The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-02-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Florida newspapers have their joke
about the swamp lands. Some of them
say that the lands are to be sold ''by the
gallon"
"A Brooklyn policeman was fined
two days pay for saying to citizen:
"You would swear the legs of an iron
pot."-N. Y Mail.
The Iron Mountain Railroad COM
pany sent nine tons of documents to
England, giving facts and figures in
viting immigration, but sent no money
to pay the freight or distribute them,
and they are going as waste to the
paper mills.-T. Louis Post.
Michael Crosby arrived in New
York recently from Hamburg, bound
for Mauch Chunk. He said he in
tended to walk there. He had plenty
of money, but declared that he enjoyed
walking, having often tramped one
hundred miles in twenty-four hours in
his native land.-N. y. Sun.
Somebody told President Arthur
that George Bliss had said that young
Allan Arthur was little wild and
should be looked after. Mr.. Arthur
said, with some impatience: George
Bliss had better mind his own business.
He and you and I were all boys our
selves, and you cannot make an old
man out of boy Washington Post.
John Huntington, of Cleveland,
cannot be blamed If he favors monopo-
lies. Some years ago he put $26,00
into the Standard Oil Company, and
has drawn large dividends ever since.
The other day in New York he was Of
fered $1,000,000 for his interest and
sold it. He came home with a deed for
a $4,000 house in one pocket and
drafts for 5000, 600 in the other.-C leve-
land Herald.
The Government of France offers .
prize of $4,000 francs for the discovery
that shall enable electricity to be APP
piled ecomically in any one of the fol-
lowing directions: As source of heat,
of light, of chemical action, of mechan-
ical power. as means Of the transmits
sion of intelligence or the treatment of
disease, the prize being open to all
nationalities, and to be awarded in De-
cember, 1887.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, recently, Den
mis- Killer, drunken young loafer,
overlook Mr.. John Clair, q well known
citizen, who had but one leg, and told
him to walk faster. Mr. Clair replied
that he was walking as fast as an arti-
fetal leg would let him, and without
more ado, the loafer shot him fatally,
firing four bullets into him after the
first one had dropped him. Pittsburgh
Post.
Mrs. Mackay's country residence is
the Chateau de Villebon, quaint old
pile of the fourteenth century, situated
near Palasien, about twenty miles from
Paris, and surrounded with immense
park estates. The California million
aires wife is devout Catholic and
keeps her purse string open for the
church. When they they got up a
benefit for the sufferers by the Ischia
disaster she was asked to buy some
tickets. Her reply was quiet check
for 5000 francs.
just after the Sunday School exer-
cises in Trinity Church, Mobile, recent
ly, the sexton began to ring for the
morning service. As the bell did not
sound right. he requested the boys to
go out of the tower room, and a second
later down came the bell through floor
after floor, cutting its way as neatly as
q cannon ball might have done, and
landing in the cellar, fifty-five feet be-
low. The sexton lodged aside Just in
time TO save his head. The bell lies
mouth up in the cellar, and is unin-
jured; but it has lost its clapper.-M
o. Rcdyune.
DIR. j. II Sidall, q successful dent
list, recently became insane and was
sent to Jail. Six years ago he shot and
killed Matt Mcclure, brother of ex-C Con-
gresham Mcclure, of Wooster, in q
quarrel about a woman. Heacted very
strange lately. One freak was the pur-
chase of half q dozen market baskets,
which he carried through the streets all
together. Another was trying to buy
all the real estate he could find for
sale. The other day he created sem
sation in Methodist Church by walk
ing up the aisle with cigar in his
mouth. He made five attempts to shoot
DR.. Dougherty, rival dentist, but was
prevented. His insanity is the result Of
brooding over the killing of McC lure, of
which he was acquitted on the ground
of self-defense. He claims the dead
mans form rises before him threaten