The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-12-13
GENERAL BREvITIES.

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dining saloon has included a fine piano
among his furnishings, and a good
player gives recital while the guests
are taking their regular meals.
THE bride of a week, at New Phila-
delphia, o., mysteriously disappeared.
The pair had married for love, nothing
had happened that could have raised a
reasonable regret, and it was feared she
had met with an accident. The truth
was that, growing homesick, she had
quietly taken a train for the paternal
roof.
| "A GERMAN Jewish paper believes that
the Zulus are descendants of Ishmael.
Among other facts in support of this
theory 1t notes that circumcision is prac-
ticed, that Abraham is a common name
among them, that they detest pork, and
that the laws respecting individual puri-
ty are very similar to those practiced in
the book of Leviticus.
A CHILD's hair has turned from dark
auburn to snow white, in Clean, N. Y.
A few weeks ago the little girl, who is
nine years old, saw two or three drunk
en- men in the street and was terribly
frightened. She cried for three hours,
and her paroxisms of grief were well
nigh uncomfortable. Soon after her
hair began to turn gray, and now it is
white.
DIR. w. A. w. SPoTswOOD of Mobile,
Ala, now IS years old, owns a sword
which, it is said, once belonged to Gen.
Washington. 1t was given to the pres
ent possessor's grandfather, Gen. Alex
ander SpotswoOd, of Spotsylyania Court
house, Va, by Gen. Washington him.
self, on the occasion of the visit made
by Gen. Spotswood to the father of his
country at Mount Vernon in 1889.
SOME say that there is no such thing
as red canary bird, but DIR. busch,
who lives in Belgium, on the other side
of the Atlantic, says that red canary
can be made easily. Get a canary of
the Norwich breed, and just before and
after moulting feed it on the white of
an egg which has been sprinkled with a
little OF the very finest cayenne pepper.
and before long the canary viii turn to
pretty red color.
ONE day recently an Indian who was
hunting near Cass City, Mich, discoy-
cred a large bear in the top of tree.
and shot him with his rife. The bear
fell to the ground wounded, but not vet
dead, and, as the Indian approached to
cut his throat, he was grabbed by the
bear, and combat ensued which proved
70 De fatal to both. When found, the
Indian was still in the embrace of the
bear, having been literally Rugged to
death, while the beast was covered with
some 70 or 80 wounds from the Indians
knife, showing that the struggle must
have been terrific.
MRS. EATON knew during the last few
days OF her illness that life was at an end
for her, and waited very quietly and
calmly for death. at is a beautiful
world to leave" she said, looking ont at
the sunshine the day before she died.
81 am not afraid to die, but it is such a
beautiful world!" In answer to a sue-
gestlon OF something that should be
done on the morrow, she said: "Not
tomorrow; / shall be here only little
while tomorrow" The nearest rela-
tive whom Mrs. Eaton leaves ia her
daughter, the beautiful Virginia Timber
lake, now the Duchesse de Sampavo Of
Paris, and the mother-in-law of one of
the Rothschilds.
AS Christmas comes this year on
Thursday, the following quotation from
an ancient MS. in the British Museum il
pertinent for publication at the outset of
winter as a prophecy of coming events
the approaching year:
If Xmas day ON Thursday be.
windy winter We shall Sc;
Windy weather in each week -
the naa ss Se strong ann and thick
Corn and beasts shall multiply:
That year Is good for land 10 till.
Kings and Princes shall die by skill;
II child be born that day shall he ~
II shall happen right well for he.
~ deeds he shall be good and stable.
wise OF speech and reasonable;
He shall be punished without d S
Ana II sickness that day betfde
1t shall quickly from thee glide
THE family of Lambton, in England.
have had an uninterrupted possession of
the estate of their name from the twelfth
century-a very rare instance of con-
tinuity. The Earl of Durham is the
present head. The family was onlv
ennobled in 1928 in the person of the
well known Governor General of Cana
da, son-in-law of Earl Grey. of Reform
bill fame. The first Earl was an ardent
reformer, and the present supports the
Liberals. His house, Lambton Castle.
magnificent abode, has, through some
blunder, been so honeycombed by COL
heries, that it has to be supported by
enormous massive underground pillars.
The Earl is one of the half-dozen great
est colliery owners in England.
THERE lives in the republic of Saliva
dor at present venerable gentleman
named Miguel Soils, who is $50 years of |
age. There is no doubts at all about it. |
He signed q document relating to the |
building of convent in 1929, being