The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-05-22
MISCELLANEOUS.


1T IS estimated that fifty thousand
conversations take place over the wires
in New York every twenty-four hours.
For each message there must be at least
five "Hellos," which would make two
hundred and fifty thousand .'Hellos"
roing over the wires daily. Y. Trib
-..c.
-Relic-hunters are kind of luna
tics, sometimes harmless, but often
otherwise, and generally foolish, their
particular vanity being allied to that of
people who inscribe their insignificant
names upon public edificcs and monu-
ents.-Neso6auyport Herald.
1t has been estimated that an iron
car-wheel will travel some forty thou
sand miles, while a steel tire will run
the enormous distance of two hundred
thousand miles before wearing out;
thus, though costing so much more,
steel has greatly the advantage.-M. Y
Times.
"A tailor in Boston has completed
an exceedingly expensive overcoat for
a gentleman of that city. The value
dollars, though it is claimed that the
garment could not be duplicated for a
much larger sum. 1t contains sixty
nine Russian sable skins of the finest
quality.-Boston Globe.
In Norway it is believed that wolves
are frightened away by telegraph lines.
1t is said that however hungry wolf
may be he will never go into spot
that is enclosed by ropes stretched on
posts. Since the first Geographic line
was established, twenty years ago,
wolves have never appeared in its
neighborhood.
"A lady at Santa Rosa, Cal, applied
to the city authorities lately for per-
mission to shoot rats with rife around
her premises, which are inside the city
limits. On being asked if she could
take the life of rat at fifty PAGES, she
answered that she could not, but her
sister could blow humming-bird's
head off at thirty PAGES. -San Francis
co Chronicle.
Pastel painting is taking its place
amongst the art work cultivated by
ladies'. The working of it is pleasant;
there is no disagreeable smell as in oil
painting, no tedious waiting for the
paint to dry; one can begin or leave off
as suits the fancy. Any effect can be
produced, from the most delicate trans
parency of ivory to the intense depth
and richness of oil painting.-Chicage
Journal.
Advertising in Japan sometimes
attains a height of originality and force
unsurpassed in the most progressive
country. A bookseller of Toxic adver-
tises: Books elegant as a singing
girl. Print clear as crystal. Paper
tough as elephants hide. Parcels done
up with as much care as that bestowed
ON her husband by loving wife," and
other advantages which, it is strange to
say. the advertiser finds ''too many for
language to express
Says '.Halston" in the New York
Times: "a distinguished New York
physician, having listened to the record
of millionaire bill of fare remarked
pointedly: The average rich man of
New York is not gourmand. The
food eaten on Fifth Avenue costs less
every day than that eaten on any other
avenue of the city. A vast deal more
money may be spent for service, but
food itself is eaten in less quantities and
in less variety by the rich than by the
poor in New York.
The president of the New York
Press Club has been presented with
gavel made from q large chip of the
keel of the old ship New Orleans, which
has lain in Sackett's Harbor since the
war of 1912. when it was built to meet
the st. Lawrence, which the British
sailed into Lake Erie. She was never
used, however, as peace was declared
before she was completed. The gavel
is turned and carved, and silver dol
phin extends along the handle. The
hammer is made of bolt of Swedish
iron taken from the wood above port
hole of the vessel.
"A remarkable escape from an ALI.
gator is narrated by the Sylvania (Ga.)
Telephone. A Mr.. Oliver and a negro
servant were out searching for hogs,
and at the edge of pond discovered a
peculiar looking pile of leaves, which
they poked into with a pole, when out
leaped an alligator and gave chase.
Mr.. Oliver took to his heels across the
pond on the ice, but slipped and fell,
and the dreaded reptile overlook him.
He thought his time had certainly come,
but in his desperation seized his formid-
able foe by the upper and lower jaws
and held its mouth open until the negro
came up and put stick in it, thus
propping its jaws apart and rendering
it helpless. They then killed the san-
rian, which measured something over
six feet in length.
THE FISH MAMMOTH.