The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-07-17
MISCELLANEOUS,

less II person blows upon them in
vertical direction.-Ct Chicago Herald
"A Chicago girl struck pater fami
mas Tor pair of new shoes the othe
ary. The old man drove up that even
ing with side of leather and told hel
that his salary had been cut down thi.
year and he guessed she'd have to ge
the old ones patched.-St Paul Herald
The amount of coal in the Pitts
ourgh region is estimated by Prof. Les
ley, of the Pennsylvania Geological
Survey, at 10000, OOO, 900 tons. About
1000, 900 tons are now taken annually
from the bed, of which two-thirds are
oituminous coal and one-third anthra.
cite.-Pittsburgh Chronicle.
The report of the United States
indlan Commissioner for last wear
SHOWS a decrease in the Indian popula-
t'on of nearly five thousand. If an
actual count could be made they would
De much less than estimated. The In
dians are superstitious about being
counted Chicago journal. Q
"A Bangor newspaper saws that 40
many fortunes were made by Bar Har-
Dor mt. DeserD real estate Spectators
that many of the adjoining islands and
parts of the sea coast are being bought
up oy capitalists in the hope that some
uay the spots will be in demand as
summer resorts.
y. +. Copeland's "Old Bill is not
as famous as Stonewall Jackson's "Old
oorrel. just died, but he is older. He
carried Mr.. Copeland through the war.
received some flesh wounds, and now
passes pleasant old age near Corinth.
Ga He is forty-two years old and
quite bald as to neck and taiI-S
Louis Post
-Theosophe, "a minister of the
Holes" and Ellora, ga seeress of the
Sanctuary" have been looking into the
future and have seen some wonderful
things. The time is rapidly coming.
they say, when man will be enabled ia
1--we with great comfort at the bottom
OF the sea, and the cultivation of the
ocean bed will be matter of ease and
profit.
How often it is difficult to be wisely
charitable; to do good without multi
plying the sources of evil. To give
aims is nothing unless you give thought
also. 1t, is written, not sblessed Is he
that feedeth the poor" but '.blessed is
ne that considereth the poor" A little |
thought and little kindness are often |
worth more than a great deal of money. |
-Rusksn.
The great rainfall in New England
In February is declared by meteorolo-
gists who have studied it to have
been unprecedented since records
began to be kept. The total amount
d water which fell from the clouds,
chiefly during twenty-four hours, is
computed to have amounted to 75O..
'OO,OOO,OOO gallons. The fall was
yreatest between New London and
Herald.
AT dinner given by Rogers, Peet
I Company to their employees in the
metropolitan Hotel, Frank r Cham
,ers, one of the partners, announced
hat the firm had determined to set
side certain proportion of the profits
to be paid in dividends to the :
'ersons in the employ of the house. in
edition to their present salaries.-N
7. Post.
An electrical tree has been found
New Guinea by two German ex.
lorers. When the explorers reached
spot twelve days distant from the coast
hey found their compass useless, owing
the presence of a tree which so com. :
letely possessed the properties of a
Ugh charged electric battery that one &
the travellers was knocked down .
hen he touched it. Analysis showed
he tree to consist of almost pure ?
morpheus carbon, and it has been I
AIMED Classic electrical. h
Minneapolis is to have a new a
hotel, The Palisades. The t
ain dining room and private banquet I
e rooms will be in the tenth story,
nd will excel in finish any rooms used a
II similar purposes this side of New C
ork. The eleventh floor will be de- r.
,ted entirely to the kitchen and its Il
,cessory departments and the twelfth ii
DRY contains the laundry and serv. Il
ITS quarters. 1t will have accommo- Il
ltions for 500 guests and will cost C,
80, O0O.-C Chicago Inter Ocean. cI
"A correspondent of the Springfield VI
fass.) Republican says that in Wales, o.
suburb of that city, there are eleven in
rsons whose united ages amount to ii
0 years; the youngest is eighty and pl
e eldest ninety-fve. One couple had OF
en- married sixty-four years last 81
lristmas. There are twenty-nine q
at are over seventy and under eighty, al
rose united ages are 2,175, making w
average of seventy-five wears. 10
nong these are three couples that TO
We celebrated their golden weddings m
. past year. ed
The New York County Medical So tie
ty was recently treated to an able 1t
per on effects of summer heat upon OF
,public health, by DR.. Stephen Smith. U
g remedy nearest at hand, he said, an
s tree-planting. Vegetation not only us
serbs carbonic acid gas and malaria pl
m the air hut gives hack o~voox 81 pr