The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

VI
"A German observer Is surprised
that more attention is not given in this
country to directing youth in the study
of nature.
"A man in Orland, CAL, made
wager that he could smoke ninety
Cigars in two hours. He failed on the
ninetieth, which made him sick.
partridge few through plate
glass show-window' one-quarter inch
thick, at Chester, VT, the other after
noon, and dropped dead inside with .
broken neck.
From single acre you can gather
5000 bushels of prime oysters" said
an FISHERMAN of the Lower Chesapeake
Bay. This beats wheat-raising by a
large majority"
Santa Rosa, Cal, has remarkable
town clock. When the hour hand
points at six and the clock strikes
seventeen the people then know that it
is exactly twelve o'clock.-San Fran
cisco Cal.
Twenty-Five years ago we were
$4,000, 900 people; now we are nearly
60,0O0,000. Then we had IA cities
and towns of over 5000 inhabitants;
now we have 286 of such cities and
towns. Then the total population of
our cities was 100000; now it is H..
GOO, 0Oo. = Chicago Herold, =,
The Sampel tribe of Indians, who
occupy the reservation between the
Spokane and Nespielum Rivers. are
said to be the most advanced and civil
lied race of Indians on the Pacific
coast. Their boast is that never has
one of their tribe shed the blood of a
white man.-Chicago Times.
Some purists object to the use of
the word RENDER" as often applied to
the delivery of song by an artist upon
the stage; but we are inclined to think
such use legitimate, inasmuch as we
find in the dictionary secondary
meaning to be, ito infiict. "-LotceH
Citizen.
"A couple Of highly respectable
ladies in town In France lately en-
tered into wager as to which of them
could utter the greatest number of
words in given time. Both read from
manuscripts. One of them accom-
plished 203, $50 words in three hours;
the other, the more voluble of the two,
296,311 words.-Schnitzel und Spane.
The new Brazilian slave law fixes
the maximum value of slaves at the
following rates: Slaves under thirty
wears, 5000; slaves from thirty to forty
years. $500; slaves from forty to fifty
wears, 5000; slaves from fifty to fifty
five years, $500; slaves from fifty-five
to sixty years, 5000. The value of fe-
male slaves is put at twenty-five per
cent. lower than these rates.
Charles H. Tweed, who died at
Pittsburgh, had peculiar views. Among
other things in his will, he said: mo
flowers at the funeral, Grape at the
door, nor monument or stone to mark
the grave. The first is cheap respect,
the second heathenish, and the last I
can not afford. What money there is
must be devoted to useful purposes. y
Chicago Mail.
"A railway is building from the South.
ern Pacific's main line to the celebrated
Cinnabar mines, producing quicksilver,
in the nelghborhood of New Almaden,
Cal. Great difficulties have always
been experienced in getting cheap
and suitable transportation to and from
these mines. Donkeys have been
largely employed hitherto, and at one
time many of the camels now running
wild in Arizona were used there.-N
=. Sun.
The business of painting the hinge
signs upon fences and barns which as
saultthe eye in all parts of the country
is in the hands of q few contractors in
New York and Chicago. One firm in
this city spends from $40, 900 to $50, 00(
n year in this way, paying from ons
and one-half to two cents a square foo
for the work. The bigger the sign thu
better. Many can be found reaching
800 feet in length, and the biggest o
NIL Cat Newark. O.) is more than SOt
feet long and contains only one word
Chicago Nesos.
Crater Lake is thus described in |
petition that is being numerousl'
signed in Oregon to make a nationa
reservation of the wonder: THE sur
face of the lake is $500 feet above SCI
level, and it is about eight miles lont
and six miles wide. 1t contains circula
island GOO feet high, on which is found
an extinct crater which is ninety fee
deep and AIS feet in diameter. In an
other portion of the lake is found con
ical-shaped rock. which is perpendicu
lar and rises to an altitude of 2, 200 fee
above the waters surface. Other rock
of remarkable form and elevation
tower high above the lake. The lax
walls are nearly perpendicular AM
vary in altitude from 1000 to ZOO
feet. "-DcnUcr Tribune.