The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

New South Wales produced 50, 22O,-
$40 pounds of sugar last year.
Professor Balm says that "the pos.
session of spot of land is the most
powerful of all known motives to in
dustry."
"A picture of Abraham Lincoln
worth $4,000 has stood boxed up in
dark and dingy corner of the Capitol at
Albany for over four years.-Albany
journal
The New York police recently ar
rested a professional beggar who, when
''at home" lived luxuriously in ele-
gantly furnished apartments.-M T.
Nail
The mean duration of life in France,
which was Twenty-Five at the close OF
the eighteenth century. and thirty-nine
from 1Sl7-1S31, increased to forty from
l840-l859, thanks to the progress of
sanitary science.
"A grand old man said at the bar OF
the Supreme Court the other day that
the life of gentleman included ''nOt'
only good manners, but good morals,
courtesy, kindness and honor and high
minded principles. IN o. Pcayune.
The State of Arkansas derives $685.
cooper annum from its penitentiary by
leasing the labor of eighty convicts to
cigar manufacturers and handing over
$50 others to farmers, the consideration
being 1915 per month and all expenses.
IN. Y. Post.
The editor of Russian daily thus
explained its semi-occasional appear
ance: 1.-THE paper is often in want of
information, often in want of writers
and in want of money, and sometimes
when it has all these it is in want of
readers"
San Francisco has feminine Viii
helm Tell, who has outshot everything
on the coast, and, having challenged
Carver, Bogardus and others and re-
ceived no response, now signs for male
shooters to comprehension Francisco
Gail.
Mr.. Gladstone has made but fou
changes in his Cabinet since he first
formed it, the Duke of Argyll, w. T.
Forster, John Bright and Mr.. Dodson
retiring, to be superseded by Lord Car
lingford, Sir Charles Dixie, Earl Derby
and Mr.. Trevelyan, respectively.
"A Key West paper says a colored
man went to the fish market recently,
bought a conch, and upon cracking the
shell was surprised to find hidden
treasure in the shape of handsome
pearl the size of an ordinary bean,
which he subsequently sold for ninety
dollars.
The old idea that slow-grown tim
Der was stronger than that grown
quickly is disproved by recent tests in
England, so far, at least, as oak is con-
cerned. Second-growth hickory is
usually more valued for the handles of
axes, hammers, etc., and the annual
rings show it to be of swifter growth
than the first stock.
-Duelling in Germany shows no de-
crease. Notwithstanding the cutlery
against the custom, and moreover is
now practiced on the most trivial plea.
Two officers fought recently in Cologne
simply because one of the combatants,
when leaving cafe, had taken up a
wrong cap by mistake. Twenty-seven
shots were exchanged, and one of the
duellists was killed.
The Territory of Dakota pays more
revenue to the Postoffice Department
than any one of thirty-two States of the
Union, and has a population as large as
Nebraska or Connecticut, and nearly
twice as large as Vermont and Florida.
1t boasts $500 miles of railway, 1900
school-houses and 275 newspapers, -ol
more periodicals than any New England
State except Massachusetts. = Fdrgt
argus.