The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-06-27
NO. 26.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


A Poughkeepsie gossip was fined
reports preiudicial to person in that
plaoe.-7roy Times.
"A writer on science says that when
the.thermometer is..at fifty-eight degrees
below zero cats ears become very
brittle, and are often broken Off
"A four-year-old boy in Clark County,
Mo-, smoked cigarette the other day
and in half an hour died from blood
poisoning, the effects of the tobacco.
An unknown youth who was killed
by cars at Penobscot, Luzerne County,
Pa, had the following on the bottom
of his shoes in brass nails: IA lucky
boy, you bet"
1t is said that no one can live oom-
fortably in Washington and keep house
and maintain any sort of social foot
ing upon less than five thousand dol
lars.-C Chicago Times.
An able-bodied United States
seaman, having become hilarious by
imbibing too freely, mistook Brook
lyn awning post for foremost the
other night, and climbed to the top Of
it, He reached the second story win
dow and was arrested for burglary
Brooklyn Eagle.
In Berks County, Pennsylvania,
the three-year-old child of James
Anspach was attacked by rats tho
other day and fatally injured. The
dents jumped up during the night and
bit 1t in the nose, ears, arms and hands,
which swelled to enormous proper
t;1na Tho 90 hoI t0 ha dvixyat1 oH
with club.
"A Hartford man, now aged eighty
years, who has been an inveterate
smoker for sixty-sevon years, has
kept close account of the cost, and
places the amount at two hundred
thousand dollars, which he might have
now had to his credit had he invested
every six months and placed ut COM
pound interest the sums he expended
in cigars, = Hartford CourGnt.
job Keech, of East Fallowfeld,
whose death was recorded recently, was
for many years Justice of the Peace
in that township, and it is said that
during the entire time he held the office
he never returned case to court.
Whenever any of his friends had liti-
cation he always persuaded them into
an amicable settlement of their difficult
ties, and his advice was generally
taken. West Chester Pa Record.
An interesting estimate of the
amount in weight, of one inch of rain
fall on one acre of ground is thus
given: An acre of ground contains
6,272, GAO inches square. Rain one
inch deep would give that many square
inches; 1,728 cubic inches make one
cubic root. Rain one inch deep would
give $3.50 cubic feet A cubic foot of
water weighs 81 liz pounds; 200 make
q ton. This will give 226, pounds,
or 113 tons and 87b pounds to tho acre,
of rain one inch deep.
The Japanese, as is learned from
their colony in London, have novel
method of advertising They arrange
small rooms along the sidewalks of
some of the large thoroughfares, and
represent tho interior of q students
chamber crowded with pens, ink-slabs,
! dainty screens and popular literature.
Some rooms give an idea of a model
; kitchen and others show the scene of u
tea ceremonial, being adorned with
/ fragile cups and saucers, lacqucred
tobacco bons, tin tea services and
/ carved trays.
"A passenger Mr.. Walter Kobbe,
; by the White Star steamship Republic,
which left New York April "a, 1884,
put scrap of paper into an empty
: Apollinaris bottle, corked, and dropped
, it overheard April 20, 1884. On
the paper was a promise to pay five
dollars on its return. Months after
, ward, on November "a, 1884, Mr..
| Kobbe received the paper in letter
! postmarked Fayal, in the Azores
Islands. Many thousands of bottles
have been thrown overheard in like
manner, but very few are ever heard OF
: again. This instance to the contrary is
: considered especially remarkable be-
!, cause of the great distance travelled In
!, safety by the bottle.-N Y. Tribune.
2 The Montreal Witness pays this
Y tribute to the progress in architecture
: in this country: ''The United States
is soon going to take the lead of Older
9 countries in the matter of architecture
!, as it is natural that it should. A
!. rapidly developing country, constantly
- requiring new conyeniences, offers tht
= most promising field for the ables
i men of the age, and scarce weel
= passes that the American illustrated
, papers are not adorned Will pictures
:, of some new public building, grand il
= extent of original design and of sur
: passing beauty. The young Western
- cities which have sprung up within thu
Y aesthetic era are fairylands as com
IL pared with the new towns OF thirt.
=, a years ago"
D. When flowers have been carried
IL long distance in close boxes or case
\. u they often appear withered and worth
~ less, but with proper treatment the
10 may be revived and restored to thei
" original beauty. Instead of at ono
being put into vases and exposed
= the hot, dry air of the parlor the
o. should be either spread out on WI
en- flannel or moss, and covered with
F. dish-cover or an inverted box, or ell
~ put in pans containing moss and wat
or wet sand, in which they can be $
ny upright, and then shut up in the dal
nd for few hours. Ii they do not |
nd gain thair freshness under the nurslf
:" there is no hope for them; but an
1 ardinay-y nauas their recovery is CO