The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS,

80 AOoCo be
Tho latest railway signal indicates
automatically the time that has ELAPSED.
up to twenty minutes, since the last
train passed It. 80 -
"A living man with three legs, :
living man with two mouths, and .
living man turning into stone, are
among the curiosities announced in a
New York museum.
Nevada had dead Horse post
once. 1t was ordered to take a now
name and 1t took that of Live Horse"
Inc department wouldn't have it, but
changed it to Rosedale.
An Englishwoman Of twenty-six
recently advertised that she was de-
sirous OF being married, and would,
therefore, be pleased Ito correspond
with a Christian vegetarian man."
"A yacht was recently launched on
the Thames by electrical appliances,
which enabled all the supports to be
removed on the pressing OF button,
and the vessel glided into the water
without the slightest hitch.
The kangaroo is in danger of being
disseminated. Its skin is so valuable
mat large numbers Of young kangaroos
are killed, and high authorities are of
The opinion that, unless the process is
stopped, Australia will soon have seen
The last specimen of this interesting
animal.
"A Boston newspaper thinks it high
time that the expressions 1.-THE colored
lawyer" ''the colored artist and the
ike were expuuged from the vernacu-
lar pnraseolnsy, and says: '.How would
~ look, for Instance, to speak of Wash
ington Flanders, Esquire. the red.
headed iSank President; or of Ulysses
FianertY the bandy-legged broker; or
OF Cor nelius Cronin, the cross-eyed cor
respondent Of the Concord Chrome
vr@P"
-Four years ago William H. Camp
DELL, good old-fashioned Democrat of
Saxton's River. VT. was appointed
postmaster. His wife. who has always
been a Republican, has constantly as
sisted her husband during these four
yearA and SO well has the Office been
conducted that when he resigned
Democrats and Republican united in
asking the Government to make her
her husbands successor. She has Just
received her commission from the Post
master-General. and her husband is
now her assistant.
Twenty million dollarS are what
somebody has estimated as the gross
amount contributed, by the American
people during the last ten years for
the relief OF suffering caused by disas-
tiers or epidemics. Two million dollars
a year make large sum. In one-dol-
lar greenbacl<s, laid end to end, it
would stretch nearly from Washing
ton to New York City. The total sum
given in ten years would span the
greater part of the continent
ington Star.
"A new swindling scheme, said to
be very successful among religiously
inclined agriculturists, is thus de-
scribed by the McHenry Plaindealer:
A pretty female solicits ten-cent sub
scriptions to q foreign missionary so
ciety,. and those who donate are re-
quested to sign their names on q paper
with others who have kindly given
something to the heather. Beneath
the paper the sucker signs is an ingen-
ious copying paper that transcribes
the name to . promisory note, and she
leaves with - many notes as she has
names, which she gets discounted as
soon as possible.
"A writer In Florida paper says
Of the Seminole Indians: They have a
tradition hsnded down from their
which they believe-that
the Great Spirit first made the black
man. next the red man, and third. the
white man. after which the Great
Spirit called them together and placed
before them three boxes, one filed |
with books and maps, the second with
bows, arrows and tomahawks. the third
with spades, axes. hoes and hammers.
These are the means offered by which |
vou are to live; choose among them ac-
cording to your fancy" The white
man had the first choice, and chose
the books and maps; the red man took |
he bows. arrows and tomahawks.
lin Columbia County, Georgia. d q
luivering tree. Years ago, the negroes
'f the neighborhood say, murder
was done under its branches. Two
men had accompanied q woman to
church. and after she had entered the
'difice they quarreled about her, and
,ne cut the other TO death. The muir
ierer escaped, and ever since every !
limb. large and small, on the tree
'rembles rs II In fear, or - . sufferingsI
animal would anixAr Thia occurs