The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-02-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

. breast bone is said to have been success:
full.
An exchange chronicles the fac
that Mrs. Sophia bennington, of Xenia
Ohio, aged forty, has given birth to he
twenty-fifth child.
"A farmer in Holmes County. Ohio
has got plucky ROSTERS. Two of then
fought prowliny fox few nights ago
and, having picked out his eyes, bea
him till he died
"A Pocahontas County, West yir
GINA, ghost in the shape of woman /,
white wearing beltstuck full of rcyol
vers turns out to be nothing but thu
shadow of tree thrown against wal
by street lamp.
II saw sign this morning. sUm
brellas Recovered remarked the horse
editor. swell. il the man can really de
IT, replied the snake editor. '.he's OF
the road to fortune. pittsburgh Chron
icle.
"A horticultural journal advises
Plant an onion beside a rosebush and
increase its odor." But who wants the
odor OF the onion increased? That escu.
lent is fragrant enough for culinary
purposes.-N. Y. Ledger.
A Hebrew Bible in the Vatican is
said to be the most valuable book In the
world. 1t weighs moro than $50 pounds
and its weight in gold, or S125, 900, has
been refused for it, when gold was worth
three times what it is now. This was
in the days of Pope julius. or in 1912.
Tho query: .Does a lightning rod
protect?' is answered from Ohio. OF
the 41S buildings struck by lightning
and burned last year, 35f were barns
which had this protection" and of the
whole number only sixty we're without
rods.-Detroit Free Press.
Whales will be more plenty than
porpoises in few years, now that the
low prices OF oil make it less profitable
to destroy them. Professor True, of the
National Museum, who makes whales a
speciality, says they are fast multiplying
and that their numbers will increase in
definitely unless some new use for them
should be discovered
"A cotton plant has been grown that
produces seed without lint. Mr.. Il. Fer
guson, planter OF Spartanbnrg, 8. c.,
has produced this novelty after many
careful experiments. He claims, and
credible men of experience in cotton
planting agree with him, that what has
been already done indicates that yield
OF 400 bushels Of seed to the acre can be
obtained, as against SIS bushels from
lint cotton.
The giant diamond lately discovered
in Cape Colony, and displayed at the
Paris exposition, weighs $50 carats. and
is valued at ss.c0o,000. 1t is kept in
glass case by itself, and guardians stand
around it all day. At night it is placed
in big safe, which is similarly guarded |
all night. 1t is said to beAof the first |
water and as pure as the famous Regent
in the French crown diamonds.
AN ingenious man n Ilion, this
State, has invented machine by which |
pancakes may be turned hot out Of
hopper at the very breakfast table. This |
is an encouraging invention. but within
tho next few years it will probably be
antiquated. Even now scientific men
are looking about them for means OF
making nitrogen and carbon unto in
such manner that, with little trouble,
q hungry man may draw his food directly
from the common air.-Troy Times.
The carrying of money in the glove
is fixed habit among the female shop
pers OF all large cities in this and all
other civilized countries Glove manu-.
lecturers havc at last recognized the
custom and made preparations to meet
Its requirements. The very latest
thing in gloves is palm pocket at.
tachment, roomy enough for respecta.
Bile roll of bills or all the .ssmall change
necessary for the current expenses of ar
afternoon among the stores.
Life in Jersey City.-A Jersey CITY
nan was going through back yard one
lay recently, trying 10 mako short cui
Town town, and ducled his head in
lodging wire clothes line, and woman
thought he was bowling and winking al
her, and her husband came out and
hased the poor man six blocks. and
lnally run him under barn and then
'ot down and jabbed pitchfork into
lis legs for half an hour. AMI now the
est OF the Jersey City men walk right
the middle of the street when they
o down town.-Drake's Magazine.
"A beautiful Persian cat living in ,,
last Ffty-ninth street, New York. was 4.
great pet, and until recently the queen I
the mansion. A visitor came. bring.
ng parrot Vashti saw and immedi.
tely felt a hungering desire for parrot :
esh. She approached and prepared for !,
spring, when she heard in amazement :
sound as of a human voice issuing from !,
he cage, and her ears were shocked
18th torrento of oaths such as had never
efore been heard in that woll-reguiated .
ousehold. The Mortified cat fed from :
ie room, which she has never since :
cen induced to enter. /.
1T is pity that SO many people s
ificr from insomnia when such a sim. !,
le preventive is in reach. / have a re- /.
eft which never fails. When i find my !,
III tossing / get MP, walk across the !