The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-11-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

m Hsrdp,s new novel
""" C,.,s
ydia Maria Ohil9 70 ~" w.
ana lives at her o'o noilic LA wa"
pd, Nass. 900
Charles Keade mas mace Sito,VW
his writings, and ne mas an income
81, 600.
IA new edition of the works OF Ivan
burgueneff, in 10 volumes, has just ap-
jared in Russia.
The first number of the aurora daily
wspaper, planned and issued by the
ktican, will appear the first of January
xt, as a more authoritative exponent
the Pope's views than the existing
brical newspaper. a
-Ravard TAYLOR was named after
mes A. Bayard of Delaware, GRANDPA
er of the present Senator. Mr.. Sted-
I'M is authority for the statement that
prefixed the initial "J" in signing
youthful pieces, thinking it would
Ok better" On his twenty-first BIRTH
" Taylor resumed his original sigma
re, "Bayard, without any cd"
hich he never changed.
Mai. Serpa Pinto's new work, Civ
. the account of his great Journey
ross Africa. viii be entitled "The
NOS Rifle: from the Atlantic to the
dian Sea. across Unknown Countries,
ld Discovery of the Great Zambesi At
tents. - II viii be enriched by nu-
erous wood-cuts. from Maj. Pinto's
,,.,t * ,,,ars Ed;t;ons in French.
,rtuo,,cse German. and Enolish are
p;ng s;mnltaneously prepared.
Miss Duau Fletcher. the clever and
-ettv author of Ksmet y and other
bvefs has d;srusted- n is said. all the
a,ch'mak;no marnn,as in Rome by be-
MING .nraged to a GREAT matrimonial
;ze. lord Wentworth. AsLady Went
nth this brilliant and SPARKLING Young
oman will doubtless grow even more
barming, and it is to be hoped will moi
I've up the literary work in which she
ks shown so much promise.
Gustave Dore. the famous painter
ID dranghtsman' IS at work on an il.
strated edition Of Shakespeare, which
intends to be the supreme effort Of
8 life. The enormous number of pic.
krcs that he has painted, and of the
orks of fiction and poetry that his
enius has embellished, has given rise
general impression that Dore is .
an well advanced in life, whereas he J:
My 40 years OF age, and remarkably
pung and vigorous at that.
Science and inaustry
Postal-cards, now almost universal
arted in AUSTRIA IN 1860
Baltimore capitalists have 400 mel
work in a copper mine in Ashe Coun
I, N. c., just on the edge OF virgins
NJ tennessee, and io,VV p1unds .
Pnned metal are turned out daiiy, Tn
re- yielding 4OO pounds OF copper q
20 ton. -.
TO make an umbrella cover water
roof, apply first a strong, hot, aqueou
button Of soap, then a solution OF alum
hlphate of alumina, or lead acetat
sugar of lcad); again the soap solu
on, and finally wash with hot water.
.rnal revenue from Julv To Septem
cr so, 1879, as compared with hk
criod in 1873, shows an increase o
z, 059, 448 from collections on spirits
decrease 81 ,422,21 from tobacco, ant
hcrease $780, from fermente'
liquors.
The employment Of women in tn
elegraph service in France on larg
tale has now begun at Paris, where "a
irls are undergoing an apprenticeship
1 three months on trial. They ar
heaper than men, getting only $500
ear, whereas men get $500 and $4Oo
he girls are not expected to do nigh
PORK. M 81
The summer packing season whic
Jas just closed was OF q magnitude IN
rccedented in the history OF Cnicago
asst winter the packing amounte .
,94S 600 hogs, and during the summe
2,o9O, wv. making q grand tota1 ",
U.s., 000 Tor the last IL months.