The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-04-03

glazed eartnenWdro pans seNtHteeu
inches in diameter. Four grammes OF
white clover seed were sown in one of
the pans, and the other was left without
any stimulus to vegetation. Both pans
were exposed from July 81 to Oct. 4,
and then the drainage water was col
lected and analysed with results which
warranted the above conclusion.
School and Church.
The Baptist theological seminaries,
of which there are eight, have 45O stu
dents, the Southern Seminary at Louis
vile, KY, leading the list with SO stu
dents.
Miss Lizzie Smith is a new evan
gelist who has been working in New
Jersey. At Paulsboro about forty con-
verts have been counted as the result of
her recent protracted efforts.
Mr.. j. M. Sears, the young Boston
millionaire who graduated at Yale, is to
give that institution $3.50, goo with which
to erect new gymnasium. The
cause of education is certainly adj
vancing.
AN English paper reports that an
Archbishop and two Bishops of the sect
known as ssOld Believers have been
confined in a Russian fortress for peri
DDS ranging from seventeen to twenty
six years, their only offense being that
they celebrated religious services ac-
cording to the rites either own faith.
"A dispatch from Rome says it is
believed at the Vatican that many of
the clergy who left the church as Old
Catholics are DESTROYS of returning.
Instructions have been asked by the
German and Austrian bishops. 1t was
replied that all may be received who
make an explicit declaration of
submission to the holy see and the
DEGREES of the Vatican Ecumenical
Council.
The Baptists report 2,4O7 Sunday
schools, with 922,602 scholars. In the
list by States, North Carolina leads,
with 200 schools; New York follows,
with 852, and leads with 112,345 schol-
ars; Illinois has only 800 schools, and
56,377 scholars; Indiana, $50 schools,
Ct, 600 scholars; Michigan, 1888 schools,
81, 900 scholars; Iowa, 224 schools, IT,
445 scholars; Wisconsin, $50 schools,
IL, $50 scholars; Minnesota, IS schools,
$500 scholars.
An English gentleman named Gard
ner lately left 81 SOC, 900 to found a col
lege for the blind. and the Register of
Eton College has supplemented the gift
by the offer of several splendid sites.
One of them is Botham's Hotel, at Salt
Hill, where the Elton Montem, bygone
collegiate festival, used to be celebrated
with extraordinary eclat. Seventy
coaches had to change horses daily at
Botham's, which is four miles from
Windsor Castle.
1t is proposed in certain Methodist
quarters that the number of Bishops in
the church be increased. At present
there are nine, the limit which has pre-
vailed since 1864, and if nine were need
ed in 1864 it is held that twice that num-
Der are necessary now. But whether
the church can support that number on
the present plan of work is another
question. The matter of a Bishop s
travelling expenses is of itself consid-
cradle item. About IA, 900 miles is the
average annual travel of Bishop.
Odds and Ends.
There are menageries, but no wom-
en-ageries.
! The greatest strike of the day-12
o'clock.
Trouble can always be borrowed
at low rates.
Good deeds pan out better than
good intentions.
Claws and effect: When the farmer
hears the caws and goes forth with his
gun, the crows are likely to see the eff
feet.
The trouble with the midnight cat
is not so much that it can not sing as
thatit firmly believes it can.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
--"Those also serve who only stand
and weigh it, remarked the young man
whose dirty it was to attend pair of
scales.-StcubenriXe Herald.
The dentist lives from hand to
MOUTH Boston Transcript Yes, and
he has hard pull and must frequently
jaw customers to get his fill.-New Or
leans Picayinse.
The ballots for ladies who vote at
the next election will probably be cut on
the bias or scalloped. 1t viii not be at
all strange If we hear them exclaim:
/" Her ballot is old-fashicned; it didn't
look fit to be seen. Hudson Register.
Mary Anderson, in the play ssLove,"
exclaims to the Empress: "I'll deal
with thee as woman deals with woman!"
and then she sails in and jaws her Ma
jesty up hill and down. Oh, you bet
your back hair that Mary acts true to
lfe.-Bostoa Post.