano slumbering a few
hundred feet below the surface.-Chi-
cago Herald.
The ..letter" presented to the His
torical Society of Pennsylvania, by K.
Coulton Davis, at the inaugural cere-
monies of its new building on the 18th
inst, is the commission of Benjamin
Franklin to be Minister Plenipotentiary
10 the Court of France, directed to
Louis XVI. and signed by Henry
I.aurens, President of the Continental
Congress, 1873. 1t is in q glazed
frame, accompanying which is q rare
French engraving of Franklin, in which
.'Diogenes'' is represented with his
lantern, as having found an honest
man. Philadelphia Press.
In boring for water near Snake
River. about forty-five miles from Day
ton, Ore, recently, q stratum of frozen
earth was encountered at depth oi
fifty-five feet. Passing through this for
five feet numerous cavities were found,
from which cold air came in gusts.
The escaping air at the bottom Of the
we'll can be heard roaring at some dis
lance. 1t is not possible for anyone to
hold his hand over the we'll for any
length of time without freezing it, and
bucket of water let down into the wei
was frozen over in q few minutes
Work on the well has been abandoned
on account of the cold. Chicago Times
"A genuine snake hunt of considera
bic proportions took place near Pleas
ant Plains, 5. l., afew days ago. NeaI
the village is the ''snake woods" A
party of young men from pleasant
Plains entered the woods provided with
shovels, picks and crowbars. Rotter
stupps and large stones were over
turned and mounds with snake-holel
about them were opened. In ever,
case hundreds of reptiles were fount
coiled up and matted together. They
were chopped to pieces by the shovels
The party worked hard several hour
and left in the woods an enormous
number of dead reptiles. Severa
thousand must have been slaughtered
M Y. San.
He Kept His Word.