The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-10
NUMBER 2.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A stroke OF lightning split open
hollow tree. at Shasta, CAL, revealing
skeleton and clearing up murder mys-
terry.
"A church spire in Norwich, Conn.,,
was recently utilized by pair Of ira
,peze performers for an exhibition OF
their skill
Nearly thirty thousand square miles
of United States territory are now owned
by foreign syndicates and capitalists
Chicago Inter- Ocean.
"A skeleton was recently found IN
Savannah twenty-five feet under ground,
with thirty-two-pound ball and chain
encircling the bones.
Miss Julia Wheeler killed large
rattlesnake in North Carolina His
snakeship's beautiful skin, made into q
belt, now adorns Miss Julia's waist.
-Whalehone is becoming more valu-
able every year, and Is now worth about
four dollars and half a pound. Were
it not for the bone Withdrawing would
no longer DO profitable.
"A Newark IN. J.) paper tells Of
witness who was called To identify sig
nature, and who testified that the sub
scriber could not write his name, "but
believed the signature was his. I"
Miss Mary A. Fosters will, adj
mitted TO probate in New York, left
legacies for the comfortable support Of
her horse, Robin Gray, and her dogs,
Cloud, Doctor and Fanny, as long rs
they lived.--M Y, Sun.
The topography of the moon Is
we'll known TO astronomers, and has
been carefully outlined on detail maps.
There are five mountains in the moon
more tlnn 5000 feet high, the highest
measuring 2s,975 feet. albany Journal.
We may look for an extraordinary
severe winter If there Is any virtue In
the Indian hornet sign. All the nests we
have found this year in the woods are
built on the ground. When they ara
suspended from trees and high up II Is
sign for mild winter. Our old prog.
mosticatofs say they have never known
this sign to fail. Middlebury Post.
. Among the edible fishes collected in
the waters about Charleston for the
New Orleans Exposition, by the State
Fish Commissioner of South Carolina,
: are the following: Amber fish, sailors
, choice, croivale, sheepshead, croaker
/ skipiack, drum, snapper, club, Dream,
black grunt, mullett, bass, salmon,
trout and black fish.
t A convict of the Massachusetts
4 State Prison. recently discharged, spent
, three years Of his absence locked up be-
b hind the bars, within gunshot OF his own
1 house and none Of his family knew IL.
l Occasionally, from window, the pris.
' oner got q glimpse Of his wife and three
Q children, who m0urned over him as lost.
s He had given an assumed name when
1 arrested. - Boston 1fqnscript
Thomas Hobson was the first man
Y in England TO let out hackney horses.
!, He lived at Cambridge In the seven
Q teanth century. When u man came for
a horse he was led into the stable and
? shown the collection, but WAS obliged
T to take the horse which stood next ia
. the stable door. Hence the expression
K ',Hobson's choice" came 10 signify
Q ''this or none" Milton, in 1000. wrote
u two humorous poems on the death Of
0 the old liveryman.
Z The etiquette Of funerals in Mex
/. leo does not permit the female relations
of deceased to attend. Only men at
tend the departed to the church and the
tomb. Funerals arc so expensive thai
they often ruin business men. Al
female relatives, even to cousins ant
children, must wear deep mourning FOL
d two years. During the mourning nom
81 of the ladies Of the household must b.
n seen in public. Bodies are buried en-
'e cased in laces and decked with preciou
stones.
y In Mexico as In Spain and othe
e southern countries, q lady retains he
= maiden name after marriage, ant
" though she annexes TO it that Of her hus
band by means Of de, she Is univer
N sally known by her own family name
sr 1t Is considered more courteous to ad
n dress even elderly married ladies Sen
= orita Miss, instead Of Senor
(madame) The lady of the house
a. always called by her servants and de
70 pendants La Nina (the little girl)
r though she may have attained the ag
IS of eighty.
There Ia sunken forest Of whit
cedar in New Jersey which has bee
er mined for timber over seventy year.
g The industry of digging the sunkeu log
a is carried on by the people Of DENIM
D. vile, village which was brought INF
existence through the buried wealth I
AdtADVA III no NASAhtbls 0NNA W. 11att~N
at forest trees of large size are growing
At and in many instances these are O.
d. away to reach the more valuable tin
or Der three or four feet below the surfac
er Tho sunken trees are Of enormous slz
T. Their age is a matter of curious COME
ture. 1t is probable they were burit
er many centuries ago by the action Of 4
GU earthquake. NesO York Herald.
ng --Naturalists say that the feet Of Il
ne common working bee exhibit the con
'at bination OF basket. brush and pa
y: OF pincers The brush, the hairs
ny which are arranged in symmetric
ID rows, are only to be seen with Il
Gt microscope. With this brush Of fai
nd delicacy the bee brushes its velvet rol
u" to remove the pollen dust with which
ou becomes loaded while sucking up d
=" nectar. Another article, followed III
be spoon, receives all the gleanin
re- which the insect carries to the his
err Finally. by opening them, one up
kill another. by means Of 8 hinge, these y
are pieces become pair Of pincers, viii