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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19
NEW STYLES IN SHOES.
Buckles to be Worn by Men-A New FleN
ible InstE,.

There are no radical changes in
shoes which will be offered for the oom,
ing spring trade. The mems Oxford
tie has been having large sale re-
Gently. 1t is for party or evening dress.
The upper is made of the trade-marked
or patent kid. This leather has very
desirable qualities for dress shoes. 1t
will not chip off, and wears without
changing color, and is soft and easy to
the foot II is also made in patent
leather.
Buckles, for fastenings, are an OLD
style-the only fastenings used one or
two hundred years ago. They were
revived and ran few years about a
quarter of century ago. They are to
run again next season ON some of the
light low-cut goods.
The child's D'Orsay slipper is very
shapely, pretty slipper for a child,
made with or without heel. The vamp
is of wine, blue, dark green or other
colored leather. and patent leather is
used for trimmings.
The flexible insole is new. The inner
SOiC IL lldliC Vi oliS piece Vi SOllu SOIt-
leather to the ball, from there being
made of one piece of light leather and
canvas joined together with the best
rubber cement, thereby giving stiffness
to the shank and heel and leaving the
ball and toe perfectly pliable and
waterproof The advantages gained
in shoe made by this process are per
feet ilexibility in both single or double
soles, the increase of wear gained by
having light, flexible inner-sole, and
doing away with the hard horny edge
of the regular inner-sole which has
caused so much trouble and expense
by its liability to cut the upper. With
perfectly flexible sole il does away
with the cracking which so often hap.
pens with stiff sole. This inner-sole
being waterproof. the dampncss does
not reach the foot through the sole.
The Oxford will be the style of tie for
ladies for the coming season. The
shoe sets better when this fastening is
used The shoe shown is ladies' tie
patent leather vamp, with tan colorod
seal top. Other colors are cut in this
shoe. which is a very pretty style for
the seasons wear Shoe and Leatasy
ReSew.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

"A lump of gum camphor placed in
your closet near silver will keep it from
furnishing. Indiana State Journal.
-Half-barrel fish kegs make the best
soap tubs. Pine is the only wood that
will stand the eating action of soap
TROY Times.
Powdered cinnamon will scatter
black and red ants effectually. If
strewn in the cracks of cupboard
shelves and along the edges of tin cake
boxes the pests will soon disappear
Chicago Times.
-Cocoanut drops: Beat to froth
the white of two eggs, and add gradu.
ally one small cup sugar, one cup co.
coanut grated and one spoonful flour.
Butter tin sheets with washed butter,
and then cover with letter-paper. Drop
on this the mixture in teaspoonfuls
about two inches apart. Bake five
minutes in a quick oven.-Ihe House
hold.
French honey: Into one pound of
granulated sugar put the well-beaten
yolks of six eggs and the whites Of
four, the juice of four lemons, and the
grated rind of two, and one-quarter OF
o pound of butter. Put all into a
saucepan, mix well, and stir over a
slow fire till it is as thick as honey. 1t
will keep indefinitely if corked tightly.
1t is delicious for ''buckwheats' and
ssimilar hot cakes. The Caterer.
Cracks in a floor may be effectually
and neatly filled with newspapers
soaked in paste made by boiling a
pound of flour, three quarts of water
and a teaspoonful of alum together.
The mixture, about as thick as putty,
should be forced into the cracks with a
caseknife, when it will harden like
papier-mache. When dry it may be
painted or stained to correspond with
its surroundings. When the cracks are
wide and numerous such filling will be
found much cheaper than putty and
nearly as lasting. -BoSton Globe.
Feed and milk your cows for one
week of bad winter weather in an open
lot, allowing them to sleep(O in the
snow or slush; then put them in a
warm stable with a comfortable bed,
(give the same amount of food, and
note the difference in the quantity of
milk, and you will get at once forci-
BILE illustration of the fact that food can
not maintain vital heat and produce
milk, and the same is just as true,
though not SO quickly demonstrated,
as to flesh or fat.-Prai,'ie Farmer.
Chocolate cake: One eupful but
ter, two cupfuls sugar, three cupfuls
flour, four eggs, baking powder, one
half cupful corn starch, vanilla, (frost-
ing to put between the layers) one
cupful sugar, water enough to dis
solve, boil until it candies or drops
from the spoon in strings. While boil
ing hot pour it over the beaten white
of an egg stirring it briskly, at the
same time add two sticks of sweet
chocolate grated, and spread immedi-
ately. For cocoanut cake use the same
recipe, substituting cocoanut for choco-
late.-TOledo Blade.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19
The Tailor-Made Suit.

Tailor-made suits are to remain in
favor during the coming season.
White or colored linen collars or
cuffs are ''de rigueur" with these cos.
mmes.
They usually consist of round skirt
falling straight and full over silk I'M
1erdress.
This chemisette is of white or col
ored Grape, or of silk in bright tones
contrasting with the material of the
dress.
English tailors still have the monop.
Ny of this fashion, and no French
house can rival them in cutting these
lreSseS.
The unique forms a small, draped
rpron with breadth of goods in the
back mounted full to the belt and very
slightly draped.
The whole style of these suits is in
the perfect cut and the way in which
they are trimmed-or rather not
trimmed, for a perfect English dress
has no trimming.
The waist sits perfectly to the body
| Ike riding habit. 1t sometimes closes
straight down the front with small
round buttons placed very near togeth.
er, or it may open over vest of white
pique or a plated chemisette.-N. y
Graphic.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19
TWO NOTED MlNsTRELs,
Who Have Won Fortunes and What They
Say About Stage Life.
From StdQe Whispers.

From Stage Whispers.
"Billy" Emerson has recently made
phenomenal success in Australia, and is
rich.
Emerson was born at Belfast in 1s46. He
began his career with Joe Sweeney's min"
strels in Washington in 1857. Later on he
jumped into prominence in connection with
Newcomb's minstrels with whom he visited
Germany. He visited Australia in 1874
and on his return to America Joined Haver-
ley's minstrels in San Francisco at $500
week and expenses. With this troupe he
play ed before her majesty, the Queen, the
Prince of Wales, and royalty generally;
After this trip he leased the Standard
theater, San Francisco, where for three
years he did the largest business ever
known to minstrelsy. In April last he
went to Australia again, where he has
beaten the record"
Chilly" is very handsome fellow, an
excellent singer, dances gracefully, and Is
true humorist.
ayes, sir, 1 have travelled all over the
world, have met all sorts of people, come
in contact with all sorts of customs, and
had all sorts of experiences. One must
have a constitution like a locomotive to
stand it.
"Yes, know seem to bear it like a
major and 1 do, but l tell you candidly
that with the perpetual change of diet,
water and climate, If / had not maintained
my vigor with regular use of Warmers
Safe Cure 1 should have gone under long
ago."
George H. Primrose, whose name is
known in every amusement circle in
America, is even more emphatic, if poss1-
BILE, than "Billy" Emerson, in commenda-
ton of the same article to sporting and
travelling men generally, among whom it
is great favorite.
Emerson has grown rich on the boards
aud so has Primrose, because they have
act squandered the public's 'favors."
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19
BRIDAL FoRGET-ME-NoTs.
The Most Recent Device in Ladies' Fancy
Hosiery.

Hosiery.
The very latest style in ladies' hosiery
is made of the finest silk, with yellow,
crimson or black snake, half-incb
wide, twisting down the front until the
adder-like head rests directly on the in
step. Those of the black silk with
vivid yellow snake are perhaps the most
striking. The eyes are made of glitter
ing beads. 1t is hardly necessary to
add that these fantastic articles are only
worn with slippers, for they are entirely
too beautiful to be hidden underneath
high boots.
Roman stripe hose, with horizontal
bars of irregular width, in pink, blue
god purple and yellow combination,
are among the new fall fashions. They
are worn with bright morning toilets
and have a most striking effect. Some
new effects in black and white stockings
show large Stuart plaids with butter. les
or beetles in gold and black ON the
squares. A deep wine-red color is seen
in many of the silken hose for evening
wear, These have embroidered insteps
and clocks in colored silks OF bright
tnts and are worn with low-cut opera
slippers. Wooden hosiery in bla k,
crimson and brown is to be very fash
ionable for late fall and winter wear.
Among the newest bridal hosiery are
those made of the softest white silk en-
broidered in pale blue forget-me- nets
Others have clocks made out OF seed
pearls, while still more fanciful ones
are of white silk Incl with blush rose,
with wild roses embroidered about the
top.-M y Journal.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19

most as closely as superior linen. All
the linen is specially made in France,
and in France only; and, what with
import duties and original cost, it be-
comes pretty expensive by the time we
could afford to undersell the natural
flower dealers very considerably. As
it is, we sell large crosses of white
roses, lilies of the valley, tuberoses or
white lilacs for five dollars; wreaths for
the same price; "gates ajar, = such as
that young woman there is buildingup,
for ten, fifteen or twenty dollars, but |
have received orders for special designs
which cost as high as one hundred and
forty dollars. ~ Chicago Tribune.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19

is sometimes exhibited in our public exhi-
billions. When we gaze upon some of the
peculiar freaks dame nature occasionally
Induces in, our minds revert back to the
creation of man, "who is so fearfully and
wonderfully made" The mysteries Of his
nature have been unraveled by DR.. II. v.
Pierce, of Buffalo, and through his knowl-
edge of those mysteries he has been able
to prepare his "Golden Medical Discov-
cry" which is aspecific for all blood ta1nts,
poisons and humors, such as scrofula, pim-
pies, hlotches, eruptions, swellings, tumors,
ulcers and kindred affections. By druggists.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19
Young Men. Rcnd This.

THE VoLTAIc BELT Co., of Marshall, Mich,
offer to send their celebrated ELRCTRo-V Vol
TAIC BELT and other ELECTRIC APPLIANCES
on trial for 80 days, to men (young or old)
afflicted with nervous debility, loss fvital-
ity and all kindred troubles. Also forrheu-
matism, neuralgia, paralysis, and many 9th
or diseases. Complete res toration to health,
vigor, and manhood guaranteed. No risk in
Cured, as 30 days trial is allowed. Write
them at once for illustrated pamphlet, free.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19

1t seems strange that it is necessary to
persuade men that you can cure their dis
eases by Offering a premium to the man
who fails to receive benefit. And yet DIR.
Sage undoubtedly cured thousands of cases
of obstinate catarrh with his "Catarrh
Remedy" who would never have applied
to him, if it had not been for kis offer of
the above sum for an incurable case. Who
is the next bidder for cure or cash?
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19
THE AMERICAN ELBOW.
Tho Extraordinary VivacIty of an American
Girls Elbow.

Ih0 extraordinary Nivaclty OF an American
Girls Elbow.
Many of the guests at Beatrice's wed.
ding were Americans. l always know
them by the jerkincss of their move
ments and their eager restlessness Of
expression. When the fair American
acquires repose (and she sometimes
does) she is charming. But as rule
she is so impetuously impulsivc that
one is always kept on the qui oire en-
pecting her to go off like champagne
cork, but without the least warning.
Such nodding of little plumed and
Powered bonnets there vast Such
rakish little hats, with brms curled
and bent, and alternately llattened and
uplifted. One little specimen was pre-
cisely the shape of the small trees in
the children's Noah's arks. You can
fancy the lower branches of one OF
these very stiff little sticky trees raised
at one side, can you notp We'll, then,
in your Imagination you can trim it
with garland of pink flowers, and put
it on pretty little head that keeps
bobbing up and down like cork in q
swift river current Have Won ever
observed how much vivacity there is,
too, in American elbowsP They arc
full of expression. | can assure you,
and the American "nudge." when re-
ceived in thorough earnest, is some-
thing to be remembered. | have an
American friend whom | love and adj
mire, but have had to entreat of her
rather to knock me down than to
nudge me, rs she calls the violent
exercise whorewith she has been wont
to attract my attention. The verb is
feeble and futile expression of the
thing itself Were she to bestow one
of her nudges, in mistake, upon a
stranger, that astonished individual
would certainly give her in charge for
assault and battery. - London Truth.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19

Rupture, pile tumors, fistulas,
and all diseases Except cancer) of the
lower bowel radically cured. Book of par
ticulars two letter stamps. Worlds Dispen-
sary Medical Association, Buffalo, N Y.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19
CANCER Of the TONGUE.
A Case Resemblinq That Of General Grant

Some ten years ago had scrofulous sore on my
right hand. and with the oldtime treatment 1t healed
up. in March, 1882 it broke out In my throat, and
concentrated in cancer eating through my cheek, to
the top of my left check bone and to the left eye.
gone could not talk. On october first, 1884 COM
menced taking swift's SPECIFIC. In month the eat
fearful aperture in my cheek has been closed and
crossing and it that nature is supplying new
tongue talk SO that my friends can readily un-
derstand me, and can also eat solid food again. I
would refer to Hon. John H. Traylor State SENATOR
Of this district and to Dr. T. Bradfeld of lagrange
Ca MRS. MARY Il. COME1ss
LAGRANGE Ga. May IA. 1885.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Drawer 8, Atlanta, Ga
N. Y, 1871 W. sd ST.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19

The assessed value of property in
California is 500. $40, 500. OF this
$500. 42S, 1888 is real estate. San Fran
cisco contains nearly one-t third of the
assessed value of California. Alameda
County, which contains the city OF
Oakland, is the next county in wealth
after San Francisco. St. Joaquin is
third. Santa Clara fourth and Los
Angeles fifth, Sacramento is dropping
down ON the list. her valuation being
but little more than that of Sonoma OF
Colusa, The progress of Los Angeles
in wealth has been more rapid during
the last five years than that of any
other county in the State.-SaR FrG9
cisco Call.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19

IF afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Or. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19

PIXIES TooTHACHE DROPS cure in minute,25
CLIENTS Sulphur Soap heals and beauties. 25c.
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns Bunions
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19

No ONE ever hears any complaint of q
misfit when an old house tries on coat of
paint:-Detr0it Free Press.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19
Many a Lady

is beautiful, all but her skin;
and nobody has ever told
her how easy it is to put
beauty on the skin. Beauty
on the skin is Magnolia
Balm.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19

ANYBODY can play hand organ, but
that is no reason why anybody should
SOnlerUille Journal.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19

IT is said the oldest record in the con-
sular service is that of the man who was
at Victoria, B. C.-The judge.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19

THE locks on door. are worn perfectly
plain. 1t is the door that is BANGED
Yonkers Statesman.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19

1t is better to meet danger thar
wait for it.-CoHou.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-12-19

WHEN is bet like a crank? When it ii
declared "off."
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-12-11
How Rocllpfort Does Things.

Rochcfort cleared, Victor Hugo
told me, $4,000 francs a month with
the Lanterne. The poet tried. but
yainly, to get him to save the fifth
part of it. With this income Roche.
forts expenses rose, and he did not
put by a centime. He still makes 8
largo Income. Though his hair is
white, his vitality IS unjmpaired,
Rochefort has a vast head, and the
widest and deepest chest of any
Frenchman that | know. The bulk Of
his frame dimin shes Gin appearance)
his stature. The nerves are as excita.
Bile rs the muscles are strong, and he
vibrates as readily as an Eolian harp.
He produces his best articles when he
has put off work to the last moment
and printers are clamoring for Copy
The brain then gets finely congested,
and he covers page after page without
exactly knowing what run from his
pen. but is pretty sure that his read,
ers will like it. In correcting the
proofs he is in too great a hurry to
exercise his critical powers, and mere,
ly accentuutcs what he has done to be
very sure that it will tell.-Paris Let
ter to London Tram.
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A House On Legs.

A number Of years g a party of
Engiisl, naturalists. with several ma
tive attendants, penetrated a previous
ly unexplorod portion of India for ne
purpose of establish ng stations, and
eventually opening up a country very
rich in natural advantages. Upon
reaching Is suitable spot, the workmen
commenced there task OF erecting a
substantial building. 1t was necessary
to have a large cellar and q deep ex-
%cavation was made.
Tue earth was dry and sandy, and
was worked with ease. The absence
of large stones vas noticed; indeed,
there was found no hard substance
that would have interested a geologist.
But late in the afternoon of the first
days work. ono of the natives struck
his pick against a resisting substance.
Another blow, and tho implement
brokein a hollow space. The earth
being scraped away, a large smooth
object was exposed, Of so strange an
appearance hat tho attention OF the
commanding officer was called to it.
He at once pronounced it q bone.
The fact that they had come upon
the grave OF Il strange animal created
great excitement. and all hands went
to work clearing away the sand. AS
they progressed, their wonder and
a ,t,aYAptnn j,,ornncnl also. fbni. lie.
covery began to the shape of
a dome, and appeared to be rounded
off. Finally, when four feet or more
of sand, had been cleared away, they
saw q ~hut-shaped object, that seemed,
through the hole made by the pick, To
be partly hollow. Tho natives one
and all thereupon declared it a hut,
or house, built by some OF their ances-
tors, that had in course of time been
covered by the earth. Others thought
it one of the dwelling-places of Il
strange people who lived under the
earth; but to the English naturalists
there was a more SIMPLE explanation,
for the curious house was the shell Of
q gigantic turtle belonging to an age
long past. The work progressed
rapidly; aud though when exposed to
the sun some parts broke in pieces,
the entire she'll was successfully un-
covered and a complete restoration OF
it was made.
The she'll was that Of a land-tor-
toise. Hundreds of thousands OF
years ago 1t had lived and died;-and
the dust, sand, and vegetation had
gradually covered it up and preserved
it as a monument of the animal won
ders OF that ancient time.
So enormous was tho she'll that
when the sand and dirt were removed,
several of the men crawled into it; in
fact, it might have been used as s
house, and on Il subsequent occasion
was so used by q party which tool
refuge in it during a sudden shower
.'Giant 7u,tlss,' 6V Charles Frederick
Holder. in 81. Nicholas.
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American Fables,
THE OWL. AND THE FARMER.

THE OwL nj TIE FARMER
Afarmer one morning found a Large
Owl in his BARNARD, and the Limping
and distressed Bird no sooner Obsery-
ed him than it cried out:
al should like to Know what sort Of
a Man you are that You let your Geese
almost Kill mel"
Then you have been Maltreated?"
II should say | had! Ihaye been
Pounded almost to Death"
'.But there Must have been some
Provocation!'
Not the Slightest. 1 simply flew
down to Secure 4 Chicken for Break
fast, three OF tho Geese at once Rush
ed upon me-"
"Ah, l see," unused the farmer; and
he at once gave orders 20 have tho
Brutal Geese put to Death.
Il
Any Burglar who may be Shot while
Plundcring IL Citizens House should
Promptly complain to the nearest
Magistrate. The Average jury will
make it Warm for the Shooter.
THE SERPENT N II PEASANT.
One dav while a Peasant was Work
ing in the Field he saw Il Serpent APP
~proacling in a Stea.thy manner, and
the Man Seized a large Stone and
Hurled it with Such true aim that the
Snake was Fatally injured.
"If you had only Warteda momon'
Longer gasped the Serpent, rs he
writhed about, Il was coming to ask
you to let me be your Friend
"Then l have no Regrets replied
the Peasant; "your Good Will woulc
have been more Burdensome to nj
than your enmity.'
MORAL:
You Probably know Several Sucl
Chaps.
THE HEN mi THE SWAN.
A Farmer one day came upon q Hel
and n Swan which were having
Fierce Dispute, and when he Inquired
the cause of 1t the Hen explained:
why, l expressed my Belief tina
the Swans neck was too long
"Oh, as to that replied the Farm
err, 81 was about to Suggest that you
own neck vas Altogether too short
and that you are Sadly in Need OF neS
Tail Feathers
MORAL:
Don't critic'se n man who Toes i
when you .un your Own Boots over a
the Hc2ls.-DetrOI Free Press.
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Where Uamphor Comes from.

While only 225 miles long and
eighty-tive wide, the Island of For
mosa, just conquered by the French,
is very valuable for Its richness in ami
NAL and vegetable life. One of its
products is camphor, Of which it is the
worlds chief ourcc of supply. al
though the tree QauruS camphora) al
so grows IN Borneo, Sumatra, Japan
and China. The camphor is distilled
from finely u wool IN gently heated
crucibles, the vapors being condensed
upon n network OF rice stems
Science.
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Not Very Lasting.

The friendship that exists between
the different European countries is not
very lasting. England and Turkey
are friendly at present, but either OF
both of them may be seeking othcl
allies before the week passes.
These diplomatic notes remind ont
very much Of the note n bachelor
who. wanting q wife, wrote to a young
lady. He applied for her heart ano
hand. and wound up as follows:
"Haye the goodness to send me 8
reply as oon as possible, as l have
another young person in my eye."-
Teas Sit!ings.