The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-11-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

| a., Alaska pays greater revenue
.ne GENERAL Government, in pr %
10 the population, than p portion
NOW or heretofore in .,,.tsyc aef r.
on mTro ate ~,eays Rsruia In 'ne
disguise ~.aag men, one of whom was
9th 81 as a woman and passed as the
rs wife, have been reaping a har-
. T es' from charitable citizens of Stockton.
Cai;, by their pitiful tale of destitution'
san francisco Chronicle.
At Senecs. Falls, N. Y. the larces,
Single electric light ever produced was
atty placed on exhibition. 1t was
+, oO,OOO-candle power, and placed on a
tower at height of seventy-five feet it
lighted up the whole village.-Bu6alc
Express.
As two men were fishing in a mill
pond at Va!atie, Columbia County, N.
T., the other day, they saw a crocodile
about six feet long crawl into the water.
1t was put into the pond six years ago
when small.
-One OF the greatest puzzles to the
observing spectator who watched the
youngsters playing Copenhagen at the
chlldren's jubilee was to know WHY
those little girls who fought so hard
against being kissed played the game at
all. They didn't have to.-Pittsburqh
PA J Commercial
"A swallow has made its nest and is
rearing its young in one of the railway
signal balls at Bow Crossing, N. II.
The covering of the ball became torn,
which allowed the entrance of the bird.
The signals are lowered and raised
many times daily, but the pets of the
switch-tender appear to like their home
very much.-Boston Post.
Joseph ID. Fuller, an old gentleman
OF seventy, claims that he is entitled to
16O acres of Philadelphia. 1t was willed
to Sally Mercer Fuller by William Penn
before he went back to England the last
time. When she died nobody claimed
the land and it was taken by the CITY
and sold. Mr.. Fuller has been looking
up the genealogical record of the fami-
ly and is convinced that he is an heir
PHILADELPHIA Press.
1t is said that when old Green Hill
Protestant Episcopal Church, on the
Wicomico River, was built, in 1888, the
people drove their cows to the building,
MIXED them, and with the milk mixed
the red ochre with which the pews were
painted. The color still remains. The
effort to restore the old church has
taken pract cal shape and will be sue
cessful if its friends promptly respond
to the appeals made in its behalf. BAL.
tsDiore Sun.
The man who drives the sprinkling-
cart revives the ancient feud, turns on
the water with start, and almost
browns the dude; the man who draws
the lager beer awakens from his sloth,
and does it SO that very nearly all of it
is froth; the man who eats bananas
drops the Feelings on the street, the
man who follows after fops along for
twenty feet; and, so on. half hundred
things combine to make it clear the
heated term, with all it brings of GUS
sedness, is here. Chicago Tribune.
"A few days ago a Watervliet, IN.
~ farmer was induced by a stranger
to act as agent for wire fence, signing
what he was told was an agents certifi-
cate. Soon after two men visited him
and showed him paper, the one he had
signed. 1t was contract to purchase
5000 worth of wire. He invited the
men into his barn. where he snatched
the paper from the hands of the one
that held it and drove both from the
premises with pitchfork. 7roy
Times.
One of the neatest retorts ever
made in Cambridge, Mass.-not a bad
soil for good things-was a brief re-
Spouse lately given by a young lady to
an undergraduate, who offered her,
with some hesitation, his seat in the
horse-car. She got in with an elder
companion. The car was crowded. and
two young men sat near. One gave his
seat at once to the elder lady; the other
kept his place. His friend asked him
Disgusting it, however, in German-why
he did not give his place to the young
lady. Because she is not pretty
enough" Af:er little reflection, how.
ever, he, too, rose and surrendered his
seat. The young lady took it, and
thanked HMM GERMANY Y Trib-
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