The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-08-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

-"No whispering allowed is one OF
the rules conspicuously posted up in the
school-room at the deaf mute institu-
ton, Salem, Ore.
So high-priced have been peaches
for the past two seasons that five hum
dred new peach orchards have been set
cut in Delaware within year.
An authority on the subject says
that dog show is called q "bench
show" because the cage kennels in
which dogs are exhibited are located on
benches.
The oldest book in the Congress
sional Library is said to be The Olive
Leaf" by one Hauser, of Georgia, q
tune book concocted "for the glory OF
God and the good of mankind. /"
"A recent report on the subject
states that machinery intended for the
Indian market should be simple in con.
struction and such that if any part be
broken it can be mended in any black.
smith shop.
The new kind of paper ON (which
the New Orleans Picayune is printed is
called bagasse, the crushed refuse OF
the stalks of the sugar cane. The
paper is fine and soft, with almost q
silk-like surface.
Thirteen State Bureaus Of Statistics
of labor are now in existence. The
oldest, that Of Massachusetts. was es-
tablished in 1869, Mr.. Wright, now at
the head of the National Bureau, being
still its chief. The Bureau of Pennsyl.
vania, next in age, was established in
1872, Joel B. McCamant being its chief
Boston Journal.
The Secretary of the London Swim.
ming Club makes the following sug-
gestion: ITO battle before retiring to
rest, after the heat and hustle of the
day, would be sure means of inducing
sleep-the happy. peaceful sleep of .
child that would be an antidote to most
of the ills that flesh is heir to, not for.
getting lunacy, which is induced BY
want of sleep.
Compulsory education works well
when it can be enforced. In Missouri
court some time ago an illiterate pris-
oner was sentenced to jail until he
would learn TO write; another was sen.
fenced until he could teach the former
the art In less than month both mer
were discharged, the one who could moi
write before being able to write fai,
hand.-SL Louis Post.
-Rowell is the only one of the ia
nous pedestrians who is rich. He il
worth $50. 900 and never speculates. Oh
himself OLeary said recently: ssh
years ago had $150,000. began te
dabble in stocks, and as result dropped
my bundle, but / never played card
for money in my life or bucked the
tiger. / have walked since July IA
1874, $4,000 miles in matches and ex
hibitions in this country, England, Ire
land and Australia. IN. Y Sun.
The light of the sun is estimated tc
equal in quantity 1875, 900, DOC, 000,-
600. 900. 900, 900. 900 candles, the lights
intensity at the suns surface being $780,.
600 times that of candle flame, $500
times that of metal in Bessemer con
verter, 141 times that of a calcium light
or 314 that of an electric arc. The
temperature, according Rosetti. is about
$4,000 Fair The mechanical equiva
lent of the solar relation, continuously
acting, is nearly 10000 horsepower pei
square foot of solar surface.
Living creatures in water seem tt
have vegetable origin. Examine pur,
lake-water or spring-water with a mi
croscope and no life is visible; but pu
flowers or any vegetable substance il
the water and in forty-eight hours tn,
water will swarm with life. Water
thus Is revealed as the Matching medi
um for many forms of life. Many beau
tiful grassplots in cities are ruined BY
excessive watering. The water hatche.
out millions of eggs which the dry SUI
would have killed. Chicago Current.
"A tramp who called at farm hous,
to ask for cold bite was almost paral
yzed at being welcomed with smiles ant
kind words and having a fine repas
laid out for him. In explanation tn,
woman said that he reminded her of he
long-lost cousin. At the next house tn,
tramp at once announced that he wa
the woman's long-lost brother, but il
place of smiles and mince pie the woman
seized the broomstick and went for him
saying: "Slide out, you villain! The,
were all girls in our familyr'-Tsra
SUtngs.