The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-10-11
NUMBER Al.
OF GENERAL INTEREST
The Canada Pacific Railroad runs
two trains o week.

grass crop will be worth thirty million
dollars this year.
AN Albany man says he has been
in prison two hundred and six times
Ai6any IN Y. Journal
"A crematorium built in the time Of
the invasion of England has been dis.
covered in the city of London, England.
San Francisco has $500 Cinnamon
in cigar factories, and dealers are train
ing white boys and girls to take their
places,
"A specimen of every plant named
in the Bible is said to DO growing in the
gardens of the Missouri Botanical So
ciety, near St, Louis.
The whole business of the Dominion
of Canada in telegraphy is not equal to
the business of the Western Union Telo-
graph office in the city of Chicago
Chicago Herald.
"A man in Denver has curious
and the other is not It has flat back,
and one wing is entirely without joints.
-DenVer Tribune.
The Afghans are the dirtiest people
in the world. They never allow water
to come in contact with their bodies II
possible When an article of clothing
isput on it stays there until 1t wears or
rots off.
AN Ohio man has Just remarked
the wife from whom he was divorced
eight years ago. He proved to her that
he had quit snoring and she demon-
strated that she had learned TO make
good bread. -C Cleveland Leader.
Partisan ladies now employ what is
known as n ''dog modesto to fashion
the garments Of their pets. Elegant
collars set with precious stones are
furnished by jewelers., while the modiste
makes the cushions or rugs on which
tho petted darlings sleep.
The New York Board Of Health has
issued orders forbidding the use by
soda-water manufacturers Of water OBJ
tanned from those artesian wells which
have been found upon investigation to
be impregnated with substances dele
FERROUS to health. Y. Sum
"A writer recalls the facts that dur
ing the reign of the cholera In Pitts
burgh in 1854 the total number of
deaths was something like one thousand,
or an average rate Of fifty day. There
was as many deaths In the Hill districts
Us in the low districts. - Pittsburgh Post.
"A recent cablegram from London
says the committee engaged In revis-
ing the Old Testament have finished
their labors, and, after submission to
the convocation the Testament will DO
issued to the public. Twelve Of the
twenty-seven members have died dur
ing the revision.
"A convicted thief in Morocco Is
told to hold up his hands and then po-
litely asked which one he would like to
keep. When the choice is made they
cut off the other with an ak, and the
system is continued so that an obstinate
offender sometimes looses both his
hands and both feet.
-"American society Is no longer
provincial, says Edgar Fawcett, tho
novelist. people come to us from
European courts and marvel at the scale
of magnihcenoe on which our revelries
are conducted. We are foreign and
initiative only in our snobbery, and
might | add-in our memory"
"A man in Wexford bought a daily
paper in which he saw an advertisement
asking for information of his where
abouts. He promptly answered it and
learned that by the death Of an uncle
he had fallen heir TO $50, The
moral Of this is, always buy paper in
stead Of borrowing one. NOyristOsO1S
Herald.
The cold world has not used many
Of us so well that we wouldn't exchange
our dreary load of manful responsible
ties to be again the buoyant lad on the
fence, careless of the future and with no
ambition more lofty than that some
vagrant yellow dog may trot bJ to be
stimulated to panic by the flying cracker.
-NeW HaUea Conn NetOs.
Vaccination performed once does
not act as preventive of smallpox af-
ter a certain length of time has elapsed.
An examination Of the statistics Of this
disease shows that Of those who had
taken 1t and had been vaccinated in in
fancy, ninety per cent. are over ten
years of age, while only ten per cent.
are under ten years of age. Revaccina-
ton at intervals, say, of seven years, is
the only known effective measure for
protection Chicago Journal
The retrospective clause in the
French Divorce act will probably have
the effect ofkeeping lawyers and the law
courts busy for some time to come.
Couples legally separated for upward
Of three yearswill be entitled to demand
divorce at once, and the application
may be made by either the plaintiff or
defendant in the separation suit. The
court will, however, have to review the
evidence given in the earlier proceed
ings, and If the facts should seem not
TO be of sufficiently grave nature to
warrant divorce, it will be withheld.
We learn from the Colonies that a
monkey signalman manages the rail-
way traffic at Whitenhage, South At
RIGA. The human signalman has had
the misfortune to lose both his legs, and
has trained n baboon to discharge his
duties. Jacko pushes his master about
on & trolly, and under his direction
works the lever to set the signals, with
u most ludicrous imitation OF humanity.
lie puts down the lever, looks round 10
sec that the correct signal is up, and
then gravely watches the approaching
train, his master being at hand to cor