The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-10-31
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

met Ministers at exactly the same age
-thirty-six years.
California is the great bee State.
In four counties there are five hundred
bee farms, and the annual product OF
these farms is between four and five
million pounds of honey.
BY the latest estimates the fisheries
of Great Britain are rated worth $780,
100000 annually, the United States
second in the world at $4S, 900, 600, and
Russia third at $26, 250. 900.
The richest bootblack in America
is Patrick Malloy, whose stand is OPP
posite the Adelphi Hotel. Saratoga.
He owns two houses and has q fat bank
account. He saved his earnings
Troy Times.
The Microscope describes a pretty
experiment. Upon slip of glass put
drop of liquid auric chloride or ar
gentle nitrate, with half grain of
metallic zinc in the auric chloride, and
copper in the silver. A growth of ex-
quisite gold and silver ferns will form
beneath the eye.
"A woman in Americus, Ca, several
weeks ago lost silver quarter some
where about the yard or garden. Being
unable to find it its loss passed out Of
mind, until few days ago her daugh-
ter, in cutting up some cabbage, found
the quarter securely imbedded in
head.--AttGptG Constellation.
The demolition of the Ghetto in
Rome will bring to light many ancient
monuments. The theater of Manella,
the Portico d'Ottavia and that Of
Fillipo, and the cripta of Balbo will be
completely exposed, as we'll as the
temple of Jupiter. This quarter con-
tains the most important monument Of
republican Rome.
Goldsmith Maid, at the height of
her glory, for joke was taken from
her quarters through a back street, led
to a public place and put up at auction.
the spectators bidding in good faith
until the price was run up to thirty
four dollars, when some one connected
with the stable bid thirty-fve dollars,
the hammer fell and she was led away.
IN. Y. Herald.
-Soft-shell crabs when out of the
water are very sensitive to thunder and
lightning, and whether on train or
steamboat or in crates in the market,
seventy-five per cent. of them, accord
ing to New York dealer, are killed
by thunder storm. The cause of this
is not understood, but the dealer in
question thinks they are scared to
death.--M Y. Sun.
The German Government has dis
charged all women who were employed
in its postal, telegraph and railway
service as clerks and in other capaci-
ties. AS during the last twenty years
they nearly mohopolized such service
in some towns, much suffering has en-
sued among the discharged. The mo-
tive alleged is that women arc unfit for
such public service.
"A boy, while riding on horseback
in town in Idaho, during storm, was
struck by lightning. He was stripped
of all his clothes, but sustained no in
juries. This is not the brand of light
ming for which the parents of this
country are yearning, What is wanted
is thunderbolt that will put the
clothes on a boy in the morning when
he is called to breakfast. N0rrtst0tOn
Herald.
There is an item going the rounds
to the effect that "a number of GEN.
fury plants now about to bloom in the
Moragne grove, near Palatka, Florida,
reached an extraordinary height, being
not less than forty feet from the
ground to the top" We do not see
anything SO remarkable about this.
The owner has probably removed
them to the top of his house. --B0rtitsq-
ton HaUkeye.
For its private mark. the Bank of
DEVILS Lake, Dakota, has adopted
vignet, the base of which is sheaf of
wheat on which rests silver dollar,
over the back of which Satan Is climb
ing, holding in one hand the scales of
justice and in the other q lance. At
his left is map of the Lake, which
forms the place for writing the amount
of draft or check, and on which are
the words, ''Give the devil his DUE"
The age at which running can be
practised, an eminent physician says,
by healthy man in training is from
twenty to thirty. Boys and girls also
of ten to twelve can run with no appa-
rent fatigue. In boys races, for those
under fourteen years, no previous train.
ing should be inflicted. No one should
train for running until he is eighteen,
but twenty would be safer. Between
twenty and twenty-seyen is the
best age for attaining speed in running.
Between thirty and forty a wise man
will think twice before undergoing
training for race running. Older men
should run on no pretense whatever
NJ Y. Mail.
Scientists now generally agree that
the atlantis of the ancients was an
island of continental dimensions, be-
tween the West Indies and the west
coast of Africa, now buried beneath
the waters of the Atlantic ocean. Gil
gantic sculptured figures are still to be
seen on Easter island, evidently the
work of a different race than that
which now inhabits the island, and one
much more numerous since the works
referred to are on too large a scale to
have been constructed except by many
hands The hieroglyphic tablets of
wood are the only instances of written
language in Oceanica The Govern
ments of France, Germany. and the
United States are now investigating
and exploring this island, -Obte0go