The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-12-06
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


men in Turkey.
Fifteen different machines are used
in the manufacture of infants shoes.
An animal half horse and half grey
hound is a curiosity of Mt. Sterling, 0.
A-C2eUeldnd LEADER So
"A Western editor speaks of q jour
nalistic brother as q "sap-headed or
nithorhynchus. " Chscdqo Herald
The curtain goes up in tho Burmese
theatre at nine p. M, and remains up
until five o'clock the next morning. j.
-Third-class railway passengers in
England pay the companies more money
.than tirst-class and second-class to-
gether.
Abuse of tobacco may injure the
eyesight, but scientific Investigations
demonstrate that its moderate use does
not affect tn Y. Sun.
The "mistral," whose blowing at
Marseilles is said to have checked the
cholera, is u dry northerly wind usually
much disliked by the Marseillaise.
The Oswego IN. Y.) Manufacture
ing Company claims to have the largest
undergrad in the United States, hav-
ing fifty million feet of lumber in stock.
The Philadelphia Ledger raises its
voice against munching in public, en-
the streets or in the cars, habit which
it considers both annoying and disgust
ing, especially in women.
M. Gerster, while constructing q
canal over the Isthmus of Corinth. un-
earthed remains of canal works under.
taken but never completed by Nero
over eighteen centuries ago.
1t is estimated the stoves in the
United States are worth one hundred
and eighty millioM dollars. They num-
Der about eight million. The people OF
this country use more stoves than all
the rest of the world together.
The American who took twenty In.
dams to Europe for an exhibition tour
has returned with fat pocket-book.
Every venture of this kind should be
encouraged. We must keep even with
the opera singers in some way Chi
'Ggo Herald.
Every Mussulman is entitled to four
wives and no more. The Sultan is the
only man who is not bound by this rule.
Every year on his birthday he is pre-
nual reminder, as ii were, Of the vanity
of the position.
The London Engineer says that
at the late Fisheries Exhibition, the
United States was ahead of every other
country in the interest and organizn-
tions of its display. 1t favors the. pro-
posed American Exhibition in London,
of which tho preliminaries have already
been settled by General Norton. May
/, 1886, has been fixed for the opening
day.
Three colored children were re-
ceived into Trinity Church, Brooklyn,
Conn, recently. Some years ago
Miss Prudence Crandall, of the adjoin-
ing town, was put into a murderer's
cell because she was found guilty of
teaching class of colorcd girls in hcr
own house. Trinity Church now stands
on the site of the old jail. Christidn
Union. s4a..
That the various powers of tho
great nation may have free exercise and
influence in the world its people must
have, says Sir James Paget, distributed
among them, besides the possibilities
for the attainment of every form OF
depth of knowledge, liabilities to live
healthily wherever work must be or can
be done.' Herein, he asserts, is the es-
sential bond between health and edu
cation.
There are now about dozen
bridges across the Thames at London,
and the corporation has just decided to
build another. Two centuries ago Lon.
don bridge was the only one, and the
bold proposition to throw across another
as far up as PutneY was kicked out Of
the House of Commons. One states.
man went SO far as to urge that the sec,
ond bridge would be an end of London'i
prosperity.
An English firm of potters has pro.
dnced the largest vase in the world. Il
is OF china, and its chief feature is Q
globe representing the world, which Ii
supported on pedestal and surrounded
by q number Of neurological figures
The color of the globe is subducd
green, and the figures arc china bisqut
and other decorated and white glazeC
china. The vase is eleven feet higl
and six feet four inches in diameter
1t cost seventeen thousand five hundred
dollars.
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