The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-09-29
PuNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A shoemaker at Atlanta, Ga, lately
completed pair of shoes that are four
teen inches long, 81 wide and st deep.
The one-story frame cabin in
which Andrew johnson served his APP |
premiership as tailor is still standing |
in Columbia. Tenn.
True it is what 1.-The good men do
is oft inferred with their bones" but
it is not frequently necessary to enlarge
the coffin for that representation
Post
"A human subject without collar
bones has been met with in a ST. Louis
dissecting room. This structure is that
Of most of the vertebrates, such as
lions, bears, etc.
-Blobson says that Snagsby is SO
rascally that he should think he would
be afraid to count his own money for
fear some of it would be missing when
he got done.-Buriington Free Press.
The man who was kicked out by
his landlord because he couldn't pay
his rent says his experience shows that
three removes are not one-tenth part
as bad as one fire. journal of Edu-
cation.
--Wife-"John. the new maid told
me that you tried to kiss her this morn
ing" Observation-Disclosures And Ipaid
her a dollar to say nothing to you
about II. Discharge her at once.
Such a person is not to be trusted.-N.
Y. Sun.
| -Lambrequin- There is Brown
crossing the street; let us turn down
here and get out of his way" Robin
son-s.What's the matter? DO you owe
him any thingP" Lambrequin-"No;
but he has just got back from week s
fishing excursion.-LJe.
| Rich host Ito poor relation 1.-THE
duck seems to be pretty much all gone,
James. How would you like some OF
the dressing?" Poor relation-'That
will do nicely, sir; and if there is any
left you might give me small piece Of
the quack "-Teras Sittings.
Happy man Ito fair widow)-"And
shall we have rousing wedding. dar
ling, q fine supper, dancing, music. and
all that sort of thing?" Fair widow
"N-no. think not. John, dear. W.
must remember there was funeral IL
the house only short time ago.
The Epoch.
A married lady declined to tell
maiden sister any of her troubles, say
ing: where ignorance is bliss, I'll
folly to be WISE" "Yes," replied tn
sister, land I've come to the conclusion
that when singleness is bliss it's foil.
to be wives"
I Nothing else is so calculated
, work on mans sympathies as the sigh
: of young mans painful effort at III
concern while he is scratching hi
brow with the hand with which b
/. would have tipped his hat to youn
! lady if she hadn't cut him dead
q Judge.
!. Dying benedict--"I bequeath ever
n dollar to my wife. Have you got thu
!, DOWN." Lawyer-''Yes." Dying ben
4 dict-"On condition that she marri'
within year." Lawyer-''But WI
insist upon thatP" Dying benedict
!, because want somebody to be sorl
r that died. "-Harper's Bazaar.
,s A man out West fell in a des
Il faint the other day and the Peep
20 thought at first that it was heart d
=. ease. Afterward the man recovere
N and it was found that he had sent
in a plumber the day before to do lit
- work, and the plumber had come pun
>. ually at the time he said he would.
10 SomerUille Journal.
.. Mrs. Blunt can't abide tt
10 Smith woman; believe actually hs
= her, Mr.. Goode-" But, my dc
he Mrs. Blunt, you ought not to feel
nd Doesn't the Bible tell us to love
enemiesP" 20, yes, it is all very W
to say love your enemies, but how
one love them when ones enemies III
pen to be ones dearest friends!'
So Boston Transcript.
ar. -"Non-explosive dynamite?" W
10, indeed, Henry, we never heard OF 81
~ a thing and consequently can't
be where to find it. But we have
cd doubt that should the Government
be vcrtise for $4,000 pounds OF n
,ts proof, double force dynamite for
no pedoes, some patriotic contrac
It's would find way of furnishing
an. double price kind of dynamite
mo- about one-tenth the explosive fore
Lho wet sand.-Bnrdette.
out Destruction Of Forests.