The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-02-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

nnaIIy. 'AiS country an
man OF Van Vert County. Ohio
IN Def wheeled q barrow contain;n,
.'o cats three miles through a mudd'
country road. iuua
The revolution in Brazil will mali,
nc scarce, but the abundant cloy,
erop VIII serve to help out between III,
acls.--Boston Herald. ''''
Notincluding Alaska. Brazil, is largo,
exeent than the United States: il nos
esses within its limits an area Of 2 Der
1888. 275. popuiA'ion o
oiiectors of insects who remembe,
oack OF the introduction of the Enplisl
Spsss say that caterpillars are yer,
rarer where the English spar.
NV Is than they were before his ad vent
ana this every year.
"A Manchester IN. " girl taranboroa
her fathers Office asking if her dog
~as there. curley was there, and his
distress asked the man to hold him up
the telephone. She whistled and
spoke, and told him to come home. Chr.
,ey pricked up his ears, and as soon as
home. ''a' soo ioi
"A school for the thorough instruc.
s.on Oh nurses in the care of babies is tc
uc established in New York, in connec.
lion with the Babies Hospital there
le herald states that there is nc
schooi OF the kind either in this coun.
Try OF In England, the only one in ex.
lssence being in Germany.
You are great friend. Here IL is
snree days that you have known that
~. n. had proposed to Rosalie, and Won
Cv,u me nothing. l know that he con-
noeo his secret to YOU" Secret! I
thought everybody knew it, II had
suspected 1t was a secret I should have
'oao you at once-"-E'liegende Blatter.
peculiar trade was made at Woos-
s'er, Ohio, the other day. The articles
oAcnahged were rcd-hot stoves. and they
~ we're moved while full of fiery Goals.
Inc city expressmen agreed to swan the
stove in their Office for one in the of,,ce
2. Harsh, nearly half a block awav.
me oi1er was accepted, and both stoves
were moved while red-hot. The trans.
ief attracted number of Interested
spectators.
Managing editor enters humorist's
room. Humorist, showing back his chair.
says Il was just thinking what great
olHerence there is between humorists
les the managing editor rep)ies
quite difference" Nov, the I'm.
morist continues, ''Artemus Ward used
20 chuckle, yos, even laugh over his owr |
jokes am of different temperament.
/, never laugh at my jokes" "Neithe,
uoes any one else" says the managing /
eaator-Arkansaw Traveller.
Whether the Norsemen really dis.
covered and settled New England in the
eleventh century or not, Professor Eber
norton Hosford, of Cambridge, will
nave 1t SO. He has just erected at his
own expense massive tower at Walt
nam, Mass, to mark what he believes is
without doubt the site of the ancient
city OF Norumbega. This old strong.
hold the professor located as the place
where the Norsemen stayed for a long
Time before they abandoned it on account
d the hostility Of the ..Slzraelinrs. as
The natives Of the region are called ir
The 0neagas.
In an address to a workingmen's or.
yanization, Mr.. Gladstone said recently:
II was not extravagant to say that. al.
hough there were but 2, 600, coo people in
ne thirteen American colonies at the
line OF the American revolt, vet from
'mong those 100000 of people there
Proceeded at that epoch group of states
nen that might defy the whole history
4 the world to beat them in any one
tate and at any period of time. Such
Vere the consequences of a well regula.
ed and masculine freedom"
The coal gas at last came to be sc ,
ressing in its attentions TO the damper
hat the damper turned on it and cast IL
Il. This was followed by a GOODNESS
etween the damper and the register.
riend OF the gas. On the other hand.
ne coal fire, although it had introduced !
he gas to the damper, beamed on the
liter, and pressed its own SCOT. The {
'ove, to whose embraces the coal fire s
ad long submitted, growing warmer I
10 closer they were, did not breathe I
asy at this. and the cinders showed s
for the stove. At this the !
rate, between which and the cinders d
lere had long been warm attachment. q
scame agitated and turned ashy. This v
,itation increased, and ended in the a
ate giving the cinders the shake Q
lck.
-Fogg entered the car, to find ever,
at occupied and the aisle filed with u
andees. But he was equal to the occa- 7
IN. He shouted, with the voice of one u
wing authority. PLENTY of seats in n
g next car" Instantly there was u
sh for the next car. The standing a
ssengers started first, of course, but q
ere were lots of the sitters who wanted &c
sit together and several more who al
ought by going into the other car a.
ey might get two or three seats to al
emselves. The result was that Fogg u
ected one of the vacated seats and az