The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-05-01
MISCELLANEOUS.


I'm London gas is furnished at the
rate of sixty-five cents per thousand
feet, yet the companies pay dividends
of twelve per cent. In Brussels the
price is eighty-five cents per thousand
feet.
In the american Journal of Insanity
DR.. Pliney Earle says, so far rs statistics
are an indication, the recoveries in
British asylums exceed these in Ameri-
can institutions by between eight and
nine per cent.
The petrifed skeleton of whale
thirty feet long has been discovered by
an officer of the Coast Survey on a
range of mountains in Monterey
County, CAL, over thirty-tlree hundred
feet above the sea level.
sioncr says that within the past six
years over twenty thousand applica-
tons for young carp have been sup
piled. Reports of success have been
received from about one thousand.
Very few have found the business q
profitable one.
Ma" said an inquisive little
Spruce Street girl the other day, "do
bugs ever get to be bearsp' ''Why,
no, my dear" said the astonished
mother; "what put such an idea as
that into your headp" Because l
heard papa say this morning that some
thing was nothing more than bug
BEAR "-Scranton Truth.
Erie Canal boatmen are raising a
fund to put monument at Tonawanda
over the remains of Peter Cummins,
the driver who drove the first boat
from Buffalo over the canal in 1926.
DE Witt Clinton stood at the bow of the
boat and gave the word to start.
| Cummins remained driver until he
was seventy-five years old, when he
was drowned at Pendleton, Niagara
County.-Kingston IN. ~ Daily Free
man.
Tiny, black-and-tan terrier, has
the honor of having been the smallest
full grown dog that ever lived. He
| belonged to Lieutenant General Sir
Archibald Maclaine, of England, and
| in honor of his extreme thinness is now
carefully preserved under glass case.
| Tiny was less than four inches long,
| and could comfortably curl up and
take nap in common glass tumbler.
"A touching example of confidence
| in the unknown factors OF human ex-
perience is related-in Gaiilards Medical
Journal. A countryman, with dis
tressing toothache, asked q druggist
| for something to relieve him. I'VE
have various remedies for that trouble"
said the drug man. "and can give you
anything you like" 'sIn that case,"
said the countryman, II guess you kin
give me a small bottle Of the Boston
faith cure"
-"Man's inhumanity to man" was
mourned by the poet. Mans confidence
in man deserves to be celebrated. Look
| at the unhesitating manner in which
packages and books are sometimes left
upon the city letter-boxes by people
who have such complete faith in their
| fellows that they are sure no one but
the postman will carry away the arti-
cles intended for him alone. Yet who
ever heard of package of this kind
being stolen?-C Chicago Journal.
i'm 1869 two Quakers were hanged
in Boston. A woman had been SEN
fenced to die with them. but was re-
| prieved ON condition of her leaving the
colony. Her name was Mary Dyer.
Next year she returned to Boston and
was executed. In 1860, the same
year in which she was executed,
Charles III. was restored to the
throne of his fathers. The King
had many vices, but he would not per-
init blood to be shed under the pre-
tense of religion in any part of his do
minions. The Quakers in England
told him what had been done to their
brethren, and he sent orders to Gov
ernor Endicott of Massachusetts, to for
bear all such proceedings in future
Boston GLOBE.
Much indignation is expressed by
the Judges of the Supreme Court at
the current intimations that they are
hard drinkers. There is" says JUS
tice Miller, "a tradition that in olden
times there used to be black bottle in
the closet of the room where we hung
our overcoats and put on our robes. but
there has never been any such thing in
my time. and have never seen any of
my associates drinking. If any of the
employees keep liquor about the place
and Judge Waite finds it out he will
make short work with him. As for any
of the Justices being in the habit of
drinking about the courtroom or hav-
ing a sideboard there It is as silly as it
Is untrue. - Washington Republican.
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