The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-05-19
MISCELLANEOUS

IT, Ed bouses of farmers In Da-
-, ,voro found to be much warm.
S All the recent cold spell '""''
Lansas made of wood or brick.
IF there is anybody who wants
copywright it is the editor 20 nut ~.
COPY wrong is what is wearihS
life.-Boston Post ,.s
' che-..Excuse me. sir. l did not
-, rour name" French VISITOR
co. ..no..,. Mademoiselle, Octave
sSe"a..In the piano business? -1o""
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The California papers repor. 'n:'
an account of vandalism OF the A,nol
oar tourists the ancient adobe churcn
At Paso del Norte has been closed "
them. ~ ,,,,h WAS
s:..h.rred the other day because ne
declined to recognize the snapp"s
the fingers as a summons :" s
The Minneapolis Woman's Elk
change paws some $4,000 eal '",1
tho hands Of needy women who cou'u
not. probably. without it find a markss
for their work. ~. =: II,
The number Of tigers killed infin-
d;a last year was 1.499. As three hur-
rahs 90 with every .'tiger." the hunters
must have had a great blowout
Rochester Post Express. -
s. The cost Of compiling and publish
ing the reports of the Challenger ex-
nedition. the last three volumes OF
which are about to be issued. mas
already exceeded 81, OOO,0OO.
In Northern Alaska the sun shines
only four hours out of the twenty-iour
in winter. and the Alaskans ought 70
he dulv thankful Base ball clubs can
only play one game a day. -Norr's'o'0''
Herald.
/ A man living near Macon, Ga, was
attacked a few days ago by a Iexas
pony which he was leading. and would
have been killed if his wife had not run
to his assistance and stunned the ant
NAL by striking it with an axe
A $4,000 lighthouse lens mado
in Paris for the United States Govern
ment is now in Washington. 1t IS the
largest lantern lens in the country.
The glasswork. or lens proper. meas
ures fifteen feet in height, while the
internal diameter is eight feet eight
inches.
A new invention for schools is the
aelectric BIRCH" This new instrument
of discipline does not leave marks upon
the skin and regulates blows to nicely.
Electricity was never put to more
curious use, but it is to be doubted
whether schoolboys will take to 1t
kindly.
Miss Minnie Freeman, the brave
, Nebraska school teacher who tied tho
: pupils together and led them through
, the blizzard, is nineteen years old and
! very pretty. She is an Eastern girl
and was educated at the York Metho
I dist College, where she graduated with
: distinction in 1886.
. AT recent trial for hog-stealint
, in Mount Pleasant, Tex, the court de
!. clared that the marks by which the ami
Z NAL could be identified had not beer
clearly described to the jury, and thu
hog was thereupon dragged into thu
courtroom and placed in the witness
l. box ON exhibition.
+ Experiments are to be made at al
bany, Ca, in the cultivation of tn
g pyrethrum roseums. species OF fever
70 few, from which the insect powde
known as Dalmation. now SO muc
d used, is manufactured. 1t is now cul
" tivated largely in California, but tn
s. supply is not equal to the demand.
y -Ayoung lady in xenia, O., ha
is a new pocketbook in which she place
s. . sum Of money for safe-keeping. He
mother. thinking the book might b
a stolen. hid IL in the rag bag. tn
O. Young lady, ignorant of this fact, sol
IN the contents Of the rag bag for seve
g. cents, and is now looking vainly for tn
err return of that rag picker.
)" Thomas Becket's bones have |
] last been found in a rough-hewn ston
I'd coffin under Canterbury Cathedra
where heretofore their existence WI
es only legendary. The skull is we'll pr
1t. served, and is said to be magnificent
an size and proportions-in fact, one
= the finest ever seen. Its crown beal
unmistakable marks of sword-cu
nd which the chroniclers relate took {
p the top of his scalp.
as New York is the largest and dee
ic- est waterway penetrating the Atlant
coast of North America. Sixty mil
from its mouth at the junction Of t
ro- Mattapony and Pamunkey, the t,
lat rivers which form it. it is forty fe
IN. deem and opening down toward