The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-06-19
MISCELLANEOUS.


Sweden imposes tax on all for
eign concert singers who attempt 70
sing within her borders.
The largest Baptist church in the
world is that of Ongole, in the Telegu
Mission, Australia, and has IA, 6S2 COM
municants.-N y Times.
A bull terrier and 125-pound st.
Bernard dog got into fight at Water,
bury. Conn, kept up the battle as well
as they could in eight feet of water at
the bottom of a fifty-foot well into
which they fell, and desperately re-
newed hostilities the moment they were
fished out.-Neso Hauen Neios.
George Bancroft says: THE man
of many years can look before and
after, and, seated under the tree OF
life, enjoying sweet rest with full con-
tent he finds that the leaves which
have fallen from its branches have but
opened clearer vision of the eternal
stars"
There was a queer scene on the
prairie at Fort Custer, Montana, the
other night when the quarters of Troop
M, First Cavalry, went up in flames and
some fifty-eight cavalry horses were
burned to death, one of them, though
on fire, galloping long way over the
snow before he fell.
"A few days ago workmen remodel
ing the old post-office building at Ma
rietta, O., found an old-fashioned mail
sack marked "Hon. r. j. Meigs, Gen.
eral Postmaster" with paint on the
back. Many ancient papers and dOcu-
ments were in it, dating back to the
first of this country.-Ciereland Leader.
The Utica IN. W Observer few
days ago receiveda returned letter that
was sent out from it's office over ten
years ago. 1t was directed to &c. G.
Gilbert, Esq, care of the United States
Consul, Lima, Peru" and where it had
been all these years even the United
States and Peruvian postage stamps
with which the envelope is decorated
fail to tell.
"A Harvard student who got into
quarrel on young lady's account, and
came out considerably the worst for it,
was complaining to her of the rough
usage he had received for her sake.
20, WE'LL" said she, lit ought to con-
sole you to know you are more than
ever in the fashion," How do you
meanp' sWhy, beaten brass, You
know, is all the rage. "-Boston Beacon.
General E. F. Burton, noted as q
hunter in India, tells of tiger that
would walk up to village in broad
daylight, enter house after house where
doors were open, and, if the houses
were deserted and he found no game,
would break up all the earthen cook
ing pots, and return, grumbling fiercely,
to the jungles." These man-eating
tigers 60 on regular hunts.
AT ten minutes after twelve o'clock
Sunday morning last, Alexander Crew.
ling, one of the oldest citizens of Phil
lipsberg, N. j., died. He had been sick
for long time, but was not confined
to his bed until Saturday afternoon.
His one great wish from boyhood was
that he should live TO be eighty years
old. At twelve o'clock he was eighty
and ten minutes after he was dead
~ Y. Nail
Sir Andrew Clarke, the celebrated
English physician, at an inaugural meet
ing of a course of lectures in London,
defined health as ''that state in which
the body is not consciously present to
us, the state in which work is easy and
duty not over great trial, the state in
which it is joy to see, to think, to feel
and to be-" Such condition of health,
Sir Andrew thinks, is not common
among men, and judged by this rule he
declares that One-half the population OF
London is permanently i'll.
"A girl in Burmah is affianced early
to one of her cousins, but the match
may be broken off. In such a case the
defaulter, if the man, has to give the
girl five pots of khoung Ga fermented
drink), bullock worth thirty rupees,
pig three feet in girth, a spear, q
fork. q bag and a piece of ornamental
cloth. II the girl breaks off the match
she has to give the man brass dish
worth fifteen rupees, silk cloth and
belt, each worth about five rupees, and
a silk turban worth about eight annas.
"A Santa Barbara (Cal.) school
teacher fell in love with pretty pupil,
and she with him, and they decided to
elope. They got away safely, boarded
steamer for Los Angeles, and the
good-natured Captain ran the vessel
outside the three-league limit SO that
the young folks might be married with
out q license. After it was all over il
was learned that they might Just as
well have been married at home, be-
cause no one in the world had the
least objection.-San Francisco Call.
MENTAL LABOR.