The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-10
MISCELLANEOUS,


the place of the member that had been
clawed out.--N r. Graphic.
-Pere Hyacinthe, while speaking in
New Orleans recently, said that ''by the
cession of Louisiana to the United
States and England, the death war
rant OF great French empire in
America was signed. I would almost
call this crime. ~. o. Picayune.
An advertisement from the agony:
column OF the London Standard:
Pound in Pail Mall purse containing
money. Owner can have it by applying
TO n. r. Wakefield, Chiswick, on pay
mept of advertisement and giving de-
scription. Ii not claimed within q week
the money viii be spent and the purse
given to the poor" - = 81
v1Oyer 5000 plants are in the White
House Conservatory proper, and Il, 600
more are kept in the various lighthouses.
This collection includes plants from
every quarter Of the globe, and it costs
$1,000 per year to tend them. Every
room in the White House is decorated
every morning with fresh flowers. and
huge bouquet is made for the Presi-
dent. = Washington Post.
-The acquittal of Rowell. who shot
Lynch, reminds the Fort Worth Gazette
OF a coroner's verdict in Arizona. A
party of regulators" captured horse
thief and hanged him to the nearest
limb. Then the Coroner, who was one
ofsthe regulators, impaneled Jury
from the ranks and, sitter gravely de-
liberating. they found verdict that the
deceased came to death from the bite of
rattlesnake. oat -
Fatal cases of trichinosis have re.
Gently occurred in Michigan and In
diana. In both instances German fam
ilies were the sufferers, aud the victims
had been eating uncooked swine's flesh.
The pernicions habit of eating smoked
OF. sailed pork, without cooking it, re-
tains its hold upon the Germans, not
whhstanding thewarnings of physicians
and the frequent reports of disease and
death resulting from the practice. 1t
is this, habit to which the great preva-
lehce Of trichinosis IN Germany is to be
attributed. r. Sam FRS fs,i'-sTK
Many of the squares of the city
were lighter last night than we have
been accustomed to see them. The
ladies began where they left of, the
lesson of the flood of February last, by
giving the street early in the evening
the full benefit Of their parlor lights,
and at later hour placing brilliant
lamps in upper windows. The magni-
fcence OF double students lamp under
these circumstances was q revelation.
The lights in the windows are generally
accepted rs evidence of public spirit
and private Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
Rev. DIR. Charles s. Robinson, who
Is something of . traveller. complains
that the smoking-room of the average
transatlantic steamer is ''noisy,
stenchful pandemonium of drinking,
betting, gambling with cards and dice,
into which no decent person can enter
without receiving an offense, and in
which no peace-loving person can stay
without transportation" DR.. Robinson,
it may be added. is no bigot ON the
subject of tobacco. He uses the weed
temporarily himself. = Philadelphia
Press.
We can state in what situation
lime has been found useful. From its
power to decompose it has been found
useful ON poor granite soils. From its
caustic nature Il corrects injurious mat
GCxs SuCn - oulYu0S0 Va HUI III BOAis
Lime breaks up and pulverizes stiff
clays. improving their texture. It de-
composes inert vegetable matter, peat,
roots, etc. It hastens the decay of
stable manure and dead carcasses, pu-
crescent matter, etc., but in al such
cnses Il the mauurial qualities are to be
made useful they must be covered with
earth during the action of the lime to
absorb the ammonia. --loUa Register.
An important precedent relating
10 street fights has been established IN
London. Two boys were detected in
such an encounter by policeman. and
one Of them. who was summarily
judged to be the more guilty, was
taken before magistrate. The culprit
explained that be was not the aggressor.
The other boy, he said, had been soon
verted.' and struck him because be
would not ''turn religious" too. His
mother, moreover, confirmed her sons
good opinion Of himself; but the Judge
decided that the converted" boy was
probably the better behaved OF the two
and fined the unconverted half q
crown.
Tho princess of "crazy-quilt'
makers Is Mollie Williams. . young
woman living near st. Joseph. Mo.
She has Just finished making q silk
quilt. the blocks Of which are filed in
with pieces Of the dresses Of more OF
less distinguished women throughout
the country The pieces In the quilt
go up In the thousands. Among the
ladies who furnished her specimens are
Mrs Grant, Mrs. Sartoris, Mrs. Gov
ernor Knott. Of Kentucky, Mrs. Lang.
try, Fanny Davenport. Ellen Terry,
Clara Morris, Maggie Mitchell. Kellogg,
Bernhardt, Lolita, Anna Dickinson, Mrs.
Hendricks and Phoebe Couzins.-St.
Louis Post.
Seeking Advice.