The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-13
!. MISCELLANEOUS.


-Ona-Ma-Dul-Ha-Na, Mojave In
dian medicine man. was dubbed to
death, beheaded and cremated recently
for allowing too many of his patients k
die.
No, my son, they are not called
grass-widows because they are SO green;
it's because they are so fresh And
then, beside, she's not exactly in the
moved. Savvy, son?-Burdette.
The acquaintances of lady In
Philadelphia, who hurried to her house
with words of consolation on seeing
Grape on the door, were informed that
the ''late lamented" was her pet dog.
IN. y Post.
DIR. j. S. H. Fogg, of South Bos-
ton, Mass, has a complete set OF the
autographs of the signers of the Dec
laration of Independence. having, il
is said, paid sixty dollars for one
scrawling signature cut from the fly:
leaf of book.
When Judge Deming, of New
Haven, sentenced Terence Butler to
Jail for sixty days for wife beating, he
said: II have always advocated the
establishment of a whipping-post for
the benefit OF such men as Butler. II
Inc could be taken out on the green and
given twenty good sharp lashes, he
would go home and be man. "--Hart-
ford Cowrank
John Dcnney, of Whitfeld's Cross
ing. Ca, says that his brood of Guinea
chicks disappeared suddenly one day.
The hen acted queerly, walking around
and continually clucking. as If coaxing
them to follow her. He investigated,
and found that the chicks had been
charmed by large chicken snake, and
were sitting unframed in his coils.
The first African city lighted by
electricity was Kimberley, with forty
two lamps, each Of two thousand
candle power. Tho current is also
utilized there for the killing of dogs, a
step suggesting the execution of death
sentences by the same means. as pro-
posed in America and in France by M.
Charson, member of the French
Senate.
-Theunicvcler record has been beaten
and it is to be hoped that prosperity
will now reign supreme. A unicycle,
however, although vehicle with but a
single wheel, should not be COMPOUNDED
with the wheelbarrow. wheelbarrow
is good enough FOR drudgery. but when
so important a matter as the breaking
of a record is concerned, one is forced
to resort to the unicycle.- Boston Tran
script.
The use of thick glass instead OF
wood for floors, especially where .
basement room underneath is occupied
for Offices, is on the increase in Paris.
Although the first cost is considerably
more than that of wood, it is found to
be an economy in the long run, because
the room below can often dispense
with artificial light, there is far less fire
risk. and glass will many times outwear
wood.
1T is said that competition is the
life of trade. 1t sometimes makes re T.
+ Citations. A few years ago we were
told here in Chicago that gas could not
be furnished for less than So per thou
sand feet. 1t is now sold on the West
Side for $3.50, and quarrel among
rival companies has recently ext0rtesl
the confession from one of them that
it can be furnished ut Is cents per thou
sand and fair profit still be made. -
Chicago 44drocdfe.
The st. Paul Chamber Of Com
mcrce has taken steps to stop the sale
of ice taken from the Mississippi river
or any Of its lakes, sloughs or bayous,
am examination of the ice sold at st.
Paul showing that much of il waa
frozen sewage, or, rs a western paper
-cxpressesit, concentratedtypho fever
The use of impure ice is no doubt q
fruitful cause Of sickness, and it was in
this belief that the Massachusetts, Leg
stature at its last session passed an &C
preventing its sale.
"A Hartford little one was desirou.
of obtaining something on the s'ttin g
room shelf. Its mother said quietly
but firmly: s.You can not have it. :
A few moments after the mother lef
the room and the little one climbed NJ
and got the coveted article. g
thought told you you couldn't hav
it, said her mother as she returned Z
tha room. Il know it. But you didn'
say l couldn't get it." The course O
reasoning was SO very acute that tn
another was forced to submit. = Hart
ford Posi-.
William Adams, a boy of seven
teen, who was sent to the Detroi
House of Correction from Idaho i
1888. having been sentenced to priso
for life for mail robbery. has had hi
sentence commuted to Imprisonment
to seven years from the date OF hi
first commitment. The boy, who ha
been model convict, broke dow
completely when told the good news
II won't notice the time I've got {
serve," he said. II suppose l deserv
good big punishment for bein
caught in such bad company. I'D
troll Tribune.