The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-06-02
MISCELLANEOUS.


strangers and others.
New York is the pivotal State.
This truth is undeniably impressed in
the New Yorker who has spent half
dozen hours with the boys.
Miss Oldgirl (giggling) Would
you believe it. MIR. Lighthead, that
Washington's birthday and mine are
on the same day? ..Impossibler' re-
piled Lighthead. "Why, you don't |
hook half his age"
First Burglar = whats that?"
Second Burglar-"A sample case.
spend the daytime goin' around and
selling oil to keep doors from squeak
ing. Great scheme. amt it?"--OnahG
World
The Sagucnay river is believed to
he the deepest stream in the world.
The general depth is from 600 to 900
feet, and the bottom of the river at its
mouth is GOO feet below the bottom OF
the st. Lawrence.
Just think" said Mrs. Walkin to
her maid. 1.-THE very next day after my
new black dress was sent home was
called TO go out of town to funeral"
Wasn't that nice?" was the absent
minded reply.
There is really no competition be-
tween oleomargarine and first-class
butter. 1t is the inferior article that is
driven out by competition. The farmer
who makes good butter can regulate
H. a =. Il II ohln
Hotel manager Ito leader of sum-
mer band)-"Do you call this band
of picked musiciansP" Bandmaster-
Zach! Dot vos so. bick 'em mine
selluff." Hotel manager-"Well. then
you picked them before they were
ripe. "-Musical Record
Mrs. De Ham-"What do you sup
pose gave me this dreadful cold. Char
lieP'' De Ham (who can't find the
change he left in his other clothes)--
don't know. unless twas that New
York draft left in my other coat yes
terday. - Chicago Mail.
The names for money in the Ian
guage of the Ogallalla Sioux are inter-
csting. Gold is mases-ska-zi, literally
s.ycllow white iron;" silver is masses
ska-ska. or white iron." and greenbacks
are minne-hurpimases-ska. or paper
that talks white iron."
whats the matter. Brown" Eve
rything's going wrong. tell you. old
fellow, feel ike taking poison and
committing suicide" 20. come, come.
Don't do any thing like that. Here.
take another cigarette. - Merchant
Traveller.
There is said to be queer old fell
low in Boston who has devoted years
of time and fortune in money to the
collection of elaborate statistics which
go to show that the more dogs there
are in a community the more wicked
the people Of community are.
in Europe the white pine ha'
proved valuable as forest tree. 1t is
perfectly hardy. is not injured by long
and severe freezing in winter, nor by
untimcly frosts in spring or autumn
Some groves in Germany are one hun
bred and twenty years old, and yield {
large proportion of the seed demanded
by the increasing cultivation OF thu
white pine in Europe.
Old Philip Wincbiddle. the founde
of the Winebiddle estate in East Liber
ty, Pa, bought one hundred acres Q
land whore the city of Erie now stand
sixty years ago. and paid $500 for II
Almost before the ink was dry on tn
papers he made up his mind that h
had been swindled, but thirty year
later the land could not be bough
for ~. 900, 900. and is now wort
y $1,000. 900.
Partisan dressmakers have cod
Of rules regarding color combination
Among them are these: Black can nj
be worn with any neutral tint and e
pccially not with green or blue; brown
combine well with blue. pink, scarl'
or fawn. Navy blue combines wellwi'
bright red. Pink can be worn ov'
blue, bat not blue over pink. Yello
should always be used with the create
discrimination.
American women who marry E
rlish husbands will have much Difficult
in dissolving their. union. if the CO
ditions are unhappy by new divor
decision of the English court whi'
establishes the point that il an Amel
can woman married to an English hu
band wishes to obtain a valid divor
she must sue in the English courts
she can not get it, the domicile OF b
husband being the controlling fact
the eye Of the law.
One of the queer uses to viii
so,no fashion hle women mt Distrj