The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-06-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A man has been discovered in Al
bany, N. Y, who keeps a store, but
never advertises nor reads newspaper.
He is not millionaire, but would make
superior juryman.-Albany journal.
An English naturalist asserts that
the hedgehog cannot be poisoned.
neither strychninc, arsenic nor prussic
acid having any effect upon it. 1t eats
adders regardless of their venomous
fangs.
The cocoanut will not flourish away
from the seashore. and no magnet is
truer to the pole than is the root OF the
cocoanut tree to the ocean, for when
the root breaks through its husks 1t
points directly toward the sea, no
matter in what position the nut is
placed in the ground.
The actors memorial stone in the
Washington Monument cost 1866. the
amount having been raised in dollar
subscriptions. The sentiment upon the
stone is: s.All that lives must de-" and
it is said that the stone is now the mon
ument of more than $50 of the original
365 subscribers. II Washington Post.
There is believed to be danger to
horses in the public drinking troughs.
Chambers are often communicated in
this way. A stand pipe and bucket is
the safest and best arrangement fol-
watering animals in cities. 1t is more
comfortable for the horse. the water il
fresher. and more palatable, and there
is far less danger of its being contami
mated with dust, dirt and the germs Of
disease.-Boston Herald.
Judging from the annexed local
from the Blanco (Tex.) News. borrow
ing is apparently done with some talent
in that town: One of our young men
while out gathering in some wood with
which to make himself a fire last Wed
nesday, got badly left, as when he came
back he had no stove in which to build
the fret had gone mysteriously. The
fact was he was borrowing from o
neighboring woodpile, and while out
the neighbor borrowed his stove.
$50 you went to the party with
Mrs. Elberton, did you?' asked a wife
of her husband. Eyes, as you were
away thought it would do no harm
as Elberton asked me to, being detained
at home and not wanting his wife to bt
disappointed. swell, / don't believe
in lending my husband to anybody
"Why not, prayP'' Because it is moi
good, according to the Bible, for q mar
to be loan. "-Boston Times.
"A young girl residing a few miles
from this place appeared in our market
on Saturday morning with a cozy
jaunty-looking hat made solely of oa
straw and corn shucks that grew upor
her fathers farm. 1t was Hastily bu
not gaudily trimmed with CHECKER
feathers dyed in pokebery juice and
blue writing fluid. Several persons
| who examined this headgear pro
nounced it really beautifully.-Cdrlisl.
| Pa Herald.
| "A member of the Yale senior class
was recently the victim of a practica
joke. He started for Ithaca, N. T., Il
attend Cornell University sociable ant
intended to stop over at New York Cit.
to attend the opera. In the meantime
some of his college chums telegraphe'
his description to the New York police
saying he was wanted for burglary a
New Haven, and upon the arrival of tn
train he was at once arrested and re
tanned in custody for several hours
when no one appearing he was released
-Hortford Post.
One of the tricks of a French pres
tidigitateur is surprising illusion.
wedding-ring borrowed from lady
hammered into bar by some volun
teer assistant among the audience. Tn
conjuror borrows programme, rolls
into a cornucopia-shaped receptacle 70
the ring. and without the use of tn
left hand crumples the paper into {
ball, which the volunteer holds tight
full in view of the audience. When h
is directed to open it he finds that tn
crumpled ball of paper consists OF fiv
sealed envelopes, one within the other
and with the perfect wedding-ring I
the smallest and innermost.