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


An Australian naturalist has dis
covered the nervous system of tn.
sponges. -. =
-Old-fashiOned mirrors over the man.
Eel are again in style, with the addition
pI prone or gayly-painted frames
small tobacco pipes are freouentls
nnearthed in Ireland. and are supposed
TO ante-date the introduction of tobacco
IN Europe by Raleigh. I - f,lf.
Amy woman is too tightly dressed
VINO can not raise her arms straight
ABOVE her head and clasp her hands:
VINO can not stOop to tie her shoe or
PICK up pin without heightening color
1Boston Transcript. -.
Cork, when carbonized. produce.
$3.50 per cent. pure charcoal. the
greatest per cent. of any known wood.
willow, wheat straw and oak rank next
an the order named, while maple and
poplar are 1875 and 31.12, or at the
very foot of the list Chicago Times.
Forty years ago young man bought
the hulk of an old whaling vessel in
Stonington, borrowing the ten dollars
with which to pay for it. Moving it To
an oue-of-the-way place he lived in it
Tor twenty-five years. To-day he is a
large property owner and the heaviest
depositor in the Stonington hank
Hartford Courunt.
Several months ago Cora B. Pi.
quette. OF Syracuse, N. Y, witnessed
an accident 10 shop-mate, whose lone
hair became entangled in a shaft and
was entirely pulled out. Miss Piouette
mas been made insane by the scene.
standing on chair or sofa she butts her
head against the wall and then seems
relieved. She has been sent to an
asylum.-Bufato cypress. f IA
Rev. Charles &. Ames, of Philadel.
phia, speaking at Springfield, Mass.
said that native of a Connecticut
town once told him that on returning
there after a thirteen years absence he
found that all the young men of the
place he had known in his youth as the
sons OF wealthy parents had become
either sots, paupers or criminals. And
yet Connecticut is sometimes called the
land OF steady habits.-Springfeld Re
"A singular coincidence happened at
Ingraham's case shop, Bristol. on Friday
last. Frank Miller slipped while sliding
box on the floor and fell, striking his
chin on the edge of the box, making al
bad cut. Soon his brother, joseph |
Miller, was struck by a piece of ioist
flying from a circular saw and was 6,Iitp |
severely injured in the arm and side, /
In less than two hours Lewis Miller.
another brother, cut off the end of his
thumb in the joiner Hartford Times.
"A planter in Summerville, Ga, ex-
perimented successfully with tobacco
asst year. He cleared about ten acres
IL dense oak forest and made such a
rood yield that it paid expenses of
clearing up the land and its culture. and I
more than the amount of net profits
from the production of cotton
n middle or Southwestern Georgia. II
believed, saysa Southern paper, that
obacco culture in Southeastern Georgia
VII become universal in a few wears.
10Th because of the adaptation of the
Oil to its successful growth and the
'rofits to be derived therefrom.
"A noise was heard in an empty
rawer at Williams drug store in
.homaston by one of the clerks at a
ate hour one night last week. As it
ounded like turbulent rats fighting no
otice was taken of it. The next morn
lg, on opening the drawer, the clerk
>und fresh rat skin turned comnlete-i
inside out as neatly as could have
cen done by taxidermist. The Skin
as perfect, but all the other parts of
he PHYSICAL economy of the rat were
one except the tail. 1t was evident
lat this was the work of a weasel which (
Ad oeen seen proving about the prem. ]
es OF iate.- Waterbury american. Ii