The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-12-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

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THE past has been the greenest
simmer within the memory of the old
est inhabitant. Boston Budget.
The total number of self-support-
ing women and girls over ten years OF
age, in New York is 2,647, 157.-M y
f0st.
England has 1913. 995 women teach
ers, many of whom occupy positions as
professors and instructors in the higher
branches of learning.
When Philadelphia society girls
want to indicate that one of their num-
Der is rather rapid they say: 20, she's
a regular bird. "-NeW York Journal.
"A Massachusetts, cow got hung in
the woods by her tail and was held fast
thirty-six hours before she was found.
All this time she had nothing to say
she could not tale unfold.
Five gypsies were lately fumigated
In a Spanish town so thoroughly as to
forever prevent the cholera from at.
lacking them. They were all killed ir
the process.
"A man at Lewiston, Me-, drives
spirited horse without breeching. the
animal having been educated to "holo
back by his launches in contact with
the crossbar. "-Boston journal.
The Waterbury Comm Watcl
Factory makes about three thousand
watches in one year. Most of the WORK
which requires the finest touch and the
most delicate manipulation is done by
women. Their wages average about
$3.50 day.-Hartford Courant.
"A shocking case of cruelty to ami
mails has come to light in an up-country
village. An able-bodied man appeared
at the village store and told the doleful
tale that MARY had went off to work
in the mill this mornin' an hadn't lief
me bite to eat or any money either"
boston Post.
1t is estimated that every yeal
about $4,000, 000,0 900 letters are posted
in the world. America leads, with
about $500. 000,0O0 and England fol.
lows, with 700,O0O.0O0. Japan, which
established n postal service only ter
years ago, now mails annually 95.000,.
600 letters Chicago Tribune.
The Jewish Messenger appeals tt
the young men and women of the ole
faith to abstain from publishing in the
newspapers their matrimonial engage.
ments. No one is interested in such
announcements, it says. except a few
near relations, and they can be reached
by mail.
Beet sugar has overtaken ant
passed its only rival-cane sugar. The
estimated supply for the coming croE
year is 2,505, 900 tons. while of cane the
yield is estimated at 2, 100000 tons. Oh
the total amount, 605,0 tons-the
! United States will probably consume
about one-fourth. E. Farmer.
If every soul, saint and sinner il
the Union were to 60 to the ports of ths
Great Lakes each could get to carry
home half bushel of grain. TIC put il
in cold figures. there are $4,000, 00(
people in America, and stored for ship.
ment 'twixt Duluth and Toledo are
25,000,0 900 bushels of wheat, corn and
oats. philadelphia Press.
Rather fine bean-poles, those
said tourist to suburban trucker who
was engaged setting out his winter
crop. "Bean-poles. thunder! Why.
stranger, them's handles handles.
Our crop of hoes will be ten bushels
more to the acre this fall than last. "
And the stranger went on Illuminating
on the remarkable fertility of land in
Colorado.-Denrer Opinion.
The chemical reactions daily tax.
ing place in the laboratory of nature
are immensely interesting, both from
their magnitude and their direct in.
fluence upon human affairs. The
waters of the Schuylkill undergo a
number of chemical changes. Above
Reading they are so impregnated with
sulphuric acid from the drainage oil
mines as TO be unfit for use in boilers,
and have but few fish living in them.
At Reading, however, the acid is neu.
tralizcd by being brought in contac,
with lime water flowing in from rulpo
hockon Creek. and the resulting insolu.
BILE sulphate of lime is precipitated
forming bed of gypsum.-Phiiadelphio
Press.