The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-31
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Wo0 ANpOOAAAVi
found in the stomach of o panther that
was killed at Boon's Mountain, Pa
Pittsburgh Post.
The word ''masher," which is stiIl
regarded as slang in America, has
been taken into the vocabulary Of Eng
lish journals as entirely respectable.
"A Montreal barber announces that
he is a "tonsorial artist, physiognomi7
cal hair-dresser, facial operator, cranf-
UNI manipulation, and capillary abridger.
I'm Germany man dare not cut
down the trees on his own land without
consent of the proper authorities, so
jealous is the Government in preserv-
ing the forests.
An attendant in the Treasury De-
partment who can count four thou
sand new notes an hour for seven hours
day is considered unusually dexter
us Washington Star.
A "bottomless" chasm has been
discovered in San Luis, Obispo County,
Cal. An adventurous explorer who
was lowered into it says that the sides
are covered with cream-colored
stalactites. Francisco Call.
Ingenious maritime persons now
put false bottoms in the vessels which
bring sugar from the West Indies and
save great deal of molasses which
drains out of the hogsheads. One ship
is said to have saved one thousand dol
lars worth on single trip.-N 7.
Star.
Governor Stoneman, of California,
has pardoned Isaac p. Newton, sent to
State Prison in 1880 from Sacramento
| CO.. nj fNts erY-o nd I0Ts.
ceny, on condition that he leave the
State and never return. He is eighty
one years old and in poor health.
"A comparison made in the London
meteorological Office Of Atlantic tenn
perature returns from twenty-eight
ships, containing 116 recent observa-
tions, with data for previous years, re-
veals the fact that during last summer
the ocean in the Gulf Streams course
was abnormally warm.
The inmates of a drinking saloon
in Canton, Miss, were greatly aston
ished one day recently by the sudden
explosion of barrel of whisky, which
burst into flame, although there was
neither light nor fire in the room. The
whole place was for time enveloped
in flames, but they were extinguished
without much damage being done.
"A well-known New York artist and
his wife made their appearance at an
evening party last winter. As they
entered the drawing room the hostess
fastened to greet them with effusion
and exclaimed: ''I'm so glad to see
you! We've been ransacking the high
ways and the byways to get people to
come here tonight. "-HGrpeT's MGgG-
zine.
Among other trinkets found in an
Indian mound open near Wheeling, w.
Va, were pair of copper earrings,
rolled or hammered into thin plates,
and stamped or pressed into concave
and convex ridges or rings. The rings
resemble tho ornaments seen in the
ears of the figures cut on stone by the
: Maya people in Yueatan. Chicago
, journal.
The skeleton of man seven feet
long has been found under the roots
of huge tree, near Victoria, b. @. 1t
: is in a, good state of preservation, and
| looks like the remains of man who
! has not been dead long. The tree is
seven feet in diameter, and probably
} hundreds of years old, showing that
the skeleton must be that of u man
! living ages back. A skeleton of a baby
/ was also found with it.--ChicGgO
| Times.
< Along the coast of the Alaska
t Peninsula the bears have been unusual
ly plentiful and ferocious this season.
: In the neighborhood of Belkovsky one
) man was disemboweled in his tent and
| lacerated to such an extent that the re-
' mains had to be buried on the spot.
! Another man had his arm crushed by
the fangs of one of these animalsl
Women and children did not dare to
4 take their usual share in the labor of
q fishing along the river banks.
t "A Greek immigrant hauled up in
/, New York the other day seems to have
4 been bound for Deadwood. An instru-
ment taken from him which looked like
/! u large, ivory-handled jack-knife, de-
r veloped pistol hammer on one side,
/. and when it was pulled trigger few
Q out on the other, and when that was
/, pulled the pistol went off, and immedi.
# ately four-inch blade ran out, all
ready for use if the bullet missed. -
h NeW York Star.
/ Even earthquakes would appear tc
/, have some good qualities for those who
d know and study them. In report tc
% the British Association. Prof Milne, Of
10 Japan, the well-known sesmologist
IS plaintively states that "the last season
10 was comparatively poor one, there
being only fifty-seven earthquake
shocks between May, 1881, and May
1882, as compared with eighty which
were felt during the corresponding
. period of the previous year.
y; The Spanish mandoline is growing
!. in popularity among the fashionable
g girls who twang the banjo and guitar
" The mandoline has four double metallic
IL strings, tuned in iifths, two strings be
err ing In unison. 1t is played with a fla
ID piece of almond-shaped tortoise shell
- called ploctrum. The mandoline ha
err no duration of sound in itself, but tn
~ acune is filled by the player by a rapi
S, side movement of the right wrist, whic
n produces kind of trill or tremolo
ID When played by an expert the mandc
a. line is capable of great variety of eH
preston and tone,-N Y. Tribune.