The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-10-18
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Insurance agents ''go for" all newly
married men before the honeymoon has
begun to wane. -PhiiadelphiG Press.
-Twenty-four postage stamps to each
| person was the average sale throughout
the whole country during the last year.
The latest craze in fashionable So
ciety is expensive smelling bottles, some
costing one hundred dollars. M u
San.
Regular bathing trains are run from
Salt Lake City to the lake to give the
| people an opportunity to enjoy bath
in the salt water every week. -DenUcr
Tribune.
| Another woman whom George
| Washington kissed has just died. That
kiss is getting to be about as fatal as the
cholera. Darlington Free Press.
The pine lumbermen of the Pacific
coast have a combination by which they
prevent overproduction, paying the
owner of a mill subsidy to stop, il
necessary, rather than have more ma
| terial on the market than it will bear.
"A San Francisco man had model
wife whom he loved so much that he
transferred all his fortune to her. She
Immediately became shrew and ter
magant, and finally drove the poor man
out Of the house. San Francisco Call
| The town of bennington, England,
| is said to be the exact center of that
country, and in the middle of the town
| is an old oak called ''the center OAK, -
which was planted some fifty years ago
after minute calculation as to Its
proper position.
Bangor tells of dog that calls and
feeds the poultry regularly; and vii
Transport, Pa, claims to have another
which, having been bitten by dozen
rattlesnakes, Embedded itself in mire up
to its neck, and thus counteracted the
poison.-M Y, Netos.
Two young girls have gone into
| business rs dolls dressmakers at Hol-
yoke, Mass. A sign is hung out which
reads, DOLLS dresses made and sold
here, " and good many little girls are
seen emerging from the door with dolls
in their arms. Boston GIobe.
| Recently while searching for a
Ratchet he had dropped overheard at
the Inlet, Atlantic City, Edward Turner
tished up box containing about one
hundred and fifty silver knives and
| forks. 1t is thought they were sunk
there by thieves in order to conceal the
| evidences of some robbery WoodStoWn
IN. J. Register.
When shooting at cat do not hit
| your wife. At Droylsden, in England,
Mrs, Egerton kept tame linets in her
bathroom, and, observing cat on the
window sill of the room, called her
husbands attention to it. He took out
his gun into the garden. just as his
wife moved to the window he pulled the
trigger and she fell dead.
An Atlantic City paper saws the
greatest sight of the seaside is the board
walk in the evening. The board walk
is new name for skipping out and
neglecting to see the landlady. The
evening is poor time for board walk
ing. 1t generally occurs later in the
night, when the landlady is sweetly
dreaming of the new brown-stone front
she will buy with her summer profits. -
Brooklyn Times.
The railroad system of this country
is not alone in finding the past year one
of diminishing traffic and profits. Eng
fish, French and German railroads show
for the opening months of 1884 decreas-
ing traffic on enlarged mileage, and in
the case OF Austria this amounts TO
nearly four per cent The only railroads
making more money this year than last
are in South America, and even there
signs appear that this period of expan-
sion is about over. Chicago Times.
"A talking bore in this city, and
medical man, caught hold of the button
of a gentleman S coat the other day,
whom he met on Main street, and held
him there in conversation. After
weary time of it, the gentleman took
out his penknife and cut the button of
his coat, leaving il in the talking bore's
hand. He never noticed that his |
friend had gone, but with the button be-
tween his fingers went on talking as
lively as ever Winnipeg Stftings.
1t appears that the Territory of Ari-
IONA, instead of being wholly treeless
waste, has in its central portion an ex-
tensive white pine forest. Last wear the |
mill at Flagstaff, owned by Z. e. Aver,
Of Chicago, President of the Mexican
Lumber Company, cut 36, 200, 900 out OF
10000, 900 feet of lumber which this |
forest is said to contain. Yards stocked |
from this mill will be established in all
the principal towns on the Mexican
Central Railroad. Chicago Journal.
The physical comfort of a man
who, of his own accord, is industrious,
the Builder and Wooda0orker says, is in
every way matter which has an actual
money value. Those who are disin
,lined to keep steadily at work should
be allowed no pretense of an excuse of
unsuitable surroundings. The infer
snce, it adds, is plain: Do justice to
YOUR workmen, and, as rule, they will
10 justice to you; at any rate, an injus-
lice done them will surely, sooner or
later be returned with interest.
Those persons, says the Philadel
phia Caterer, who object to the French
names of dishes as given on menus, and
want them in English, would be much
amused with a literal translation Of
them. For instance: Puts glamour
means fountain of love; aasts etoiie,
starry anise seed; ale dc pouiGrde an
oieit, pullets' wings in the sun; dee
guts q Fdnrore, eggs blushing like Au.