The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-03-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

The New York Central Railway
killed only two passengers last year.
NJ T. Sun.
The Detroit Free Press has dis
covered that when trotting horse dies
it is always one day after his owner was
offered fabulous price for him.
"A Mormon missionary, who lately
brought over fifty Swiss females for the
Utah colony, promised each of them
three husbands. y Star.
"A philosopher says the bone collar
button has done more to release men
from the tyranny of woman than all the
philosophical works on humanity ever
printed.
-kissinger is the appropriate name
of young man arrested in Pittsburgh
the other night for a forcible osculating
effort directed at the lips of an unwilling
amsel.-Pittsbnrgh Post.
Montana carried over the summer
snow-banks thiriy-five feet high and
three hundred feet thick. and was reas-
onably fixed for winter, which set in
about the last of September and will
hang on until the last of May.-Denrer
Tribune.
John Peterson. sailor, injured on
shipboard during storm in the Indian
Ocean several years ago, was in New
York City awarded $4,000 damages in
suit against the Captain. Peterson
claimed that there was no medical of
ficer aboard and the Captain refused to
land him at the nearest pOrt.-N. Y.
Sun.
How are you finding business, doc
tor?" was asked of physician. Cap
ital, he replied. Il have all / can at
tend to- II didn't understand that
there was very much sickness about"
mo, there isn't. But we physicians do
not depend upon sickness for an income.
o, my, no; most of our money is made
from people. who have nothing the mat
ter with them. IN. y Sun.
Mrs. E. Schofeld Wright, of Mime.
apolis, has an autograph quilt on which
are the autographs of several hundred |
OF the most noted men and women in |
this country and Europe, among them |
those of Mr.. Gladstone, Dr. Spurgeon,
Cardinal Newman, Archbishop of Can |
terbury, Ralph Waldo Emerson, General |
Grant. President Arthur and Minister |
Lowell.-Chicdgo Inter Ocean.
"A dry-goods merchant of Tender
foot City, Arizona, has inserted the |
following advertisement in the local pa |
per: 1--WE haye the durndest lot of AL |
goods every seen in this divide, and we |
can bust any snoozer who tries to dis |
pute it. Hitch up the old boss and |
come and see us. We have ransacked |
the world to get the finest goods, and |
we are bound to please"
The Adams family is renowned for |
its diary writing. John Adams began
diary November Is, 1855, just after
his twentieth birthday, and continued
1t with breaks until November p. |
l777. The diary of his son, John Quincy
Adams, was begun soon afterward, and |
ran through its course until 1913. 1t is
said the third generation has done
similar work, so that 100 years of his
tory.will be found in the family annals.
boston Journal
Some time ago a veteran typo OF
this city, in using sharp Ratchet, cut
oil portion of his thumb. After wash
ing the wound and also the severed por-
ton OF his thumb he bound in place the
discovered piece of flesh and cuticle and
kept the sore dressed carefully. After
awhile he found that healthy growing
on OF the severed particle of flesh was
taking place, and in time the wound en-
tirely healed. Now, he saws, the only
difficulty he experiences is that the por-
lion OF thumb entirely severed has
nnmbness.- Wilmington Times.