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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-17
The Coat Tail Pocket.

Newspaper writers have for years
used the subject of the pockets in
woman's dress for their fun, and de-
tailed the difficulty of finding a dress
pocket when the dress has been turned
wrong side out and hung up in a closet,
but no one has written of the circum-
stance that the tail pockets of mans
coat are put in left handed. A man
may wear coats for years, and he keeps
the run of them while he has them on.
He knows instinctively that his hand
kerchief is in his left hand pocket, and
that he can only reach it by placing his
right hand around under the tail. The
left hand can no more get into the left
handpocket than cameleopard can get
a cinder in its eye. But when mans
coat is not on his back, and he tries to
get into the right pocket, as it lays on
the floor, where he always hangs It up,
he invariably gets his hand in the
wrong pocket. He holds the coat up by
the collar, with lining facing him, and
reaches for his handkerchief, in what
he supposes is the left hand pocket, and
his hand fetches up amongst a pair of
gloves, some caramels and o quantity
of bric-a-brac. Then he sees he Is
wrong, turns the coat round and tries
again, wondering at his stupidity. He
gets his hand into the cash in the tail of
his coat, which passes for pocket,
works it down toward the bottom.
thinking he will corner the handker-
chief sure, and he strikes the same
gloves and the same other stuff. He is
mad by this time, and lays the coat
down on the bed, leaves his hand in the
wrong pocket, and with his other hand
finds the pocket he is searching for.
Then both hands are fast in the pockets,
which tighten around his wrists as he
pulls to get them out, and he rips the
pockets couple of inches and gets out
with no more serious loss than his
temper, little skin off his wrists and .
set out of his ring. If man who is
familiar with his coat has this trouble,
how much more trouble woman has
when she makes raid on the pockets.
She sees his coat on a chair and saws he
must have a dirty handkerchief that
needs to go to the wash, and asks him
which pocket he keeps it in. He tells
her. and she begins the search, but she
will get into wrong pocket several
times, and then swears he has no hand
kerchief, but that both pockets are filed
with old gloves scented with pepper
mint candy. The dress pocket is an
illusion and snare of long standing,
but the coat-tail pocket is worse one,
and tailor who will invent pocket for
the coat tail that can be found without
8 diagram or search warrant will fill
a long felt want and make himself ia
mous.-Peck'S Sun.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-17
Cold Air for Hot Cities.

The Americans are nothing if not in
ventive. Their inventiveness, even
more than their gift of going ahead, is
the attribute which differentiates them
from all the nations of the earth. An
American will never consent to do with
his hands what he can do with q ma
chine; and it has been truly said that q
captain of industry, of the genuine Amer
can type, when he finds manual labor
either too. scarce or too costly, will
never rest until he invents machine
to supersede hands. The last illustra-
ton of his practical ingenuity is agrand
scheme for the supplying of New York
with cold air as easily as it is supplied
with gas and water. For a portion OF
the year New York is one of the hottest
towns in tho world, and it is somewhat
remarkable that the new attempt was
not made long ago. In London, dur
ing the longer portion of the wear, the
lack of warm air is more felt than the
lack of cold; and there is not perhaps
much room for the New York invention.
But the enterprising American or
Briton who should supply cold air to
the cities of Bombay, Calcutta, Madras,
Delhi, Lahore, Ahmedabad, ETC., where
people simmer in the heat during the
greater part of the year, would probably
make his fortune in a marvellously
short time. Cold air can almost as
easily be 'laid on" as coal gas; and the
American system would relieve Anglo
Indian households from untold miser-
les and worries. The shutters of
damped grass, which are substituted for
doors and windows in the hot weather,
are not favorable to the purity of the
air inside. The coolie forgets to water
them. At the ''thermantidote" whereby
he pumps in the fresh air through the
grass shutters his energy lags ever and
anon. In the dead of night the
drowsy coolie drops his punkah-
rope, and his master, starting in
furiated from his sleep, hurls, first his
imprecations, then his boots, at the
slumbering servant. ALI this trouble
of punkahs, and punkah coolies, and
damped tatties. might be avoided by
continuous supply of cold air from the
refractory which, nowadays, exists at
every considerable Indian .'station.v
The matter should interest not India
alone, but all tropical countries in
which Europeans reside London
NeaCs.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-17
That Made . DIfYerence.

Now" said the railroad President,
as he sat down with the Secretary, 'sI'll
dictate, and you begin as follows: We
congratulate stockholders ON the inn
proved condition of the j. & j."
''Why, we are in pressing need Of fifty
miles Of new rails, seventy-five cars.
and half a dozen new locomotives"
said the Secretary.
That's all right, sir, go on with the
circular! Say: The net earnings OF
the road warrant as in predicting that
the next dividend will"
''But we can't even pay the interest
ON our mortgages, Interrupted the
Secretary.
"Mr Secretary, this is CIRCULAR
Eyes, sir but why"
"A circular to the public, sir"
II know, but such state"
"A circular to be sent to Europe to
induce demand for our stockI'' thun-
dered the President.
sOh- aw-that's it, chi Oh, well,
that alters the case! We are warranted,
in predicting January dividend Of
eight per cent, Of Courssl"- RGlf
Street News,
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-17
The Romance Of the Mines.

The readers of history and geography
are familiar with the story Of the
South American Indian who was climb
Ing the steep declivity of Peruvian
mountain. On the point of falling, he
grasped shrub, which, although Il re-
stored his balance, came away by the
roots, exposing new and strange metal.
It proved to be silver, and was the be-
ginning of the famous mines of Potosi
and the vast stock of silver added to
the world in the sixteenth and seven-
tenth centuries.
Still more curious were the recent ad-
ventures of a young man, graduate OF
Yale College, who. having found more
lawyers than law in Colorado, Joined
bis brother in the business of .'burro
punching" which, being interpreted,
means the driving of mule trains and
supplies across the mountains.
One day they were proceeding along
the steep sides of canyon when his
horse stepped upon loose stone when
both rider and animal were hurled over
the precipice. His brother saw them
lying crushed in the ravine, and by a
slow and circuitous route arrived at the
bottom, where he found the horse, but
to his great surprise, could see nothing
Of his brother.
After long and fruitless search the
setting sun forced him to resume his
journey, but he came next day with
searching party. All day and part OF
another were spent, but the corpse OF
the young man could not be found.
Towards the close of the second day he
came into the settlement haggard, lame
and hungry.
He said that when he first. resumed
consciousness he found himself lying on
the floor of cavern with walls steep
and high from which labyrinth OF pas.
sages led into and through the noun
tain. He dragged himself along one OF
them and after long journey emerged
into daylight. 1t shone upon pieces oil
glittering ore. Emerging from this
cavern he found himself near camp
The following day with his companions
he returned to the cave with its enor-
nous deposits of rich mineral, and be-
came the owner of one of the best pro.
ducing mines in the State.
Quite as curious was the recent dis.
covery of coal in Alaska. One day
while they We're on a surveying trip q
Sitka Indian came to two surveyors
with the announcement Heap coal up
stream here" They bought his silence
and under pretense of duck hunting ac-
companied the Indian up the river. Al
last they came to deposit of excellent
anthracite coal, which, being on the
surface of the ground, scarcely required
any expense for mining. They carried
back specimens to the experts, who all
pronounced it the best of fuel. Rumors
of its discovery at once spread about,
and no difficulty was found in incorpo.
rating company and selling shares.
Numbers flocked up the river in hopes
OF discovering more. Among them
were officers and men Of a steamer thai
had had been in that region for some
months.
On reaching the place the whols
scheme fell through. 1t was only a
heap of coal, left there for the conven-
fence of various surveying parties in
the Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-17
Personal AND IMPERsoNAL.

The name of the latest English pro-
fessional beauty is Kate Blake. She
travels on q very wonderful complexion.
About one hundred Christian
Chinese women have been married to
Christian Chinese in the mission chapel
at San Francisco.
Mrs. Olive Cleveland Clarke, of
Springfield, Mass, recently celebrated
her ninety-ninth birthday. Her mother
lived to be one hundred and four,
-'Buffalo Bill" got his name by kill
ing 1920 buffalos in eighteen months,
on contract TO supply the laborers on.
the Kansas Pacific Railroad with meat.
Chicago Herald.
Rev. John Allen, of Pennington,
Me-, Familiarity known as "Camp-meet-
ing John Allen" has attended three
hundred and forty-seven camp meet
ings, and though in his nineteth year is
still vigorous.
--On being asked lately why he did
not give up business, Baron Alphonsa
Rothschild replied that sit would take
me twenty-five years to settle my affairs
sufficiently TO enable me to withdraw
from the firm" Eg
"A curiosity in the shape of cat
with only one eye has been found in
France. The single eve is placed In the
center of the cats forehead, like the
tabled cYclops, and is large, well-shaped,
and OF a bright yellow color.
Lady Dufferin, the wife Of the
British ambassador at Constantinople,
raised ten thousand dollars for charity
in single year, and, managed its dis
tributlon. She devotes nearly all her
time to work among the poor people.
james Gordon Bennett maintains
five separate homes, though he can sell
dom be found in any of them. One is
in Fifth avenue, New York, another at
Fort Washington, and one in Paris,
London and Newport.--N Y. Graphic.
w. w. Corcoran, of Washington,
has given for public purposes not less
than $4,000, 900, besides 81, 200, 600 de-
voted to charities, and he has at least
100000 600 left, as he Is the largest real
estate owner in Washington. - Washing-
ton Star.
Mrs. John Young, living near Win
field, w. Va, was bitten in the hand
by calf, and died in commissions in
lew nOurS. AN miami Wnlch she nuu
nursed during the interval was also
violently attacked, and died in oonvul-
sions.-C Chicago Times.
Robert Buchanan thinks that Amer
lea possesses in Walt Whitman the most
original poet in the world, the noblest
soldier in Sherman, the profoundest
philosophic Psychologist in Draper, the
greatest humorist In Mark Twain, the
finest living actor in Jefferson, and the
wisest statesman in Lincoln. Our Gig
arettes are abominable, and nowhere In
the world is SO much feminine beauty
to be und.-IaadiGnGpoIis journal
There lives in Forsyth, Ca, an old
gentleman who is now in his seventy
ninth year. He was converted in 1887,
licensed to preach in 1910, and has been
preaching ever since. He never served
on a jury, never was sued, never saw
horse race nor theater, never saw
game of cards, never saw dance, not
even at corn shocking, nor was he ever
drunk. He mas twelve children and
lives a happy, peaceful life. st. Louis
Post,
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-17
A DIstIIllng Insect.

Livingstone met with wonderful
distilling insect in Africa on fig trees.
Seven or eight of the insects cluster
round spot on one of the smaller
branches, and these keep up q constant
distillation of clear fluid like water,
which, dropping to the ground; forms
little puddle. If vessel is placed un-
der them in the evening it contains
three or four pints of fluid in the morn
ing. To the question, whence is this
fluid derivedp the natives reply that
the insects suck it out of the tree, and
naturalists give the. same answer. But
Livingstone could never find any wound
in the bark, or any proof whatever
that the insect pierced it. Our COM
mon frog hopper, which, before it gets
its wings, is called ''cuckoo Spit"
and lives on many plants in frothy,
spittle-like fluid, is like the African in.
sect but is much smaller. Livingstone
considers that they derive much of their
fluid by absorbing it from the air. He
found some of the insects on castor
oil plant, and he cut away about twenty
inches of the bark between the insecI
and the tree, and destroyed all the veg
etable tissue which carried the eau
from the tree to the place where the in.
sects were distilling. The distillatiou
was then going ON at the rate of one
drop in every sixty-seven seconds, OF
five and half tablespoonfuls every
twenty-four hours. Next morning,
although the supplies of sap were
stopped, surprising them to come up from
the ground, the fluid was increased to
one drop every five seconds, or one pint
in every twenty-four hours. He then
cut the branch so much that it broke,
but they still went on at the rate of one
drop every five seconds; while another
colony of the insects on branch Of
the same tree gave drop every seven.
teen seconds. = World Of Wonders.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-17

windows; town hall the counterpart
of the Palazzo della Signoria at Flor
ence; population of pleasant-mannered
loafers who bask like lizards on the
sunny side Of the grass-grown, silent
streets; churches at the apparent rate
of one to every adult member of the
population; an exquisite blue sky:
lazy, delicious breeze; hum as of
droning insects-in one word, an atmos-
phere of beauty and dolce far niente. -
Pail Mall Gazette.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-17
ga LITTLE NONSENSE"

-"Better behave YOURSELF" said the
turnip to the potato, '.or some one will
come along and take the starch out Of
YOU"
How can get rid of this dyspep-
siap" asked an Austin invalid of his physi-
clan. 'Have you tried prepared chalkpn
Eyes, I've been getting my milk from q
milkman for the last six years. The
doctor says that's what gave me the
dyspepsia. "-1eras Siftings
New York Millionaire: Are the
girls locked up for the night, wifep"
Yes "Coachman chainedP" yes
HAS the patent butcher-catcher in the
front yard been oiled so that it works
wellP" "Yes." '.Well. we might az
well chloroform the gardener and go to
sleep. - Chicago Tribune.
--"Can't you walk anywhere except
on my feetph demanded an exasperated
passenger on the rear platform of a
horse car, of good-looking lad who
had inst jumped on. "You can see for
yourself that it would be rather diff
cult, SIR" returned the lad, politely.
And then everybody laughed, and tried
to get view of the passengers shoes.
~ l. LCLycFs
On recent trip of one OF the Up
per Mississippi Steamboats, light
draught one, as there were only two
feet of water in the channei--tha pas
sengers were startled by the cry of
"Man overboardr' The steamer was
stopped. and preparations were made to
save him, when he was heard exclaim-
ing: $50 ahead with your darned old
steamboat! I'll walk behindlr
Romance in New York:
Comely coachman
On the box,
Air distingue,
Curly locks.
Papa's daughter,
Rich and gay,
Loves the coachman-
Runs away.
Ma will murmur,
Pa will swear:
Coachman's happy,
Girl don't care.
N. y. Journal.
-"Conductor, said Chicago man
on board an Illinois Central train, in a
loud tone of voice, "are you sure we
haven't passed St. LouisPh eyes; we
are twenty miles this side yet" ''This
train stops there, doesn't itP' YES"
''Well, don't fail to let me know when
we get there" Then he settled him.
self back in his seat, and smiled when
st. Louis citizen bent across the aisle
and asked him if any new buildings had
been put up in Chicago since the ire
N y. San.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-17

In the window of millinery store
In Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn, very
pretty scene has been arranged, Of
which the chief personages are Che hero
and heroine of the Yonkers elopement.
In the background is Mr.. Morosini's
residence, surrounded by trees and
shrubbery. On the left large stable
with watchdog at the door. Coming
out of the stable is horse on which
Victoria Morosini is seated On another
horse is Schelling in coachman's attire.
The representation fills up the entire
show window. On fence is a sign
with the words: "A Scene from Yonk.
ers, while underneath is Pope's quota
ton;
Honor and fame from no condition rise,
Act Wen your parti there all honor ljes."
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-17

"A Partisan once remarked to Long
fellow that there was one American
word he never could understand or find
in any dictionary. "What is itP" in
quired the poet. ''Thatldo," was the
reply. Presently servant came to re-
plenish the fire. After putting on a
little fuel, Longfellow remarked to
him, That will do" ''Ha % exclaimed
the Frenchman. THAT is the very word
which has troubled me.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-17

To prevent grating of the teeth
during sleep, a correspondent of the
Dental Cosmos says that rubber plate,
made thin, and covering the molars and
bicuspips above, and used during tha
night. has proven very efficient in BID
practise
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-17

The sting of wasp is said to b
fatal TO Chinamen,-Chtcaa0 Herald,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-03-30

Line, 800; East Dorset, 1924 ;
Enosburgh Falls, 1878; Essex juno
ton, $40; Factory Point, 5000 ;
Fair Haven, S1400; Hartford, $552 ;
Hyde Park, S711; Hydeville, 1923 ;
Island Pond, S62S; johnson, $704 ;
Ludlow, $1,000; Lyndon, $685. ;
Lyndonville, sos; Manchester,
$500; Middlebury, $500; Middle
town Springs, 1922; Milton, s614
Montpelier, $4,000 Morrisyille, 1865
Newport, S1100; North Bennington,
1910; Mortified, $1,000; North
Pownal, 1854; North Troy, $616
Orwell. 564; Pittsford, S742; Poult-
ney, $500 ;Pownal, 665 ;Proctorsville
$535 Putney, $3.50; Richford, $3.50
Roxbury, $500; Rupert, S618; Rut-
land, S210O; st. Adams, $2100; St.
Johnsbury, s2100; Saxton's River
S765; South Royalton, 1868 Spring
field, $1,000; Stowe, s57S; Proctor,
s5OS; Swanton, $1,000; Vergennes,
$1,000; Wallingford, $3.50; Water
bury, $1,000; Wells River, $7S5
West Randolph, $1400; West Rut-
land, 1888; White River Junction.
$1,000; Windsor, $1,000: Winooski,
S11OO; Woodstock, $500. The
remaining $50 Post Offices pay less
than $500 each.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-03-30

The high license law in Illinois has
worked so we'll that neither party at
tackled it in the election last fall it
has reduced the saloons in the state
from $4,000 10 5000, and it brings in
an annual revenue of So, 100000.
The Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby of New
York city favors the following excise
bill: 81. A high license fee of $1,000
for distilled, and 500 for formented
liquors, in cities of over 100000 in
habitants. 2. A high fee of $500
for distilled, and $50 for fermented
liquors, in places of less than 100000
inhabitants. 3. Re-enaction prohi-
bition of sale liquor on Saturday on
election days, TO minors and habitual
drunkards. 4. Penalties for adultera-
ton, illicit sale, aid for sale of distill-
ed liquors under beer license" "The
license fees are made low for beer
and high for distilled liquors upon the
ground that whereas beer mainly stu
pifies, whiskey maddens, and also
because any bill which affects the
beer interest unfavorably has not the
ghost of chance. By making the
whiskey license high we make every
man who pays such license detec-
tive anxious to report violations OF
excise law on the part of his neigh.
Dor, who has only beer license
In Connecticut the revenue from Ii
censes is about $275,O ZOO per annum
very small per cent. of the retail
sales of liquor in the state, which are
thought to amount to $4,000, 900
The prosecution of offenses against
the liquor law is not placed in thu
hands of the states attorney, bu
prosecuting agents are appointed t.
have a uniform fee of $40 for eacl
case brought This leads to some
gross abuses. When a prosecuting
agent gets good case, he splits i
into several offenses, each of whicl
brings him fee.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-03-30

The papers chronicle another terri
BILE hotel fire, this time in Chicago, by
which at least five lives were lost.
Every state should adopt the strin-
gent laws that prevail in Massachu-
sets in regard to the security of life
in such structures. Hotels of a GER
tain capacity and height are required
to keep a Waterman at night, are to
be provided with escapes, and with
colored lights leading to the stair
ways. The precautions are none too
stringent and their adoption by every
legislature is clearly demanded.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-03-30

The supreme Court of Iowa has
rendered decision that not only sus-
tains the present prohibitory law of
that state as constitutional, but the
opinion almost renders the law self
enforcing. The court sustains the
right to enjoin "saloons" as nuisanc-
es, giving any citizen the power to
proceed against the keeper of one by
filing an affidavit and securing a writ
of injunction to abate a nuisance.
Prohibltionists claim that they can by
this means close every GROCERY shop
in the state, making the Prohibition
law effectual even in cities where pub
lie sentiment does not sustain it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-03-30

contained, however, a fine lump OF
clear ice, and in reply to an attempt
on my part at some facetious remarks,
l was rather coolly informed that sit
is Missouri river water, the best in the
world, but just now little more roily
than usual on account of high water. "
Every one knows that the Missouri
river is never clear but always a roll
ing food of s.mire and filth. Mis-
souri, river water" said the porter in
a tone that ought to settle its quality
and then l remembered that it was
from the melting snow and ice in the
far-off Rocky mountain region,
throughout the great territories of
Dakota, Montana and 1daho-and
the British Possessions. even; and |
said to myself, "since it has come so
far it must be good. But still how
such a fluid can be used for the pu-
rifying of the body, must be left to
such as have not only the faith to try
it, but the judgment to determine-I
do not, myself, wish to be compelled
to testify on this point. will say,
however, that though / did not eat
mince pie for supper, my dreams last
night were of a very remarkable char
acter. But in this busy practical age
dreams are of no account and will
consequently be omitted.
This morning there is upon the
bottom of my pitcher of ice water a
a fine, alluvial deposit of about an
eighth of an inch in thickness, and the
water is not clear. Tomorrow I leave
for Texas, thence take trip to Mex
leo, and if opportunity presents,
will send you brief account of my
journey thitherward.
Yours by the side of the ''Big
Muddy" G..
Kansas City, Mo-, Mar. 18th.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-03-30

The grip of the Edmunds law re-
ceived another illustration in Salt
Lake City on Tuesday. The editor
of the Mormon organ was arrested
for polygamy, and another editor,
fearing a like fate, has fed. This is
the tenth arrest under the law and
convictions have foil owed uniformly
There is more CONSERVATION in the
Mormon camp than ever appeared
there before.