The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-06-25
PERSONAL AND iMPERsoNAL.

FGnS0IVAG AMI 6n SStVCeDs
There is man living in Calhoun,
Ca, seventy years old, who boas,s that
he never wore pair of boots, bought q
suit OF clothes, white shirt or any store
clothes in his life, or wore q collar or
necktie.
Gertrude Souine, a pretty girl OF
eighteen years who lives in town In
Aroostook county, Maine, has never
been known to laugh or even to smile.
While intelligent in other matters, she
apparently cannot understand joke,
and is unmoved by the keenest witt
cims.
The duke of Connaught is the first
royal duke to become a director in q
dividend-paying company. 1t IL the
Church School company tlimited), and
although its business is semi-philan-
thropic, it declares dividends, and the
duke of Connaught's election was held
up by the dean of st. Paul's, who is
also director, as a promise of larger
dividends and further subscriptions.
An English newspaper says that .
church bellrincer was ringing the bells,
when one of the heavy weights swung
over and he was pulled up to consid-
cradle height by the rope. He lost his
grip and fell on his head ON the stone
floor of the belfry. He arose and walked
home. The man had been an epileptic,
suffering frequent attacks, but since the
fall ip the beltry he has not had any at
tack of epilepsy.
Clara Louise Kellogg tells story
In which her mother, herself and the
dowager duchess of Somerset figure.
The singer and her mother were dining
with that august lady, when the duchess
calmly poured her tea into her saucer,
slipped it with great enjoyment and re-
marked: NOW, ladies, do not think this
Is rude, for I have just come from the
queen, and 1 saw her do 1t. Let us
emulate the queen. Whereupon they
all drank their tea from their saucers.
The late Mr.. Spnrgeon visited Nor.
wood cemetery on one occasion with Mr..
McMaster, who went to choose a spot
for family vault. Mr.. Spurgeon sug-
gested site, but Mr.. McMaster object
ed that it was too prominent. NO"
Mr.. Sturgeon said, lit will just do for
YOU" The spot was agreed upon, and
then Mr.. Sturgeon, turning to the
superintendent of the cemetery, said:
snow, have you decent corner where
you could put Sturgeon some day?" A
corner was pointed out and Mr.. Spur.
geon said: THAT will do"
Cheshire owns the stupidest man in
the kingdom. He is farm hand, and
was engaged to plough ten-acre field.
Wishing him to make straight furrow,
his employer directed his attention to q
COW grazing right opposite, telling him
to drive directly toward the COW. He
started his horses, and his employers
attention was drawn to something else;
but in a short time, on looking round,
he found that the COW had left her
place, while the sagacious plowman
was following her, drawing a zigzag
furrow all over the held.-English Farm
and Home.
According to foreign papers, the queen
of England receives 81, 925 ZOO annually
from the British treasury; the empress
Frederick of Germany, her eldest daugh-
ter, $4,000; the prince of Wales, $780,
900; the princess of Wales, $50. 600; the
duke of Edinburgh, $685. 900; Princess
Christian, $4,000; Princess Louise, the
marchioness of Lorne, 10000; the
duke of Connaught, s125, 200; the duch-
ess of Albany, $4,000; the Princess
Henry of Battenburg, 5000; the chill
dren of the prince of Wales, $3.50, 900;
the duchess of Neutrality-suspicious., Of
the Cambridge line, $4,000; the duke
of Cambridge, $50, 900; and the princess
of Teck, s25, 200.