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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-10-13
PERSONAL AND MPERsONAL.


Carbonate, Colo, welcomed the
first woman by giving her town lot, .
mining claim and money enough to buy
silk dress.
-Horatio Seymour has an old deed
which shows that Washington once spec
ulated in Mohawk Valley land. Utica
IN Y Herald,
FH--F Frederick T. Stanley, who recently
died at New Britain, Conn, aged eighty
one, was the first man to manufacture
locks In this country.
The daughter of Surrogate Moses
Warren, of Troy, N, X, has married
the family coachman. The bride is one
" nineteen. The father decides to make
the best of it.-7Yoy IN T. Times.
Rev William Cole, Baptist
clergyman of Lowell, Mass, started
from Lowell fourteen months ago with
his horse and buggy, and has Just re-
turned from point some distance be-
yond Minneapolis, Mimi, having cow
cred the whole distance In his carriage.
Boston Herald ,..-l.49 i
Twenty years ago Miss Christine
Roberts, tho belle of Hartford Conn.,,
was engaged to marry promising
young man of that city, but he died on
tho eve of their wedding day. She was
disconsolate, and never appeared to care
for the company OF gentlemen until she
recently met David Dawson, Of Morrison
vile, aged seventy-three years, in whom
she saw a resemblance TO her former
lover, and she married him. = Hartford
Post. m
Secretary Chandeliers brother-in-law
Mr.. Kingsley, is the sole survivor of n
large family, all of whom have died
suddenly. One of the parents was killed
by accident, and the other dropped dead
with heart disease without moments
warming. Four of the children died
within few days Of scarlet fever, two
others were burned to death on the
steamer Henry Clay, and another was
thrown from q carriage. - Chicago
Herald
Eyes, sold Abraham Lincoln his
! first pair of spectacleS,n said veteran
Chicago Tribune the other day. at
was about the time of the Legislature of
| 1854, when he was lawyer In Spring.
field. Some editor down there paid mo
| fifteen dollars to make Mr.. Lincoln a
pair Of spectacles, and those We're the
first he ever wore. When he was elected
President made him three pairs, one
Of gold and two Of steel.
Tom Thumb died comparatively
young for dwarf. Richard Gibson,
miniature painter and court dwarf to
Charles l., lived to be seventy-five, and
his dwarf wife, Ann shepherd, to be
eighty-tive. Sir Godfrey Hudson,
dwarf and sdiplomatist to Charles IL,
expired at sixty-three, and the little
gentleman's span of life was shortened
by his Incarceration, on suspicion Of
conniyance in the Popish plot, IN the
gate-house at Westminster, where he
died. The far-famed Polish dwarf,
4. Count Borulawski. for whom George
| ". provided. died also at an advanced
age. Dwarfs are better constituted, so
Barnum says, than giants, both mental.
Iy and physically. Chtcaqo Tribune.
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A SUMMER IDYL.


the frog, the Shiny green frog,
ling away on that old rotten log,
Seriously wondering
What caused the Sundering
the tail that he had when a wee poilywog.
the boy, the freckled school-boy,
ned for cussedness, free from alloy.
Watching the frog
Perched on log,
il feelings akin to tumultuousj joy.
the rock, the hard, flinty rock,
ich the freckled-faced boy at the frog doth
sock, 80 c&H
Conscious he's SHINING,
Yet gleefully grinning ~
he likely result of its terrible shock.
the grass, the treacherous grass, argl
from beneath his feet! Alasi
Into the mud,
With dull thud,
hlls and rises q Shiny mass.
see the frog, the hilarious frog,
ping Jig on his old rotten log, stt y
Applying his toes 2
To his broad, blunt nose,
laughs at the boy stuck fast in the bog.
lat the switch, the hickory switch,
Ing to make that school-boy twitch
When his mother knows
The state of his clothes,
+ he raise his voice to its highest pitchl
should smile-a snickering smile
aguish will circulate over mile.
And the next Shiny frog
He perceives on log
b given rest in magnificent style.
Louisville COulfeT-J0ltITldl.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-10-13
"A LITTLE NONsENsR.n


Paper rowing boats were not the
first aquatic craft that were constructed
Of that material. Paper cutters were
madeyears and years ago. Philadelphia
Bulletin
Six lovely school MAINS were out
rowing on the placid Monongahela last
evening. A bold, wicked man on shore,
who was bad boy a few years ago, in
stead Of taking off his hat as the boat
went by, simply remarked, "Behold the
whaling fleet. - Pittsburgh Telegraph.
docs goose lay eggsp'' inquired
Rollo, one brisk morning in breezy
March. And Rollo's father, sitting be-
hind the stove, eating quinine with Q
spoon, and trying TO shake his whole
skeleton out Of his pockets, made reply:
Eyes, my son, ague Stays everything.
1t has slain your father. h--SGn Fran
cisco Argo11aftt. AZ a9fisi
The place to get bang up article
AT the hair store. Night not the safe
arrival OF ship in port be looked upon
as wreck-less AFFAIR." just the man to
fill vacancy-The dentist. Why are
persons who get killed while walking on
railroad track like certain kind OF
coalP They lack-a-warner Lackawan"
ma. -BoStoR Traveller
Foreign papers announce, that the
President of the United States Is to re-
ceive the present Of true forunor-dis-
Observation-Disclosures in the old Northern
style with Runic inscription. We do
not wonder that the President deter
mined to fly to the Yellowstone Valley
Even the braYest of us would feel like,
lodging thing like that. r Philadelphia
NeaOs aFtgE
-sI'm so alarmed, Lizzie, y exclaimed
ST. Louis girl, who was engaged to be
married to young army officer. "He
hasn't written me in three days.
ssThere is no occasion to get excited, =
was the reassuring reply; ''he Is out OF
the reach of Indians, there is no epi-
demic prevailing where he Is stationed,
and when he last wrote you he was in
perfect health. !" ooh, yes, l know all
that, Lizzie, = said the timid, agitated
creature, s'but then there's the army
worm" Brooklyn Eagle.
Little iye-year-old Annie, who
was suffering from a bad cold, went &c
pay visit to auntie. During the day
| she related her various successes al
school, and ended by declaring that
she could read good deal better thar
Sabrina, who was eight years old
WELL" questioned auntie. ''wouldn'
it sound better if some one else said itg'
yes answered Annie, with a sobei
countenance, Il think 1t would; I hav'
such bad cold. can't say livery well.
Hayper's Bazaar.
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SUN SPOTS.

Black Holes Into which Three
our Worlds Could he Dropped
/. HfOugh ON the Connection he
sn sun spots and Cyclones and
F Storms.
ling information in regard to sun
ind the theories about them at the
lgs of the Chicago University,
lrter for the Inter Ocean found
;. w. Hough, of the chair OF
pmy, busily engaged in his favor
*, but not too busily engaged to
ito his visitor a cordial reception.
in his working dress, with a
but becoming professors cap
lis head, the Professor looked
lch the gentlemanly CONVERSE
the reporter found him to be.
Bet of the interview announced,
put a moment after the greeting
{ for the professor to unlock his
Ise of knowledge that the re-
light take a peep at some of the
J hidden therein.
B first place." said the Professor,
you to understand / don't take
in the great cry about the in
the suns spots upon the
The fact is you newspaper
etimes are hard up for news
these spots are most preva-
interview every so-called OF
homer who has a loose tongue
notoriety. Then comes a LOT
Iout electrical storms and the
b in the main is absurd. The
It is, that there is no direct
D between these solar disturb
these electrical storms, or any
tiers pertaining to weather,
pr crops. True, there are
out the relation of the sun tc
RS, which occasionally seem
IN true; but, while it is APP
is not real. All this talk
un's spots causing famine
hcing the condition of the
Ito diminish the growth OIL
of cereals is without founda-
The argument which
which / deem unanswer,
If there is any connection
Sc electrical storms, etc.,
hges upon the surface of the
tth should be affected as @
in particular localities"
you mean by thisp'' asked
opposing there is a severe
rm in Chicago during some
lar disturbances. Now,
the storm is the result Of
It's, there should be a sim.
London, for instance, al
pc, or, at least, when the
an comes under the sun
40 facts to prove such the
contrary, this alleged con.
zen the sun and earth is
pomena taking place at one
cality. Then, again, the
ut fourteen days in cross
disk, and, hence, the al
the spots should continue
longer than the few hours
orms really last. Besides
has yet told us at what
should affect the earth
it first comes in sight
across the suns disk, o.
t.
hinent astronomers have
to attribute the grea
forty or fifty years ago
o the influence of thest
my view of the case, i
5 could not have been
the world had plenty o
e time, and to affect thu
Sc spots must affect it al
1 upon it, this talk o
about sun spots anC
upon climatic changes
like is founded in fool
ssor, what are thes,
Ipotsp"
i've you a clear idea o
so far as science know
may understand tn,
stood in the latest sci
the sun is a body o
lseous, or solid sub
900 miles in diameter
by an envelope or GOV
to 5000 miles thick
the philosophers, AM
ct our light and heat
lotosphere, which is Q
temperature and NOR
ton all the time, is
ond-like matter, i
Foscope discloses tn
ng the various metal
aus attenuated by tn
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A Dead Give-AwaY.

A certain young Hebrew travelling
man. now on the road, but with an older
companion, bought special ticket of
scalper and got aboard the train in good
shape. When the conductor came
around he took up Isaac's ticket and
looked at the name, and then at Isaac,
shook his head, and said:
whats your namep'
'Let me see my ticket"
Cant you tell your name without
seeing the ticketp This won't do.
You'll have to get off at the next station
or pay your fare. ! ''si i'''t
This agitated Isaac profoundly, and
he turned to his companion and said:
"Moses, I've forgot my name that
was on the ticket; can you tell me what
1t ispn ,
"Vill you leef me see dot teeket, Mr..
CoondogterP" inquired Moses The con-
ductor showed it to him. "Mein Got,
Izeek, vot name is deesP Patrick MORT
arity! No wonder you dond recon-
member dot name! Dond you meier got
some more tickets pi dem schoolpers
NIT dot name on it. Dey will all dc
times gift you afay. Dem Coondogter
looks at dot nose and den at dot name,
und he schmiles NIT himself ven he drinks
of Patrick. behint nose like dot. Oh,
Iseek, ven you grows otter you viii know
krate deal more as you knows yoost
now. Mr., Coondogter, | Yill pay dis
goslink's fare to de stchopping place
we're We gifts off.-1he Drummer.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-10-13

The waves are ever at war. They
are constantly shelling the beach.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-10-13

Dakota is great country for good
girls to emigrate to. The Dakota
Journal says: "A girl in Dakota with
out dollar to her name stands as high
IN the community as one blessed with q
fortune. The man can make the
fortune" That is sensible. Dakota
ians are right. Marry for love and
work for money is a good maxim in any
country.-Chica0o Inter Ocean.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-28
improvements at the White House.


Washington Letter.
Advantage is being taken of the absence OF
the President to make some important inn
provements at the White House. There are
a number of sewer and gas pipes in the build
ing that have been there since gas lighting
and house drainage have been known to
man. Then there is an ice house at the
northwest corner which appears to have been
about contemporaneous with the earliest use
of ice for domestic preventative purposes.
The old gas pipes in the basement through
which the alleged illuminating vapor can
scarcely make its way for distractions, are
to be replaced by new glazed conductors. A
twelve-inch leaky clay pipe sewer in the
north and west areas is TO be replaced with
an eight-inch glazed iron pipe. The an
tiquated ice house is to give way to
modern preserving chamber, with slate floor
and the most improved methods of refriger-
alton. The usual annual repairs are being
made to the conservatories only more ex-
tensive renovation than customary is con-
templated. The redecoration of the East
Room ceiling is an unknown quantity, the
modern artist disdaining to reveal the mys-
terry of his design to the outer world before
it is in a more or less completed condition.
The scaffolding has been erected and the rest
of the room protected from possible injury,
and nothing now stops the way but the evo-
luton of fitting scheme of fresco art work.
The deep cornice now finished in white and
gold is to be included in the general plan,
and will be tinted to match the surface of the
ceiling.
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TwAIN's OBJECT LESSON.
He Lays Out Diagram of English History
in His Dooryard.


in His Dooryard.
Mark Twain writes to a friend in Hartford,
under date of July 20, as follows:
For the time that has elapsed since came
here I've days work to show for every sim
gle working day. I'm not suffering in any
way that know of, except the old difficulty
only twenty-four hours in day, and not
days enough in the week" In the interval
OF his work Mr.. Clemens has invented new
game, of which he gives the following
account: Day before yesterday, feeling not
IN condition for writing, l left the study; but
| couldn't hold in-had TO do something, so
spent eight hours in the sun with yard
stuck, measuring off the reigns OF the
English kings on the roads in these grounds,
FROM William the Conqueror to 1SS3-calcu-
lating to invent an open-air game which
shall fill the children's heads with dates
without study. | give each kings reign one
loot of space to the year, and drive one stake
in the ground to mark the beginning of each
reign, and make the children call the stake
by the kings name. You can stand i'll the
door and take brds-eye view OF English
monarchy, from the Conoueror to Edward
"; then you can turn and follow the road
up the hill to the study and beyond, with an
opera glass, and bird s-eye view the rest Of it
to 1888. You can mark the sharp difference
in the length of reigns by the varying
distances of the stakes apart. You can see
Richard H., feet; Oliver Cromwell, 2
feet; James H.. feet, and so on-and
then big skips; pegs standing 45, 46, so, Sc
and go feet apart elizabeth, Victoria, Ed
ward III, Henry III, and George III-by
the way, Thirds a lucky number for length
OF days isn't it?l Yes, sir; by my scheme
you get a realizing notion OF the time occu-
pied by reigns. The reason it took me eight
hours was because with little is inter
rupting assistance / had to measure from
the Conquest to the end of Henry vi three
times overland besides had to white out
all those pegs. l did full days work and a
third over yesterday, but was full of my
game after 1 went to bed-trying to fit it for
indoors. So didn't get to sleep till pretty
late but when l did go off 1 had contrived a
way to play my history game with cards and
a cribbage-bo board"
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W. H. vauderbilt's Punch-Bowl

Albany Argus.
A large glass punch-bowl has Just been
completed at Corning, which is intended as
present to William H. Vanderbilt from
General George J. Magce, of Watkins.
Around the body of the punch-bowl are
four polished panels, superbly engraved,
representing different railroad and coal
scenes. The first panel represents the large
iron railroad bridge near Watkins Glen, with
Vanderbilt's private car, the Vanderbilt"
drawn by a Fall Brook Coal Company engine
over tue bridge. The second one shows per
fectly the Fall Brook Coal Company's extern
sive coke ovens at Tiogas Pa The third panel
represents Falling Springs, one of the grand
est scenes on the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek &
Buffalo railway. On the fourth panel is
engraved a large coal-breaker and train of
coal cars, representing place of interest on
the Philadelphia and Reading railroad.
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An After-Dinner Speech.

Mr.. Lowell at Irving Banquet in London.
There is one virtue, am sure in after-din-
ner oratory, and that is brevity; and as to
that l am reminded of a story. Laughter. ]
The Lord Chief Justice has told you what are
the ingredients of after-dnner oratory They
are the joke, the quotation and the platitude,
and the successful platitude, in my judgment,
requires very high order of genius. l be-
lieve that L have not given you quotation,
but l am reminded of something which /
heard when very young-the story of
Methodist Clergyman in America. He was
preaching at a campmeeting, and he was
preaching upon the miracle of Joshua and he
began his sermon with this sentence. He said:
'My hearers, there are three motions TO the
sun. The first is the stratforward or direct
motion of the sun; the second is the retro
grade or backward motion of the sum- and
the third is the motion mentioned in our
text-'the sun stood STILL" daughter
Now, gentlemen, don't know whether you
see the application of the story-I hope you
do. The after-dinner orator at first begins
and goes straight forward-that is the
straightforward motion of the sun. Next,
he goes back and begins to repeats himself
that is the backward motion OF the sun. At
last he has the good sense to bring himself to
the end, and that is the motion mentioned in
our text as the sun stood STILL CGreat laugh
ter, in the midst of which his Excellency re-
sumed his seat
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An Old Sweetheart of Mine. =

An Old Sweetheart of hine.*
AS one who cons at evening DER an album all
alone,
And muses. on the faces Of the friends that be
has known.
So turn the leaves OF fancy till in shadOwy de-
sign,
1 find the smiling features of an old sweetheart
OF mine.
SURPRISE
AS turn 1t low to rest Inc of the dazzle in my
eyes;
And light my pipe in silence, save a sigh that
seems to yoke
It's fate with my tobacco. and to vanish in the
smoke.
'Tis fragrant retrospection-for the loving
thoughts that start
Into being are like perfumes from the blossom
of the heart
And to dream the old dreams over is a luxury
divine
When my truant fancies wander with that old
sweetheart OF mine,
Though hear. beneath my study, like futter-
ing OF wings,
The voices of my children. and tho mother as she
sings,
feel no twinge Of conscience to deny me any
theme
When care has cast her anchor in the harbor of
dreaml
In fact, to speak in earnest, believe it adds a
charm
To spice the good trifis with little dust of
harm
For find an extra flavor in memory's mellow
wine
That makes me drink the deeper to that old
sweetheart of mine.
A face Of lily beauty. and form of airy grace
Floats out of my tobacco as the gent from the
vase,
And thrill beneath the glances of a pair of
azure eyes.
AS glowing as the summer and as tender as the
skies.
L can see the pink sunbonnet, and the little
checkered dress
She wore when frsS kissed her and she an
swered the caress
With the written declaration thar "as surely as
the vine
Grew round the stump. she loved me"-that old
sweetheart Of mine!
And again feel the pressure of her slender little
hand,
AS we used to talk together of the future we had
planned
When should be poet, and with nothing else
to do
But write the tender verses that abe set the
music to.
When we should live together in cosy little cot
Hid in a nest of roses, with fairy garden-spot
Where the vines were ever fruited, and the
weather ever fine,
And the birds were ever singing for that old
sweetheart of mine.
When l should be her lover forever aud a day,
And she my faithful sweetheart till the golden
hair gray;
And we should be- so happy that when either's
lips were dumb,
They would not smile in heaven till the others
kiss had come.
But all! my dream is broken by step upon the
stair,
And the door is softly opened, and-ny wife is
standing therel
Yet with eagerness aud rapture all my visions
resign
To greet the living presence of-that old sweet
heart of mine.
James Whitcomb Riley.
Unpublished by Request.
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Grants Love for Children.
Washington Star Long Branch Letter.

WashlnFten Star Long BRANCH letter,
Sturdy soldier as he is, General Grant has
a tender corner in his heart for the young,
and especially for his own relatives. and is
very thoughtful about their needs. Recently,
going into a United States National bank in
New York, he asked its vice-president to get
him twenty English sovereigns. The next
day he came back, and as the twenty English
gold pieces were counted out to him. drew
cut OF a vest pocket 500 in United States
Treasury notes, which he had rolled up in
farmer style. and paid them over, while out
of another pocket, carefully wrapped in
paper, he took q handsome new Russia
the gold, saying as he did so, II lave a little
niece who is going to Europe tomorrow.
She never had 800 of her own before, SO
am going to delight her heart with this"
This niece is the daughter of his sister, Mrs.
Cramer,
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GIN BUFFLAND."
A City and a Street Which All Will Recog-
nize Who Have Ever Met q Buffiander.

A City and Street Which All Will Recog
nize Who Have Ever Met a Bufflander
From 1.-The Breadwinners," in the August Century
II was an octagon room, with windows on
each side of the fireplace, in which fire OF
Ohio coal was leaping and cracking with a
cheerful and unctuous noisiness Out OF one
window you could see pretty garden of five
or six acres behind the house, and out of the
other carefully kept lawn, extending some
hundred yards from the front door to the
gates of hammered iron which opened upon
a wide-paved avenue. This street was the
glory of Bufland a thriving city on Lake
Erie which already counted, though still
very young a population OF over two hun
dred thousand souls. The people of Clevalo,
a rival town, denied that there was anything
like so many inhabitants, and added that
1.-THE less we say about souls the better"
But this was pure malice; Buf1and was
big city. It's air was filled with the smoke
and odors of vast and successful trade, and
its sky was Redeemed by night with
the glare of it's furnaces rising like the
hot breath of some PROSTATE Titan. con-
quered and bowed down by the pitiless cum
ming of men. Its people were, as rule, rich
and honest, especially i'll this avenue of
which have spoken. If you have ever met
a Bufflander, you have heard of Algonquin
avenue. He will stand in the Champs Ely
Sees when all thevice and fashion of Europe
are pouring down from the Place of the Star
in the refluent tide that flows from Boulogne
Wood to Paris, and calmly tell you that
algonquin avenue, in the sleighing season,
can discount this out of sight" Something
is to be pardoned to the spirit of liberty; and
the avenue is certainly fine one 1t is three
miles long and has hardly shabby house in
it, while for mile of two the houses upon
one side locally called 1.-The Ridge" are un-
usually fine, large and costly. They are all
surrounded with well-kept gardens and sep
arated from the street by velvet lawns which
need scarcely fear comparison with the en-
erald wonders which centuries of care have
wrought from the turf of England.