The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-03-06

Although to-day there are as many
boards in the House of Commons as in
any assembly in the world, twenty-five
years ago there was but one. 1t be-
longed to Mr.. Muntz, member for Bir-
mingham, who did service by persuad-
ing the Government to adopt the
perforating machine in the manufacture
of postage stamps. Mr.. Muntz shaved
until he was 40 when his brother re-
turned from Germany with a fine, beard,
which the M. p. determined to emulate.
al. B." the famous caricaturist, was
soony at "the man with the BEARD" as
every one called Muntz, and represented
him in a'cartoon as "a Brummagem M.
P" In this portrait he carries a stout
stick, which has special prominence, the
reason being that an irrepressible prac-
teal joker, the Marquis of Waterford,
was supposed to have laid a wager that
he would shave Muntz, hence the cudgel
to defend himself from disarmament.
Mr.. Muntz died very wealthy, in 1857.
School and Church.
The Free Baptists in North Caro-
lima number about $4,000, of whom u
600 are colored.
The Congregationalists of Massa-
chusetts have 52S churches, 655 minis
tiers, and church membership of 91,-
1877.
BY the will of Jacob Persinger of
Roanoke County, Va, recently admitted
to probate, Roanoke College will receive
about $4,000. NJ A
The Baltimore Methodists contem-
plate the establishment of a Centenary
Biblical Institute for the education of
the colored people.
"A lady writes to know what she
shall do with empty cans. There are
several solutions of the problem, but
the simplest one is to buy goat.
The name of the new Irish Univer-
sity is to. be the "Royal University of
Ireland" The charter is now ready,
only awaiting the filling up of the
names of certain Senators. The first
Chancellor will be the Duke of Leinster.
The University of Michigan con-
ferred last year 433 degrees on examin-
alton and four honorary degrees. The
whole number of students was 1876, OF
whom AS were in the Department OF
Literature, Science, and Arts.
The University of Cincinnati has in
troduced the study of Arabic, with the
intention of making of it three or four
years course. The present class num-
beers from ten to fourteen. The deter
mination is to make the instruction as
thorough and, at the same time, as ex-
tended as possible.
One of the difficulties which college
authorities encounter is to prevent the
students from looking into their books
during recitation where they have to re-
peat verbatim, or from writing transla.
tons and other aids in the books from
which they recite. The faculty of Yale
College, where this practice is known as
skinning," have undertaken to put a
stop to it by making every man recite
from book with clean text furnished
by the faculty, few copies only OF
which are placed in the recitation-room.
'---' - odds and Ends.
I'm mince-pie there is meat for re-
pentance- o.l.s. sfsi
High heals-The charges of fash
ionable physicians.
We desire to be moderated only by
the tax-collector.
Fashionable women are often very
brave; they do not fear to face pow
der.
- The farmer who doesn't take a
newspaper, says the Detroit Free Press,
should not be privileged to take his
children into graveyard to learn their
A B C's off the headstones.
The small boy who can ride three
wheeled volocipedc in the hall and beat
a drum at the same time has qualities
calculated to make home happy when
he is not well.
A bees sting is only one-fourth OF
an inch long, but when man has just
had one stuck in him all the argument
in the world won't make him believe
that it isn't over two feet long and hotter
than chain lightning.
"A small boy, boasting of his father
accomplishments, said: "My father
can do almost any thing; he's a notary
public and he's an apothecary, and can
mend teeth, and he is doctor, and can
mend wagons and things, and play the
fiddle; he's jackass at all trades"
The Queens of the world are in a
deplorable condition. The Queens OF
Italy and Sweden are dangerously i'll
the Empress of Russia is very low; the
new Queen of Spain has fallen into
epileptic fits on account of the attempt
to assassinate her husband; and poor
Queen Victoria, she is sicksty-too.
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