The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-11-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

new DdDy StlllY bODDy-1e S; Out
he's never still. "-Philadelphia Record.
I'm the Same Boat.-''How arc you
fixed?" asked the polc-cat. "Just one
big cent" said Jerry Hardups. Same
here" said the skunk.-Arkansas Trav-
eler.
Before the Venus of Milo.-Smith-
crs-(reading sign, "Hands ff')-"The
poor idiots! Do they think any one
could look at that statue and not know
the hands were off?'
what is it draws such great con-
gregations to hear Rev. Longtext?"
"A smoky chimney" "How could that
be?" "Well, because he isn't able TO
preach over fifteen minutes on account
of Inter Ocean.
-Ecce Homo.-Managing Editor
''Confound it! Who can swear the
loudest in this office? / want some enc
to help me-" City Editor-"The re-
ligious editor just stepped out, but he
will be back in a moment"-Truth.
"A Good Excuse.-Father-'T guess
you'll have to wear this blue flannel
suit of mine. can't afford to get you
q new one" Son-"But it doesn't fit
me-" Father-''That's all right. Say
It was made in London. "-Clothier and
Furnisher.
Reconnaissance Charmer
feels kinder rocky t'day, Grimesy, an
feel leery of dom me turn" Mana
ger Grimes-Wot yer want ter do?
Bust me show? You goes on, an de
orkestrer plays St Patrick's Day on
de orginette, an de snakes are dead
easy fer We. Seer'-Puck.
Every deliberative civil body in En-
gland, even down to the town councils,
is provided with mace, which is
brought forth with solemn ceremony
and placed on a table before the DELHI
erations begin. In one or two city
councils q candlestick is added to the
mace, and acts passed in the absence
of these objects are supposed to be IL
legal.
To see the worlds fair and walk
through the buildings the grand total
is something in excess of $4,000 feet,
or nearly twenty-three miles. This es-
innate does not include state, govern
ment or private buildings; the plat.
sance is ignored and no account is taken
of the long jumps from one building to
another. A walk of about forty miles
is necessary to do the whole thing up.
One OF the Tighter" attractions at
the Columbian exposition is interna-
tional swimming matches every Friday
afternoon. The course will be half q
mile. The first came of recently, when
four Dahomians, two of them women,
three South Sea islanders, one a woman,
Bedouins, Egyptians, Cingalese, Java
nese and American Indians partici-
pated. Over $4,000 people witnessed
the race, which was quite exciting.
Floating islands are by no means
rare, but an unusually queer one is To-
Gated in Cranberry lake, near Arden,
N. Y. Some years ago, in order to keep
the island from floating down the
stream, it was attached to the main
land by hawser, in nearly the same
manner as an ocean steamer is tied to
q dock. The old hawser still remains
tied to tree, and is the object of much
interest to visitors.
1T is estimated that the number OF
bodies embalined in Egypt from b. c.
1000, when the art is supposed to have
been first practised. to A. d. 700, when
it ceased, amounted to 400, 600, 900. An
other estimate places the total num-
Der of mummies at TAI, 600, 600, but this
is based upon the extension of the be-
ginning of the practice to a much
earlier date. The traffic in the mum
mics is very profitable to modern
Egyptian dealers.
Among the crowd of refugees who
endeavored to leave the town of Bruins
wick, Ga, few nights ago in alarm at
the outbreak of yellow fever was
poor, old and enfeebled man with lit
tie dog as his sole companion. When
told that the dog could not be ad-
mitted to the car, he decided to remain
behind, and the next morning he set
out with his dog to walk the forty
miles that would take them, he be-
lieved, ont of the reach of the scourge.
The first policemen in New York
were appointed in 1858 The force was
then called the rattle watch, and had
nine members. The wages were fifty
cents night, lone or two beavers and
200 or 300 sticks of firewood," and the
captain of the watch collected 81 a
month from each house to meet the ex-
penses After Q o'clock till daybreak
1T was the duty of the watch to call out
the hour on every street corner. They
were to arrest anyone heard to bias
pheme the name of God" or anyone in
any way insolent or unreasonable in
his behavior"
The expression, deaf as an adder"
is from the Psalms of David, where II
appears in the following form: "Their
poison is like the poison of serpents.
They are like the deaf adder that stop
peth her ear, which will not hearken
to the voice of charmers, charming ever
so wisely" East India travellers tell
us that there is = widely prevailing
supposition in the east to the effect