The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-12-06

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picture of store, or Office, or factory,
with any personal statement or business
card. The Sunday-school children are
taking lively interest in the remarkable
album, with prospects of speedily filling
itup.
Foreign Notes.
The London Times shows that al
though many of the English straw plait-
ers are working for six cents a day,
their productions can not compete in
price with the Canton plat at present
flooding the market.
The fact that little Norway has the
second largest commercial feet in the
world is alleged to be chiefly due to the
fact that villages pool their savings to
build or buy ship, instead of, as here,
putting them into a savings bank to pro-
vide fast horses, etc., for delinquent
manager.
The 500th anniversary of the founda-
ton of New College was lately cele-
brated at Oxford. This splendid insti-
tuition, whose chapel Qately rehabili-
tated with great magnificence) with its
choral service is one of the glories of the
university, was founded by William of
Wykeham, prelate and statesman of
great renown in the fourteenth century,
who also founded and endowed with
equal magnificencc the most ancient of
English public schools Winchester
as sort of feeder to his college at Ok
ford.
The growth of London in all dircc-
tons continue marvellous. A number of
new towns have sprung up within the
last three or four years. No longer ago
North End Fulham was rural district
of fields and market gardens. The IN
derground Railway opened a new line
to Hammersmith, with station at the
north end, which changed its name to
kensington, and to-day the surrounding
area is covered with streets of well built
houses at high rents. Similarly, at the
other end of Lond n, increased facilities
of locomotion by railway and tram car
have led to the erection of many hun
dred of small houses in South Bermond-
sey or Rotterhithe. The same process
goes on steadily at Edmonton, ON the
north, and at Sydenham, on the south
of London.
Odds and Ends.
The embers of the year-Nov. and
Dec.
Cesar burned his bridges behind
him, and that is what the man did who
sat down on a red-hot stove.
You may go through the world I'm veal or I'm
woe,
In fact, any way that You choose;
But you'n find that the woman who has corns
Wears No. 5 feet in No. shoes.
George R. Vending has named
new lecture "The Problem of the
Ages" If he means the ages of the
lair sex, and has really solved the
problem, he is genius. Chicago Jour
sal.
=" There are only three things you
IAN get for nothing in this world-air,
water and ADVICE" says the Syracuse
Herald, but we know married man who
'ays he often gets scolding for Just |
nothing at all.-Boston Post.
Bridget Ito caller): xviii We kape |
till a mint while I look at We? No,
nissis hain't to home. She told me if a !
come with wart on the end of |
Ter nose, to say she wasn't to home
nd there's no installing that wart."
Little Willie" And were all the
title birds drowned, mammapn Mann
IA (who has been telling the story of
he deluge)-" Yes, ali but those who
vere in the ark" Willie" Then l do
hink they were stupid; why didn't they
ct into row on the top of the ark?''
1t seems to make no difference how
reat man is; he may either be Sem
tor or Governor, but, if his wife don't
Ike the way he is doing, she win tell
i'm of it just about as sure as she would
he was only coachman or fisher
IAN. And this is what they call human
AZURE.
The boy who doesn't leap over seven
itching posts, kick lame dog, snatch
handful of navy beans in front of every
rocery store, knock over a box or two
nd work the handle of every pump on
le sidewalk on his way home from ,
'hool, is either lazy or doesn't feel well. !
-Keo1nk Gale CITY. II
Young man, perseverance will win {
N riches. We knew a young man in
II school-days who was as poor as the {
gendary church-mousc. But he worked q
ithfully, perseveringly, and earnestly
ION the affections of young girl with {
hundred thousand dollars, and, mar s
ing, he becamerich in single day. g
rseyere. young IN, persevere. -tt7 q
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