The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-07-24
MISCELLANEOUS.


Lolita, the actress is said to be the
affianced wife of Clement cambridge.
an actor.
Forty thousand persons must be
fed by charity in Persia for two months
longer if they are to be kept alive.
"A large bear is making his pres
ence felt in Skowheg1n, Me. The other
night, he appeared on Peter Malbon's
farm and killed a sheep and colt. He
took a fore quarter out of the sheep for
a lunch and the next night returned to
eat up the colt.
M. Nathan, a cadet at the Royal
Military Academy, Woolwich, took
nearly one-half the prizes for mathe-
mates, mechanics. fertilization. artil-
lery, military history, drills and exer-
cises, as well as special medal for pro-
ficiency and the regulation sword for
good conduct.
"A Cairo correspondent writes that
harem is usually Kept up in Egypt, as
deer park or pheasant preserve in En-
gland, merely as an establishment inn
posed by fashion on people of rank. At
least two princesses in Cairo own large
harems, whose threshold is never crossed
by any male being except the physician
and the dentist, under strict espionage.
Col. John p. Brooks of Cherokee
County, Ga, was born on the ocean in
the ..Old Volunteer Ship, nearly ninety
years ago. He has filed every civil Office
from constable to legislator. The prog
eny of him and his wife foots up 209,
and consists of children, grandchildren,
great-grandchildren and one great
great granchild.
In Genoa, Ohio, lives Mrs. Eliza
beth Bennett, who has just become one
hundred and three years old. She is
the mother of twelve children. of whom
only NO are living. She has for some
year lived with her baby, as she play
fully calls him, Mr.. Thomas Bennett,
who is already more than three score
years old, venerable and much re-
spected citizen OF Genoa.
MIR. Pierre Lorillard, of New York,
proposes to bear the expense of an ex-
pedition to explore the antiquities of
Central America, and proposes to do it
under the patronage of the French Gov
eminent, and with its assistance, giving
everything of archaeological Importance
that he may find and be able to fill q
museum at Paris, which will be called
the Musee Lorillard.
Ocean waves and currents exert an
aggregate power of which we can form
but faint conception. In the west of
Scotland Stevenson found the average
force of the waves striking the coast to
be GIL pounds in the summer and 2,086
pounds in the winter. A ground swell
beating against the Bell Rock Light
house he intimated to give pressure
of nearly three tons per square foot
Several instances have been recorded
of the moving of huge masses of rock
by the waves, in one case block of
concrete weighing 125 tons having been
pushed more than three feet from the
bed.
Our whole English life, writes .
London journalist. is founded on the
family and on the responsibility of pa
rents for their children. In town or q
village we see this brought home to
men and women, not only by the law,
but by the voice of public opinion
A man is proud of the conduct of his
boys; a mother glories in the neatness
and prettiness Of her daughters attire;
their neighbors respect them for their
loving care and clever management;
"the children are credit to you" is a
common form of eulogy. On the other
hand men or women who fail to feed or
clothe or teach their offspring are re-
buked and despised.
Some interesting figures on the d.
vorce question in New England States
have been brought together. Connec-
ticDt last year granted SIG divorces,
winch is So less than 1873 and in part
a result no doubt, of the repeal of what
is known as the 'somnibus clause"
For several years previous to 1873 this
shows decrease of130. Vermont also
shows a falling off. Only 129 divorces
were granted in 1879, or II less than in
1873. In Massachusetts the case has
been the other way. In 1876, 600 were
granted and the increase last year is be-
lieved to be enough to balance the fall
ing off in Vermont and Connecticut.
Mr.. Archibald Forbes, the war
correspondent of the London Daily
NesOs, has had some remarkable expe-
riences. He saw Napoleon surrender at
Sedan and the meeting of the two EN-
perors shortly afterward; he was at
Sandringham during the crisis of the
Prince of Wales's fever, in the COM
pany of many of the Royal family and
accompanied the Prince to India; he
was sent for by the Car to describe the
desperate fighting in the Bulgarian
campaign, before the Russian couriers
could bring the account; he accom-
panied the Shah of Persia through En-