The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-01-29
MISCELLANEOUS.


"A cremation company has been
granted part of the cemetery in Rome
Tor building purposes.
-Shas aspeare fixed the age OF Juliet
ut fourteen, but on the stage the ma
turlty OF actresses capable of PLAYING
the part makes an alteration of the text
necessary. San Francisco, however, is
TO have a fourteen-years-old Juliet in
the person Of Ida Aubrey, prodigy.
"A few years ago Japanese pub
Usher brought out life of Washington
in forty-tive volumes, with illustrations
in which the Father of his Country is
represented in modern dress, wearing
heavy moustache, carrying cane and
accompan ed by skye terrier.
The will of James f. B, own, of Kit
tanning, Pa, bequeaths twenty-five
dollars to every widow in the town and
twenty-five dollars to every wife who
shall become widow, and the same
amount to all the girls now living who
shall become wives. Large sums are
given TO charitable Institutions out of
the 81, 800, 900 of the estate.
In Virginia City, New, the last
honors paid to miner were directed
by his nearest friend. After the coffin
had been carried from the house to the
hearse, he led the minister to a car
riage, and, when everything was in
readiness for a start for the cemetery
he put his hands to his mouth and yelled
to the driver Of the hearse, "All set"
In Germany, including the free
cities, about eighfy-five per cent. of the
population have incomes under $500; in
Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen 14.6 per
cent. have incomes from $500 up to
$1,000, and one-fifth of one per cent.
chat is to say, about 5000 persons in
the three cities taken together) have
incomes exceeding $4,000 per annum.
This does not give one great idea of
the wealth of Germany.
Many OF the Hindus still think that
the leader of the Sepoy rebellion. Mana
Sahib, is yet alive and that he is in
America, a region rs vague to them as
the domirions of Prester John were to
the medievalists. Although his death
wis announced twenty years ago, the
truth or falsity of it was not then, nor
has it since been. ascertained. He
III he uC uittCs Us iti dS HIS aye Sucs,
for he would not now be more than
sixty Years old.
Among the Migrants who applied
for reliefto the police authorities OF New
York City the other day was young
man named Rudolph Ruckert. He said
his father was principal of college at
Darmstadt and had given him first
class education. He spoke Greek, Latin.
Hebrew. French, English, German and
Italian. He had come to this country
to turn his attainments to account and
he had met with poor success.
The rich and respected President of
a Boston gas company lives luxuriously
with one wife in the neighborhood of
that city. Another wife called on him
the other day and he could not deny the
relationship, for she had marriage GER
tilicate in her pocket. She had no de-
sire, however, to take him away from
his second spouse, but simply demanded
a restoration of the property she had
given him years before. He promised
to do it.
"A train OF emigrants lost themselves
in an Oregon desert, thirty years ago.
and wandered for several days before
fndlng Their way out. They afterward
sala that they had seen place strewn
with nuggets OF gold, but were al the
time suffering starvation. and did not
suppose they would 1--we TO care any,
thing about the treasure. A grizzly OLD
man was recently encountered IN that
region, he had been searching since
1870 TOT these naggets' ana declared
that he would stick to ltuntli ne died.
1t must be confessed that the build
ing of q stable for twenty horses on
the ton OF a private mansion. access to
which IS obtained by means of a lift, is
calculated to awaken feeling of aston
ishment even in these days OF marvels.
Yet this is tho case on house just
oy rir-oassoon. uround Is very vaiua-