The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-01-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

The United States. IT is estim sted.
sends out OF the country annually over
100000, 900 for sugar grown in foreign
countries, principally in Cuba.
"A man in West Newton. a suburb
OF Pittsburgh, makes a living by ped
uhng hot water. He has one hundred
customers, whom he supplies from o
tank on his wagon.-Pitts6urgh Post.
"A tailor was suing a county officer
Ior the amount of an unpaid bill in a
st. Paul court the other day. He looked
over the jury and remarked: "Yom
honor may dismiss the jury; every man
there owes me for a suit of clothes.
The large figured Wallpapers are
the proper style at present, and the day
does not seem far distant when we
snail gaze upon the vineyards. dairy
maids, and the castles of the Rhine that
awoke the art devotion of our grand
fathers Chicago Times.
ut is probable that the bicvcle and
tricycle. will become in the future as
much OF staple article of manufacture
as the common road wagon of to-day.
In England $15,000,O00 are now in
vested in their production, employment
being given to 10000 persons.-Cur-
rent.
The London Standards dispatch
from Paris says: 1.-THE Italian opera
season opened here last night. The
American colony, which is decidedly
taking the lead here, was present an
grand comptet. Our fair American
cousins unquestionably outstrip their
sisters of the ''Old World in good looks
and gorgeous array"
The wages of a gang of Italian
Iaborers near Saratoga were recently
cut down ten cents day. Instead of
striking they cut an inch off their
shovel blades at night. The boss asked
what it meant, and one of the men re-
Piled: Not SO much pay, not so much
dirt lift; all right, job last the more
long; Italian no fool; he no strike. y
Troy Times.
"A remarkable example of toe facil-
ity with which leaf mutes read the mo-
ton OF the lips was giyeo by a young
lady OF seventeen vino was entirely |
deaf Her teacher stood between the |
gasliglt and the wall, thus outlining
her profile distinctly. His pupil stood |
behind him and read from the shadow
on the wall the words that he uttered. |
N T. Sun.
One of the differences between En- |
glish and American use of language is
illustrated in the word vine. In En-
gland there is only grapevine, every
thing else being creeper except the |
wood and hopvi Squash and pumpkin
vines are exclusively American, and the
immortal ''sweet potato vine" is the
resting place of the grasshopper onis
where the American turkey goose
comes running up behind"
In some Texas towns an alarm of
IRE is given by the citizens in the
vicinity shooting off tieir pistols, which
leads the beaumont Enterprise to re-
marx: when a fire alarm is sounded.
Will our fellow-citizens try to remember
and fire their pistol bullets into The
grouad. 1t was positively dangerous
Monday night, and the wonder is that
no oae was shot. We know of one house
Irom the walls of which two bullets
were picked out morning"
The driver Of car No. 1877 on the
Madison Avenue line will probably step
for ladies on any crossing after this. Is
was at Fourteenth Street that buxom
young woman, wearing country slippers
and bombazine dress, hailed the car.
She stood on the near side of the street.
and waved an Avenue A parasol. The
driver motioned her to the other cross
ing, but she was not that kind of girl.
with two quick bounds she planted her
self in the middle Of the track, caught
The horses bits, forced them back on
heir launches and, as the car stopped.
stepped quietly in the front door, re-
narsing coolly, Guess you'll stop yer
machine next time fur lady, He
guessed he would.-N y Star.