The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-06-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

The wash boiler should always be
carefully dried, and if there is the least
tendency to rust rub the inside with q
little lard.
The Earl of Dunraven, in paper
In the Nineteenth Century, pronounces
the United States Senate ...the strong.
est, most efficient and the most capable
Legislative body in the world.
During fire in Capp's block at
Portland, Maine. some men carried a
keg Ut powder from an upper room
down through the flames without ar
explosion. Herald.
In fit of rage Adelbert Clark. OF
Elba, N. T., beat his wife cruelty. The
neIghbors who were attracted by the
noise took Clark into the woods, thrash.
ed him, tarred and feathered him, and
sent him aome.-N Y. Sun.
DR.. OFT has learned that the rattle
snakes tail makes sixty vibrations per
second This must have necessitated
about sixty-one vibrations per second
on the part of DIR. Ott.-Philadelphia
Gall
KIDD words don't cost anything
This u. what Miss Porter, a worthy
kenh icky girl, thought when she re-
plied pleasantly to the salutations of
gra' J-haired tramp. He has died and
leff her snug little fortune, and now she
thu nks they are worth good deal
L 1uisCQte Courier-Journal.
"A mirror laid fat on its back and
edged with flowers and moss is the cor
rect thing just at present for the table
at evening parties. 1t looks so much
like pond that imagination makes the
guests feel as if they had caught the
malaria, and that is awfully fashionable.
Boston Transcript.
"A prominent violinist asserts that
the popular belief that the manufacture
of superior violins is s'lost art" is
sheer delusion. He says no better vio
Inns are made or ever were made than
the be st instruments now manufactured
In this country, and that no competent
judge ever thinks of importing an in
strr.ment from Europe.-N. Y. Herald.
The spelling reformers are making
progress. An exchange gives the style
of the coming police court reformer
thus: "a beautiful but jelus woman
piched into fair gest Of her husband,
and, after giving her fierse tung har-
ang, took a sithe and thretened to cut
her hole he'd of, and had not sum singl
wimen calld the police she wud hav
made her a gost.-C Chicago Inter Ocean.
The New York pilot boat En-
chantress cQllided with schooner and
her crew jumped off. The Enchantress
went down the coast under full sail
without soul aboard. Fifteen miles
out she was picked up by schooner.
and crew returned her. A fine gold
watch, a heavy diamond pin and con-
siderable personal property Of value
were found in her cabin. Y. Sum.
"A New York doctor has been read
ing paper ON dreams before . medi-
cal society of that city, in which he
stated that dreams differ according to
the food taken into the stomach of the
sleeper. ''Thus," he says, ..if a man
sleeps with his stomach full of corned
beef and other solids his dreams will be
very different from what they would be
If he had the same stomach distension
from eating food of less gravity"
James Campion, an old resident OF
Rochester, Mimi, is the subject of q
most curious physiological phenome-
non. His hair and beard, which have
always been so black as to give him the
sobriquet of BLACK Jim" suddenly
commenced to turn gray, and in less
than one week turned as white as the
driven snow. Campion is forty-five
years old, and was in perfect health at
the time. He can assign no reason for
the strange occurrence. = Chicago
Herald.
"A Tucson CA. To- paper says that
ore afternoon recently when the east
oound passenger train was about ten
mites out a rare mirage of the entire
train was reflected on the western
horizon, and could be seen moving at a
rapid rate for more than one mile along
in the air. The color of the cars was
very distinct, and the entire train SO
well outlined that it was readily iden-
titled on its approach to the depot. The
sight was witnessed by large number
of persons.