The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-07-04
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Navy blue and olive green arc an !.
nounced as the ruling colors of the
day.
"A Washington dentist claims to
have pulled an average of tisSeen teeth
every day for the last twenty years.
Marriages speciality; acceptable
at all hours; strangers particularly in
vited, us the unique advertisement of .
clergyman at York, Pa.
The Gambling Age is rapidly near
ing its limits. Directly or indirectly
all have suffered from its malign infiu-
ences. -JeUish Messenger.
"A Memphis negro, after serving
ten years in the Penitentiary for muir
der, called at the police station as soon
as he was released and demanded the
gun used by him in committing the
crime.
The deaths of three persons each
more than one hundred years old, and
the doings of five more who have also
passed that age, were chronicled in
single issue Of New York paper the
other day.
The steamer Beaver, which was
launched in 1886, is said to be the first
steam vessel ever on the Pacific Ocean.
The Beaver was recently inspected at
Victoria, B. c., and pronounced per-
fectly sound.--San Francisco Call.
Citizens of Washington can't vote
for President, but when 1t comes to in
'augurating one they can rent their
front windows at fifty dollars apiece,
and this goes long way towards re-
conciling them to observation-disclosures
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette,
Some people are born exceedingly
lucky, as is shown in the case OF a
man from Hartford, Conn, who about
five years ago, with few hundred dol
lars, went to Kansas City and bought
small strip of land which afterward
proved to BIO n sand bed. He bought
horse and cart and hired some SHOW
elers; to-day his fortune is over quar-
ter of million dollars.
"A Boston young man, while
searching for his handkerchief at the
theater, put his hand by mistake into
the pocket of young lady who was
young man he was. This Is the first
instance on record where man found
a lady's pocket, and 1t must be borne
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mistake. There can be no one to sus-
pect him of dishonesty, for had he
wanted to find the pocket he would
have failed. Boston Herald
The cards for the wedding of Miss
Gertrude Kingsland and Mr.. Z. o.
Prescott at Baltimore have been with
drawn for cause. While Mr. Prescott
was attending the inauguration cere-
monies at Washington, Wallace Oliver,
an old sweetheart of Miss Kingsland,
called on her, and persuaded her to
visit a minister's residence, where they
were united in marriage, The woman
has 800, 900 in her right, and her hus-
band, Oliver, Is dude of pronounced
type, while Mr.. Prescott Is a wealthy
dry goods merchant. Baltimore Sun.
-Nottoway County, in Virginia, the
region inhabited by the first settlers is
an old country made interesting by
"reminiscences of Captain John Smith
and Pocahontas, but, deprived of all
modern energy and industry, 1t Is fast
turning back TO Its primeval condition.
"In twenty years It will be wilder
ness" prophesies visitor. The resi-
dents are old and sad. The young have
gone to more promising regions. Deer
browse where cattle fed, and the oak
and pine cover great plantations where
, the negro once cultivated corn and
. tobacco. - Chicago Times.
q Several years ago machinist in q
railroad shop at Wellsville, o., invent
ed nut lock, for which, at that time,
/, there was great demand. His was
. an excellent device, and he saw in IL a
: great fortune. He had no confidence
in corporations and refused to sell his
patent to one of the leading companies
for fifty thousand dollars cash. He
! looked upon every man who spoke to
him about it as an enemy, and cut the
a acquaintance OF his friends who had
advised him to sell. He has the patent
; yet and will cheerfully take three dol
. lars for it, Cleveland Leader.
: An old Georgia lady recalls to her
mind girl whom she know when
young, and whose powers were some
: what like Lulu Hurst's. The strange
power came to this Lulu in fits, and
when possessed she would leap SO high
!, as to make her head touch the ceiling
= of an ordinary room. When she be
U came quiet and seated the chairs, tables
!, and such things in the room would be
i gin to dance around until they would
get up against the chair in which thu
y girl was seated. She had no contro
over the power, and it only exerteC
n itself at times. Her friends though
"a her bewitched and were afraid of her
:, Whatever the agency may have been
the girl dwindled from a robust, heal
y thy person to wreck, when she died
= Chicago Herald.
~ Under certain conditions som
common articles of household decora
ton may be sources of danger. A
10 insurance company is reported to hav
T refused risks in houses in which pei
&c fectly spherical fish globes or waite
u y, bottles are kept. The company claim
that during the coolest portion of tn
q winter three fires were started in pal
~ Tors where articles were were in sue
IN y, a position as to receive the direct ray
of the sun through plate-glass wiz
~ dows. 1t is said there is no danger
Ut the vessels are oval or slightly fla
" tened. A writer in the Cincinna
ne Price Current says a fire was started
w w his library table by the sun shinin