The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-24

--huSsldIiS WIZ tlC dCNOeSo W D@
ems are eagerly looking forward to
translation of his letters promised by
st. Petersburg firm.
--Ruskin refused $500 from Scribner
for short article on the church OF st. |
Mark, and Browning, the poet, stuck up
his nose at $1,000 which accompanied
the same proposition.
Rosa Bonheur has just bought
magnificent lion from the Geological
Garden at Marseilles, at the price OF
5000 francs, and is painting its portrait
for next years Salon.
The late John I. Delane, for so
many years the editor-in-chief OF the
London Times, scarcely ever wrote
line for the paper himself, but used
other writers as most men use pen.
--Kinglake, the historian, is lawyer
rs well as the heir to a large property.
lie has all his life long studied plans OF
battle in war, and he rode beside Rag
Ian in the Crimea. He is very slow,
conscientious and patient in his work.
Miss Lillian Whiting, on the editorial
staff of the Cincinnati Commercial, stays
at her post until IL o'clock at night.
She is said to look the picture of strong,
healthy, fresh, young life, and has
proven by her work that woman can
do well on daily paper.
Mrs. M. X. A. Brackley, writer OF
some note and well known in the Epis-
copal Chnrch as an earnest advocate OF
woman's recognition in church work,
and identified with the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with
the temperance movement and woman 9
suffrage, died in New York few days
ago. Mrs. Brackley left her remains to
the Women's Medical College OF New
York for dissection.
Miss Braddon--Mrs. James Max
well, the wife of the publisher of that
name--is stout florid woman of per-
haps 40 years. Her reddish fair hair is
worn in curls over her forehead; her
ewes are blue; her mouth somewhat
large and smiling. Altogether, she is
woman of comfortable embOnpoint,
and easy, good-natured manners, look.
ing much more like the ordinary, com
monplace matron of the middle classes
than the imaginative weaver OF SO many
dark plots and startling utterances.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes hit the
nail on the head the other day when, tC
young man who had applied to hin
for a position as amanuensis, he replied
81 have no writing to do which / an
not competent to do myself with little
occasional aid from members of my owl
family. regret not to be able to give
you encouragement as to employment
in Boston, but the truth is there is mex
to none of the kind you mention, mos
of our authors being as poor a
rats themselves and no more able t.
keep an amanuensis than they are abb,
TO set up a coach and SIX"
school and Church.
Mr.. Farnham's Sunday-school il
Shanghai, China, has 40 scholars.
The Sunday-school Association o
France has decided to adopt the Inter
national scheme of Sunday-school les
sons.
Virginia has 675 colored school
taught by AIS colored teachers. TIL
male teachers salary averages $3
a month, the females $23.
The French Assembly has vote,
$4,000, 900 francs-2, 000,0 900 more tina
asked-for education, against $4,000,
600 in 1870, and 100000 in 1851
The grant includes $4,000 travelin
expenses for explorers.
"A Mussulman priest has been ser
fenced to death for assisting to translat
the Bible into the Turkish. Language
The British ambassador has demande
the priests release. 1t is believed Gel
many viii support the demand.
Lane Theological Seminary (Pre'
byterian) at Cincinnati, celebrated il
fiftieth anniversary on the 18th OF d.
cember, when fine new building
blue limestone was dedicated, and til
Rev. DIR. James Eells was installed 9
a Professor.
According to statistics, up to Jul
last the Methodist Episcopal Church ha
96 annual conferences, IL ,453 itineraI
preachers, and 1896 S7 members an
and probationers. Since the organic;
ton of the church 444 presiding eide
and 6S4, 1857 members have died.
According to DIR. Dollinger, u
Mohammedan religion is making GOO
Roadway. There have been great nun
hers of conversions in China sing
Moslem college at Sierra Leone is abo'
to send out 1000 teachers among IL
African tribes-and among the Mala,
the converts are literally reckoned
millions.
The English literature prize of Sc
offered to the seniors at Yale COLES
for the best examination in English Ii
eraturc, with special reference to poet
of the Elisabethan era, has been awai,
ed to William Logan Crosby, of /
Crosse, Wis, and second prize h,
been awarded to Theodore Mount Pee
of Marketable, Conn.
"A committee of the Park Stree
Church, Boston, reported lately that
had made patient investigation anon