The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-07-04
MISCELLANEOUS.


monument saws it will stand 100000
years. and children need be in no hurry
to climb it.-DetroI Free Press.
I'm British India the large river
Sutlei, which has descent of $4,000
feet in $50 miles, or nearly sixty-seven
feet per mile, is said to be the fastest
flowing river in the world.
The love of draw-poker passeth all
understanding. If player is a constant
winner he is gambler, and should
quit. If he is steady loser he is a
fool and should play no more. If it is
a see-saw arrangement, the players eat
up and drink up the profits, and should
be in better business.-M o. Pcayune.
The new paper bottles are said to
withstand the action of water, wine
and alcohol. 1t is thought that drug
gists will be able to furnish them free
of charge, just as they provide wrapping
paper for dry drugs. The cementing
material of the bottles is mixture OF
blood, albumen, alum and lime.-N T.
Sun.
There are about dozen, more OF
less, breweries in and around Boston,
and the number of barrels of beer manu-
featured may be counted by the hum
dreds of thousands. In 1888 there were
drunk in Boston 756, 140 barrels, and in
1884, 1882 barrels, an increase Of
32,742 barrels. Besides this, there are
large importations of ale and porter
from Europe. Globe.
What children want, within the
bounds of right, they should, if possible,
have Their wishes should be respected.
The small desires of child are, to him,
as important as the great desires of
man, and should as carefully be con-
sidered. The wet blanket, "You can't
have that" often causes keener pain to
boy than the loss of thousands OF
dollars in after life.--Scho0t Journal.
Dan Rice, the circus clown, is run.
ming a ten cont circus in the French
quarter of New Orleans. He talks sadly Of
the good old days when his Floating Pal
ace was the sensation on the Father OF
Waters. and thousands upon thousands
of people swarmed from far and near to
see him. He gave an entertainment a
few nights ago when not 800 persons
were present, and about one-third Of
those were professional and other dead
heads"
Those people who argue that Grant
is a great smoker, Grant is afflicted with
cancer, therefore all smokers are af-
fiicted with cancer, are very much like
the English tourist who rode upon the
box of an American omnibus. He no.
ticed that the driver carried his whip in
his left hand. Asking the reason, the
driver replied: II am left-handed."
Straightway into the notebook went
this astounding bit of information:
s'Stage drivers in America are left
handed.
A safety paper manufactured by
Massachusetts mill will make it difficult
for anyone to tamper with bank notes or
checks printed upon it. The coloring
matter of the paper is so prepared that
the application of any chemical to re,
move the ink will permanently change
the color of the paper, and an ingenious
device is added which betrays at once
any attempt to make an erasure. Be.
tween the two the enterprising forger
will be sure to come to grief.-Bostos
journal.
Pete Osterhout is one of the most
rascally negroes in Galveston. He was
caught stealing poultry and brought be-
fore the Justice. 1.-The evidence" said
the Judge, shows that you stole the
chickens from Colonel Jones' hen-coop,
and the fine should be five dollars; but
I'll let you off this time" .Who wants to
be let offP" exclaimed the prisoner; Il
steals my chickens and pays my fine,
and don't ask muffin OBJ nobody. Dis
heah mixing up sentiment and bizness
am what's ruinin' de kentry. -Teras
Siftings.
DIR. Heber Newton says: Taking
the average human life, he would be q
bold man who, rightly weighing the
manifold daily blessings which come
like the sunshine and the dew, would
venture to pronounce the lot of man
rather of pain than of pleasure. Much
OF the pain of man Is, moreover, to be
subtracted from the charges against
Providence and to be credited to our
human responsibility. The thrftless-
ness of the poor, the greed of the rich,
and the common ignorance of social
laws cause most of our poverty"
Successful experiments have been
recently made at Cincinnati with the
new electric railway brake. The trial
was made with heavy coal train of ten
cars, each car weighing empty about
eleven tons and having tonnage ca
pacity of 10000 pounds. The loaded
train, with full steam on, was put to a
speed of forty EIGHT miles per hour on
down grade of sixty-eight feet to the
mile, and brought to dead stop in 37l
seconds after putting on the brake. the
distance run in that time being 445
yards, exact Measurement Cincsnnan
Times.
-Dr. Dallinger, the eminent micro
scopist. holds that the development of
living organisms in a piece of fish
muscle, previously subjected to tenn
perature of boiling water. does not in
dictate spontaneous generation, despite
the belief that such a temperature is
absolutely destructive of life. He hopes