The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-10-03
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Less than i've per cent. OF the
country's immense corn crop is ex-
ported, and four-fifths of it is consumed
where it grows.-PhitGdelphiG Press.
London produces fifty thousand
tons of SCOT per annum, which is worth
two hundred thousand dollars, and is
used for fertilizer at rate of ten
cwt. per acre.
The JetUeler's Circular says that
never in the history of jewelry in this
country have colored stones, both gems
and semi-precious stones, been more in
request than now.
The vital statistics of Washington
show that the death rate of the colored
population is fifty per cent. greater
than the death rate of the whites
Washington Post.
According to manufacturers of
wood mosaics, hard maple on end is
four or five times as durable as mar
BILE and equally durable with the hard
est baked tile. - Chicago Herald.
Beer brewers in America employ
an army of half million men; they
have invested quarter of a billion
dollars in their business, and they sell
about one hundred and eighty million
gallons of beer year.--N. Y. Herald.
Prof. Proctor says that at least
four hundred and fifty thousand me-
teorle bodies fall from the heavens
every hour of the twenty-four for the
entire year, and yet it is hard work to
find chap who has had his hat knocked
off.-Detroit Free Press.
Ed Harris, of Watkinsville, has
built one of the best cyclone pits we
ever saw. tits on the side of gully, is
perfectly dry and fitted up with chair,
table and stove. 1t is as large as an
ordinary-sized room and perfectly safe.
Athens (Ga.) Banner.
"A tract OF land situated on the
Mullen River. in Atlantic County, N.
j., has been purchased by citizen OF
Atlantic City with the object in view Of
searching for treasure supposed to have
been sunk in the river during the Revo,
lutionary WARN Y. Sun.
Among the ''curiosities of com
merce" none, perhaps, is more curious
than that the largest portion of the
produce exported from South Africa Ii
simply used for the adornment of Ia
dies. Out of the total value reported
of thirty-seven million five hundred
thousand dollars, ostrich feathers An(
diamonds account for twenty-five mill
ion dollars. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The London Lancet mentions tn,
arrangement of a person who make
himself deaf to all noises by the simpl
expedient of taking u small piece o
spermaceti ointment, not too soft
about the size of II pea, and wrapping
il in tiny square of thin, limp. cottol
cloth, tying the corners together will
thread to make small plug, One o
these pressed gently into each ear shut
out all sound.
1t is said that the Territory of Da
kota has more miles of railroad thar
any one of twenty States, more school
houses than any one of fifteen States
more newspapers than any one o
twenty-six States, ranks above twenty
three States in number of post-oflices
and pays more revenue to the Post
office Department than any one o
thirty-two States. The population O
! the Territory is over $780, 1000. Chicag
Herald.
AT Mt Airy, Md, the other day
, family of bees we're lowering in tn
/ mir, looking for place to swarm, whe
telegraph operator happened to pass
and they decided to settle upon hi
head. Several hundred of them de
scended upon him and the rest wer
following, when he ran, scraping tn
: unwelcome intruders from his hair an
n face with his hands, but getting :
: badly stung before he could clear hin
self that he tainted. His face Wa
r terribly swollen and he suffered sever
/; pain. Baltimore american.
Sir Henry Thompson, the eminel
physician, says, concerning the midd
0 classes of the people. that three-fourtl
It of the nutrient matters they eat a.
it from the animal kingdom, and that
g reverson of these proportions. c
one-fourth only from this source al
# three-fourths from the vegetable sour
C would .'tend to maintain clean
a palate, lighter and more active brai
n and better state of health I
most people not engaged in the me
W laborious employments OF active life
It "A French astronomer, having
it vestigated the condition Of over ii
- thousand earthquakes, advances t
theory that they are caused by the
a traction of the sun and moon, the &C
ia vulsons being the consequence
10 their action upon the sea of fire in
/. earth's interior. Some scientific s.
Il. dent told us not long ago that this |
of fire did not exist, and another !
informed us more recently that Isa
Newton was mistaken about the attr
~ ton of gravitation. Thus does
!, "a scientific caldron continue to bubt
n The man of fifty, who has kept hims
~ informed of the progress of scient
Al investigation, can not look upon
~ textbooks of his youth without fe
81 ing of profound commiseration.-C
T. cdgO Current.