The Colfax chronicle., 1891-12-19
PERSONAL AND IMpERsoNAI.

Mrs Campbell, the wife of Ohio,
governor. is a tall, handsome brunette
and is credited with much tact.
"A hired girl in Maine invariably
puts a pin in her mouth when she Is
going to peel onions. She saws that II
prevents her eyes from watering.
-Ex-Secretary Bayard is growing
fat. His face has become set in severe
lines. and his hair has whitencd rapidlv
since death robbed him of his wife and
lis favorite daughter
Rev. Phillips Brooks is said to be
the fastest speaker in the world. Yer
batim reporters who timed him found
that he speaks on an average two hum
dred and twelve words minute. STAN.
mering in his youth is accountable for
his remarkable haste in speech.
Mrs Josie Armstrong died in Chi
cago recently at the age of 11o wears
Mrs. Armstrong is said to be the colored
woman who nursed Abraham Lincoln's
wife and it is alleged her son PLAYED
with "liltle Abe" before the latter had
learned the art of splitting rails
Philip George d'Epinois is perhaps
the most remarkable Waterloo survivor.
He was born in 1894, and still discharges
the duties of burgomaster il his native
village of Epinois les Binche. The
Chevalier d'Epinois was one of the civic
guards who welcomed Leopold /. to
Belgium sixty years ago.
AT Wichita, Kan, two brothers
who had been separated for twelve
years met in the county Jail Both
were going under assumed names, but
'ne day while comparing notes thew
found that they were from the same
own in Pennsylvania One of them
inally told his own namc. and the
'ther at once recognized him as a
brother.
"A young woman at Cincinnati
hought she would commit suicide and
rave friend some money to defray her
uneral charges. She changed her mind |
bout the suicide and then demanded |
Ter money back. The friend declined |
o refund and insisted in keeping the
money for the purpose intended. but
he court has decided that she must
i've it up
-Aavier Jouvin, the once famous
iove-maker of Grenoble, France. has
cen honored by a statue in his native
own. He invented a machine for cut-
ng out leather gloves, and perfected a
lethod by which only one seam was
ecessary in the thumb At the Maison
ouvin thousands of men and women /.
re now employed M. Jouvin's widow
rs recently died at GrenobIe.
"A young man in Berlin, Germany.
epped upon cherry, slipped, fell
,ainst window and had his nose al
ost severed from his face. A younp
dy came forward and Acknowledged
at she had carelessly thrown the acces-
rial fruit upon the sidewalk; and her
lrents promptly betrayed the bill of Z
Q surgeon who stitched on the young
ans nose, amounting to four hundred !
ID fifty marks.
Mr.. Humphrey Moore, we'll known {
tist In Paris, is deaf mute, but so Z
ight and cordial is his manner that @
G. scarcely realizes the terrible af n
ction which is his inheritance. His 3
ie is beautiful, intelligent Spanish v
4 who interprets conversation to her n
soand, and keeps him in touch with e
social life of the city. Mr.. Moore's y
sclaity is japanese scenery and life. "
lich he reproduces with CHARMING q
city to nature. He has exhibited at n
hoyai academy OF London, the In e,
national fine arts exhibition of Ber. d,
and the Paris salon. Ia