The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-03-21
NUMBER IL.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A Philadelphia woman who has an
income of thirty thousand year has
been found guilty of shop-lifting.--
Philadelphia Record.
The road-bed of the Southern Pa
ciiic Railroad through the Colorado
desert is ballasted with salt, vast beds
Of which abound in the vicinity.
A Polish woman in Pittsburgh
withdrew an assault and battery prose-
cution ON the defendants promising TO
pay twenty dollars to the new folish
church of that city.
Arthur Dodge, of New York, paid
one thousand dollars for magnificent
st. Bernard dog with handsome coat
After his arrival here it was found the
dog had been dyed. N " Sun.
Extensive farmers in California are
employing negroes from Tennessee in
order to rid themselves of the Chinese.
Thus far the negroes have been found
more desirable us laborers than tho
Chinese.
Embossed sole leather, the figures
on which stand out like solid relief
work, is coming greatly into use for
library furniture. Gold and silver or
namentation is often seen on the leath-
er.- Troy Times.
Thanksgiving Day bids fair to be-
come one OF our fixed Canadian insti-
tutions, ii it has not already attained
that position. And 1T is well that it
should. On the other side of the line
| il is almost the only universally recog-
nized holiday Toronto Globe.
In the old records of the town OF
| Clinton, Mass, certain little thor
ouohlare was called "Cat alley" In
the present book of tax registration the
name is euphonized into PUSSY ave-
nue." and it is supposed that the next
step will be Feline boulevard Chicago
Herald.
The New York Herald says that
swinging thermometer will not register
higher temperature In the sun than IN
the shade. This may work on Their
momctcrs, but when the same thing
was tried on horse thieves in Iowa, the
temperature rose to degree which was
simply unbearable. Carrent
--Wolf-skins in the frontier market
bring from one dollar and half to-
three dollars each Wolf-skins are the
main dependency of many Of the poorer
ranchmcn during the winter months,
some of them collecting Us many as
five hundred pclts from the beginning
of November to the close OF February.
AS an example of their stoicism, 1t
Is said that during fight with our
troops in the West an Indian woman
concealed her little girl in n barrel,
telling her to remain perfectly quiet,
whatever happened. After the battlc
the child was found with her arm shat
tered by mimic ball, but she had
! uttered no sound.
/, In Ontario passenger trains are
not started on Sunday. Recently II
was attempted on the Credit Valley, a
, new road, but SO strong was the pubic
'. feeling aroused that the company felt
j., constrained to abolish the Sunday train.
When the Dominion Government di-
rectcd that the Welland Canal be
opened during twelve hours of Sunday
so strong was the expression OF pubic
r opinion on the subject that in a te"
|, weeks the order was countermanded
L A discouraged carpenter of Macon
+, Ga. being arraigned in the Recorder
Court for an attempt at suicide, pleaded
I that he wanted to die, and as whisky
u would not kill him he had tried lauda
1t mum. He said If he was let off he woult
% not try to kill himself any more. TIL
Recorder said that he would strip tn
~ imaginary romance of the drunk b
o holding him responsible for being drum
lt on laudanum as well rs If he was o
IT whisky. He fined him five dollars fo
getting drunk on laudanum and a
n tempting to commit suicide.
10 A lady sends us the following: q.
re- beautiful thought came from my littl
I'd boy of eight years this evening. "
were Watching our lovely sunset, an'
50 afterward the stars made their appea
no. ance, one by one, until there was
lS myriad of bright, twinkling orbs. |
-. said: Mamma, don't you suppo
or that God has bored lots of holes in Il
Ri sky so that we can just see how bea'
90 full Heaven Is on the other side, al
on don't you guess that it is the ange
y" floating by them that makes them LOO
a. as though they were winkingP
Nv Albany Times.
co In the past thirty years the ayeral
cd of mans life has improved . per cent
oai from Al g to 1879 years; and OF woman
,or life per cent.--from 41.9 to 45.2.
30 every thousand males born at the pre-
ent day. twenty-four more will alta
~ the age of 80 than used to be the case pi
nv vious to 1871, and every thousand pr
,ng NJ sons born since 1870 will live ~
The years longer that before. This IS d
, .iv 10 civilization, and especially to j
= q proved sanitary methods, which 1
y adding to the average of human life
me the rate Of nearly ten years in eve
ere century, Chicago Journal.
1.-THE Grange" Alexander Han
aid toms old home, situated between Tei
tive and st. Nicholas avenues and One IL
we bred and Thirty-eighth and One II
him dred and Forty-fifth streets, New 70
is rapidly disappearing under the pl
or / sure of the march of modem imprc
! he ments. Here is where Hamilton sp
saw, his happiest years. Surrounded by
that wife and children, he continually
, in. tcrtaincd the most distinguished quo
Used among whom were Talleyrand
i 10 Louis Philippe. The estate compr
that about twenty acres. One of its att
here tons was an isolated group OF
say large trees, which Hamilton named