The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-07-25
NO. 80.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

-oclenUlSCS uOIu seventeen QlBEluCb
theories rs to the cause OF earthquakes.
Recent statistics show chat there
are nearly million more females than
males in Great Britain.
The youngest member of the New
York Cotton Exchange is lad aged
| fifteen and the Oldest veteran of
eighty-two years. The two are great
friends.-N Y San.
A party of Savannah capitalists have
purchased Tybee Island and declare
they will make 1T the Long Branch of
the South" A big hotel and an opera
house are among the things promised.
Mobile (Ala.) Register.
-Protracted drought and extensive
irrigation in the neighborhood have re-
duced Tulare Lake, in California, from
length of forty-two miles and breadth
of twenty-five miles to q length of
twenty-five miles and width of four
teen miles.-Sdn Francisco Call.
The popularity of worker in Ger
man-silver spoons at Wallingford,
Conn, is the color of his hair. Years
of labor in the trimming or buffing
room of q spoon factory dyes the hair
of the operative pale green, which It
takes years to change. Hartford Post.
The Cuban cigarmakers in New
York employ ''reader," usually Gu
ban patriot and refugee, who visits the
shops every day and spends from three
to four hours translating from Ameri-
can papers. The men pay twenty-five
cents a week each to support HMM
Y. Times.
The Pacific Medical Journal, refer
ring to recent writer who asserts that
Maine lumbermen are free from dys-
pepia because they are in the habit of
using chewing gum, says that ''if he
would add to his suggestion of chewing
gum that of becoming a lumberman
the remedy would be very effective"
I'm an article on 'Inebriety Among
Railroad Engineers" in the Philade1-
phia Medical and Surgical Reporter 1t
Is stated that these men are exception
ally temperate. The nerve and brain
exhaustion attendant upon their occu-
patton is so great, however, that cine
briefly among them is very precipitate
and fatal"
Since Mrs. Darlington mistook the
brakeman's call of ''Mattapoisett" as o
reflection upon the inhabitants as a
mity-poor set, the name of the town has
been spelled thirty-one different ways on
mail matter set thither, some Of the
methods showing great deal OF In
geniousness in misspelling. old COT
ony Memorial.
A French statistician has discov-
cred that up to the present, 2,540 En-
perors and Kings have governed 81 ma
tions. Out of this number 800 have
been driven from their thrones, GA have
abdicated, "a have committed suicide,
IL have become insane, 100 fell in bat
tie, 1913 were captured, 25 died martyrs.
15l have been assassinated and 10S have
been condemned to death and executed
according to law.
"A solution of eighty grammes Of
chloride of lime, eighty of bicarbonate
of soda and twenty of common salt in
three liters of distilled water is excel
lent for cleaning dull gold. The solu-
ton must be kept in well-closed bottles.
The article to be cleaned is allowed to
remain a short time in the solution,
which should be heated only when the
dirt is very obstinate. 1t is then taken
ont and washed thoroughly and finally
dried in sawdust. - Chicago Journal.
Manufacturers of good mosaic as
sert that they have found by expert
mcnts that hard maple on end is from
four to five times as durable as marble
and equally rs durable as the hardest
, baked tile. 1t is reported that two end
wood floors were laid in the elevators Of q
public building in Chicago about fifteen
months ago, and that the floors are in
as good condition as when first laid,
although each elevator carries from
one thousand to thousand people daily.
Chicago Herald.
"A love-letter two hundred and
fifty years old, written by James
Chalmer Zone of the Charles l. judges)
to Lady Ursula Fairfax, whom he after
ward married, is in possession OF
William p. Hopkins, of Lawrence,
Mass. The letter, of whose anthem
ITCHY no doubt can, it is stated, be
raised, is still in perfect condition. II
is dated Lion, 10 Nov, 1888, and is
addressed: ITO his entirely loved and
, highly honored Mistresse mistres Ursula
,, Fairfaq. philadelphia Ledger.
1t is said that the transposition Of
one word was the foundation of Dan
iel Clark's great fortune. He had
bought 1920 square toises of land in
that part of New Orleans that after
: ward became its commercial center
! In the engrossing of the deed the ~,
! 800 square toises" was carelessly made
! to read 81, 800 toises square," and in
/ creased the value of $4,000 to 500,
10000 Mr.. Clark took advantage 0
q the error, and the law of New Orlean
was powerless to prevent him.. Y
Mail.
Q Out on the Burlington & Missouri
! River Railroad, Nebraska, they i'm
{ ported passenger brakeman from
q Boston. There is heap of Boston tai
/. ent on the B. & M, but this young
o. man was refined until about one
2 hundred and twenty proof. HI
:. ran on the Beatrice branch, which ev
a erybody in Nebraska knows Is callet
4 to rhyme with 1.-THE mattress AM
r when this new man looked in at the ca
v door and shouted: ''Bay-ah-treet
4 cheei Bay-ah-treet-cheer the entir
= community rose up as one man an
a piled ON him by thousands. Thank
4 to the severity Of the weather, his re