The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-09-27
/ OF GENERAL INTEREST.

- --lne AllugetS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. /
suitably matched, yet it is impossible
that thoy can live long together. Judy.
-Collee-cups become smaller and
smaller for 'safter-dinner service. The |
newest size Il d tribe larger than the fai |
woman's thimble, = Chicago Journal.
The men employed in cleaning and |
sorting vanilla suffer from q singular
skin disease, which has lately been |
found to be caused by q minute white |
insect which lives in the bean. Isl. Louis |
Post.Hi II egf ft3 sa
n --4The Island OF St Helena, whore
once thousands Of vessels stopped, has
Canal, vessels having almost abandoned
the Cape route to India n Chicago
Times.
Judge Mott, Of the Court Of Claims,
sgvith his faniAly.ad drove by carriage from
Washington. to Williamstown, Mass.
and writes to friend that they never
enjoyed a trip so much in their lives.s.-
.Washdsgtoit Post, ~,
"A young man, faultlessly dressed,
and followed by his valet, goes through
the streets Of London playing q barrel
organ. He il Lord Somerset, and he
takes. this method Of raising money for
the london poor.
!. --4It will, perhaps. interest the young.
man who has contracted to supply his
sweetheart at the seaside with cohfec.
tionery for the summer to know thai
about $S2, 900. 900 Is spent aDAually In
tho same way by his unsophisticated
brethren. A Boston Post. li'l9 sai4
Paris is beautiful city, but 1t costs.
o great deal Of money TO keep it So
During the past twenty years moro than
$3.50, 000,00 has been spent on new
streets, sewers, water works and public
buildings. The cost Of the Avenue do
| l0pera alone was SIG, 100000.
The news that james Russell Lowell
has the gout reminds the Detroit Post
of the remark Of an old Vermont farm
or. ~ don't SEQ no use, said he,
sin Gown sendin' ministers over To
England all the while; the lazy scamps
don't preach half the time when they
hgit there. F."
American railroads in Mexico are
| to be handicapped by a law requiring
! that all railways fence the entire length
of their lines with fences on both sides
/ WAlCi Will Do S1OCk pFOOlst a Ht NAtAt-
/ can Central Road win have TO expend
| 50, 200, 600 TO comply with such q law.
N " Herald, ~ ssN
William Brooks, of Melonville. N.
G., was smoking a cigar although he
had four pounds of gunpoWdor ON the
horn of his saddle The cigar dropped,
Brooks was. suddenly lifted from his
horse, and when he returned to CON
seriousness he found no had lost his MUS
tache and eyebrows. The horse went
home without a name. Detroit Post
| -Four children while playing. in q
| dooryard at Mitchell, Texas, one day
recently. were severely shocked by d
bolt of lightning, which struck the
| ground near them. The YOUNGEST, a
babe, was scorched about the hair and
j the mother found the child's breast and
body covered with delicate tracing Of
leaves and vines n Chicago Inter Ocean,
4 The Brooklyn bridge has the larg.
est span and is considered the largest
bridge in the world.a But we will soon
| be Obliged to yield the palm of haying
The biggest bridge to another country.
There is,now building over the Firth 81
Forth, in Scotland, o bridge Of two
spans, each of which is as as long as the
Brooklyn bridge. This is the greatest
i bridge ever designed anywhere IN II
4 Times. s..,...5 4r .,... .,sz
Mr.. Eugene Tnrpin, Of Paris, q dis,
!. tingaished chemist, the inventor Of
harmless paints for ohildren's thys, and
also of 'plancastite, an explosive, said
to be of more destructive force than DIV.
uamite. wasrecently arrested in Lon.
don. He had taken q quantity Of the new
Z explosive To England for the purpose 81
experimenting IN the Darlington iron
stone mines, and was seized upon as ar
agent of the dynamite plotters.--N. Y
Tribune. ttsas 'zt ~ fAA
-Mr. Kackley. Of fiillsboro, Ore.
, who burned his house in furtherance %
swindle on life insurance companies
: and was arrested at Ashland, that State
, confessed the whole plot. He said h,
| opened a grave, took out an old skele
} ion, placed the bones in the house, Sc
: The dwelling ON fire and jumped th
! country. He admitte24hat the purpos
If the conspiracy was TO enable his wifi
o obtain the full amount Of the policy
-DenVq Tribune. ASH
MANY people who like to have fla
(. displayed over their villas and bushes
places are guilty Of the practice Of neve
,aking it down. This is altogethc
against flag etiquette. The color
, should be raised to meet the sun, an
i owered when he disappears under tn
: lorison. Beside, bunting soon rot
when so improperly exposed; and, morl
: over, to leave flag out over night
declared by the superstitious to be a
! IMITATION to ill-luck.- IN. Y. Comnsei
y ,idL Advertiser. 1851 s.s..
d --Kenton, Hartford County, Mar,
d and, for fortyrtwo years the residens
y II the late Thomas King, was bnilt |
d Joshua Husband, in 1770. 1t is no
r one hundred and fourteen years Oh
n The Husbands, Jays, MOrgans. an
i. Iewetts (the family Of the railroad kin,
wed there in succession, and some
10 hem raised large families, and yet th.
as as never been a death inside its wal
IL ir. King often spoke of this, arr sa
es hat his death would no de.<ot be -
70 irst to record; bnt be died two nil
rom home.-B azyDseys AliiefscG's'