The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-02-28
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The Mexican canary is being intro.
duced North, He has softer, sweeteF
voice than our own yellow bird.
The boats of the Union Ferry Com.
.pany, in New York, carried nearly fifty
million passengers last year.-M 4
JoUrndl.
"A policeman. on the Brooklyn force
has been dismissed for. an attempt to
tiirt with a young. lady who was I'M
Kind enough to make complaint
Brooklyn Onion. -
The process of drying lumber by
surrounding it with common salt is
Just now attracting attention. The
! peculiar power of salt for extracting
moisture is well known, .z
"A jury in Orange County, New
York, awarded three hundred dollars
for a beer wagon, one hundred and
twenty-five for a Negroes life, and -four
thousand dollars for a broken rib
Troy Times. 1Ht a
"A Chinese play at San Francisco
theater has run forty-two nights and
only reached the third act. There are
twelvem more acts to come, and twill be
a year or more before the critics can
| begin their abuse.
IA Dundee (Scotland) dairyman
was recently convicted of selling milk
which had stood in room in which a
child was i'll with scarlet fever. The
milk absorbed tho poison and seventeen
persons were infected with the disease,
four of whom died.
LA process has been perfected in
Pittsburgh by which natural gas may
be burned under boilers in the form Of
hot ain. 1t is claimed the discovery
reduces the amount of gas required
/. onevhalf, while it doubles its heating
capacity. Pittsburgh Post,
you sit down here" said Miss
Kate Field to the good people of che
Bay. State, %and fancy chat Boston is
the hub of the universe, and that the
Westscan teach You nothing. - IL has
| taught,me more than half adozen trips
to Europe. ~ Chicago Herald.
The following advertisement APP
pears in the London Fietd: "A married
couple Of position, wishing for an oc.
! casional change to country house,
wo,ildb happy to visit people of status
| for few weeks, who would accept re-
Enumeration for the same. Address,
| etc. '''''
you've got my seat, sir,'' said d
man on a Texas railroad, who had left
his scat for Il moment. "There is no.
thing to show that you have retained
this seat ft'Look up there's There is
my hat box on the rack right over this
seat. " ''Well, then you sit up there on
| your nat box, il that's where you have
retained your seat" 7eaas SVtiRgS.
Special ceremonies are observed in
France at the execution of parlicade,
and these were carefully observed lately
in the case of a soldier at Rouen. Be-
fore the whole garrison the criminal,
clad in his shirt, feet bare, and black
veil over his head. advanced to q, stake.
AT the word "Birem eleven bullets en-
tered the mans body. The troops then
marched past the corpse. @aF"
, Mercury is firmly believed by the
Chinese to POSSESS wonderful virtues.
They hold that it not only prolongs
life, but eNpcls bad yapors, poison and
the gloom of an uneasy mind. The
| doctrine Of the transmutation of mer-
curry. into other metals prevailed in
China two thousand years ago. CHINA
! bar WAS known to the Chinese in the
seventh century before the Christian
i eru. -
"A man who lives near Pittsburgh
has six pieces of silver, each weighing
a1ittle more than the standard silver
dollar. all perfect, and dates as plain
as when new. The dates. run from
1856 to 1854. On one side the figure
resembles General Westinghouse head,
the other side being hieroglyphics.
These pieces We're plowed up in Il held,
and Aher owner wants somebody to
tell him what they are.-Pittsbargh
Post. s.. .n 3. n..
The pompano is considered by
dealers to be the choicest American
marine fish, and it now sells in the New
I York market for fifty cents per pound.
Hitherto the average weight Of the fish
+ brought to market has been about three
pounds, but this week two pompano
caught,on the. Maine coast and sent to
1 New York weighed twenty-five pounds
each. The pompano is essentially q
Southern fish, but is now found in deer
water all along the Atlantic coast.
During the three hundred YEAR
between A. d. IA and 3i3 the Roman
Empire had fifty-soven Fulers.s OF thes,
jsftwenty-three were assassinated, on,
was poisoned by his wife, three wer,
i killed by their own soldiers, five killed
themselves, one was strangled by hi
mistress, one was captured by tn,
enemy and fiayed alive, several wer
killed in battle, one was drowned, on
died of plague, and two or three wer
formally executed. Altogether tn
rulers of the Empire would not hav
made promising field for the opera
ton OF life insurance company.
Last year according to the repor
of the Commissioner of Internal ReYe
nue., Che people of This country con
stunned ~ 1913, 1923 barrels of beer. This
AT thirty-one gallons TO the barrel, i
554, $40, Alb gallons nearly ten gallon
i yearly for every man, woman and child
But as the infants under ten years 0
age are not large consumers of beer, j
may be more Interesting to observ,
that we consume fully fifteen gallon
for every person, male and female, owe
ten years of age, and about a barrel o
beer yearly for every person engaged
in any gainful occupation.--Ch icag
Journal