The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-08-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

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| Fifty American dairy cows we're re-
Gently shipped from San Francisco tc
China
"A kennel on large scale is to be
started in Nashville, Tenn, by bushes:
men of that city. It is intended tc
breed all sorts Of pure strained fancy
animals. A specially will be made Of
| mastiffs.
Newport will gain yearly five thou.
4 sand dollars in taxes alone from the
estate of Alfred Smith. who has for SO
long time had his property returned
to the assessors as four hundred thou
sand dollars, when. after he recently
became insane, it was found to amount
to at least two million dollars.
AT the foot of Main street in Dan
bury, Conn.,, stands a house built by
Elnathan Osborn in 1896. 1t is a low,
hip-roofed house, studded with enor-
nous beams and lighted by very small
diamond window-panes. When the
British under Tryon fired the village
this was the only house spared. Boston
Post. .f...s
"A foreign violinist. Timothee Ad
amoski, is the latest celebrity in Boston,
but the Philadelphia Press recognizes
in the Russian name of the virtuoso
one Tim Adams, s'who used to play the
fiddle at corn huskings on Bergo Creek
away back in the sixties" Boston is
behind Philadelphia in rural reminis-
cences.-C Chicago Sun y fsf4
AN Italian professor wishing to find
out whether the miasma of malaria
existed in the dew and soil, expert
mented on himself by having infusions
of dew and soil collected from unhealth-
full places injected under his skin. He
experienced no evil results. He and
his friends made fifty-two similar cx.
+ periments without harm
II recently heard a conversation
which actually took place in our store,
and which, l think, will interest your
readers in these days when we are
hearing so much about bribery. A gen.
tleman who was known to be engaged
in lobbying bill, in which he was per-
sonally Interested, through the Board
OF Aldermen, was asked: swell. did
you persuade them to pass your bill?"
Eyes" said he, pulling out his pocket
book, Il purse-swayed them. IN. r.
Ledger. =. q N-r-S-
DIR. E. j. Westford, of Middletown,a
N. T., has an interesting relic of the
Harrison log-cabin" and "hard cider"
campaign of 1910. 1t is silk badge
bearing the portrait of Harrison, the
Wing candidate, with a record of his
birth and the successful battles he
fought-Maumee, Fort Meigs, Thames,
Tippecanoe, etc. There is picture of
q log cabin and man blowing, over
which is the inscription: 1--WE will
take him from the plow."--N ?. Tri6-
une. 4a
Specimens of curious water bug
have been exhibited recently in WASH
ington. They live principally in water
and on aquatic larv9, insects, young
fish and, probably, fish eggs. Prof.
Riley says that one of them killed
goldfish as soon as it was put in the
same aquarium. Their sting is poison
GUS, though perhaps not deadly to the
human body. They conceal them-
selves in crevices during the winter.
and live in torpid state till warm
weather, when they leave their quar-
tiers and fly to considerable distances,
usually during the night and rarely be.
fore June or yulysy ;.fiiigifl
"A young lady recently told us,
says the Conyers, (Ga.) Weekly, of
young man in town who always writes
off and commits to memory what he
aims to say to young lady when he
calls upon her. This plan seems to |
have worked very well until re-
Gently, when in the very midst of the
most Important part of his speech his |
memory proved treacherous, and he |
had to draw his paper and refresh him.
self. At another time, not thinking, |
he used the name of another Young
lady. to whom he had just been recit-
ing the same piece, all the way through
the entire evenings recitation.
LIN 1885 there were fifteen inhabi-
tants to the square mile in Kansas, or
a population of 1893, 562. The valua-
ton of the property of the State is
$3.50, 100000. The expenditures for
school purposes in 1885 amounted to
81, 259, 479. There is reserve public
school fund amounting $S, 500, 900, with
. million acres of lands, yet unsold,
destined to increase this fund to S15.-
300, 900. There is State University, .
State Normal School, and State Ag-
ricultural College. Kansas possesses
} larger number of cultivable acres
relatively than any other State in the
Union. After the civil war 100000
soldiers established homes in this State.
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