The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-06-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

Six children have been killed, one
at time. by falling over a banister in
one tenement house in Cincinnati
Cincinnati Times.
Wilson Barrett is in training in En-
gland for an American tour. He is an
actor and will want about three dollars
a seat Chicago Herald.
One of Davy Crockett's old hunting
knives, with four-inch wooden handle
and six-inch blade, with a silver band
around the handle, has been presented
TO the Tennessee Historical Society.
"A monstrous meteor passed oyel
the town of Ciarksville, Tex, one night
recently, exploding with sound equal
to battery of heavy guns, and emitting
light brighter than the sun.
1t is no longer correct for young
ladies to say papa and mamma, The
good old fashioned father and mother
have actually come in style again.
Occasionally CLEAN of sense shines
through.-M. Y. Graphic.
"A young lady in Hartford objected
to the mutilation of tree in her yard
by party of telephone linemen. They
didn't heed her protest until she COW
cred them with a revolver, and then
they decided to stop Hartford Post.
David +. Whitmer, still living in
Missouri at the age of eighty, was one
Of the three witnesses who in 1880 pub
lished certificate declaring that they
saw an angel come down with the gold
en- book which Joseph Smith, the Nor
mon, pretended to interpret Louis
Post.
1t has been noticed in Washington
that all the deaths which have taken
place among members of the House
during the sessions since the Forty-fifth
Congress, on both the Republican and
Democratic side, have been from the
middle fourth row. That row has, there
fore, been called Fatality Row.
Washington Post.
Il jealous Providence husband be-
came SO indignant at fellow passen-
ger in street car because he gazed di-
rectly across at his wife that he got up
and slapped him in the face. just then
the car stopped and little, thinly clad
girl assisted the offender off the car. He
was stone blind.-Prouidenc (R. ~
Journal.
The Lord Mayor of Sandwich, En-
gland, followed his clipping daughter
from Europe, and found her in Austin,
Texas. A detective. employed for the
purpose. decoyed the young husband
off on a hunt, and the father persuaded
his daughter to pack her trunk, and
they quietly left for home. Louis
Post.
Georgia journalists delight in re-
counting wonderful stories ii the raw
ages by the recent cyclone. The latest
says that one of the inhabitants of an
interior town has dollar bill that was
carried mile by the cyclone. 1t was
in his sisters purse, which was in her
pocket. The wind tore the purse from
her pocket, opened the purse, took out
the dollar, carried it mile and dropped
it with only small hole in the center.
The relations of woman are I'M
doubtedly broadening when many are
devoting themselves with energy to the
higher education and to professional
training. 1t is well that this is so, fos
there are women who have no 'scall''
to marry, and are happier alone.
Easily troubled people are sometimes
perplexed at this state of things, and
wonder what will be done for wives and
mothers in the future: but there is
really no occasion for alarm. The old
ideal of the happy home and purely
womanly duties will always lead all
others, until the very nature of woman
is changed.-N. T. Post. ~al-r s-t s'Fl