The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-01-17
MISCELLANEOUS.


1T may not be generally known tina
ING disability law against Catholics still
onlsts IN New Hampshire. No Cath
olic can hold Office in that State.
cdgo NeUs. NV
An electric light has been intro
duccd into lighthouse at the entrance
70 the outer harbor of Rio de .Janeiro
s OF Z,oO0 candle power and is visi.
Die a distance of thirty five miles.
The Glasgow Herald thinks that Il
Americans would substitute oatmeal
Tor pies and hot cakes they would he
calmer, less lively, less Speculative
less bombastic. and happier.
The latest indignity offered IN the
memory of Carlyle is to credit him
win having invented the word
,s dude" In his journal on July Is,
1852 ne wrote: 81 seldom read any
aud OF . book. novel or the like.
where the writing seems to flow
along like talk. without certain
pain, certain envy"
Birds in Sweden and Norway arc
better protected than in any other coun.
try, and the consequence is that thew
are tame and familiar. A resident q,
sweden says that evrey morning fIocks
OF sparrows come into the room while
ne is eating breakfast and run abouf
sne room picking up crumbs or wash.
ing themselves in basins. -
MANY tenement-house cigarmakers
receive from their EMPLOYERS loo nonnds
Oh tobacco. for which they have to re.
turn l02 pounds of cigars. The difference
IS supposed to represent the water used
In moistening the dry leaf. COMPLAINS
are made that when the tobacco falls
snort cigar stumps, willow, oak. and
elm leaves are used to make good the
deficiency. and that in some instances
iVO pounds of tobacco have TINS been
MADE TO produce 200 pounds of cigars.
~ y Star.
MI. w. j. Andres. of Sumter, sc.
Killed hog few days ago affected
with every symptom of hydropbobia
The hog had been bitten two weeks pre.
'viously by dog which was supposed IN
90 mad. The hog became so violent
as 10 necessitate it's separation from the
other hog. and finally had to be killed
A farmer living near Bishopville, in the
same county. shortly after killed
Young COW, apparently affected with
nydrophobia, supposed to have oriui.
mated by the same dog passing throuoh
nat neighborhood.-Si. Louss Post
For some time the Capitol at Wash
ngfon has been lighted with electric
ights. 1t is now found that the build |,
ng presents most untidy appearance
wing to the fact that myriads of ali
,inds OF insects have been attracted bv
ne lights and have killed Themselves 9
y striking against the dome. Bushels I
May-fiies, beetles, crickets, earwics.
ragon-fiies, grasshoppers, caddis-fiies. T
ces, wasps, hornets. butterflies, moths.
lcadas, froghoppers, plant lice. water o
eetles, whirligigs, shippers, horned Y
Nuggets, gnats, mosquitoes, and every '
oecies of insect known to the anr. o
,unoIng swamps and woods of the .
istrict have met their death In this n
ay. = Washington Star. v
When the late Frank Cbanfr.n ra -
rned from California and was the nos. ,.
ssor OF q snug fortune he bought A hand ..
me house at Yonkers and then went 10
tne warehouse on Peck Slip, where =.
father was employed as porter ~ ~
q SAID; I'D like You to step out with su
Tor awhile" 81 can'tn renlied 81 81
elder man; lit isn't dinner bonr :" ~
!; and my employers wouldn't like az az
les, they would; they are per- o. o.
ny willing" said the actor, and then -,
* his father to Yonkers, showed him ~,
'ough the house and asked MIN what -"
thought of it. 1T is a very beaut;. ~ ~:
place" was the reply. well. If Is ~,
.'S' SAID Chanfrau.-M T. Trib. tn,
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