The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-01-20
MISCELLANEOUS.


"A king should die standing.-ves.
pasian.
The atrocious crime of being q
young man.-Earl of Chatham.
kansas is fifth in cattle and corn.
ninth in hogs, horses and coal.
FISHER and Fisherman came from
the name of business occupation,
while Fish. Fisk and few more have
the same origin.
The Mississippi river is navigable
to the Falls of St Anthony. The Mis-
souri, river is navigable for more than
1900 miles.
Don't they have a yell of their
own at this SCHOOL," eyes, but the
college colors are SO loud You can't
often hear it."-Inter Ocean.
something With Him.-Young Flip
VIII you have something with me?"
oteady-"Yes, thanks; I'll have talk
with you on your dissipated habits.
Detroit Free Press
photographer = ''Look pleasant,
please" Sitter-'Tn be blamed if !
do! I'm foorwalker In dry goods
store, and this is the first day off I've
had for six MONTHS Boston Tran
script.
-Ailigator's tail is one of the queer
delicacies much priced by southern
creole gourmands; but not the tail OF
any alligator is desirable. 1t must be
OF the proper size and condition. When
1T is properly cooked it is most tooth
some. 1t tastes something like turtle.
"A st. Louis physician wisely de-
clares that only healthy people should
marry. IF had my way" he adds,
blondes should never marry each
other. A blonde should Secure bru-
nette for partner. If this were done,
we should become more beautiful as a
race, and stronger, and longer lived"
-Naturalists say that the largest
serpent OF which accurate measure
ments have been taken in modern times
was an anaconda which DIR. Gardner
found dead and suspended in the forks
of tree in Mexico. 1t was dragged
out into open ground by two horses,
and careful measurement with tape
line proved that it was thirty-seven
feet in length.
The musical instrument called the
Jewsharp. once very popular among the
negroes of the south and mentioned by
doubtful chronicler a3one of the two
instruments that Connecticut Puritans
might lawfully play on Sunday, was
really not named in honor of the Jews
1t was once called the. jeustrnmp, OF
toy trumpet, and the nalhe jewsharp is
popular misrepresentation.
Some New York shops maintain at
times curiously primitive messenger
service in the suburbs. A messenger is
dispatched by rail to some central
suburban station and starting thence
he delivers on foot small packages of
goods to customers a mile or more from
the railway station. 1t is an expensive
and laborous system, maintained to
encourage trade from rapidly growing
suburbs.
"A new wayfarer's lodge, opened in
New York, contains beds for 200, un-
limited bathrooms and an impressive
wood yard. An applicant must saw
one-sixteenth of cord of wood for a
luncheon, one-eighth of cord for din
ner and lodging, and as soon as the
wood is ready he is obliged to take a
bath before he can reach his reward.
All clothing is put into the fumigating
rooms at night The building is SO
constructed that the rooms can be daily
flooded with the hose.
-One of the most wonderful time
keepers known to the horologist was
made in London about one hundred
years ago and sent by the president of
the East India Company as gift to
the emperor of China. The case was
made in the form of q chariot in which
was seated the figure of woman.
This figure was OF pure ivory and gold |
and sat with her right hand resting
upon tiny clock fastened to the side |
of the vehicle. This beautiful orna-
ment was made almost entirely of gold |
and was deliberately decorated with |
precious stones.
Not all the immigrants who come
to New York are the lumpish people
that some try to make them out. On |
the bridge, especially, they display an
amount of curiosity that would credit |
q Yankee, and the view delights them
Any day one will see company of |
Italians, just landed, the women splen- |
did in brass jewelry and printed hand
kerchiefs, standing at the bridge en-
trance, watching the operation of APP
plying the grip to the cable and all |
chattering like magpies The stolid |
Russian jew seems to delight more in
the landscape than in engineering, and
often walks, over to Brooklyn with his
whole family on tour of sightseeing.
The Washington state commandery
of the military order of the Loyal Lee
gion passed a resolution. for the pur-
pose of stimulating patriotism among
the members of that organization, that
in future, and for all time, whenever
the music of The Star Spangled Ban
ner" shall be played, every member of
Washington Commandery present shall
rise to his feet and un-
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