The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-03-06
MISCELLANEOUS.


"A couple in Leipsic, Germany, re-
Gently announced the birth of their
twenty-ninth child.
William Decker, of Elizabeth, N.
D., has received the news that $6, 900
have been willed him by Virginian,
Timothy Parker, whom he saved from
drowning about eight years ago.
The proper thing to do now is to
send your lover a silk handkerchief
with his monogram embroidered by
yourself in your own hair instead OF
embroidery silk. Devotion can do no
more. This is a custom of long ago
revived.-N Y Post.
Three men of San Antonio, Texas,
recently had dispute about the owner
ship of a pig. As the outcome of the
debate the three men are now dead,
and the pig is public property. 1t is
presumed that all concerned are salts
fed. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Japan has recently founded
peerage, so as to establish an upper
house OF their legislative body, similar
to the English House of Lords. So far
the Peers consist of Princes, "a
Marquises, rs Counts, 1924 Viscounts
and "a Barons, or total of 400.
Figures have been produced show
ing that there are double the number
of miles of asphalt pavement in use in
the cities of this country that there are
in all the cities of Europe, which has
been considered the home of asphalt
paving.
Buffalo is afflicted with a suicidal
mania. During the past year more
persons resorted to self-destruction than
ever before. The favorite method has
been by shooting, the next most ac-
ceptable way has been by drowning.
The suicides have been for love, political
disappointment, business troubles and
Poverty.-Bufaao tN ~ Express.
The Kansas City Times notes that
3-Kansas is having fruit boom. More
trees are being planted than ever before
in the States history" Nothing could
add more to the comfort, health, beauty
and wealth of the State. The tree
planter, whether he plant fruit or forest
tree, is a benefactor. If he does not
live to gather the fruits or benefits his
children's children will. - Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Only written for the moral: There
is an old man in Omaha who has not
tasted LIQUOR nor tobacco nor tea nor
coffee, nor has he been out of bed later
than ten p. m. since he was eleven
years old, which was seventy-eight ago.
Think of that, boys. 1t was also seven
ty-eight years ago that he died. "But, :"
says the skeptical reader, there was no
Omaha seventy-eightyears ago." What
of that? Neither was there ever such
an old man.-Burdette.
The best remedy for bleeding at
the nose, as given by DIR. Gleason at
one of his lectures, is in the vigorous
motion of the jaws as if in the act of
chewing. In the case of a child wad
of paper should be inserted to chew it
hard 1t is the motion of the Jaws that
stops the flow of blood. This remedy
is so very simple that many will feel
inclined to laugh at it, but it has never
been known to fail in single instance,
even in the severest cases.-Scientifc
-dWef7cQn.
-''Salammbo," the masterpiece Of
Flaubert, the founder of the naturalist
ic school of literature, has been trans
lated into English by NJ. French Shell
don, and is now in press. This has
long been regarded as an untranslata-
BILE work, but it is said the delicate task
has been accomplished in such subtle
manner as to preserve all the vigor,
natural realism and idyllic style of the
original. The London Times says the
appearance of ''Salammba" in English
is looked forward to with great inter-
est in the literary and art circles of the
continent. The introduction has been
written by Edward King, the American
poet, and the volume is dedicated to
Henry H. Stanley, the famous explorer.
The work win be published by Saxon
d Co., London and New York.