The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-10-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT the comforting of degrees az
oxford the other day the Dean of Chi
chester, who has opposed women enter.
.he students.
"A microscopes describes the bill OF
mosquito as consisting of lance, two
meat saws. a pump, and small-sized
Gotiiss engine. No wonder it hurts
Chicago Times.
rr.. IA society has been organized at
cuca, N. r., for the reformation of the
CIRCUS and the revival of the clown, and
convention will be b ED there to de-
wise ways and means to secure these.
The question whether pictures
hanged upon the Walls of room are to
De ciassed as household furniture, ~
anu also liable 20 taxation, came before
= IniiadeipF.v. court and the Judge de-
cided it ia the negative.
In u olland cattle appear to be the
leading interest, forty per cent. of the
land ,cing devoted to meadow and
sIaS 5 land. The number of cattle is
est mated at 800, 900, sheep 1000, 900.
. zine 5O0,0 600, and horses 5000, 900.
Cattle and sheep have increased turing
Tho last twenty years, but swine have
fallen of.
One of the latest gifts from gen.
tleman to lady is q handsome case
containing a nail-polisher, scissors and
the various instruments and cosmetics
In use for the hands. These cases are
now SO elegant in design that even the
most fastidious of fashions beauties
need not scorn to accept these SOU
venirs.
The other day Conrad Bretthoner,
OF New York City, was sent to the PEN
htentiary for one year for bigamy, and
on the same dag five hundred Mormons
left the same city for Utah. This is a
free country, my son, for some people,
and the laws which govern us are fixed,
regular and harmonious as . March
wind.-Bnrlington Hawkeyc.
Another thing that should be urged
rs the most evident method of making
money easy is promptness in paying
bills. Many people will be apt to make
Dank failures and hard times an excuse
Tor putting off their creditors. Yet the
surest way to restore good times is for
every man to put what money he has
N. circulation for the cancellation of
debts. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The potato can be grown in Alaska
sn favorable seasons only. The ground
Is dug up and covered with a layer OF
kelp, and after this fertilizer has been
exposed to the air for week or two it
is dug under, and the soil shaped into
high, narrow beds, and planted in
shallow drills. The suns heat alone
is depended upon, and every opportu-
nifty given it to penetrate the ground,
which in that frigid country not only
gives out no warmth of its own, but
frequently remains frozen throughout
the year at depth beyond the inHu.
ance OF the suns rays Chicago Times.
That the Indians are year by year
Becoming more accustomed to civil
fzed ways, and are discarding many Of
their old, superstitious customs, is an
encouraging fact. Especially is this
observable on the reservations, where
the children of both sexes show them.
selves good students, and where the en-.
lightened ideas of the young people do
not fail of good effect upon their elders.
The entertainments given, by the In.
dian children in the towns contiguous
to the reservations in California and
Oregon are highly commended by the
press of those States as proving the
great progress which they have made
in education from books aud in manual
work. - Chicago Journal.
M. Vrignot. smart young Partisan
thief, finding himself discovered when
intent on lead stealing. promptly entered
house by skylight and requested
young woman at her sewing machine
to save him ''I'll sit here and peel
these potatoes. and when the police
come they will conclude that am your
lover" At this interesting juncture
the police came, and one cOIIared him
on ''spec," exclaiming: "Got you al
last, my boy" "You hear, my pet"
said Vrignot, ''thcse gentlemen mis-
take me for some other fellow" Miss
Melanie. however, who was not fasci-
mated with her impromptu adorer,
maintained an ominous silence, and the
would-be lover was led of to Jail.
"A strange loss of voice. A boy ten
years old can stand out in the street of
quiet village on calm summer after
noon and make the air culver, and
startle the doing population out of
years peace, by shrieking to boy
three-quarters Of mile away: "O,
Skinned! Comm nout latter support"
And the other lad will yell back, with
awful distinctness aud care: Eyes!
Gityer nigger -shooter'n' come TO the
auction store" And they will converse
in the-same thrilling pitch and mad
dening force if they are only ten feet
apart. But twenty or thirty years
afterward, either of these boys will get
up to address public meeting in hall
not fifty feet deep, and ten feet away
from the speaker not living soul can
hear a word he says.-Burtington
Hatckeye.
How the Bracelet Came Home.