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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

An old WINE bibber says that Az empty
champagne bottle is like an orphan be-
cause it has lost it, 'sop.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

To TELL dignified citizen to pull down
his vest is apt to make him raise his
oholer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

THE man who is thrown upon his owr
resources frequently makes little excur.
sions into the resources OF others H<
must have some observation-disclosures
Bazar.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

THERE are few things more painful thar
the effort OF man using word OF whose
pronunciation he is doubtful to appear
nonchalant.-B inghamton Republican
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

A FEMALE lawyer may be . spinsfer and
have objections to marriage, but when she
accepts retaining fee she tacitly admits
that she 10 engaged
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

THE residuum after the effervesceuce OF
love is common sense, which 10 the ground
work of well-regulated matrimony.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

SOMEBODY says that ''the man who bor
rows money borrows trouble" 1t wa
not supposed that trouble was SO hard t
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Herald.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

THIs is enc Of the queer things about
amateurs: the more they practice song
the worse they sing it-Dalias News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

AN undesirable vocation -squivocation.
-Drake's Magazine.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

TIE manufacturer Of newspaper philos-
ophy means kind Of Literary saw-miu -
Merchant Traveller.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

lF afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
.Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it 25<
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

How SHOULD charity be represented II
relief.-Denver News
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

The ancient Peruviacs had whistling
Jugs. The modern Jugs simply gurgle.-
Toledo Blade.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

FoR Cough or Sore Throat the best medi-
cine is Halo's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

LIVESTOCK SHIPPERS AND FExDxRs.-
Read adj OF C. c. Daily & Co. other column
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

The shafts of humnr OF to-day are sadly
In need of elevator -Puck.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

IN English the average Russian word Il
. pronounced failure--Puck
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

EVERY Thomas cat carries nightkey
Life
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

DO NOT purge or weaken the bowels, but
act specially on the liver and bile. A perfect
liver corrector. Carter's Little Liver Pills.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

RTE fiour-the whisky blossom--Terre
Haute Express
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

POLITICAL carpenters-Cabinet makers
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

The -four mission--to make good bread
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-03-16

I'm afraid So"
"And Eve worked here four weeks
under the noses of the dreadful crea-
turesp Mr.. Bowser. / quitsl quits
nowr'
And quit she did. We had to sleep
ON the sitting-room floor last night.
and three weeks later every caller
could still detect that odor. 1t was
hardly gone, however, when Mr.. Bow
ser began to sniff around again.
"Any more bacterial" / asked.
.Mrs. Bowser, If you want to sit here
and die / have no objections, but l
don't propose to neglect common sense
precautions to preserve myown health )"
lis anything wrong nowP'
II think SO. 1 think I can detect an
odor of sewer gas in the house"
Impossible! shan't have no more
stuff burned until know it is neces-
sary."
won't you? II there is sewer gas
here it must be eradicated at once"
For the next week the entire house
smelled of chloride of lime until one
could hardly draw long breath. but
Mr.. Bowser was not satisfied.
II have been thinking" he said to
me one evening. shat ! may bring the
germs of some terrible disease home in
my clothes. ride on the car, you
know, and bought to take precautions. "
"How?"
Garry disinfectant about me to
repel the germs"
1T might be a good idea
..Now you are talking sense. Now
you seem to understand the peril
which has menaced US. )"
IN got something down town the
next day. think some of his friends
put up q job ON him. knowing his
craze. 1t was compound which left
him alone on the street car before be
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-07
Convincing a Merchant.

cts a singular thing" remarked a
prominent dry goods man, ''now coun-
try merchants coming here to buy, re-
fuse to believe that we are selling goods
at n fair price and insist on trying to cut
us down ON everything. l had an ex-
perience the other day which is in point.
A merchant from down in Indiana came
In and began to look over things with
one of my clerks. We try to sell on the
oue-price principle. He asked tho price
OF some prints. The clerk told him the
price. He offered three cents q yard
less.
This is q one-price house, said the
clerk. We can make no reduction.
Nonsense said this smart man
from the country. You needn't try to
fool me with any such stnff as that. I'll
give You three cents less.
''And the clerk could not persuade
him that he was telling him the truth,
finally coming to me in despair. went
ont and took the man in hand. | offered
him goods Mt from three to five cents
above the marked price, and then wonld
take whatever he offered me. He finish
ed his purchases, slapped me ON the
back, remarking: That's something like.
None of your one. price business for me-
and went out. In the afternoon he came
back, and had two bills made out for
him. The first l handed him was made
mp from his own prices. 1t was for
about 500. He looked ut it and said:
Those are good prices. Oh. you can't
get ahead of me with your one-price
business. Then I handed him the
,cacond which ,voa m ad., N =, of tha act,, al
prices at which we had been selling.
Ii was over 500 less.
"'What's thati' said he.
"'That's the bill we want you to pay.
That is what the goods cost you at our
prices. u wanted to show you how
easily you could be fooled by thinking
you knew more about our business than
we do ourselves
Ale paid tue bill meekly and thanked
me for his lesson. - Toledo Bla<lc.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-07
Dispute Over sherid ans Birthplace.

Except for purposes OF historical &C
curacy it makes little difference to the
public where the hero of the battle OF
Winchester was born. Foreigners, how
ever, would think it curious that we
couldn't agree on the birthplace OF the
late General OF our Army and q conspic-
uous chief in our history.
General Hustled contended in thr New
York Assembly that, while citizen of
New York, Sheridan had been born in
Ohio. He claimed he had that in writ
ing from Sheridan himself. Gen. Curtis
commended with equal vigor that he had
been born in Albany, and 81 have his
word for it.
We get some curious light on this
point from Townsends Library of Ma
tional Records, now on deposit at Co
lumbia College. 1t goes TO show that
Sheridan had more birthplaces than any
noted man since Homer:
General Sheridan in his "Memors" says he
was born IN Albany.
His parents were emigrants from Ireland
and settled in Somerset, Perry county, Ohio,
where his mother says he was born.-New
York Herald, August 6, 1883.
The official army registers from 1883 to
1869 give his birthplace Massachusetts.
From 500 to 1885, as Ohio.
The following is from the Dayton tOhio)
Journal. MAY, 1861: General Sheridan is
the gallant son of an Irshman, though him
self native OF the United States; born on an
American ship, under an American fiag-for
which he has fought SO glorously-whle his
parents were emigrants from the Emerald
Isle to the land OF liberty"
NJ H., in the New York Times of April 3.
1865, says: The parents of General Sher-
dan were Catholic emigrants from Ireland,
landing first at Boston. They removed
thence to, and finally settled in Perry county
Ohio. where the subject of our sketch was
born in 1881 etc.
General Sheridan was born in Ohio in 1881,
etc.-Harper's Weekly, 1864.
And so it goes. Meanwhile, let it be
remembered that the Generals mother
said Philip began his worldly warfare in
Ohio.--Neio York Telegram.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-07
Romance of a RacehOrse.

The career of the celebrated thorough
bred stallion Billet, who died in KEN
lucky recently, is full of romance, and
in its way quite as much a matter for
the novenst's pen as that of the far
famed Godolphin Arabian.
Billet ran as two-year- old about nine
teen times in England, and won very
few of his races. As three-year-old he
was thought fit only for hurdle racing,
and for that purpose was given to
young sporting man who at the present
moment is earning a precarious living
in New York as horse dealer. Break
ing down on the eve of big race, Billet
was thought to be fit only for the sham
bles or whatever he might bring in the
Liverpool docks. Purchased there for a
song, he was brought to America and
wasactually hawked about the streets
looking for purchaser. BY some stroke
of destiny he fell into the hands of n
Western breeder, and first attracted at
tention as the sire of Volturno, noted
long distance performer about ten years
ago.
Messrs. Bowen, Clay and Woodford,
of Paris, KY, We're just then looking for
a stallion to putat the head OF their Run
nymede. They purchased Billet for S5,-
100000, and though the mares at this
stud were young and unknown, their
produce to Billet at once began to win
many of the two-year stakes. Miss
Woodford's career in 1883, when she was
a three-year-old, supplemented by her
unbeaten career in 1884, established
Billet as one of the leading sires of the
country. Elias Laurence, Barnes, Sir
Dixon, Raceland, Belvidere. The Lion
ess and others have earned great fame
for their sire, once thought worthless.
-Nesc York Journal.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-07
,ot attained tbe ace of twenty. T

not attained the age of twenty. There
is lust now an epidemic OF crimes OF VIC
lence perpetrated by young men, and II
the thieves and assassins at present con.
fined in French prisons were sorted ac-
cording to the age, it would be found
that the very large majority were made
ND of youths between sixteen and twenty.
These statistics were supplied by the
prosecuting counsel in the last Judicial
sensation that has come before the Paris
courts, and the course of the trial sup
piled the explanation of the fact. 1t
was murder case OF extraordinary bru-
tally. The victims We're an old woman
of seventy eight and her ledger, the or
ganist of the parish church, an old man
of seventy. The criminal was the son
of the parish beadle, and the motive for
the murder was mere theft. The house
was broken into at night, the old man
struck down and left for dead on the
staircase, and then the old woman bru
tally murdered. The hoardings of both
"a few hundred francs-were carried
off, and the thief arrested in bed the
same day with the money in his posses
sion, and his clothes stained with blood.
At the trial it was proved that long
career of crime eliminated in this hor-
rible and mercenary outrage the evil
dence was convincing, and the jury fcaad
the murderer equity with extenuating
circumstances. To English readers the
verdict seems inconceivable. Even for
French readers it has to be explained,
and the explanation adds to the diff
Guilty. The prisoner was only eighteen.
He had long fair hair, blue eyes, and
the face of young girl. No wonder
the French prisons are full OF young
criminals. London Nesos.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-07
sSAlLs AS FOOD.
Specially Reared in France and
other Lands for the Table.

Something like $4,000 pounds OF
snails are sent up daily to the Paris
/. markets from the gardens OF Potion,
Burgundy, Champagne and Provence,
where they are specially reared for this
purpose, the natural delicate flavor OF
their flesh being improved by feeding
them on beds of aromatic herbs. 1t is
not merely, however, as dellcacy that
snails are so generally appreciated IN
France. They also take very high rank
as a nutritious food, aud from the time
of the ancient Romans downward have
been regarded as excellent in consump-
ton and weakness" of the chest. Ac-
cording to Payen they contain 70 per
cent. of water. 16 per cent. of nitrogen,
per cent of fat, per cent of salts and
per cent. of undetermined matter. DIR.
Ebrard, French authority, who has
made the snail his special study, declares
that the weight of meat represented by
the snails sold amounts to that found on
cutting up whole flock OF calves and
young heifers. He estimates the month
ly consumption of snsils in Paris at half
a million. The market price OF the
great vineyard snails is from two francs
fifty centimes to three francs fifty cen
times per 100, while those from the
heuges, woods and forests bring only
two francs to two francs fifty centimes.
The proprietor of one snailery in the
vicinity of Dion is said to net over Z, 900
francs annually The snail is reared and
fattened with great care in some cantons
of Switzerland as an article of luxury,
and is exported in picked state. 1t is
also eaten MS q relish and nutritious ar
ticlc of food in Austria, Spain, Italy and
in some sections of the United States.
The Ashantees and other African tribes
smoke them and eat them as daily food
all the year round. In Algeria in the
markets large heaps of snails are sold
by the bushel and hundred as an article
of food. Vendors hawk them in the
streets OF Cairo. In modern Rome fresh
gathered snails are hawked by women
from door to door, and the housewives
serve them either boiled in their shells
or stewed or fried IN oil 1t is a com
mon sight TO see in an italian city the
people gather around number of bas
kets filed with snails, waiting for them
to be thrown ihto large iron pot sus-
pended over fire made between four
stones. Herbs and love-apples Ito.
matoes) are added, and when done the
broth is retailed to the expectant by
ISLANDERS. As the cook ladies out the
savory connection she or he gives utter
ance to trade cries. Altogether the
scene to an American is suggestive of
the hawkers of "hot-corn."
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-07

CHARLES B. HOLMES, of Chicago, who
is one of the syndicate now owning the
Walsh street car lines of St. Louis, is
the President of syndicate owning all
of the street car lines in indianapolis, is
President of the Chicago Railway Com
pany, with 1000 cars, and is as well the
head of another syndicate which owns
the street car lines of Rock Island, Day
export and Moline, on the Upper Mis-
sissippi, and is understood to be the
head of syndicate which has lately in-
vested nearly 81 900, 900 in cabe lines
in Los Angeles. Cal. He probably con
trolls more street car lines and miles to-
day than any man in the world. He be-
gan, says the Glo5e-Democrat, the street
car business in Chicago in 1873, being
then called to the management of the
Chicago company. He is now fifty
years OF age.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-07
Age at Which Bees Gather Honey.

Many seem TO suppose, says oui
Scotch contemporary, the Farming
World, that the bee is capable of going
to the fields to gather honey as soon as
Matched, or in three or four days al
least; but some facts prove that they dc
not do so. Bees may be forced to &c
into the fields for pollen and honey at
the age of from four to six days; but
when the colony is in normal condi-
ton, as it always should be, to store
honey to the best advantage, the bee is
16 days old before it gathers honey. IL
we take combs OF bees Just Matching,
and place them in a hive without any
bees, as is frequently done to introduce
n valuable queen, we can see young bees,
not over five or six days old, 60 to the
fields, being compe led to do so for pol
len, water, etc, because there are none
of an older age to go; but this does not
prove that the bees of that age usually
do so, any more than the experiment of
feeding 20 pounds of honey to bees CON
fined to the hives before one pound of
wax is produced, proves that it always
takes 20 pounds of honey to produce
one pound of comb.
L have conducted two experiments
since | kept bees, to ascertain the age at
which they first gather honey; and as
each proves the same, / believe sixteen
days to be the time when the bee brings
her first load of honey, when the colony
is in normal condition. About the
middle of June black queen is re-
moved, and an italian introduced
in her plnce. The date was kept re-
garding the time when the first black
bee Matched, and when the first Italian
emerged from the cell. Then the hive
was watched, and not an Italian was
seen at the entrance till the sixth day,
while none were noticed on the wing,
marking their location, till the eighth
day, when, at . p. m, quite few came
out for ''play-spell," as it is termed.
Every pleasant day, the number of Ital-
ians at these play spells increased, but
none were seen out of the hive at any
other time till the sixteenth day after
the first Italian Matched. At this time
few came in with pollen and honey,
commencing at about 10 a. m. After
this, the number of Italian honey gath
erers increased, while the number of
black ones decreased, until, on the for
ty-iifth day after the last black bee was
Matched, when not black bee was to be
found in or about the hives.
If the above is correct, and | believe it
is, it will be seen that the eggs for our
honey gatherers must be laid by the
queen ut least thirty-seven days before
our main honey harvest if we would get
the best results from our bees, as it
takes twenty-one days from the time the
eggs are laid, to the time when the bee
emerges from the cell, and this added to
the sixteen, makes the thirty seven days.
To be sure. the bees, from the time they
are three days old, help to perform the
labors in the hive, such as building
comb, feeding the larve, evaporating
nectar, ETC.. hence are OF much value
toward securing the crop of honey, if we
have plenty of bees over seventeen DAYS
old: but otherwise. all Matching after the
middle of the honey harvest is of little
use.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-07

fact that 81 The course Of true love never
did run smooth" Bolivar is gentle
animal, but he is in a strange place,
and. to be on the safe side, the keeper
has chained him in one corner OF the
cipe until he becomes more used to ms
surroundings.
Jennie became aware OF this TACT and
determined to have her revenge.
About noon on Friday Keeper Ireh-
dergast went into the feed loft over the
enclosure and began 10 throw the nay
down into the cage. AS soon as puncn
was thrown down it was noticed ihat
Jennie would gather it in her trunk and
carry it into the far corner OF the cage
out of Bolivar's reach. Bolivar made
several attempts to reach the corner, but
his chains stopped him and he finally
gave it up.
Bolivar had no dinner that day.
The same course was pursued by jennie
at the next feeding time, but this Tune
Empress proved herself heroine. Jen-
ME had piled the hay up in the corner,
when Empress cody walked over, and,
taking as much as she could hold with
her trunk, carried it over to Bolivar.
Jennie resented Empress's interference,
and there threatened to be fight, but
Jennie finally gave in. Jennie has now
given the battle up, and Empress and
Bolivar eat their meals in peace. Head
Keeper Byrne says that Bolivar looks
upon Jennie as a mother-ln-law. -
Philadelphia Times.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-07

A PETITION is being circulated among
the residents of Yorktown. n. Y, ask
ing the President to retire Postmaster
Lewis Purdy from active service and
grant him a liberal pension for the re-
mainder of his life. Mr.. Pnrdy is said
to be the oldest postmaster in the Uni
ted States, both in years and service,
having been appointed postmaster Of
Shrub Oak by President w. ii. HarTi-
son in 1S4l. Mr.. Purdy is now ninety
three years of age, and receives and dis
tributes the mail twice day, and has
never been absent from his post one day
since he has heen in the service. HIS
only assistant is his wife, who is ninety
years of age.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-07
Carp Culture a Success.

The experiment made some five or six
years ago growing German carp as a
food fish in American waters has turned
out great success and the cultivation of
that fish has taken its place among the
fish industries of the country. In the
vicinity of this city and along the coast
front where there are so many fine fish
to obtain, the carp will never be sought
for to any great extent, but to inland
cities aud the Western country it Is a
boon.
It's flesh is excel mt though not as
sweet and Fms grained as that of some
of the native salt and fresh water fish
1t will live in sluggish water and in
pounds where nothing bnt catfish and
frogs are found. 1t is prolific and a
rapid grower. In Texas in five YEAR,
time carp grew to weigh 10 pounds
and IN ponds in this section stocked fonr
and five years ago, carp weighing from
four TO seven pounds are now being
taken. The fish is homely to loolr a.
and IS sluggish in its movements.
In the Western ponds and lakes and
such rivers as the Missouri and Missis-
sippi. they will increase rapidly and IN
a short time prove staple fish product
AS game fish the carp is at the love,
end Of the list.-Ner York TINES.