The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mexico.
The city of Topic, the capital of a
new Territory in Mexico, has $1,000
Inhabitants and not newspaper.
"A. j. Holland, of Mason Valley,
New, has raised three kittens that he
obtained from the nest of a wild cat
Nat he had killed. They have become
thoroughly domesticated, and, though
but four months old, are good ratters.
The greatest advance has been made
IN glass cutting lin this country during
The last few years. Only five years ago
the glass was limited to very ordinary
quality. but the present production is
superior to English manufacturer
Chicago Times.
An epigram of a Rhode Island
magistrate, Judge Sherman, says
Harper's Weekly, goes far to justify the
saying of a Massachusetts, lawyer. that
genius is less a gift than industry. A
lazy lawyer was ridiculing the restless
activity of a younger brother, when the
Judge dryly remarked: well, well,
an engine of one cat-power running all
the time will do more work than an
engine of forty horsepower standing
STILL"
"A Montreal hackman, who took a
couple to church the other night to be
married and quietly slipped off dur
ing the wedding ceremony to earn
little extra money, was surprised on
returning to hear the bridegroom bold
ly ask for the money he had made
while away. The coachman, however,
oil
being DESTROYS of becoming defendant
in a lawsuit, handed over the cash
and drove the newly-weddedp pair home
Montreal Witness.
-Horse-cars in cities are the SUBJ
jects of much dissatisfaction. While
the Chicago man says that he had rath-
er walk half mile from the station
than ride out in the cold street-cars,
ahe Boston man maintains that he walks
Zoe same distance to avoid blockade
of cars. In Rutland, VT, horse-cars
are the subjects of remarks of differ
ent nature. In the citation of pride, a
Rutland editor says: There were two
horse-cars running all day yesterday,
and the tinkling of bells and the roar
on the track had really metropolitan
sound. Chicago Times.
The greatest thickness of ground
ice ever actually measured in America
was by Sir j. II. LEROY, who in June,
1874, on the banks of the Mackenzie
River, in latitude sixty-four degrees
north, saw a perpendicular cliff broken
off by landslip, in which the earth
was solidly frozen for distance of
forty-five feet below the surface. Half
century ago, Russian merchant at
Yakutsk, in Siberia, which is situated
in latitude sixty-two degrees north. had
to dig 3S2 feet before he could get
through the ground ice.
r. w. Hanscom, of Lewiston, Me-,
says he happened to be in Skowhegan
in 1869 when the late Josh Billings lee
tured there. The morning after the
lecture was rainy, and mud was ankle
deep in the streets. Josh glanced
obviously ont of doors and then asked
Hanscom, Have yoa any rubbers?"
''No," said Hanscom. .f'u tell you
what I'll do" said Josh. '.I'll flip
cent to see whether you or shall take
the other on his shoulders and wade
across the street from the hotel to the
slsoe-store and buy pair for both"
Hanscom agreed. The cent was tossed
and he won. Josh took him "pig-
back" through the mud to the shoe
store and bought rlbbers for both
Boston Journal
1t has beon industriously circu-
lated that during his reign the late King
Alfonso, of Spain, accumulated the
enormous sum of 200. 200, 900 reals
<$25,0o0. 000). There is not one word
OF truth in this. The expenses of the
royal household, pensions, charities
and more thay once the liquidation of
the debts of relatives not as careful as
himself, absorbed the major portion Of
the appropriation which Alfonso re-
ceived from the State. and the sum
which he has left, including the amount
of insurance upon his life in various for
eign Offices, can hardly in any sense be
termed q fortune Liberal, without
being extravagant. Alfonso endeavored
to set something aside for his children.
IN Y. Ss>s.
-Souts America is more than double
the size of the United States. The en-
pire of Brazil seems on the map quite
as large rs Australia. 1t is twenty-four
times the size of England. The Argen-
tine Republic is nearly as large as
Europe, taking Russia out. Bolivia and
Venezuela are each twice the size Of
England, New Grenada and Peru each
MS large as England and Scotland,
Ecuador something less, Paraguay
equal to Great Britain, Uruguay and
Chill about the same. and the little
known regions of Patagonia and Terra
delFuego at least double the dimensions
of Great Britain. British, French and
Dutch Guiana are nearly as large as
Great Britain.--N Y. Sun.
SAFETY MARKS.