The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24
MISCELLANEOUS.
BRIGHT violet is the Turkish mourn

bright violet is the Turkish mourn
ing color
Keep the Blood Healthy.-''Whai
should one do to appear we'll in So
ciety?" ''Take good blood purifier"
Yankee Blade.
When q man measures his neighbor
he uses the best man he knows for the
standard; when he measures himself he
uses the worst-Ram's Horn.
~ read Schopenhauer in German"
"Why, l never knew you understood
German Il don't But Schopcnhauer
is no harder to understand in the orig.
is,al than in English."-Harper's Bazaar
"A Chicago literary club recently de-
bated the question: "Was the inventor
of the barbed- wire fence barbarian?'
1t is safe to say that everybody took
sides, and nobody got ON the fence.-St
Paul Globe.
Making Progress -Drawing teach
err (dcspondently)-"That thing you
have drawn looks more like COW than
it does like a horse" Fair pupil
(brightly)-''Why, of course, Professor,
it is n cow."-Tit-Bits.
Here's an article about a woman
stage driver" said the tenor to the
manager. Did you ever see one?'
"Yes," was the reply. ''rhe average
prima donna answers that description
pretty closely. Star.
The Lately Married Onc-"I never
heard of such troubles as l have had
with my servants They are so stupid. Z
The Experienced One-'Don't talk to
me! The other day sent Patrick ont
! for egg plants; he came back with two
F., hensr-Scribner' Magazine.
| -Mistress-"What have you marked
that ct NJ on all your pies for, Norah?"
| Norah-''Sure, ma'am, that's to tell tn
mince pies from tn apple pies. Il. M
on tn mince pies is ''tis mince' and
IT. M on tn apple pies IS faint mince'
so kin tell EN-, maam, widout cut
tim 'em.-Boston Budget.
| The bugle horn was once called the
buffalo horn, and it apparently derives
its name from the bugle, or extinct au-
roch, the wild OK of Great Britain. In
the Isle of Wight the bulls head on inn
signs is often accompanied by the word
bugle, and the French term for the low
ing of cattle is still beugler.
Something wonderful in the clock
line has been constructed by a mechanic
in Warsaw, Poland. 1t represents a
railway station with a clock towe- Civ
ing the time in four countries. Trains
run into or depart from the station every
fifteen minutes. Station agents, tele-
graphers, ticket sellers, with lines OF
passengers, are seen in action, and the
usual hustle and tumult of a station are
heard and seen, bells ringing, whistles
blowing, etc.
Mrs. John Ogilvie Roorbach, of Mys-
tic, Conn, has copy of the prayer
book printed in the Mohawk language
for the Rev. John Ogilvie, assistant
minister of Trinity church, New York
in 1869. Only twenty copies were
printed. Mrs. Roorbach, it is said, has
received an offer of $4,000 for the book
from the British Museum.
The proposed building for collec
tive exhibit by merchant tailors at the
worlds fair, will probably be near the
Fisheries building. As planned, it viii
be SIS feet square with portico extend
ing to the lagoon. The tailors OF Chi
cago have raised $4,000, and $4,000 i
expected from members OF the trad
!, outside.
Tho famous handwriting expert
David N. Carvalho, asserts that M
; man does or can write his signatur
, twice exactly alike" lie therefore I'D
vances the startling proposition tina
, when two signatures purporting t
: have been written by the same persol
are precisely alike it is safe to conclud
that one CT them is a forgery"
The most ingenious of all inven
tions is that produced by patien
!. German. He has made a mechanics
boy which WILL by simply winding uT
! walk up hill and down dale regardles
! of the condition of the roads, and wi
4 push a load of passengers or freight
v The figure is five feet in height and
!. dressed in a shirt and trousers, and ca
push weight of $50 pounds at spec
4 of fast walker. At present it make
= rather too much noise, and in thl
heightens its resemblance to the huma
a boy.
An order has been issued from tn
Siamese military headquarters that tn
troops in one of the largest garrison
J. are to be employed every day in q
catching. Every man is expected
s capture each day match box full
{ blue bottle flies, and if he does not pc
t form the duty he will be compelled, Z
a penalty, to row around the islam
s where the troops are in camp. III
d order seems to be ridiculous, but tt
. Siamesc are taking it seriously. The
g say there is great need for cleaning OF
l. myriads of flies that are making III
g miserable at that particular encam
Is ment
"A novelty in sewing machines HI
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