The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-12-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

Marriage may be denneu as eoH
porary social alliance, entered into ZOE
The purpose of acquiring cheap notoi
riety through the medium OF divorce
Philadelphia Times.
The indications are that the great
| Lick Observatory in California will De
completed in 1887, French firm having
successfully solved the problem OF cast
ing the disc, which is to be threet feet
| in diameter.
A late critic gives it as his opinion
that the word "rye" in Burns song,
Coming Thro' the Rye" means river,
and not a field; that the author in
tended the word to mean crossing on
the stepping stones in the river Rye
CHICAGO Herald. -
The wits of the people in England
go wool-gathering just as they do here.
it seems Last year there were 26,OOO
letters posted in England without any
address upon them, and in 1,6OO OF
them coins and money. were enclosed.
VA book has been published which
advocates the eating of non-carnivorous
insects. As Abraham Lincoln once re-
marked: '.For those who like this sort
of thing it is quite probable that this
sort of thing is just about the sort OF
thing they would like"
The late DIR. Holland evidently
thought there was better way OF
spending ones time than in card play
ing. He described it as 1.-THE resort OF
the starved in soul and intellect, which
has never in any way linked to itself
tender, elevating. or beautiful associa-
| fiOns ~ oU0re0aff0HGIiSt
There is nothing new In the idea OF
pneumatic tubes. A pneumatic con-
veyor for letters, etc., was suggested
by DIR. Papin, in 1895; patented by
Madhurst in England, 1910. on the
compressed air principle, and by Valen-
tine. in 1924. on the exhaust principle
IN Y. Sun.
The First Kiss of Love:
Her cheeks are flushed, her eyes are wet,
She heaves a gentle sigh;
Her hair is mussed, she scarce knows yet
What's best-to laugh or cry.
NTH mast HsF S sss s1S so
The first time in his life her beau
Had kissed her sweet goodnight.
The largest and finest collection of
orchids in this country is owned by
Hon. Erastus Corning, of Albany. for
which he was offered and refused $675.
600 by a syndicate. The late Mrs. Nor
gan of New York, left a choice coll
lection valued at $3.50, 900. - Albany
Journal.
I'm Portland, Me-, recently an in,
genious device was discovered for evad-
ing the liquor law. A lead pipe was
carried up a chimney to the second
story of the house. and investigation
showed that it was carried beneath the
ground across the yard to another
building fully one hundred feet away.
Here, beneath the floor in the second
pipe running up the wall to connect
them with.-M Y. Post.
1t is said that there is not gam.
bling-house in Boston which is OF pro-
tected by a thick. bolted door, at
which Waterman always stands.
Electric communicators warn the occu-
pants as soon as any unknown person
comes in sight, so that by the time an
entrance has been effected by battering
down the door, the chips. money, and
other paraphernalia are all secreted and
the Chambers are chatting and smok-
ing together in the most innocent man.
ner. 1t is practically impossible for the
police to find game in progress IN.
y. Post.
Look here, Ransom" said an old
negro to ayoung fellow. Il doan' min
yer 'sociatin' wild my daughter, but
druther yer wouldn't come roun' my
house no mo-. Time fore de las what
We wuz heah missed err water bucket,
an de las time de bride wus gone. an
now, ez has use fur de saddle,
druther yer. wouldn't come heah.
doan't say that yer amt homes, but
such curis things happens while yer is
in dc neighborhood. so jes' ter please er
ole man, what amt enjoyin' very good
health. pleas doan' come round dis
house no MOS Arknnsas Traveller.
This is the latest parrot story: "a
common gray Polly. having been.
brought from Guinea by sailor with q
coarse, rough voice and afflicted with q
| cough. the parrot learned to initiate tho
| exact tones of his master. even to the
cough. SO closely that the sound of his
| voice was often mistaken for that of the
sailor. 1t was, afterward taken in hand
by another instructor and taught soft
or Tone but it never forgot the harsh
| voice of its former. master, and often
amused bystanders by relapsing into
sea slang. interspersed with the asth-
matte cough of the sailor.'' -Philadel.
! fhsd Press. - tst
The explorers of the Congo Valley
are surprised by the crudity of life
| there. The natives have no domestic
ated beasts of any sort, nor do they
raise or catch any animals to eat, as
they know nothing of flesh as food. No
semblance of clothing is worn, and diet
is practically confined to spontaneous
| products of the SOIL Letters from mis-
sionaries say. too, that the negroes
there are SO low in mentality that any
hope. of Christianizing them must be