The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-12-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

Ilud mas ueciueQ That q RAILROAD CON-
pany can not force q passenger to ride
in smoking-car if he objects to doing
so.
1t will pay to store the hay. straw
and fodder under shelter, as such ma
terials are often injured by the exposure
to winter storms and spring rains
Rural Neo lorkey.
An Indiana farmer couldn't get any
of the neighbors to sit on the fence with
him and talk horse and white at a
single. and so he went and drowned
himself.-Detroh Free Press.
"A man who abused Christopher
Columbus in a restaurant in Sacramen.
to was pounded until his life is despaired
of. Christ. has friends in this country
who won't stand by and hear his
motives in discovering America ques.
toned Detroit Free Press.
The distance from Cologne to Der.
lin, 474 kilometers in a bee line, was
recently covered by some carrier pig
cons belonging to the Berlin Society
''Pfeil" in eight hours and forty-one
minutes, which is equal to nearly fifty.
five kilometers an hour.
During the fifty years since the frs
train ran in Belgium the railway com
panies claim that only thirty-one trav
elers have been killed through any
error or disaster in the railway itself
although 1880, 900 passengers have beer
carried over the lines.
Since New Years Day $50 inver
tons have been filed in the Patent Office
relating to roller skates. Boxwood, o.
which the wheels are generally made
has doubled in price. Contracts fol
ten thousand tons of steel for the skate
have been given out Washington Post
In cemetery little white stont
marked the grave of dear little girl
On the stone were chiseled these words
"a child of whom her playmates said,
1T was easier to be good when she was
with us. / used to think, and l dc
now, that it was one of the most beau
tiful epitaphs l ever heard.-Detrou
Post.
The unkindest thing that has re
Gently been said about the legal profes
sion is embodied in the remark made in
French provincial court the other day
to lawyer who was called as awitness
look here, Brother x" he said
lust lose sight of your professional
character for moment and tell US the
truth"
Prospective bridegroom Ito pros
pective bride)-Wouldi it be possible. dc
YOU think, dear, to postpone our wed.
ding until Monday? am in receipt o.
a dispatch calling me to Buffalo on i'm.
portant business. p. bride-I'm afraic
not. George, dear. The wedding pres
ents, you know. are only rented until
Saturday. IN. Y. Sun.
"A Laconia On. II. correspondent
of Manchester paper is ready to swear
that trout weighing twenty-eight and
half pounds was caught in Lake Win.
nisquam recently. Another member OF
the same party, it is alleged. caught one
weighing eleven and half pounds.
Owners of expensive trout tackle may
be pleased to learn that the big fellow
was caught with cod line and hook,
with cold chsel for a sinker and Q
live bull frog for a bait.-N. y Post.
"A number of Concord (Vt.) peopl,
have been victimized by fellow who
claimed to be agent for weekly paper.
paper six months, and also was to have
a chance at several valuable prizes.
Then the agent sent each subscriber 9
certificate, saying that he had drawn ar
organ, and requiring one dollar to pay
for boxing, etc. The subscribers have
since found out that they all drew or.
gans and all sent one dollar for boxing,
but the organs do not come.-Rutldnd
Herald.
The Indian population of Dakota is
32.511, and the total area of Indian res.
ervations, as they at present exist in the
Territory, is Al ,94S square miles. or 26,.
7,105 acres. This is an allowance OF
S25 acres of land for every individual
Indian, counting in the old men, women
and children. The population of the
tribes of the Sioux Nation west of the
Missouri River is 25.537, and the ares
of reservation is 49, 39 square miles, OF
1888, 129 acres-a farm of 853 acres
for every Sioux west of the river, chief,
brave. old man. squaw, boy, girl and
papoose.-Chic1go Journal.
1t was well worth the while of 0
Manitou Col correspondent to write
this, and it is worth anyone's while tc
read it: "The Rockies are piled up like
purple clouds against the brittle. spark
ling sapphire skies. They trail off in 9
royal glory of color to the far South,
their pink and purple peaks picked on,
with piles of everlasting snow. They
are the Rocky Mountains in all truth
Not tree blooms upon their bald ster
ility of rock. and yet in the amber
atmosphere. under the sweet, clear
sunshine. they look as if the next puff
of wind might float them away"