The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

Rev. j. Walter Lowrie, Presby.
terrain missionary to China, has the only
four-wheeled vehicle in Pekin-an I'M
graceful but useful covered depot
wagon, built in Ohio. The natives are
amazed at its wheels, so light and yet
strong.
"A sportsman at Cumberland, Va,
sighted flock of turkeys the other day
and told his dog to lie down. The dog
obeyed, and he went after the fowls.
Five hours afterward the man came
back to look for the dog, and found him
lying where he had left HMM o.
Picayune.
The camphor laurel, a native OF
China. and the tree from which most OF
the camphor Of commerce is obtained,
seems to have been introduced success
fully into California, one tree in Sacra-
mento having attained a height of thirty
feet. The wood, every part of which
smells strongly of camphor, is light and
durable. not liable to injury from in
sects, and much favored by cabinet
makers.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Oscar Wilde said the other day, in
his lecture at Glasgow, that nothing
distressed him more than 10 see in a
paragraph that such and such color
was going to be fashionable next season,
and he held that it would not be more
ridiculous to read in a musical magazine
that "B fiat was going to be fashion
able note. ! certainly think that if ''B
flat can not possibly make itself fash
ionable, "A fiat" can, and very often
does.-London Truth.
"A little strip of sidewalk about five
feet wide in front of the United States
Court House in Boston is constantly the
refuge of the street peddlers of bouquets
who wish to evade payment of the
license fee which the city ordinances re-
quire. As the strip is the property of
the United States. they can here bid de-
fiance to the police. but it not infre-
quently happens that their eagerness to
sell lures them out, and then, if caught,
they are brought to court and fined
Boston Journal.
1T is a matter of life and death.
You are overworked, and must take
rest" ''That is impossible, DOCTOR
My best men are all sick, my customers
are coming In by the hundreds, and
must be at my post" IF your custom
should temporarily drop off you could
then find time to rest, could'n you?"
Certainly: but how can temporarily
stop all my old patrons from rushing in
on me, even if the case should be, as
you say, matter of life and death?"
Easy enough. Stop advertisingr'-
Philadelphia Call.
Among other idealistic dresses is al
oriental creation of gold silk and cream
tissue, figured with green palm leaves
woven into the sheen-like fabric, the
leaves being in clusters, the corsage,
loopings of the skirt and hair all being
furnished with pendants and borderings
OF oriental pearls, with marvelously
beautiful effect. Its sister dress is of
new material. embossed with wild roses,
combined in lace net in the same design,
with edge to match, the looped back and
train being of the embossed fabric,
while the front is formed of the lace in
underskirt and most artistically draped
over apron.--N y. Graphic
The way to get to sleep is not by
repeating verses, or staring at nothing
but blank darkness, or counting, but by
not thinking at all. For instance, as
the mind takes up a train of thought it
should be instantly recalled. 1t will, of
course, directly settle upon something
else; again recall it. In fact, do not
mediate at all. There is nothing tire
some about this process; on the con-
trary. it is rather amusing. and per-
son who first tries it will be surprised to
find how soon he will begin to lose him.
self. As the mind puts out feelers, it
is to be constantly patted down, and in
an exceedingly short time will withdraw
itself like tired child and go to sleep.
boston Globe.