The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-04-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

-Amaziah Jordan. of Hartland, Me-,
In fit of insanity recently, cut off his
toes. one at time, and calmly trimmed
the stumps.
An Italian bootblack of New York
City has saved in the past three years
from his earnings over $485 He sends
money monthly to his mother in Rome.
The William Francis Bennett rose
cost Philadelphia florist So, $50. He
procured it from England, and has the
exclusive right to propagate and sell
plants and cuttings. A rose by any
other name may smell as sweet, but
will not cost the purchaser half so much
money.
Seventeen tons of almanacs were
received at the Baltimore post-office the
other day from one business establish
ment in that city, all destined for
foreign country. 1t is hardly neces-
sary to add that the article being thus
widely advertised was a patent medi-
cine.
China Is, perhaps, the only civil
lied country in the world which has
not resorted to gas as means of light
ing, and even among the rich the meth
DDS of Illuminating are primitive in the.
extreme, though kerosene oil is now
rapidly coming into use within consid-
cradle radius Of the treaty ports.
"A new game of base bail played
with cards is the latest sensation. It's
a great boon to mankind. The father,
who only hears base ball talked six
months in the year, can buy pack for
his boys and have home runs, pick-ups
and wild pitches dinned into his ears
all the time.-B Boston Post
The passengers on the train enter
ing Baltimore Monday evening noticed
that Ida Donaldson, pretty, blue
eyed, sixteen-year-old girl of Freder-
lex, Md, was fainting, and some ladies
went to her assistance. 1t was discov-
cred that she had taken a suicidal dose
of laudanum, and prompt measures for
saving her life were successfully re-
sorted to. The cause of the undertake
ing was desertion by her lover.-Bdlti-
more american.
"A curious freak of recent wind
storm at Arcade, N. T., was the roll
ing up of cylinders, not balls, of snow,
many of which were hollow like muff.
On one farm near there, there were
over one hundred of these curiosities,
rolled up as perfectly as though they
had been turned with a lathe. One of
the s'oldest inhabitants" who has lived
in the vicinity, for over eighty winters,
never saw anything like them before
Buffalo Express.
The United States Geological Sur
veying party last season discovered
several more deserted cave and cliff
cities in Arizona. differing in some
respects from any before examined.
The most remarkable was village of
sixty-five underground dwellings,, sit
uated near the summit of one of the
volcanic foothills of the San Francisco
Mountains, in the. San Juan region
81. Paul Press.
Corn Meal Mullins: Warm milk, one
pint; -four, one cup; sugar, one table
spoonful; salt, one teaspOonful; COM
pressed yeast, one cake. Mix we'll and
add enough corn meal to make a thin
batter. Set to rise over night. In the
morning add one teaspoonful of soda
dissolved in warm water, and one tea
spoonful of melted butter. Bake in
muffin tins. These yeast mullins do
not, like those made with soda, get
heavy when cold.-Prdirie Farmer.
The statistical abstract of failures
in England and Wales shows that last
year the total numbered 10, 224. There
were also 1901 failures in Scotland and
210 in Ireland. OF those engaged in
farming pursuits there were 513 fail
ures last year, as compared with 636 in
1882, 1,0.4 in 1881, 1854 in 1880, and
1,4O5 in 1879. There were also during
the year $40 companies wound up. Oh
bills of sale there were IA, l66 granted
last year, rs compared with "A, 400 in
1882.
To test your popularity wear 9
ragged coat. Contribute niggardly tc
charity. Always get in somebody's
way. Borrow your neighbours paper
regularly. Never omit to say some
thing on every occasion. Step into
your friends Office and sit with you
feet on his desk. If you can do al
these things and retain your popularity
you will be warranted in the further
test of running for Office. Hartford
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