The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-01-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The council of the University Col
| lege of London have created PROBES
sorship of electrical engineering.
The Supreme Court of British Co
lumbia is the only place in Ameries
where the Judges and lawyers wear the
wigs and gowns of English usage.
The popular .tysof Southern Calfor-
| MIA as a sanitarium is such that there
are over 200 cottages, worth from 5000
to $500 apiece, in course of construc'
ton in Los Angeles andsuburbs.
"A man in Franklin County. Tenn.
wears beard six feet nine inches in
length. He keeps about four-ffths OF
1t wound about a cardboard and car
fies it in his coat pocket.-LouisriH.
| Courier-Journal.
"A druggist of Lancaster, Mass, has
| taken a contract to keep the stately old
elms of that town free from canker
worms for year at twenty-five cents
per tree. There are about four hundred
of the trees in all, and if he does moi
succeed he is to get no money.-Boston
| Herald.
| "A society paper in describing the
order in which bridal party passed
| down the church aisle, says: 1.-The
bride walked on the arm of her father"
This may be all right. but it seems to
us that church was hardly the place
for her to display her acrobatic accom-
| plishments. Chicago Sun.
The growth OF American public Ii
braries since the revolution has beer
something phenomenal There were in
the country in 1875 but twenty of these
institutions, with an aggregate of 49,.
623 volumes. At the present time thSre
are nearly 4, POO, containing more thar
100000 volumes.-M y Tribune.
The Misses Green. of Atlanta. ladies
of literary talent and artistic culture.
are making a collection Of negro songs
and setting them to music. The music
is composed as the songs are sung by
old fashioned darkies, and will perpetu
ate accurately the strange and weird
melody of the old plaatation.-Atlanh
Constitution.
1t was hoped at least that these Uni.
ted States might claim the invention OF
the great American game of poker, but
now turns up a mythial MIR. Ben
jamin, fresh from Persia, who asserts
that from time immemorial the game
has been known in Oriental lands, and
that it was played in Persia centuries
before Columbus discovered America
N. Y Tribune.
Mrs. Rider, whose name las beef
widely mentioned in this State as re-
markable instance of the faith cure,
died recently at Grass Valley, and 8
post-mortem showed the presence of 8
large tumor in the abdominal cavity
and badly diseased condition of both
heart and lungs.-San Francisco Ctror
icie.
In the ancient graves in Tennessee
are found human skulls that are some
inches larger than any modern human
head. Within the last forty years there
has been very marked diminution in
the size of heads in Philadelphia. Old
and experienced matters in this city and
New York, says the Ledger, will cor.
roberate this statement. Somebody
writes to an exchange to ask: '1s there
similar change taking place elsewhere,
and what will be the result?"
"A fresh aesthetic movement has
broken out in Dresden. German artists
have been lamenting over the pictur-
es lue costumes of the Middle Ages
being replaced by practical modern
garb; so the Dresden painters have
formed a society to promote return to
medieval attire. Over eighty of the
members have adopted the medieval
German artist costume-black over
dress. with tight velvet-trimmed sleeves
over white mder-sleeves lined with red
satin, and black wooden close-fittine
neither garments reaching down to low
shoes.
| --'It is customary" says the Scien.
tifc american, Ito use ammonia fol
the purpose of neutralizing acids that
have accidentally or otherwise de,
stroyed the color of fabrics. This must
be applied Immediately or the color is
usually imperfectly restored. After
careful use an application of chloroform
| will bring out the colors as bright as
ever. Plush goods and all articles
dyed with aniline colors faded from ex-
posture to light, will look as bright as
ever after sponging with chloroform
The commercial chlorCform will answer
the purpose very well.
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