The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-04-10
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Personal and Literary.
Jefferson Davis's Memoirs are
promised for early in the fall.
1t is said that in the Welsh language
an infidel book does not exist.
Rev. Herbert H. Hayden who was
lately tried for the murder OF Mary
Stannard, in New Haven, Conn.,, is de-
liyering q lecture on Circumstantial
Evidence"
Mr.. Matsdaira, a japanese engineer
working in New York, in addition TO
many inventions of merit, reads eleven
languages, has finished mathematical
work in three volumes, and is only 30
years Of age.
Prof. Fawcett, the blind member OF
Parliament, who lost his sight at %, is
expert and happy in casting the line for
fish, and no one enjoys more than he a
brisk canter. He rides with friend,
his horse needing companion to avoid
accidents.
M. John Lemoinne, the distin-
guished French journalist, who has just
been elected to the Senate of his coun-
try, is GA years old but still youthful OF
aspect. His head is massive, his fea-
lures are decided and somewhat roughly
cut, his eyes brilliant, quick and round.
Mr.. Longfellow has received a gift
of beautiful book containing the names
of 800 children who presented him last
year the chair made of the Cambridge
chestnut. The inside of the cover has q
panel made of the chestnut and carved
in illustration of "The Village Black
smith's'' forge.
"L'Appressamento della Morte "
(The Approach of Death), poem by
Giacomo Leopard, which, although
known to be in existence, has hitherto
baffied all the researches of the Italian
litterateurs, has finally been found by
the poets friend, Prospero Viani. Leo
pardi is esteemed by his countryman the
greatest poet that Italy has produced
since Tasso's time.
"A writer in Temple Bar thus de-
scribes Theophile Gautier: Imagine
to yourself tall, massively framed in.
dividual, who treads the asphalt with
alarming composure, attired in yellow
leather slippers and black velvet waist
coat, his long hair waving down to his
waist, his bare head shaded by broad
umbrella, and this at the most fashiona'
BILE hour on the most fashionable
promenade of Europe"
f School and Church.
In San Francisco the Greek Church
has chapel and about $50 followers.
The English Wesleyans are getting
xI~~Lcr;xvs~~ f,.aI IN which mr.
less than 81, 167, 1925 has been promised
There are SOC, 900 members on the
rolls of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, that Church having been or.
ganized in 1916. 1t has one college, Q
publishing department, six bishops and
many schools.
There are now ninety-one Reformed
Episcopal ministers, eight Of whom are
Bishops. Sixty-four of these are In
this country, thirteen in Canada, and
fourteen in England. The Reformed
Episcopal Church is making steady
progress in quiet way, although its
history has not recently developed any
stirring events.
NO ministers suffer more than the
very poverty-stricken clergymen in the
English Established Church. The wife
of one of these Ia suburb of Londor
says that true statement of the hard
ships and miseries of the poor clerica
hacks of that vicinity, who are wearing
their lives away amid poverty, smoke
and dirt, would make the Right Rever
end Bishops tremble.
The total number of pupils in at
tendance upon the public schools of thu
State of New York last year was 1000,
600, and the cost of their instruction
was S10, S4S, 1913, of which amount tn,
teachers received in salaries 81, GOO, 1892
There are IL, 1924 school-houses in thu
State, and the aggregate amount ex
pended in support of the schools sine,
1850 is nearly $200, 900, 900.
Elder Forscutt, Of the Montan,
Church, is trying to present to the PEG
pie of Chicago what he calls the tru,
ideas of the Mormon faith. He de
nounces polygamy, and says that gen
uine Mormonism has nothing to do will
it, but that Brigham Young introduced
it and spread it in Utah. He regard
the Salt Lake Mormons as apostates
and not as representatives Of the Nor
mon faith originally expended by JOSEPH
Smith.
Science and Industry.
Cotton has advanced 10 t., IA pc
cent. since January /.
--Anumber of farmers are successful,
cultivating upland ricein Monroe Coun