The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-12-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

AS an ambiguous statement u
neither here nor there, where is itp-
Detroit Free Press.
"A runaway horse in Pittsburgh
tried to cross the Pennsylvania railroad
bridge and fell between the cross ties
in the middle of the track. He was
raised with derrick and carried off on
a hand car.
1t seems that there are artists who
teach French dressmakers certain little
tricks, and that it is not all Unborn
grace which teaches them how to knot
q ribbon. One dressmaker told an
American correspondent that she paid
an artist twelve dollars to learn how
to make a certain bow.-N Y. Mail.
"A disciple of Blackstone at Albany.
Ca. was met carrying home 'possum.
He was asked: Hello. j., what is
tbat?" 'Possumr' What are you
going to do with him?" I'm going
to have big 'possum supper" sHow
many will be there?" 1.-TWO; me and
the 'possumr'
The Rural New Yorker says the
suspicious of even q very wise old
rodent may be allayed by covering the
steel trap set to catch him with white
cloth on which a few cake or cheese
crumbs have been scattered. The rat
ventures on the cloth for the coveted
luxury, and the thin goods do not in
the least prevent the springing of the
trap beneath it.
After somewhat chcckered ca
reer, the Great Eastern seems at last
to have fair chance of a green and
useful old age. Her career at Liver
pool as a floating temple of amuse-
ments has proven so successful that
she is to become peripatetic variety
show and will be taken about the Brit
ish coast, and finally to the Australian
colonies.-N Y. Herald.
John Whitfield. his wife and an
other woman lived in an old shanty-
boat near Pittsburgh, Pa. Some days
ago Whitfield sent his wife down town
to collect an alleged debt, and in her
absence he and the female took the
train for Wheeling. Mrs. Whitfield
was broken-hearted at first when she
found that her faithless lord had flown.
The neighbors comforted her. however,
and last evening she said: swell, I've
supported John by sewing for ten
years, and l guess I'll give the other
woman show now. "-Pittsburgh Post.
The demands of fashion has brought
new profession into prominence. 1t
is called ''truquage," and the professor
OF the art devotes much skill and in
genuity in making new things. es-
pecially furniture look battered, worm
eaten and old enough to satisfy thepre-
vailing taste for the antique. The new
articles are modelled after sixteenth
century patterns, and then beaten with
bludgeons, stained with acids and other
wise maltreated until they assume the
proper time-worn and ancient appear
ance. Boston Budget.
"A correspondent of the Mining and
Scientific Press calls attention to the
unusually high fineness or value of tho
lumne County, Gallagher than that
of any other gold quartz mine in any
country. it is claimed. The fineness OF
the gold from one of these mines is
stated to be 1888. or S20.32 per ounce,
and that from the other is 1901, or
$19.64 per ounce. When it is considered
that the value of chemically pure gold,
one thousand fine, is $20.6718 per
ounce, the close approach to absolute
purity of the gold found in these mines
is remarkable.
AN ingenious little instrument,
called the ''hyalolyphotype," or (more
sensibly) hot pen, has been invented,
by means of which drawings can be
made on glass or CLASSY substances
with waxy composition, which is
eolid and somewhat hard at ordinary
temperatures. The pen can be heated
by gas or electricity, and when heated
the waxy material flows easily from it,
setting so quickly on the glass that
cross-patching can be done more rap
idly than with ordinary pen and ink,
without risk Of blocking up the angles.
Corrections can be made with a PEN
knife. After the drawing has been
made the plate is etched by fiuoric
acid. and when complete it can be
electrotyped, stereotyped, used direct
~, or applied to any purpose for which
engraved surfaces are required.-N r
Tribune