The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-05-23
MISCELLANEOUS.


Over eighty years was the average
age of the persons who died in Dublin,
N. H., last year.
One of the Washington Treasury
clerks is able to count 1000 new notes
an hour for seven hours a day. Wash
ington Post.
Investigations made by committee
of the British Association show that
man really grows in stature up to his
fiftieth year, although the growth is
very slow after twenty.
Paper bags were invented by the
Pennsylvania Moravians, whose thrifty
habits would not permit the waste Of
paper used in the old-fashioned method
of putting up bundles.
"A seventy-two-year-old citizen of
Belfast, Me-, some time ago dreamed
that he had made away with his life,
and brooded over the vision until few
days ago, when he realized it with
razor.
AT Territorial fair in the North
west an Indian sent a war bonnet
fringed with human scalp locks as an
exhibit. 1t was not refused, but occu-
pied a prominent position and took a
first prize.
The English ship Daphne capsized
when launched and many persons were
killed. She was raised and renamed
the Rose. but only to be sunk at her an
Choir in harbor. Again raised, she ran
ashore, was got off with difficulty and
named afresh the Ianthe, and month
ago en- route to Smyrna she struck
rock on the Irish coast and is laid up
for repairs.
The discoverer of the richest of the
Leadville silver mines sold his claim at
once for $40, 900, and during the follow
ing year the two purchasers made 3D.
100000 each from it. Meanwhile the
discoverer squandered his $4,000 in
prospecting, and the other day, home
less tramp, applied for a nights lodg-
ing at the Leadville Station House.
Chicago Herald.
Far out at sea along both the Gulf
and Atlantic coasts of Florida are sew
eral springs of fresh water. They are
well known to the spongers and fisher
men, who frequently visit them to
replenish their water-casks. On this
same coast is an oil spring which diff
fuses calm over troubled waters and
affords safe refuge to small vessels
during gale.-M r. Sun.
AN examination of 3,726 prescrip-
tons in Boston drug store showed
that 504 different drugs were called for
by the doctors. Quinine took the lead
by appearing in 292 prescriptions, NOR
phine appeared in 172. bromide of po-
tassium in III, iodide of potassium in
1855, and muriate of iron in 1874. The
whole number of articles in the phar-
macop9ia is 1914, and Boston used more
than half of them.-Boston Journal.
The Troy Times reports that Troy
institute student, in returning from T.
visit to an island on Lake Champlain-
strapped his baggage to hand-sled
and pair of skates to his feet and
skated twenty-eight miles to make rail-
road connection, preferring this mode
of travel to o mountainous drive of
fourteen miles. His journey on the ice
was made in four hours, less time than
if he had travelled in vehicle.
The Churchmdn says of phenome-
non which often causes establishment:
The reason of the immunity which
drunken men are said to enjoy from the
consequences of accidents is attributed
to the fact that the nerve centers which
regulate the heart and vessels are SO par
alyzed in them as not to be affected by
the shock, which in sober men would
have acted in them so violently as to
stop the heart, arrest the circulation and
cause death.
The Turkish woman is supersti-
tious in the extreme. She believes in
charms. She will not live an hour be-
reft of her three-cornered bit of leather
which encloses the mystic phrase that is
potent to ward off the evil eye. She
distrusts Tuesday as the mother of ILL
luck, and will not celebrate the birth
day anniversaries of her children, or
even record the date, lest some ma
gician use it to cast spell against the
child
-"Compared with those of the Brit
ish isles, writes Miss Constance Feni-
more Woolson, meditatively, "all the
skies Of the United States are blue. In
the north this blue is clear, strong,
bright; in the south softness mingles
with the brilliancy and tempers it to a
beauty which is not surpassed. The
sky over the cotton lands of South Car
DINA is as soft as that of Tuscany; the
blue over the silver beaches of Florida
melts as dangerously as that above
Capri's enchanted shore"
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