The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-30

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n,bs coufectioner is supposed !"
make his candy over bon-Oon n'e
Puck. -, .skad
the teacher, and the class unani r
replied: THE ozone. IN. ! 0".
-w;fe-..This light is very pour
The GAS seems to be lower with every
week" Husband-.'So it does; ~
We h;u "a ali. right. 1t gets higher
every time."--Quaker. o~s
-"Highway robberies grow -
common as winter comes on. says
newsnaper. The loss of the sumn.e.
hotel will not be felt so keeniy ~
all.-Merchant Traveller.
Miss DePert (unfeelingly)-"ims
Is. perhaps, the first refusal you n"
received. Mr.. DeTonp" Mr.. NE -
fsarcastically)-"And perhaps the nrs'
Won have ever given, Miss Mauve.
Town Topics.
while we are talking about com
pulsory education, wouldn't IL %
GOOD idea il the teachers, as rue
were compelled to know just i'ss'o
more than their pupils ?-Chicsec
Times.
There are a good many eo',or1
giving learned opinions about nos
cholera, who do not know enough aoou'
the disease to tell the difference %
tween a cholera germ and sugar
cured ham.-Iowa State Register.
in Connecticut they find use ZOE
almost every thing. An old iaay ~
that State is collecting all the poiitical
papers she can lay her hands on 'o
make soap Of. She says they are .
..desput sight better than ashes; 'ney
ara almost as good as pure lie.'
-"The reason why the Dying Glad
iator is so much admired is-pecauSe
ha keeps his mouth shut He Is very
different from our modern gladiators'
who GO all over the country blowing
about what they are going TO 90 a.
soon as they get into 'condition. =
| Puck.
The writer of book on dancing
estimates that eighteen waltzes are
! equal to about fourteen miles OF straight
work. The fatigued girl, too ianguio
TO help her mother about the mousse
can do eighteen waltzes in an evening
when she wishes to be particularly
aqreeable.-N. o. Picayune.
Tough Luck. First Stage Roboer
-sWhat did you git, yesterday. DER
ryP' Second "Nothin'. There
wasn't nobody in the stage 'ceptln
lawyer, two plumbers and prima
donna, an professional courtesy
wouldn't allow me to touch 'em, Of
course. Terra Haute Express.
| 81 declare" exclaimed Miss Fogg,
IS she vainly endeavored to dissect the
turkey, s'if you are not the poorest
man to do marketing. This turkeys
as old as Methuselah." Possibly. :"
replied Fogg. unabashed; ''but, my
dear. it is female bird, and courtesy
to the sex prevented me from inqusring
about her age. "-Boston Transcript.
-"When a man dies suddenly. with
out having been attended by q doctor, -
says popular guide to the law, 1.-The
coroner has to be called in and an in
quest held to ascertain the cause OF
death. But" adds the writer, s'when
he dies after having been attended by
q doctor, everybody knows why he
died. and an inquest is not necessary"
IN. Y. Ledger.
The glorious uncertainty Of the
/ law" is proverbial; but it is little
, singular. when one comes to think Of
t it. that this uncertainty never inures
} by accident, or otherwise, to the bene-
{ 1T of the honest man or the public. Il
is always the criminal who profits by
the uncertainty. The courts do moi
discover ny specks in indictments or
commitments which enable the public
to get firmer and more lasting hold
on the law breakers. And those acct.
dents with the indicted is and un.
crossed is are unearthed In the inter
est of rascals and rascality -DetrOi1