The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-06-12
MISCELLANEOUS.


--Massachusetts added only 81 miles
last year to its previous 1873 miles of
railway. This mileage is owned by 63
corporations, whose aggregate stock il
over $128, 900, 900, and net debt nearly
10000, 900. There are 80, 900 employees.
Boston Globe.
The Atlanta Constitution notes the
fact that 1.-THE plain girl has mysteriously
disappeared from the columns of con-
temporaneous journalism. A few years
back it was common thing to read of
an accident happening to plain girl.
Such an item never appears in print
nowadays"
"A correspondent in the Chicago
Neaos suggests that the origin of the
slang, Takes the cake" may be found
IN Macaulay's criticism on Robert
Montgomery poems, in which he uses
the expression, '.Hold the pastry" in
referring to the ''well-puffed fashion.
able novels" of that day.
In this State there are 1878 more
females than males. How many of the
excess come under the late Governor
Andrews category of anxious and
aimless, we don know. We are quite
sure Massachusetts does not want to
part with any of them.-Ncw Bedford
fkass.) Mercury.
in the course of late pathological
dissertation, Captain Cavanaugh said
fhere were about two thousand people
IN Buffalo who could speak the Irish
language. The old folks have handed
1t down to the children. But though
SO many can speak the ancient tongue.
there were not twenty-five in the city
who could read it.-Bafaio Express.
DR.. Peter Burnett, of New York,
dropred dead the other day. He was
a 60 Oh sample of the average Amer
ic?n At one time he was worth half
rAillicn and had an annual practice of
Awenty thousand dollars. He lost his
fortune in speculation. Then he made
rs again and re-lost it on a Brooklyn
city lot scheme. Once more he made
large fortune and then died poor
man.--N. y Times.
An inquisitive American in England
asks d a member of the Prince of Wales
household what the Prince read.
Nothing" was the answer The
gtishman went on to say that the Prince
never opened book or a newspaper,
competent secretaries read everything
that the Prince should know and the
result is related to him iff condensed
form.
The total annual consumption OF
tea, it is now estimated, is 5000. GOO. 900
pounds; of coffee, 1,000, OO0, 600 pounds;
cocoa and chocolate, 1000, 900 pounds;
while similar drinks are used by less
civilized nations and tribes. 1t is the
favorite drink of Russia, Holland and
England, the last country annually i'm
porting 100, 1000, 900 pounds, or seven
pounds to each man, woman and child
Boston Budget
Il Simple, Certain Way
Op and down his store he strobe
With sad and sorry face.
On bis mind there lay load,
For no buyer ever showed
Himself within the place.
Then he found a simple way
To sell OF his large suplies
And thus to make his business pay,
Now II you question him, he'll say
II always advertise"
-New Hayen Nescs.
Libel laws bid fair to be bettered ia
Japan ut least. Says the San Francisco
Chronicle, in its Yokohama notes: "A
revision of the press law now in force
is expected to be effected shortly. In
the present law the writer of any de-
faniatory note or article in news
paper is punished, no matter whether
his note or article is founded on fact OF
not; but in the expected revision he
will h., M. 10, bal la only xrbon bo
can not prove the truth of what he has
published"
I'VE feel. Says an Illinois exchange,
''that an apology is due to Widow
Grimes. In our issue of last week we
stated that she had eloped with an
eiyhteen-year-old man. The truth is
she was thrown from an eight-year-old
mare which she was riding in a lope,
and which slipped and fell. Mistakes
viii happen in the best regulated news
paper Offices, and we are confident that
when we state the item was sent over a
telephone wire no other apology will
be needed Chicago Tribune.
"A dinner was given at the Hote.
Brunswick, New York, one evening re-
Gently, of eight covers that cost six
hundred dollars, or seventy-five dollars
per head. The pheasants and saddles
of mutton came from England, the
grouse from Scotland, and the fresh
truflles from France. The wines were
especially ordered for this dinner at
fancy prices for certain good vintages.
The menus were all hand-painted. and
model in sugar caricaturing the indi-
vidual guests stood in front of every
platc--N Y. Herald.
SWAMP HUNTING.
A Georgia Nlmrod's Novel Plan and Its
Complete Failure.