The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-02-07

which is not controlled by any religious
sect OF denomination.
Foreign Notes.
The Car has three American de-
tectives at his Capital.
The rage for medievalism in Lon
don is greater than ever. The craziest
of the medieval is to write "ye" for
"the."
AT the dinner given to Prof. Nord-
enksjold at Nagasaki, speeches were
made in English, French, German,
Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Russian, jap
anese and Chinese.
There are few more beautiful seats
in England than Studley Royal, the
residence of the Marquis of Ripon, who,
when Lord De Grey, resided for so long
time at Washington as head of the
Alabama Commission. At the outskirts
of its magnificent park on one side lie
the ruins of Fountain Abbey, that al
most unique specimen of Cistercian
foundation which transports one into
the full middle ages; on the other side
is the town, asir with the life of the
nineteenth century, lying peacefully I'M
der the shadow Of st. Wilfrid's Church.
The house, of the style that Thackeray
delighted in, takes US back to the days
of Sir Robert Walpole, of Pope, Addi-
son, Swift, and Arbuthnot.
The statement sometimes made that
the German nobility disdain all trades
but the military one, and think COM
merce beneath them, is hardly borne
out by facts. The con, equivalent to
the French dc as sign of gentle birth,
is frequently found figuring on the sign
boards of grocers' and apothecaries'
shops; and few German trade diction-
aries are to be found in which the aris-
tocratic prefix does not occur. A few
DAYS ago there appeared in the Nener-
ten Nachrichten Of Munich an advertise
ment in which an undoubted noble, the
Count Won. Hirschberg, announces that
he has opened a marriage Office, and
from his high connections is enabled to
offer those who may favor him with
their custom an unusually rich choice of
advantageous matches. tH
f45 Odds and Ends. -.
Missing men--Bad marksmen.
Prof. Proctor is 43 years old.
An old march-The march of time.
when man falls down his temper
generally gets up before he does.
The most eminent liars of Reno col
lected a few DAYS ago and the result is
as below: Beck said he had seen it so
cold in Ohio that it froze babies in the
cradle. Tom Hymers said he had seen
it in Thomas's Canyon freeze the mer-
curry, and said you could not go within
six feet of spirit thermometer without
running it up five or six degrees with
tho heat of the body, so he couldn't tell
how cold it was. Ben Bacon said cold
snap came along when he lived at Green
Bay and froze the waves standing right
up on end and the air full of spray; and
Finley Cook said it was so cold the
winter he lived in Minnesota that when
he threw a basin of water out of the
door it turned into little balls of ice be-
fore it struck the ground. 80 i,.si. )
Edward Everett Hale wrote New
Years article on how to read books.
He has been investigating libraries and
he finds that the first volume of Sc
ries on history or science is generally
pretty well worn, the second less so, the
third not so much damaged as the Sec
ond, the fourth in better preservation
still, and the last volume generally as
good as new. Mr.. Hale detects In this
state of things series of good resolu-
tons broken. Many attempt the course
of study, few are faithful to the end.
The suggestion given in this article is
for club of say three to take up, for
instance, one of Macaulay's Essays.
Each is to read the essay and jot down
on a slip of paper any thing that is not
understood, and these jottings can be
conned over and discussed at weekly
meeting of the three.
Every town has its mean man, and
ours was no exception to the rule. Enus
Smuggs, our next door neighbor, was
remarkable for his closeness and invent
i've genius. The other day he wanted
to purchase ton of egg coal, and, bor-
rowing the morning paper from us, he /
read it till he found out where it could
be bought for the least money. The only
thing that troubled him was how to get
it into his back yard without any labor
or expense. There was large alley
way between our houses which led to
Enus's yard, and when the coal ar
rived he opened the door, and walking
up few feet he drove an old broom
stick into the ground and put large
bottle on the top. He was waiting in
the yard with shovel in his hand when
three small boys came along and opened
fire on the bottle with the pieces of
coal. In half an hour the sidewalk was
cleared and the coal safely slowed away !
in the shed, and then old Enus, grinning
from ear to ear, sold the bottle to junk |
NeDs. si. -
Old Eph Makes His VIII.
Old Eph took notion the other day