The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-12-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

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"A couplet of verse, period of prose,
NAV cling to the rock Of ages as a shell
that survives the deluge.-Bulwer.
-LCowper was melancholy child and
often would sit for many hours almost
motionless, gazing at the landscape
before him. 80
Some custom shoemakers discard
the graduated tape and do their meas,
uring with piece of stout paper folded
onca or twice. A nick is made as eacn
measurement is taken, and the RECORD
is transferred to page OF the shoe-
makers book bearing the customers
name. The paper is more TO De as-
pended upon, because 1t is less eias'ic
than the tape Hisf
in the Office of the Pail Mall Maya
zine the monograph has been put 10
novel use. An article is read in 'front.'
of the receiving funnel, and the waNeh
cvl;nder is sent to the printer, VINO
sets it in duplicate machine ana puts
the Tubes in his ears He then regu-
lates the speed to suit himself ana se.s
by ear instead of by eye.-N. y. MAN
and Express.
-White-shelled eggs always sell oet,
ter than others, and hence the speciai
valne of the white Leghorn fowls
Their eggs are of almost marble white'
ness, and, though small, their 1resn
look makes them marketable. uuines
eggs, however, which are brown AM
. speckled. also have a special saie' oe
, cause some persons esteem them pee.
liarly delicate Ducks eggs are Il
much demand for the Chinese restaur
ants. where they are worked up lno
tempting dishes. ~ :.
; THE first independence flag Oh
!. PLAYED in South Carolina was at IN
a taking of Fort jackson on James Il
;. land, September ID, 1775. Col. Mou
a trie. who had been requested by u
I council of safety to procure nag hao
h large blue one made with white ere
d cent in one corner. The crescent WI
"a used in uniform with the dress OF u
n troops. who, besides wearing blue, nj
II their caps adorned with crescents
h scribed Liberty or Death. IL
IN the crescent flag that Sergeant Jasp
20 so calamity rescued at the battie
n Fort Moultrie, June %, 1776.
=. A somewhat famous Frenchm
q. who has devoted himself to the prom
m ton of freer trade between this Gov
ma try and his own, estimated neal
twenty years ago that the populati
h. of the United States would reach ~
At. 100000 at twenty-four minutes afte
nm %. m. on July "a, 1908. He has recent
- however. revised his estimate, and
mo- now gives himself wider range.
IN believes that the 100000 600 Will
or. reached between the years 1918
"a. 1920. All calculations on this SUBJ
Id. for the last fifty years have been
nd surdly out, and the Frenchman's
he mate NAV have to be revised ag
;sb should immigration remain at its p
ten emit low ebb for five years longer.
ing Watches first came into fashion
ed. the wear 1477, at Nuremberg, and
,de ! that account and because OF u
A peculiar shape they were known
nee Gutenberg eggs" They were not
out egg-shaped, however, some being N
.ler in imitation of pears, gourds, AGO
at birds skulls, etc. Morgan, the Eng
me curiosity collector, has an old
ing watch in the shape of a cows n
which discharges tiny pistol at
? he end of each hour. The Earl OF
ock hope has one shaped like an egg, CT
Iuf, iacinth and set with diamonds. A
.nce the year 1920 watches began to ass
rec the shape now generally worn; in
and seventeenth century, however, II
York came the fashion to make them In
form of a cross.
MON The .office-seelzers began to
he burden to the powers as early as
cent for John Jay reported to congre
that year on the application OF 81
ward Newenham, that his son n
ely be appointed consul at Marseilles
who honorary resolutions, few OF
W" very little money and much land"
your the only funds on which congress
you draw rewards for its friends. Not
after that resolution was passe
ducing the salaries of govern
clerks, and providing that no
should receive more than $3.50
and no messenger more than $50.
1MN pampered clerks of congress, who
IN y So, 500 year, would scorn to accel
HI salaries that were good enoug
u their predecessors hundred year
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