The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-01-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
"A bang is considered loud.

Twelve hundred cars daily cross the
st. Louis bridge.
"A funeral procession in East Ma
chias, Me-, while returning from the
cemetery last election day, was stopped
by deacon, who wanted the sons of
the dead man to get out and vote, but
they refused.
General Garfield, who is forty-nine
years old. is, with the exceptions of
Franklin Pierce and General Grant, the
youngest man ever elected President of
the United States. The average Presi-
dental age at the time of inauguration
has been tifty-seven years.
There is a movement in India to
abolish the seclusion of Hindoo women
and have them brought into society in
the European fashion, but it is opposed
by the native papers on the ground that
the young Hindoos are not moral enough
to associate with unmarried women of
their own race.
There have been several serious
railroad accidents in Germany lately.
1t is estimated that since the Govern
ment has been running the railroads it
has for economy, 50 reduced the staff
that the employees cannot exercise the
needful supervision under the new
regime. Switchnen get from thirty
seven to forty-three cents day.
lin the course of conversation, re-
Gently, John G. Hamilton, who erected
the statue of his father, Alexander
Hamilton, in Central Park, said that he
distinctly remembered his father, the
night before he was killed by Burr in
the duel, coming to his bedside and,
taking Johnny's hands within his palms,
repeated the Lords Prayer over with
him.
The French military papers report
with much satisfaction the successful
execution of several long and quick
marches lately undertaken by regi-
ment of mounted chasseurs in garrison
al Tours. The first march was twenty
five miles long and this distance was
accomplished in six hours; while five
days afterward the same regiment
marched fifty -four miles in twelve hours.
On each occasion the march was made
during the night. the weather being
stormy and rainy.
There is remote district of Europe,
writes late essayist, where children
are not definitely named till the father
chooses to hit on what he thinks an APP
propriate choice. Savages, too, change
children's names at the time of the
ceremony which answers to confirms
ton in our church. The idea seems to
be that it is impossible to find title
really appropriate while the character
of the infant is undeveIoped.
"A Connecticut couple were legally
married, few days ago. in strict con-
formity with the township map. They
procured a marriage license from the
Ledyard Town Clerk and in the even
ing called upon minister in the neigh
boring town to perform the ceremony.
As the rite could only be performed in
Ledyard the clergyman and contract
ing parties, with the witnesses took Ian
tiers and walked through the woods just
across the town boundary line, where
the marriage was performed.
The NesD England Farmer says that
everywhere else, even in small towns,
and in the family of city mechanics, one
will find the children especially break
fasting on oatmeal and fruits, eschew-
ing pies and sweets at dinners, and
making the last meal light one, while
the New England farmer yet compels
his wife to keep him supplied with pies
ad htituna, and, worse than that, to
make pork the principal meat diet, and
to bring up their children on the same
rigid fare, " which," as the Farmer
says, % fits them in adult life to be apt
candidates for treason, stratagems
and spoils. |"
Solomon Jones, Of Bloomburg, Nd.
was seventy when, after many years of
poverty. he received $1,000 in pension
money. He had no relatives to leave
it to when he died, and therefore made
up his mind to spend it all himself. In
view of the probably short time remain
ing to him in this world he felt that he
must be fast and furious in his pleas
ures if he would spend the whole 81, 900.
He married young wife and gratitied
her love of dress; he got in q large
stock of beverages and drank them
recklessly, he bought fast horse and
bet on him. At the end of three months
the last dollar was gone, his wife de-
serted him, his horse died, and he is
still without any Immediate prospect of
dying.
Queen Victoria. it is related. re-
Gently had the pleasure of witnessing
remarkable piece of artistic enterprise.
When lunching out-of-doors with the
Princess Beatrice and few attendants,
the party was surrounded by no less
than eight reporters, who stood boldly
looking on at the consumption of cold
lamb and salad--much. of course, to the
Queens annoyance. Finding that they
did not move, Princess Beatrice herself
went across to where they had planted
themselves and said that the Queen
had great objection to being stared at
while she was at luncheon and would
be glad if they would leave. The young
lady's gentle remonstrance, however,
had no effect upon these amiable per-