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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03
A vERlTABLE cLuTToN.
The Tremendous Quantity Of Food Con-
sumed by Spiders.


sumed BY Spiders.
1t is not everybody who knows how
much q spider can eat. Most of us
have derived amusement, and perhaps
instruction, from watching the subtle
arrangements and devices Of the little
tactician with q view to capture some
dainty little insect, and many of us
would know exactly where to place this
interesting creature in the classification
of animal life, but probably very few of
us have any idea what a voracious gor-
mand the spider is. A gentleman, scien-
tifically inclined, and luxuriating in the
rare possession of leisure, has recently
given to the world some very curious
and startling statements as regards the
arachneidiean appetite. He captured q
spider and kept it in confinement, sup
plying it literally with food, and care
fully recording his observations. He
estimated that the creature ate four times
its weight for breakfast, nine times its
weight for dinner, thirteen times its
weight for supper. finishing up with an
ounce of food. In the same proportion
a man of average weight would demol-
ish an OK for breakfast, two more for
dinner, a couple of bullocks, eight
sheep, and four pigs for supper, and
then hundredwcight of fish to prepare
the way for an aldermanic banquet be-
tore retiring to bed.-Baptist Weekly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03
Rough Glass for Painted Windows.

Singularly enough, examinations
made of the painted windows, SO cele-
brated as works of artistic genius and
skill, of the old Cathedrals of England
and Continental Europe, show that their
superiority consists really in the in-
feriority of the glass, its richness in the
poverty of its. constituents, in the very
perfection of its uneven thickness and
in the imperfections of its surface and
its body, all covered, as they are, by the
accumulating dust of ages, and honey
combed by the corroding effect of time.
Like the facets of diamond or ruby.
each little wave and thread and blister
becomes, by interference, refraction and
reflection Of the light which plays upon
it, new source of the gcm-likc bril-
lance, harmony and beauty which dis
tinguish the painted glass of former
centuries. The glass-makers of America
and England now aim to reproduce the
perfection of this old glass by repro
ducing its imperfections. Chicago San.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03
ANCIENT CURES.


How Hydrophobla Was Treated In the
Good Old Times.
The old recipe of "a hair of the dog
chat bit you" was almost literally
realized in prescription for the cure
of hydrophobia much in vogue with the
"Pasteurs' of the fifteenth century:
take mastiff pup of q month old,
and stuff the same with cloves, CHINA
mon and divers other spices, and there
after boil the carcass entire, the which,
taken warm from the pot and laid unto
the part that hath been bitten, will,
without doubt, do much good"-which,
somehow or other, it did not. A more
primitive, but more successful method
-was employed within the memory OF
living men in remote part of Ireland.
thu patient being the eldest SON OF the
family, q fine lad of nineteen. His
recovery appearing hopeless from the
strong symptoms Of hydrophobia which
he exhibited, the doctors decided upon
bleeding him to death as the only
alternative to the barbarous plan OF
smothering under feather bed, which
was then common. A vein was opened
and he was looked into an clubhouse
and left to die. But toward evening
the milkmaid q the household, passing
near the spot with her pail, was
amazed to hear the sufferers voice
family asking for something to drink. :
Oyerioyed at this unmistakAble sign
of recovery, she lost no time IN sum
moning assistance. and the young
mans life was saved, the physicians
ascribing his extraordinary escape 70
the carrying OF Of the poison ey the
cop;ous floW of blood.-N. =. Tunes.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03
SANDY LOAN SOILS.
How They Can be Converted Into Dark

Loans.
Light sandy loan soils are often
called leachy, meaning that manure
applied to them sinks into the subsoil
and is lost. No farmer who has
worked such soils has any such belief
or fear. The writer has been farming
such land for nearly ten years, and by
copious manuring at least once every
year and often twice, for the growth of
large soiling crops, and by gradually
deeper blowing has converted the for
merly thin surface soil into a dark
loan ten inches in depth. But under
this the sandy subsoil still remains as
light-colored as ever, and shows not
the slightest evidence that the manure
has ever reached it. Moreover, the
sandy bottom of the barn cellar, in
which four hundred or five hundred
loads of manure have been made every
year, and in which the liquids from
twenty cows have flowed for ten years,
shows no darkened color for more than
a few inches in depth, thus proving
that this stratum of soil has been suf-
ficient to filter out all the coloring
matter, at least of the manure. This
does not appear to show that such a
soil is at all leachE-N z. Tases.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03
FLOATING SUITS.
A New Fabric which Floats rs Easily .
Pure Cork. SIS

A New Fabric which Floats rs Easily -
Pure Cork. -. s..
Buoyant clothing has been devised
by a Londoner, and seems to be at
tracing some attention in that nletrop-
oils. Threads of cork are interviewer
with cotton. silk or wooden, machinery
which slices the cork to the required
thinness, forming part of the invention.
From these new materials clothes of
ordinary appearance are constructed
which bear up the wearer when COM
mitted unexpectedly to the water. The
worth of the new fabrics was thorough
~ tested by throwing three per.
sons clothed in them from the end
ofa pier. They floated as easily as If
incased in cork jackets. 1t is said that
they remained in the water over an
hour without discomfort The posi-
bilities of fireproof apparel are next in
order.-Scicntifc Aniesicon.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03
-"Now. john said a teacher, .

Now. john" said teacher, sit
your mother should send you for half a
dozen eggs, and the price was fifteen
cents, what would whole dozen be?''
"Thcy would be smashed, sir, before !
got home" "You don't understand, !"
said the teacher. ''How much would
you pay for them?" Nothing" replied
John. 'Can some other boy answer the
question: "He would pay nothing,
sir!' exclaimed boy at the other end
Of the room. "You are as great Ounce
Is john" said the teacher. mo, ]
ain't," retortcd the boy, 'sfor his mother
always gets every thing on tick. IN
Z. Ledger.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

"A few years ago there lived in At
lanta, Ca, three persons who in carly
life stood in the presence of the first Ma
poleon. One saw the great soldier after
Waterloo, when he was prisoner on q
British vessel Another saw him in
Paris during his imperial reign. The
third did not see him at all. He was q
Prussian, and when the French entered
Berlin in triumph his father held him
up in his arms to look at the victor at
the head of his troops, but the child
pertinaciously shut his eyes to avoid
seeing his country's Chicago
7ribN3le
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

Bread is luxury among the peas
antry in parts of Southern Austria, Italy
and in Roumania. In village not far
from Vienna. the staple food Of the PEG,
pie is sterz, kind of porridge made OF
ground bccch-nuts. A porridge made OF
boiled maize, called polenta, forms the
chief article of food in Northern Italy.
The same thing. somewhat differently
prepared, under the name Of mamaliga,
Is the common article Of food in Rou-
aania.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03
Some curious facts werc recent

Some curious facts were recently
developed at the annual examination of
conscripts in Belgium. Only six per
cent. of them had never been to school,
and seventy-five per cent were able to
read and write. Yet focty-six per cent.
could not name two countries in Europe;
eighty-four per cent. could not name .
single celebrated Belgian. Current.
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TEE voLrAlc BELT Co, of Marshall, Mich,
offer to send their celebrated ELECTRO Vol
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

"A drummer who has been in
South Florida for the past week says
that the beef in that section is so tough
as to render it almostimpossible to even
stick fork in the grayy.-SaUannab
Nes0s.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

"A Philadelphia art exhibition was
not financially successful. OF about
5000 visitors only 10000 paid admis-
sion fees, the others being deadhcads.
The enterprise was moro an educational
than commercial success.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

one rainy day last week Kosciusko MUIR
ply, being in hurry to get home, took .
street car There was big crack In the
roof of the car, through which the rain fell
ssk Az al The ~rbans conductor: sWhs1,s tie
matter with this cart Does it do this way
alwaysi'' mo, sir; only when it rains.''-
Ttxas Siftings.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

LAooN1c patient to physician: Caught
cold. Physician: Take Red Star Cough
Cure; no morphia, no poisons. Only TWEEN
ty-five cents. st. Jacobs Oil cures pain.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

A VIRGINIA boy who couldn't speak {
world was considered family treasury
until IL was discovered that he coul<
whistle.-Lowisgille Courisr-JourHui.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

A RoLIKR-sKArB gathers no moss, but q
T. Journal.
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IT has been decided by q court of com
petent jurisdiction that there IL Just q
much craft upon the land as there Is upon
the sea.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

WHEN you wish to 'ssixe up'' man don't
look exclusively at his watch-chain. Ash
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

"WHAf makes children shyi" written
asks. Didn't know they did; thought Il
was horses-Rockland Courier Gazette.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

A sTiNoER in the Capital City Of Texas,
who seemed to be lost, asked Gus de Smith I:
Say, how do get to the railroad depotr'
"Say, whatf' Say, how do get to the
railroad depotr How do / get to the rail-
road depotl Anything else you want me
to say. -'-7eras Strings.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

JENNY, do you know what . miracle isi'
new parson it win be . miracle"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

PIXIES T0orHAcHR DROPS cure In minute. -
Gienn's Sulphur Soap heals and beauties. &c
GERMAN Conn RHMovER kills Corns 3 Bunioha
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

A SCHOOL journal advises: MAKE the
school interesting" That's what the small
boy tries to do TO the best Of his ability
C7iston Caxcasips.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

II Joke can make horse laugh, VIII
can't it make . shay grins- Chicago 1sibxn
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

3 months treatment for Soc. Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. Sold by druggists'
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4: Paul after counting hea. Tor sevepteen
consecutive years succeeded in gaining The
hand of Virginia. When she beer me bis,
what fihle was it, just won---I,i ta.;s:. aid
CW.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

e. L. NoYKs, Revere, Mass, was cured Of
scald-head by using Halls Hair Remover.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

A SURE cure for obstinate coughs and colds
Ayers Cherry PICTORIAL The bestremedy'
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

II Is the man with the dark beard who
never says dye.-Losrel Courier.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-04-03

This is . high-handed outrage rs The
boy remarked when he found that his moth
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-11-18

The French people are trying to rid
themselves of the last vestages of royal
ty and imperialism. The Government
not only has expelled the Princes but
has approved the sale of all the Crown
Jewels that are not of artistic value,
worth it is estimated, $500, 600. Ver-
sailles and the other vacant palaces are
to be maintained no longer as the va
cant habitations of the Kings and En-
perors of France, but are to be put to
practical uses under the Secretary of
State for Education. The latter laid
before the Budget Committee last week
his plans for adapting the palaces of
Versailles and the Trianon branches of
the Louvre for the display of pictures;
the smaller rooms of Fontainebleau as
receptacle for the surplusage of the
National Library; Pau as museum
for Southern France, and Compiegne
as mandatory for tapestries.
- s.
Our watery-eyed morning contemp-
Orary, which must have something to
whimper about, now wrings its hands
because President Cleveland's little adj
dress at Harvard was not equal to the
immortal Grafton of the lamented Lin
coin on the field of Gettysburg. Alas!
Alas Yet we question if, in point Of
perspicuity, it was not equal to- any
thing uttered there. 1t had, it is true
no classic chestnuts to set it off, as did
the oration of him who is shortly tc
marry fair-fat-and-forty English dow
ager; nor was 1t quite as too-too as the
address of Holmes son; but his re-
marks We're simple, sensible and per
fectly clear, and that, we think, was
enough. Many who pose as orators dc
much worse Columbus Dispatch. "
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sHERIFT'S SALE.
John G.. Sal,r

John c. Saur
VS..
Rosina NJ. Choate, ct al.
Order of Sale from Henry County Court of Com
mon Pleas.
BY virtue of order Of sale issued from the above
named court and to me directed as Sheriff of Henry
county, will offer at public sale at the North door
Of the Court House, in Napoleon, Ohio, on
Saturday, December IL, 1886,
at the hour of O'Clock, p. m Of said day. the fol
lowing described Real Estate, situated In Henry
County, Ohio, to-wit
Four az rods off the south side of that part of the
south west fractional quarter Of section No. 18,
town No. s, north of range No. east, in Henry
county, o bio, commencing at point on the right
bank Of the Maumee river thence north Al degrees,
east chains and 80 links thence south 40 degrees,
east IA chains to point. thence south westerly
chains and So links line parallel with said river
front to point, thence north 40 degrees, west Ia
chains to the place of beginning, said parcel Of land
being four by fifty six rods in size.
Appraised at $425.
Terms of Sale Cash.
FREDERICK ALLER,
Sheriff of Henry county, Ohio.
SIM. Hague, attorney for plaintiff.
Napoleon, Ohio, Nov. Q. 1886. $1l 10
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SHERIFF'S SALE.

Adam Burget and Geo. w. Hart, partners &c.
j. W. Foncannon ct al.
Order of sale from Henry county Court of Com
mon Pleas.
By virtue OF an order of sale issued from the above
named Court and to me directed as Sheriff of Henry
county, will offer at public sale at the north door
of the Court House, in Napoleon, Ohio, on
Saturday, November 27, 1885,
at the hour of o'clock p M, of said day, the fol-
lowing described real estate situated in Henry
ty, Ohio, to-wit:
Twenty -four (24) feet front on East street and
eight @ rods deep off Of the north side of the south
half of lots No. seven ( and eight (8) in Alpheus
Buchanan's original plat OF the village of Liberty
Center, Henry county.
Appraised at $500. .s
Terms of sale, cash. .'
FREDERICK ALLER,
Sheriff of Henry county. Ohio.
Thomas Bierley, attorney for Abby J. Thomas
Napoleon, Ohio, oct. 26, 1885. So 70
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SHERlFF'S SALE.
William G. French, executor, etc.,

William G. French, executor, etc.,
VS.
Leverett G. Randall, ct al.
Order of sale from Henry County Court of Com
mon Pleas.
By virtue of order ofsale issued from the above
named Court and to me directed as Sheriff of Henry
county, will offer at public sale at the north dool
Of the Court House, in Napoleon, Ohio, on
Saturday, November 20, 1885,
at the hour of O'Clock p M, of said day the fol
lowing described real estate, situated in Henry coun
ty, Ohio, to-wit:
All that part of lots number fourteen (14 and sew
enteen III in Scotts addition to the town ofNapoe
on Henry county, Oho,which lies the easterly side
of line fifty 50 feet easterly of the center line OF
the road bed of the Mansfield, Coldwater and Lake
Michigan railroad as then located, and surveyed
through said property, containing three acres more
or less.
Appraised at $500.
Terms of sale Cash.
FREDERICK ALLER,
Sheriff of Henry county, Ohio.
CIV. Everett & r. W. Cahill, attorneys for plant
if.
Napoleon, o., Oct. 10th, 1886. $3.50
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SHERIFF'S SALE.
Hulda II. Sheffield, Administrative &C.
vs..
Henry NJ. WiSler.

Hulda H. Sheffield, Administrative &c.
vs..
Henry NJ. Wisler.
Order of sale from Henry County Court of Com
mon Pleas.
BY virtue of an order of sale issued from the above
named Court and TO me directed as Sheriff of Henry
county, will offer at public sale at the north door
of the Court House, in Napoleon, Ohio, on
Saturday, December II, 1886,
at the hour of o'clock, p. m, of said day, the fol-
lowing described real estate, situated in Henry
county, Ohio, to-wit:
Commencing at the northwest corner of out lot
number eight 49, in Phillips q Stafford's out lot
addition to said town, thence west to Haly Avenue
thence south to point due west of the southwest
corner of said lot number eight (8) thence east to
the south west corner of said out lo thence NORTH
to the place of beginning, to contain the land within
the above lines.
Appraised at $3.50.
Terms of sale, cash.
FREDERICK ALLER,
Sheriff of II Henry county, Ohio.
S. NJ. Hague, Attorney for plaintiff.
Napoleon, Ohio, Nov. 6, 1886 50 80
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SheriH's Sale.
Washington l.. Heller.

Washington l.. Heller.
VS.
Israel Thomson.
Order of sale from Henry County Court of Com
mon Pleas.
By virtue of an order of sale issued the above
named Court and to me directed as Sheriff of Henry
County, will offer at public sale at the north door
of the Court House, in Napoleon, Ohio, on
Saturday, December IL, 1886,
at the hour of O'Clock, m, of said day, the fol-
lowing described real estate situated in Henry coun
ty, Ohio, to-wit:
Ten (1O) acres off the west side of the southeast
quarter Of the south west quarter of section twenty
four (24 town six 6) north of range seven ~ east
in Henry county, Ohio.
Appraised at $3.50.
Terms of sale, cash.
FREDERICK ALLER,
Sheriff of Henry county, Ohio
S. NJ. Hague, attorney for plaintiff.
Napoleon, Ohio, November 9, 1886. IS 10
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Politics is queer business and one in
which the student must be thoroughly
schooled before he can hope to reach a
degree of even ordinary success. Men
are not born politicians any more than
they are born lawyers and merchants.
The successful manipulation of political
wires must be possessed of an assur-
ance monumental in its extent and a
ready comprehensiveness that is never
deficient in expedients and is equal to
any emergency. This assurance can be,
and often is, made to do duty, for
knowledge. He must cultivate the
quality of mind and action that give
him an appearance OF easy, readiness
upon all occasions; he must be equally
at home in the drawing-room of the
wealthy and before the bar of the low
est dive; he must be prepared at all
times to sacrifice his Judgment and re-
gard for the truth to the interest of his
party, and boast of assured victory
where success is impossible. These
traits have apparently been well culti'
waited by the political leaders of Ohio
and the consequence is the public press
is burdened with statements that are
not alone devoid of truth, but even Of
probability. Candidates and other lead
ers of the opposition are villified and
traduced without shame or mercy;
words are placed in their mouths which
they would scorn to utter, and they are
charged with actions and motives thai
would consign them to prison ifproved
One of the prominent CHARACTERISTIC:
of the politician is the readiness with
which he will claim confidence in the
results of an election when he has nc
information that by the utmost strain
could be accepted as basis. The read
ers of the newspapers and the audien'
ces being harrangued by the average
stump orator are regaled daily by asser
tions of undoubted success that in othe
cooler moments would appear ridicu
lous even to the author, and which de
velopes comical absurdity when filteret
through the analytical brain of the un
produced public. Political victore
are never won until the votes are count
ed, and the time and space devoted tc
attempts to deceive the people will
false assurances Is worse than wasted
for the reason that when the result
does not sustain the predictions, tn
author is placed in ridiculous light
"He laughs best who laughs last' is al
aphorism as applicable to politics a
other things. The Ohio politician, a
rule, is not to be envied. His bed il
this world is not one of roses, and II
the next he can not hope to wear
crown of CELESTIAL glory unless the re
cording angel is sadly remiss in hi
duties.--ET.
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