The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-02-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

0-All barns should have good cave
troughs, connected with spacious UNI
derground cisterns. If water is needed.
Several boys when arrested in New
York the other day, were working in
dustriously, as they afterwards ex-
planned in court, to create a haunted
house scare.
The last society spoken of in Cali
fornia is the ''Pay-Nothings." II is
said to be alarmingly prosperous. The
password is, LEND me a dollar" the
response, s'Broker
Uncle Cuffy-s.Which is the cheap
est, de fy-blister or de poor-house
plaster?" Druggist-''Just the same
twenty-five cents apiece" Uncle c.
well, doctor, you better give me all
two; my old CONAN is berry low wild
&c remonia; an Iwant um fur hab eb'ry
comfort Detroit Free Press.
Crooked and Straight are the
names Of pair of clergymen in charge
of an English church. Lock & Key
of hardware store in Louisville, Ky.
Scarcely less appropriate were the last
named parties to their business than
were the famous u. Ketchum & L
Cheatum firm of lawyers.
Enthusiastic Traveler-"Ah. En-
gland is glorious country indeed. A
nation of conquerors, possessions
everywhere all over the globe, enor-
nous financial resources; why, you
know they say the sun of Victoria
never SETS" Mrs. Porkehoppe (of
Chicago)-"I want to know, don't he
ever get tired of standingr-7oUn
Topics.
"A contest has been going on in a
New York newspaper between a num-
Der OF young wemen for the honor OF
being the youngest grandmother in the
country. 1t has been shown by the let
tiers OF the contestants that a woman
who was grandmother at the age Of
thirty-two is by no means an unusual
parsonage in this country.
All OAl OARCrt lIOin cuuSy lNdul6
is OF the opinion that there is more oil
under the soil of California than in
Pennsylvania itself. He finds that the
ledge of oil-producing rock begins at
Peru. crops up at San Diego. then dips
and reappears at Santa Barbara. aud
again appears at San Francisco and
further north.
Ina letter from Salt Lake City de-
scriptive of the Mormon Tabernacle.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe writes: "a
glance at the congregation easily cor
roborated the statement that Mormon
ism largely recruits itself from the
most wrctched and ignorant classes of
European countries. Some of the heads
of those present might have been termed
well advanced on the way back to the
gorilla Vacant countenances. eyes
empty of thought were seen on every
side"
1t was rather queer remark that
a Buffalo On. " business man made
lately. Said he, II can get a better
bargain in any store in this town if l
don't pay as go than can for cash,
and what is still more to the purpose,
can command better treatment and bet
ter service while am making the pur-
chase. The moment my money goes
over the counter the interest in prompt
delivery and such accessories mnst all
fall back on the character of the house
am dealing with. But If do not pay at
once am still customer to be looked
after and every thing will be done to
retain my good will.
"A Boston sportsman who has been
enjoying the sport at Moluncus Lake.
in the northern part of Maine. entered
lumberman's house and was well en-
tertained during the night In the par
Tor of the house was the lumberman's
library, which the visitor had the curl
osity to examine. The list was as fol-
lows: "Lives OF Eminent Saints"
Mysteries of Paris" Robinson
Crusoe," .'Sure Way to Happy Mar
riage," Life of the Popes," Teachings
of the Catholic Church and Her Divine
Founder and Saviour, ""Catholic Faith"
and '.Our Department. The lumber
mans mind had certainly a serious
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