The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-08-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A large bowlder, weighing about
1000 tons, was loosened from the top
OF Shelter Hill Rock, near Bethel. Conn,
by the frost and rolled down the noun
tain side the other day, sweeping large
trees and everything before it. The
shock was felt for twenty miles around.
Hartford Courant.
1t is said that the largest grapevine
In the United States grows on the prem
ises Of Mr.. Madden, in Pike County, Ga.
1t is eighteen years old, is thirty-four
inches in circumference at its base, is a
quarter of a mile long, and yields five
wagon loads of grapes. -Southern Trade
Journal.
Don't take chew of tobacco Just
because some OF the big boys say it will
make a man of you and looks smart.
Chewing tobacco never did make man,
but it has been known to make a boy
very sick, and will cause him to regret
it many time. 1t is mighty good
thing to let alone.-Teras Siflings.
Newspapers are appreciated in
Washington Territory. The Weekly
Signal, at Old Yokima, was about to
remove to the new town called North
Rakin, distance of four miles, and the
Office was placed on trucks. That night
the whole establishment was blown up
with dynamite by the residents of the
old town, who were opposed to the re-
moval.
An old landmark, the building
owned by George Swords, in the heart
of the city, was torn down in Steuben-
vile, Ohio, the other day. 1t was the
Oldest house in the city, the last of the
log houses. 1t was built in 1910. The
lot was originally purchased in 1903 for
forty-five dollars, sold in 1914 for 1865,
the following year for 800. in 1916 for
S1,750, and in 1872 for 5000. 1t was
weather boarded forty-five years ago
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The latest freak among the young
folks in New York is the electric
party" 1t is held at any house where
there is heavy carpet, and the finn
consists of shuflling rapidly over the
floor to generate electricity in the per-
son, and then discharging it through
the fingers, nose or lips against some
other person or ametallic object. When
two well-charged persons kiss the
snap may be heard in the next room,
and when a young man holds his nose
near gas-burner sparks fly from it and
ignite the gas. N. y. Tribune.
Mr.. ID. G. Robbins. in his '.Annual
Review of the Drug Trade of New
York" states that in 1884 we imported
1928, 1872 ounces of quinine and 1885,
307 pounds of cinchona bark We are
importing more quinine and manufac-
turing less every year. In 1884 we inn
ported twice as much quinine and half
as much bark as in 1882. In 1888 more
opium was imported for smoking (29S,-
1853 pounds) than for all other purposes
put together The large duty placed
upon this form of opium reduced the
import for 1884 very considerably.
From recent surveys it has been
ascertained that the entire city of Vir-
ginia, New, has moved over thirty
inches to the east since the big fire of
1876. The Maynard block, in Golden
Hill. is known to be gradually sliding
down in the direction of Gold Canyon,
and has moved nearly two feet since
its erection. This movement is so
gradual that it does not affect in any
manner the safety of the building. as
the ground to the depth of nearly one
hundred feet to the bed rock is known
to be continually sliding. 1t is we'll
known fact among practical miners
that the ground on which Virginia
City is built is what is termed slide,
and that it is necessary to sink nearly
one hundred feet before finding the
natural bed rock. These slides are
caused by the constant crumbling OF
the rocks on the mountain sides.
francisco Chronicle.