The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-05-16
OF GENERAL uNTEREcT.

one cent evening paper-the ECcntng
Post.
The largest United States bond is
sued is the fifty thousand dollar regis
tered bond.
A silver dollar of 1904, according
to catalogue recently issued in Phila-
delphia, is worth six hundred dollars.
Governor Pierce has pardoned
man from the Dakota Penitentiary who
has served five years of life sentence
for stealing twenty-one dollars.
Each visitor to the World EXPOSE
ton is required to deposit a silver half
dollar in glass box in charge of the
doorkeepers, no admission tickets be-
ing sold.-M o. PicGyune.
--Mulhall, the English statistioian.
says that, while England has doubled
her wealth since 1916, France has
doubled hers since 1857, and the United
States has doubled hers since 1864.
An English physician has been try
ing to count the hairs on the human
head. He quotes the average number
of hairs per square inch at LOGS, and
estimates about $4,000 hairs for tho
entire head as general rule.
BY means of the new electric brake,
invented by an American named
Walcker, it is said that train running
at a speed of about twenty-five miles
per hour was stopped in the shortspac
of six seconds, and within distance
of twenty yards.
-Cautus Morris of Jones County,
Ga, has carriage made out OF tho
old frigatc Constitution. Its build is
of style that was seen and used by
our grandparents. 1t is very high
affair, with folding steps reaching
almost to the ground.
"A way has been discovered by which
marble may be saturated with certain
paint so that it is possible to place
Hover or head upon a block of mar
BILE and then obtain as many slabs bear
lug the imprint as one secs fit to have
the block sawed into. Tho process is
called "Endolithy. - Chicago Herald.
Near Gifford's Station, on tho
Staten Island Railroad, there is PEE
culiar piece of woodland. The roots
of the trees are all from four to six feet
above the surface of the ground. Tho
soil is very porous, and the unusual
appearance Of the grove is attributed
to the action of the water and FROST
N. Y. Sun.
Every plant begins life like an ami
mal--a consumer not producer. Not
until the young shoot rises above the
soil and unfolds itself to the light of
the sun, at the touch of whose rays
, chlorophyl is created, does real con-
structive vegetation begin. Then the
plants mode of life is reversed; carbon
is retained and oxygen set free.-Bos-
ton Budget.
Thirty years ago an elm on the
farm of =. Mariner, of Penn Yam,
blew down, and the trunk, which re-
manned in the soft ground and ran
;, along forty-eight feet, began to sprout.
Now twenty-six trees, well grown, per-
feet, and some of them fifty feet high,
A are the result. They are not branches,
l but have roots, and are independent of
the original trunk.-Bu6dto Express.
Not long since the Chinese began
, to fortify small island in the river at
y Foo Chow. After they had spent up
!. ward of one million dollars
~ upon the works they began to make
!" the anxious query of where the gar
rison would retreat to in case that act
Q became advisable. They could find no
: place, and so they abandoned their
IS million-dollar works, their plans, and
. the island.
"A horse belonging in Fresno, CAL,
fell head foremost into well eight feet
deep, it being dark at the time. After
several Intellectual attempts to cxtri-
cate the animal from its unpleasant
-, predicament the following ingenious
method proved successful: A strong
l.. l.. ~ Ntal al
a having span of horses brought, they
s. were hitched to the said tail and were
10 piyen the word to pull. The tai
10 proved equal to the trying ordeal, ant
10 the horse was hauled from its danger
GUS position apparently uninjured.-
no San francisco Call.
st Two great RATS of logs wer
II, brought to Cleveland from Lake Supc
nd rior last year. One covered five an
is the other eight acres, and containe
on respectively two and three million fee
Two weeks were occupied in the trans
ur from a point about one hundred mile
IS. from Sault Ste Marie to CLEVELAND
- Being made up in sections they WEI
hit run separately through the rapids an
,as rivers, and united where there WI
Mt plenty of room. The total distant
- was six hundred miles. 1t was the FIR
attempt to run RATS of logs throug
nd the rapids at the Sault, which are
nd mile long, with a descent OF twen
ick feet.
to There isn't leaf of tobacco grow
sah on the island of Key West. 1t I
Ito comes from Cuba, and is manufacture
mt into cigars, which ought for all reaso
ear to be as good as those of Havana, b
and for some mysterious cause they are M
ton There is supposed to be some fragra
potency in the air of Havana viii
y gives cigars flavor they can get in
sspn other locality, but what it is and W
are its charm does not exist elsewhe
i - aeither the tobacconist nor meteoro
W" gist can explain. Tobacco grown FRI
mr. the same stock, manufactured by
,ro same men in the same way, has
In ferent flavor, or bouquet, as they {
fol- it, if rolled into cigars in Key w
, OF from that it has if done up in HaVa
-Chtcaq9 Tines