The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

uoO1s al MUNICH, next OCTOBER.
"A Vermont man has a parrot that
ne has succeeded in teaching to recite
nearly half the Twenty-third Psalm
Rutland Herald.
A whale sixty feet long and thir
teen feet high has been killed off Beau.
fort, s. c. Sixty barrels of oil was ex.
pected.- So. Louis Post.
Since the recent Southern cyclone,
the enterprising citizens of the section
Through which the storm passed have
been industriously at work digging
refuge caves.
"A series of prehistoric mica mines
have recently been discovered in Louis
lana. The surrounding vegetation
shows that at least 500 years have
elapsed since they were abandoned
N. q. Times.
in 1859 William HI. May, of Troy
was divorced from one wife and married
to another. He discovered somehow re-
Gently that the Judge of 1859 had moi
signed the decree, so that he was slGr',
undivorced, and the error of twenty five
years was corrected by Judge In <alls
few days Troy Times.
One of the latest cheats q toh.oco
paper. The stuff Is such N exact ;n;.
tation OF the natural tor ,acco leaf and is
so well favored that q takes a magni-
flying glass to Diet Get the deception.
Cigars made OF t. lis tobacco paper have
good flavor. surn well and hold thcir
white ash fir.miy.-M Y Tribune.
-ahe aid tramp who was "Michi-
gan hre sufferer" last summer, will go
on the. road this spring as an SOHO
HOOD sufferer" He thought once that
ne would have to appear as Java
ePSfAQaake sufferer" but the floods
AaSc fortunately rendered this rather
fazfetched excuse unnecessary.-Nor-
vsxsoUn Herald.
John Griffith, of Frederick, Nd,
received $1,000 for drove of cattle re-
Gently and in the evening started for
home. He had not arrived next morn
ing and was found by the roadside dead
by murder; but he had deposited the
money in the bank, so the plumber for
which he was killed did not reward his
murderers. Baltimore american.
According to c. A. Broadwater, a
prominent capitalist of Helena, Mon
tam, that Territory is not anxious for
admission into the Union, as the people
think shat the benefits derived from the
admission would hardly counterbalance
the heavy expense Incidental to the
maintenance of a State Government.
The world has probably never seen
just such a funeral procession as the
one of Lieutenant belongs, who
persisted in the north. It has traversed
S,O5l miles by reindeer, horse sleds and
by railroads preparatory to nearly
5000 miles of ocean transit, which
makes a distance of nearly half around
the world
Eyes," said the boy, II had a
beautiful dream last night. / dreamed
that l saw a big monkey plaguing cat
He'd take her by the tail and swing her:
then he'd grab her by the scruff of the
neck and hold her over the fire, and
then he'd clincb her by the small of the
back and squeeze her.. The cat yelled
awfully. 0. it was bully dream. y
N. Y. Maj.
six little stowaways, ranging ir
age from seven to thirteen, were landed
nm San Francisco recently, having been
brought over from Liverpool on sail
ing vessel. They protested to be or
phans, and wanted Ito come to the
States to earn fortune as bootblacks. :"
They have started in the business. San
Francisco Cali.
1t is stated that dark haired women
are preferred to blondes by marrying
men. To uphold this theory Chicago
physician has recently published stats
tics showing that in the area covered
by his researches blondes are generally
admired by poets and painters, but bru
nsttes more frequently capture the
wedding ring than do their light-haired
sisters. = Chicago Herald.
"A Western township correspondent
writes to his county paper concerning
recent wedding, which may account
for the wonderful redness of the West
crn evening sky: 1.-THE two were
thrown into one another's society, and
their souls mated in the impenetrable
mystery of their nativity, and being in.
stinctively drawn together, blended and
beautihed in the assimilated alembic OF
eternal love. "-Bufalo Express.
1t is said that the waste of valuable
timber in Eastern Tennessee is almost
uncomfortable. The finest specimens OF
walnut and cherry are used for fence
rails, fire wood, and similar purposes.
Since the government survey of the
country there has been change in this
respect, and the people are beginning
to appreciate the value of the timber re-
sources. Another result is that the
mineral resources are becoming known,
and investments both in timber and jim
mineral property are now made where
but short time ago they would have
been considered Improbable.
The Utica On. ~, Herald has fig
ured out the following; "The statement
that James S. Sherman is the youngest
man ever elected to the Utica mayor
atty is enough of an error to be an err
TOR. Mr.. Sherman was born October
"a, 1855, and elected Mayor March 4,
1884, at the age of twenty-eight years,
four months and ten DAYS. Roscoe
Conkling's record is better by eight
Ia on