The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-09-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


at Panama, is mulatto, who few
years ago was waiter in New Or
leans billiard saloon.--M o. Times.
"A colored man In Georgia who
was hunted off railroad track wanted
twenty million dollars damages, but
settled for sixteen dollars and pass
good for thirty days.
A Montana paper thinks the In
crease of California lions and wolves
in that country is due to the increase
OF cattle and sheep, upon which these
animals mainly subsist.
"A New York State woman pointed
an old pistol at a tramp and it blazed
away and killed thirty-five dollar
calf. She ought to have pointed 1t at
the cab. -Detroit Free Press.
General Grant is sent each month
by the Army Paymaster at New York
check for $1.133.33, being one
twelfth of his annual salary as General
of the retired list of the army.-N Y.
Times.
One of the largest steel manufac-
turers in Pittsburgh, Pa, expressed
the opinion the other day that o year
hence not a solitary keg of iron nails
will be made this side OF the Mississippi
River.
The Schuylkill Arsenal, at Phila-
delphia, manufactures eight million
rounds Of ammunition and fifteen mill
ion rifle balls each year. Three millions
are used for target practice by the rank
and file of the army.
We have before us the card Of a
firm who advertise themselves as manu-
facturers of steam-retined tripe, pigs
feet and fertilizers. Heavens! and we
had thought all along that these things
grew NATURALIZATION Transcript.
Philadelphia Post-office clerks were
surprised the other day to see new
style of postal card, in the shape of
dirty linen shirt cuff, come flying
through the letter hole. One side bore
one-cent stamp and an address. and
on the other side was strange mes
sage neatly written. Philadelphia
Press.
Scientific experiments show that
walking or running depends very much
upon the size and shape of the shoe,
and that strength and endurance as
we'll as gracefulness in this exercise can
not be gained without sensible and
well-fitting style. Low heels increase
the speed in walking and make the
step longer, and soles longer than the
foot, if they are not too long, make
walking easier Chicago Times.
An important decision has been
made by the Supreme Court of Ken
lucky, holding that a contract made
by telephone is valid, and may be sus-
tanned in court. In the case at bar, an
operator talked over the wire for one
of the principals, and reported the
conversation in the presence of two
witnesses, whose testimony was adj
mitted by the Court on the ground that
the operator acted the part of an inter-
prefer. -LouSsUSlle CoWrier-JoMrnal.
"A cord of seasoned wood weighs,
say, four thousand pounds. This cord
of wood, placed in charring recepta-
Gle and subjected to a proper temperat-
ure for, say five days, entirely disap-
pears. In its place we have one
thousand pounds of charcoal. two
thousand pounds of pyroligneous acid
and one Thousand pounds of uncon-
densed gases. The aggregate weight
of these products is equal exactly to
the original weight of the wood.-BOS-
ton BUDGET.
The London World says: "There
was no more significant fact during
the royal visit to ireland than the way
in which the Roman Catholic Bishops
and clergy kept aloof from all the
functions of welcome and respect to
hof f1ttt n-Ix
Catholic priest, Father Healy, attended
the levee, and no Bishop; whereas, in
the days of Dan O'Connell. the Roman
Catholic prelates were loud in their
loyalty, and fiocked to royal recep-
tons"
For originality the sign of New
York Fifth avenue shoemaker takes the
lead. Over well-painted foot is the
word "Anato" and underneath is the
word, miguel" Expecting to see
full-blooded, dark-eyed and curly
headed Italian or Spaniard in the pro-
prietor, a customer will 60 in and ask
for Mr. Miguel. Imagine his counte-
nance when he is told that the pro-
prietor of the place is an Irishman,
and that "Anato Miguel" is merely his
way of spelling anatomical.
The reason beef sells high is that
the population of the country in
cpeases faster than the meat supply.
Cattle are decreasing year by year in
proportion to the population, and will
continue so to do. The decrease in
the United States for the last year in
all the States east of the Mississippi,
north and south, and including Mis-
souri,, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas
most of the Union-was nearly &c.
900 head. Beef making is not likely
soon to be overdone. - Washington
Post.
AT town in Worcestershire the
relatives as below recently surrounded
one dinner-table: One great-grand,
father, two grandfathers, one grand.
mother, three fathers, two mothers
four children, three grandchildren
one great-gandchild, three sisters, one
brother, two husbands, two wives, one
mother-in-law, one father-in~law, two
brothers-in-law, three sisters-in-law,
one son-in-law, two daughters-in-law
two uncles, three auRts, one nephew
two 'nieoes, and two cousins. Tn,
whole party consisted of seven person!
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