The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-07-05
MISCELLANEOUS.


MIR. Magnin, Governor of the Bank
Of France, gave a grand reception
lately at his official residence on the an
niversary of the banks foundation
eighty-four years ago.
1t is estimated from a statistical
point of view that loss of appetite
among young people on account OF
love annually saves to this country
100000, 000.-M Y Graphic.
Henry Richardson, leading member
of the famous vigilance committee in
Brown County, Idaho, which hanged
fourteen horse-thieves in three months,
mas himself been lynched near his own
home.-Denrer Tribune.
New York policemen moistened
their uniforms with salt water to make
them look bright aud clean for inspec-
ton and avoid the order to buy new
ones, but an inspector noticed the damp
ness, marveled and had things dried
N. Y. Sun.
Formerly women could not legally
marry until they had spun a couple of
sets Of bed furniture; hence the term
spinster, which is still in use. If that
rule prevailed now, preachers wouldn't
get rich on their wedding fecs.-Boston
Globe
Munro Adams, the New York law
yer detected few weeks ago in giving
out forged divorces, had a business OF
nearly three hundred cases year, the
Herald says, which Melted him about
$4,000 year, after all expenses had
been paid.
-'Some business men are constantly
in fret" observes the Cincinnati Ga
zette; ..they worry while awake; they
worry in their sleep, and when they
have worried themselves into three or
four chronic diseases they find they
have something to worry about"
The latest trick of the emigrant
sharp is to sell the foreigners who land
from the steamers railroad passes at a
great reduction, which are worthless.
One fellow got rid of ninety among a
party of Italians, selling alleged tickets
to Pittsburgh for three dollars each. He
escaped with the booty Chicago Her
aid.
"A little boy was buried in Meridian
Miss, the other day, and behind the
hearse in the funeral procession walked
his pony with its saddle draped will
Grape Strangers even looked will
moistened eyes upon the little fellow
pet. upon which he had been often seer
to ride through the streets but little
while ago.
The natives of the Chloe Islands
mako use of curious natural bar
ometer, to which, from its having beer
first noticed by the Captain OF al
Italian corvette, the name ''Barometr'
Araucano" has been given. This move
weather guide is the shell of a crab
one of the dnomura, probably OF thu
genus Lithodes. 1t is peculiarly sensi
tive to atmospheric changes. 1t has
color nearly white in dry weather, Blu
as soon as wet weather approache
small red spots are exhibited, varyin:
in number and intensity with tn
amount of moisture in the atmosphere
In the rainy season it is completely red
Some interesting and extraordinar
data have been compiled respecting tn
Mississippi. 1t appears that it boast
tributary streams with total length Q
navigation of 1851 miles, or abou
two-thirds of the distance round tn
world. Even this, however, represent
but a small amount of the navigatio
which will follow when the Federal Gov
eminent has made the contemplate
improvement in the Upper Missi'
sippi, in the Minnesota, WiscOnsi
and other rivers, in which it
now engaged. But while the Missi
sippi has 1851 miles navigable
steamboats,, it has 20,221 miles nav
gable to barges. This navigation
divided between twenty-five States an
Territories. -Southern Manufacturer