The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-06-22
INSTANTANEOUS

Individual sheep and stock owners In
the world.
Atlanta, Ca, has q tower clock
with four faces, looking in as many
directions. They are all run by the
same works and each indicates differ
emit time.
"A citizen of Hagerstown. Nd.
claims that the inside of box in his
possession was made of part of the
Penn treaty tree, and the outside Of a
part of the original coffin of Washing
ton.
-Ninety-four per cent of all the
rum manufactured in the United States
is made within five miles of Boston
Statehouse. and nearly all the liquor
exported from this country to Africa
is shipped from the port of Boston.
-Enterprise, even though it be of a
funereal kind, is always appreciated in
the West. And so there is not little
subdued rejoicing among the live citi :
zens of Chardon, Neb.. because that
town can now support hearse. The
first funeral at which the vehicle was
used occurred few days ago.
Portland. Me-, has more Odd Fell
lows in proportion to its population
than any other town in the world. One
out of every four of the citizens over
twenty-oue belong to the order. and
the seven lodges OF the city have fund
of $149.615.74. The richest lodge is
the Unity. which has $S4,4 in its
treasury.
There has been q great develop
ment of numbering in the South since
1880. The are also 100 per cent. more
saw mills now than then, 107 per cent.
more hands employed, and 100 per
cent. more capital invested. Syndi-
Gates are rapidly buying up all the
southern timber lands that they can
get their hands on.
-Four new States are added to the
Union and four more stars to our flag.
The President very appropriately
signed the bill for the admission of
South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana
and Washington, on Washington's
birthday in the centennial year OF his
inauguration as the first President Of
the United States.
There is man out in Walla Walla
who always celebrates his birthday by
eating an egg for each year Of his life.
He has just rounded thirty, and he
emphasized the event. of course, by
eating thirty eggs. It's all very we'll,
so far. but when that man reaches the
nineties he will be apt to wish that he
had contracted less original habits in
his youth. Times.
"A New York man was so disagree
ably persistent in pressing his suit with
a widow that she was compelled to
have him arrested. and he was fined
ten dollars. He paid the fine and
went directly to her house to renew his
plea She had him again arrested, and
when asked If he would promise to
etay away from her he said that he
could not, as he loved her too much.
So he went to Jail for thirty days.
AN old fellow in a Wisconsin town
who has been running a private bank
for some years was recently requested
to publish some sort of q statement.
So he posted the following on the door
of his bank: '.Notice-This ERE bank
has got $50. 900 behind her. She don't
eve nobody q cussed cent. Good paper
discounted, as heretofore. and nobody
proposes to cut sticks for Mexico or
Canada"
Says Professor Hadley: "The
speed of railroad trains is restricted
within three theoretical limits: First,
a physical limit of eighty miles an
hour, beyond which it is found impos-
sible for train to hold the track; sec
oud, an operating limit of sixty miles
an hour, which practical experience
has found trains can not run without
much damage to life; third, a CONNER
cial limit of thirty miles per hour, at
which, all things considered, it is found
most economical to run train.''
"A shoe manufacturer in Portland,
Me-, being asked to assist in providing
bread for the suffering poor. said he
would contribute to the extent of 100
sacks of -four and 100 bushels Of meal,
one sack Of -four and one bushel of
meal to be given to every man in Port
land who neither kept dog. drank
rum nor used tobacco, and was in need
Of bread. According to the local
papers, nobody appeared to claim the
gift.
What He Saw in the Fire.