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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06
BOHEMIAN GLASS
How the Most Beautiful Effects In Color
ing Are Obtained.

How the Most Beautiful Effects In Color,
Ing Are Obtained.
The ornamentation of the glass is
done partly in connection with the ex-
posture in the furnace and partly in the
finishing shops, where the work is COM
pleted by cutting, polishing, tarnish-
ing, etching, painting and mounting
in metal. The glass-houses have at
their command very complete color
scale for transparent, opaque and
clouded glasses. But it must not be
supposed that crucible is placed in
the furnace for each color, from which
glass colored for each ornament is to
be made, The colors are worked out
by means of what are called pastes,
which are kept on hand in sticks or
cakes. From pieces of these pastes,
previously warmed till they are soft,
suitable quantities are cut of. laid upon
the foundation of white or colored
glass, and then spread out by drawing
or blowing. BY this means only is an
economical use of such costly materials
as gold and silver compositions posi-
Bile. Some of the glasses thus treated
-gOlO, copper anu silVcA xldSScS-IC-
main still little. or not at all, colored
after the melting, shaping and quick
cooling, and do not take on their bright
hues until they are reheated. This is
the case with the new yellow-silver
glass, which continues uncoiored after
the inter-melting of the silver salt UNI
til it is exposed in the furnace again.
Very fine effects arc produced by blend
ing or overrunning of paste-colors.
provided proper attention is given to
the laws of harmony. A blue glass
cup is, for example, OVERLAND with silver
glass at its upper edge, and this is
drawn down in gradually thinner
tones till it fades away at the foot of
the vase. Cold and copper ruby-colors
are thus combined with green glasses,
etc. Another brilliant effect is pro-
duced when a still hot bulb of glass is
rolled in finely pulverized aventurine
glass, and after this is melted, and
previous to the shaping of the vessel.
is overlaid with coating of either
colored or colorless glass -Poputar
Science Monthly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06
FARM AND ElREslpE.

Keep insecticides and scythes out
Of the reach of children.
The best market for any man, pro-
vided he has one, is the home market.
He who lis near'' to his market is bet
ter than he "who is far off."-M Y
1elcgam.
"A beautiful quilt for a present to u
baby may be made of nuns yelling,
lined with white sateen, with rosebuds
embroidered ON the turned over
corners Cincinnati Times.
-Gooseberry Jam: A gill of water
to each pound of ripe fruit; boil for an
hour. Then add the sugar, three
quarters Of pound for every pound
weight of the fruit Cook slowly for
another hour. Philadelphia Call.
We are asked if in planting pota-
toes it is best to turn the sprouts up or
down. Practically we do not believe
that it makes any difference, certainly
not enough to warrant going to any
special trouble about the matter. = Troy
Times
Cheese and Egg Sandwiches: Crate
the cheese, and to each cupful add the
yelks of three hard-b boiled eggs minced
fine; rub to paste with teaspoonful
of butter; season to taste with salt and
pepper and spread between buttered
bread or crackers. These are nice
made Of graham bread.--The Caterer.
For graham waters, take two
thirds graham and one third white fine
-four Rub in a saltspoonfui of salt,
one-third Of small cupful of butter
and tablespoonful of brown sugar.
Mix with fresh spring water enough to
make stiff dough, which should be
rolled out thin and baked quickly
Toledo Blade.
-Sweet-apple Indian Pudding: Scald
thoroughly one cup of Indian meal and
one cup of chopped sweet apple in a
quart OF boiling milk (skimmed), add
two-thirds of a cup of molasses, a tea
spoonful of salt and one of ginger, also
n pint of cold milk. Bake in a covered
dish from three to four hours. This
eaten with sweet cream is delicious. =
Erchange. m
Lady Fingers: Four ounces Of
white sugar, yelks of four eggs. mix
well, four ounces of -four, mix again,
and If too thick add one whole egg,
and one-half teaspoonfuFof extract Of
lemon or rose Beat the whites of the
eggs to stiff froth and stir in last.
Squeeze through q funnel made of
white writing paper. These are used
for Charlotte Russo and are very nice.
The Household
-Raisin Pie: Crate the yellow from
ono 1ounou d;aoard al the -bsx. vsnd
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06
IMITATION MILK.


An Obnoxious Fluid Composed Of Potash,
Glycerine and Other Chemicals.
The air is 80 full of rumors of frauds
practiced in the dairy business, or
rather ON it, that credit Is now given to
the story that San Francisco has been
the victim of imitation milk made from
nitrate of potash, glycerine and other
pleasant chemicals. 1t is said the peo-
pie of San Francisco have been fed on
this compound for many months with
out finding out that they were being
imposed upon by substitute for cows
milk. 1t was only the other day they
made the discovery. as this imitation 30
closely resembled the pure article that
only the bottled fed babe could detect
it. All of which reads very nicely, at
the same time there is not much temp
tation for the man who knows all
about cows milk to take much stock
in this story, for il is hard enough to
keep genuine milk tasting like Itself
without trying to initiate it with
. foreign compound. II is easy
enough to make . white insipid stuf
that resembles milk in color and con
sistency but there the likeness end
and the taste soon tells that something
is wrong about it. though, Of course
the unaided taste can not always tea
Just what the matter iss-Agsicssstssre
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06

The advance of the ladies is as mar
velous as it is irresistible. Here is
Miss Dolores Lleonart-y -Casanovas. NJ.
d., who has just taken her doctors de-
gree at Barcelona. She began her
university studies at the age of eight;
when thirteen she became B. A., and
now, at the ripe age of nineteen. after
coming out first in all her examina-
tons, and taking numerous prizes she
is fully qualified physician and sur
geon. Fancy female B. A. Of thir-
teen discoursing on hideous diseases
with six-syllable names. and correctly
diagnosing and prescribing for her
brothers and sisters! But it is what
we have got to expect, and the fair
Spaniard is to be congratulated on be-
ing the first of her sex to. show what
can be done in the way of rapid devel-
opment Miss Dolores, etc., may be
fairly addressed, like her namesake
sung Of by Mr.. Swinburne, as wise
among women and wisest, our Lady Of
Pain. Pail Nall Gazette.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06
TWO FARMERS.
TWO Ways of Investing the Profits Frol
the Farm and Garden.


the Farm and Garden.
Two farmers we know own two
farms which join. One farm contains so
acres, the other 10. The farms are
in New England. Farmer A. with his
80 acres has time to go to church, to
the picnic and Grange. Time and
again, while out riding with his family,
he passes by farmer B, toiling in the
field with never athought for any thing
but labor. Farmer AS wife has horse
of her own, which she can drive as she
likes. The boys and girls have books
and magazines and the time to read
them. Mrs. B. has to beg for days for
horse, and then must take the old
mare that can only be induced to hasten
out of her slow walk by thorough APP
plication of the stick.
Every rod of the smaller farm does
its work. Manure is respected
friend. The crops raised are those
that sell for cash. The soil does not run
out because the farmer makes q bust
ness of keeping it up. On the larger
farm there are weedy pastures. The
manure is put into small strips of the
best land. The grass is never fortified.
The soil is expected to make up in area
what it lacks in quality. Farmer B.
makes money, for he never spends any.
He looks across at his neighbor and
sneers. Do these extra horses, these
books and papers payP Not a cent in
cash. Farmer A. puts it like this:
s.Neighbor BIS idea of true profit is
different from mine-that's all. He
wants his in hard cash; I'm ready to
spend part of mine in comfort. l
can't spend my money to better adj
vantage than in making my family con-
tented / could save this money and
buy more land, but like my little
farm. feed it and it keeps its strength.
Why should l spend the best part of
my life in continually grubbing for
money that will never benefit me?"
Now. friends, which plan do you like
best? Which are you followingI
What is your idea of true profit? Is
your money in the bank, or is it invest
ed in happinessp Think it over.
Rural New Yorker.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06
MANUAL TRAINING.
An Agricultural Papers View of the Great
Educational Problem of the Day.

An Agricultural Papers View of the Great
Educational Problem of the Day.
1t is coming. Common sense in
education is having hearing, and we
are awaking to realization of the fact
that an educational system which con-
sists in examining the mind with facts
which have no practical bearing upon
the real work of life, is a humbug and
a fraud. We give our sons six years
of hard training in the public schools,
and when they get through they can
not execute in proper form a prom
issory note; they can not drive single
nail straight; they can not diagnose
the case of q common cold. And yet we
professedly educate them as prepare
ton for life. Now it is a pretty well
established fact that all men can not
live by the exclusive exercise of brain
power. A great majority, in fact, have
to use their muscles. Why then. devote
all the education to the head? Why
cram the mind with facts, which simply
mean knowledge without power, and
allow the hands which must probably
feed the brain to go without proper
development? Why compel our daugh-
tiers to pore over ancient history and
graduate them without knowledge OF
the first principles of cookingP
Why assume that every boy and girl
that is sent to school is to be an orna-
ment rather than a utility in lifeP
Why not educate with view to work
rather than to genteel laziness? There
is prodigal and shameful waste Of
time, money and energy in our present
educational methods. But there is q
rafting among the dry bones. Man
ual training may be sneered at by q
few educational dudes, but when the
hard, practical common sense OF the
people is appealed to understandingly,
the response will be not slow in com.
ing. Follow up the precept that labor
is honorable. by making labor the cor
ner stone of our educational system.
The educator who is ashamed Of the
word industrial. should be hooted and
booted out Of the place he disgraces--
Western PlotcDsaa.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06
EMPRESS OF LorA.


A Rich Woman Who II Poteutats In Tia
Heart OF Free Republic.
+ / notice an interesting paragraph il
an English journal which informs u.
that a Leith firm has just completed .
handsome screw steam launch. which
has been built to the order of Mrs.
Couteno, q South American lady, who
is reported to be the richest woman in
the world. The launch, which is built
OF steel, is twenty-five feet in length,
and is to be employed as q tender to
her large yacht. The large yacht is
engaged at present in the unpretend.
ing but profitable trade of carrying
coal from Lota to Valparaiso.) 1t Is
deliberately fitted up in polished ma
hogany and is to be dispatched forthwith
by one of the mail steamers from Liv.
erpool for conveyance to Chill.
Besides being the richest lady in the
world, she also enjoys the singular
privilege of being Empress over tract
OF territory called Lota, which lies
some two or three hundred miles south
OF the port 1t may appear strange to
speak of an Empress in the heart of a
free republic, but nevertheless the
fact exists, and so absolute are her
Majesty's powers that there are few
o. her subjects who would be
resolute and courageous enough to
claim the possession of their own i'm
mortal souls, or who would not be pre-.
pared to deny that on the making Of
the place q special arrangement was
made with reference to coal deposits
between the Divinity and the reigning
monarch.
During her absence the Government
is carried on, much as it is in Ireland,
by means of viceroy, with this excep-
ton, that while the Irish are not in
frequently rebellious and troublesome
and actually lay claim to the the right
of having slight say in their destinies
either in this world or in that which is
to come, such supernatural effort
never enters the simple and uncom-
planning minds of the population of
this remarkable portion of Gods foot
stool. And why should it be other
wise? The Viceroy, or boss Pasha,
and his court have been so long accus.
toned to licking and cleaning the boots
of their sovereign mistress, and passing
along their own in return to their
subordinates. who perform a similar
but humber task, and keep the ball
rolling always downward, that it would
be at once a dangerous and unkindly
action to persuade them that they are
featherless bipeds and not officiating
sutomatOns.-Pdna Star.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06
Professional Courtesy.

Nothing does one more good than to
stand by when two doctors meet and
see the courtesy which they bring to
the profession.
"Ah! Good morning, doctor"
Doctor. good morning"
Fine day. doctor"
doctor, it's charming. When did
you returnF'
Yesterday, doctor. Say, doctor.
how is the horse?"
IAN right. doctor-all right I'm
obliged to you"
Mot at all. doctor, not at all. !"
..Well, doctor, l must be going"
..Same here, doctor"
Goodbye. doctor"
doctor, goodbye. '-Detroa Fr~
hess.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06
FASHION NOTES.

-
The Latest FancIss in Dry Goods, Hosise,
and Other Toilet Accessories.
Shot woolens are in preparation fol
early fall wear.
New chemisettes are made wider,
and SO long as to form almost q waist,
coat. tfnff
Wide null neck scarfs with lace OF
embroided ends are again worn with
summer toilets.
There is a new fashion of wearing
ribbons around the neck with ends fall
ing almost to the feet.
The proper place to wear diamond
button on a summer toilet is on one
side of the lace collar.
White dresses Of lace or net are much
more practical, because less crushable,
than those of null or nainsook.
The most sought-for color in silk
and Isle thread hosiery is Suede, the
color of the pale tan Suede gloves.
A pretty and cheap white or cream
gown is made of crazy cloth trimmed
with cream Marquise or Egyptian lace.
White dresses are worn in midsum-
mer in the house and the country by
ladies who are even in deep mourning.
Black bows give the mourning effect.
Boucle goods are not necessarily
woody. Boucle means curled, buckled
or looped, and cotton goods. fringes,
hair and wool textiles can each AID
all be made boucle.
Women who know how to dr. do
not wear jewelry with summer toilets.
one small diamond button ..reouentlv
giving the one touch of f'eht to a dis.
tinguished white toilet.
The new Marquise iace IL very Diff
ierent 10 the lace formerly known by
that name. Its. reseau or ground il
very smear and varied with many
stltcnes. fhe designs are borrowed
from O. I'd Malines. w
Jarse cotton net is worn over silk as
:. novelty on the other side. The skirts
are made very full. wide, tucked and
undraped. falling in straight lines
over the silk skirt. A scarf of soft silk
tied in big bow in the back forms the
hip drapery.
Rusty black lace can be freshened by
washing it in borax water, and after il
is partly dry dip ID in water in which
an old kid glove has been boiled, and
some indigo blue added. Then stretch
out the lace carefully and iron on the
wrong side, or press until dry under Q
heavy weight.
False hair is worn but little or not at
all by Parisians who really belong to the
world of the best fashionable French
society, neither do Partisan gra,adt
danes of the Faubourg st. German wear
high-heeled shoes, boots or slippers, mol
do they practice tight lacing, nor dis
figure themselves with enormous bustles
such as the parvenus, the ''new people
and the common English women wear.
English and French fashion writers,
as well as private correspondents, agree
in saying that black hosiery is mort
bund, for summer, at least. but those
who have black silk or Isle thread
stockings need not cast them aside,
and merchants who have large stock
win not find them a drag on their
counters when the butterflies come
back to town, and it is said that even
some black socks for babies (poor little
things) are found among late importa-
tiOns-N " SIM
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06
Every Woman Knows Them.

Tho human body is much like . good
clock or watch in its movements; II one
goes too slow or too fast, SO follow all the
or set Of organs works imperfectly, pei YER
sion Of functional effort of all the organs
Is sure to follow. Hence it Is that the nu-
merous ailments which make woman's life
miserable are the direct issue Of the abnor-
NAL action of the uterine system. For all
ery woman knows them-there n one UNI
falling remedy, DR.. Pierce's "Favorite
Prescription, the favorite OF the sex.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06

A citizen of Yates. N. Y. has in
vented machine for picking raspber-
ries. II consists of a long tray made
of cloth affixed to light frame. This
tray is carried from bush to bush very
easily, and with . large hook in one
hand the operator draws the bush over
the tray while with the other hand he
strikes the bush lightly with padded
bat. II has been proven that for fif-
teen dollars, a. many berries can be
'picked a. cost heretofore sixty dollars.
In other words. one person with this
tray can gather sixty quarts per hour
or six hundred quarts in ten hours
Buffalo Express.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06

THOSE who are trying to break up the
.,aneful habit of intemperance wiz expert
ence great benefit from the use OF Prickiy
Ash Bitters. Liquors derange the system.
Prickly Ash Bitters viii remedy the evil
results and restore the brain, stomach and
ening the win power, thoroughly cleans
ing and toning mp the system, and remove
every faint Of disease. It is purely . med.
icine, and while pleasant to the taste, 1t
can not be used a. . beverage BY reason
Of its cathartic properties.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06
The incest Nights Out.

20, isn't it lovely night, Adolf
phusi just fancy how delightful the
nights must be in the Orient! The
azure blue sky. the perfume of the
flowers, the soft tinkling -"
II tell you, Miranda dear, prefer
the nights they have in Alaska They're
lust immense.
Immense, Adolphusf
Eyes; for counting. They're 20 long.
you know. ~ Phstade!pAia Cali.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06

Dive Tor tSe ESj,Ssrs IS permanent and
natural
To PROMOTE digestion, to keep the body
healthy and the mind clear. take Ayers
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06

Ripe and palatable bananas have
been grown in q Sacramento garden
this season without any sort OF artitl-
cial protection, and fully exposed 70
the air.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06

H1Ns are very exclusive. Atlsast each
enc likes to stick to her own set-Prair6
Enrxper
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06

ONO Is called the Buckeye State buck
eyes q tree Of that name hourishes there
Chicago Ledger.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06

WOULD people Be more lawless IL theE
were less liwl-Tszas SVfiNgs.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06

IL do my best to bring mankind
higher As the elevator man said.
s.but some viii keep going down"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06

A NAN must not expect to live in cloves
simply because he marries grass wtdow.
IN Y IAdspssdswt
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06

"A Lewiston (Me.) man recently
cutFed the ears of his wife because she
talked Of base ball at the tea table.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06

Irs mans wife Is wsll-brsd, hs never
wants any but-her.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06

A strong End0Wment
q conferred upon that magnificent institu.
ton. the human system, by DIR. Pierce's
"Golden Medical Discovery" that forti6es
1t against the encroachments of disease. II
Is TIE great blood purifier and alternative
and a. . remedy for consumption, bron
chitis, and all diseases of wasting nature
its influence is rapid, efI1cacious and per
manent Sold everywhere
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06

A CoMPLErE FEMININE ToILEr SERVICE
always includes GLENN's SULPHUR Soar.
HILEs HAIR AND WHIsKRR Dire, Black
or Brown, soc.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-11-06

PEorLH who live in glass houses should
have curtains burlington Free Pyess.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-12-31
RAPID REPORTING.

From the Richmond State ]


The Congressional Rccord the gazette
of the national Legislature, has made the
formal announcement of the appointment
of Il young Nirginian to Il position in a
department where the officials are "few
and fit" The corps o. capitol stenograph-
ers in Washington are the foremost men
in their vocation on the continent. They
rank as experts" and change of parties
never vacates their place. Noone can go
behind their notes, and they must there
fore be the chiefs in this art. They re
ceive the pay of congressmen-s5OO0 a
year
The severest tests are applied to every
applicant for the rare vacancies. The
sitting process goes on for months. EX-
perenced stenographers collapse under
the stress of some rapid and everlasting
"ehnners" ON abstruse subjects. Last
winter wild and fearful specimen was
before committee, terrifying the short
hand scribes by frightful speed. He was
a naval engineer from abroad, bristing
with technical phrases, and rushed along
in indifferent English. Practised writers
lung up their pencils and fled before the
voluble and veXing vocabulary of the
scientific Swede. Congressman Tucker
telegraphed for "A STRIPPING whom the Viz
glnla Legislature employed to take"
the testimony of scared negro wit
nesseS chatterng in terror tU o or three
hundred words Il minute. The lad made
n night trip to Washington to lasso the
Mazeppa that had got away the fast fell
lows. The Hon. Ran. stallen his pile
on the bright boy. The naval officer
was let loose The quick pencil kept
! right by the flank of the dashlng and fur
| lous talker. The custom of congressional
reporters is 70 relieve each other every 10
minutes. For five mortal hours, without
recess or refreshment. that nimble pen
caught the dashing sentences. The last
word went to paper as the fatgued speaker
sank down in his chair
The congressman passed to the desk OF
the reporter and congratulated him on a
feat almost without a parallel. The hon
orable the speaker of the House, Mr.. Car
Isle. summoned the game fellow before
him and handed him his commission nam
ing him first on that official staff. The
victor is the only Vrginian that ever held
such position, and, with one exception
the first Southerner ever in the oflica
corps of the House. No individual of his
years ever received such an appointment
He is George c. Laiferty of Richmond
Va, stenographic secretary to Goyerno
FitZhugh Lee.