The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-12-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.
-Tennyson and Carlyle are both in
veterate smokers, and both suffer from
dyspepsia.
DIR. Glenn, the California wheat
grower, is said to have had $4,000 acres
in wheat this year; his crop was 100000
bushels. For working his enormous
ranch he has 400 double teams.
After the first of next January it is
rumored Mr.. Mcclure will leave the ed
itorial chair of the Philadelphia Times
and study to be an Episcopal minister.
George Augusta Sala, who, among
other things, has the reputation for be-
ing the best after-dinner speaker in
ENGLAND, will probably spend the win
ter in New Orleans.
The late William III. Hunt is said to
have begun his artistic career at 20 years
old, by cutting medallion portraits from
hard, yellowish substance obtained from
the bleaching watts of Lowell. His sis
ter still wears one of these, mounted as
brooch.
Victor Hugo, in one of his recent
speeches, said: 90 Shakespeare-all
England is in that word! Dante-that
word contains all Italyl" and went on
all over Europe, only emitting TO men,
ton France and her representative poet.
The omission, however, was naturally
supplied by the banqueters. Itreminds
one of Marshal Saxe's modesty when a
lady asked him who was the first Gen.
cral of the age. Madame" said the
great Captain, g the Marquis of SpinOla
is the seconds
The Germans have long had
Shakespeare annual" and "Dante
annual" With the commencement of
the new year they will also have a
"Goethe annual" published in Frank
fort. The new periodical will be CEN
trail organ and point of reunion for the
many persons who devote themselves to
investigating, explaining, and spreading
q knowledge of Goethe's works. 1t will
also be medium for connecting and
making generally known the mass of es-
says, pamphlets, manuscript materials,
and photography of all kinds relating to
, Goethe. Over 20 names, some of them
among the first in contemporary Ger
man literature, ARE mentioned i'm connec-
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Science and Industry.
The wool clip of Texas this year is
estimated at $4,000, 900 pounds.
Six thousand tons of steel rails have
been purchased in Germany for the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad in West
Virginia.
"A vessel from Victoria, the chief
seaport of British Columbia, lately car
ried to London $4,000 cases of canned
galmon.
Swedish cutters at Bridgeport,
Conn., work in the shops all day and
4 spend the evening at schools, in which
they are trying to acquire English.
Fifty thousand acres of land in Par
ker and Palo Pinto Counties, Texas,
have been purchased by French cap
italist for colonization purposes.
The four electric lights which now
illuminate the reading-room of the Brit
ish Museum at evening have each a
power equal to 5000 candles, and yet
cost only a shilling an hour.
"A new hay press has been patented
in France and England which delivers
the bales in the form of a solid uniform
cylinder about two feet in diameter,
which may be rolled along by one man.
"A Californian has seven acres de-
voted to the culture of tuberoses, which
it is claimed pay better than 100 acres in
wheat. Druggists buy them for the
manufacture of perfumery.
The Bell Telephone stock, the par
value of which is 500 per share, is now
worth $1,000 per share. One year ago
it was hard to sell it for $50. The Com
pany practically controls and is the
owner of the Telephone patents, and all
companies that use them will have to
pay royalty. The high price at which
the stock sells is the prospective value
of the exclusive rights.
There has been a surprising devel-
opment of the gold fields of Georgia.
From yield of 800, 900 in bullion four
years ago the yield is now over 81, OOO,-
600 per annum, and is rapidly increas-
ing. New mines are being opened and
new veins discovered. The mining
operations extend from Oglethorpe and
Wilkes, on the right, to the Alabama
line on the left, leaving little doubt that
the whole Of upper Georgia is rich with
gold-bearing quartz.
School and Church.
Sturgeon has preached his fifteen
hundredth sermon.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
not 900 out of $50, 900 people in that
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