The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-08-29
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Josiah Harper, an Otsego county
IN. Y. farmer, hid five hundred dol
lars under his potato bin and the rats
carried off all but ten dollars.
Until the death of Lord Mayor Not
tage recently, no Lord Mayor of London
has died in the Mansion House for one
hundred and thirty-four years.
1t is said that in the works of
Shakespeare there are more than five
hundred and fifty quotations, illusions,
references and sentiments derived from
the Scriptures.
If you desire to buy monkey or
tame bear or Guinea-pig cheaply, do
to some family that has had one OF
these creatures for thirty days.--Car-
rent.
Sir Justin Aylmer, the heir to an
ancient English baronetcy, having a
rent-roll of thirty-fve thousand dollars
a year, young handsome and en-
gagged, fell from bicycle the other
day and broke his neck.
Among the best dances of to-
day are many of the delights of
the ballroom of one hundred years
ago: "Boston's Delight" ''Pea
Straw" STONY Point" "Haymak-
ing" Innocent Maid" and I'm Be
Married in My Old Clothes. "-Bosto"
Journal.
Several thousand houses, ranging
in size from eight to twenty rooms
and provided with every modern con-
venience, are to be built in Philadel-
phia, besides number of French flats,
several large and costly churches, aud
half dozen or more public institu-
ons.-Phtiadelphi Press.
"A London journal tells this story
of Mr.. Spurgeon, who lately visited
San Reno. On one occasion, when he
was crossing the Italian frontier, the
redoubtable preacher was ordered by
the dOadnterS to give up to them GER
tain fruit which he. was carrying.
Thereupon he retired three PAGES into
the French territory and ate it.
--Thirty-two per cent. of the con-
scripts enrolled in the Russian army
during the past six years were married,
showing that large portion of Rus
sian marriages are early ones. The
husbands are compelled to spend five
yCNrs in the army, during which time
their wives and children not infre-
quently become burdens upon the state.
An adjustable mirror has been
patented by an inhabitant of Charles
town, Mass This invention covers the
use of a specially contrived frame for
holding the mirror, and in which the
mirror can be read ly adjusted and
held in any desired position, for use OF
either tall or short people, or for chill
dren sitting on the floor, so that mir
rors of medium size may be made more
useful than large mirrors as ordinarily
hung. --BoStOn Post.
Italian antiquarians have dis
covered false teeth in skull which has
been excavated in an anc emit Etruscan
Cemetery, with many other curiosities,
at present safely slowed away at the
Museum OF Antiquities at Corneto, in
Tuscany. The sepulchre out of which
the skull was taken dates, according to
experts, from the fifth or sixth century
b. c., and the false teeth are nothing
but animal teeth attached to the human
teeth by means of small gold plates.
1t is said that the transposition o.
! one word was the foundation of DAME
Clark's great fortune. He had bough
1920 square toises of land in that par
of New Orleans that afterward became
, its commercial center. In the engross
ing of the deed the 81, 920 square toises'
was carelessly made to read 81 92
toises square," and increased the valu
of 3d. 200 to $20.000,000. Mr.. Clarl
| took advantage of the error. and tn
law of New Orleans was powerless Il
, prevent him.. Y. Tribune.
A complete collection of the nativ
! woods of the United States is benI
: prepared for the New York Museum o
D Natural History. 1t will compris
| thirty-six varieties of oak, thirty-fou
\ of pine, nine of fir, five of spruce, fou
: of hemlock, twelve of ash, three o
, hickory, eighteen of willow, three 0
cherry, nine of poplar, four of maple
two of persimmon and three of cedar
l Each specimen will display both longi
: tudinal and transverse CRAVINGS OF tn
' wood, as well as the log in its natura
: condition, with the bark attached N
! y Mail.
I -."See here" said citizen of 81
Louis to the proprietor of book store
'you II have to take the book back.
a asked you to give me volume {
9 poetry to put on the parlor table, bu
straight prose-" "Why, man alive
that was written by Shakespeare. .
!. don't care who writ it, its prose; Nv
. looked it all through. For instance
!. here's specimen:
"How silver sweet sound lovers tongues
Like softest music to attendin' ears"
: "Do you call that poetry, rhymil
\, = ears with nightp You can take it bacl
- don't want it. ~ T. Times.
Z When the late Chief Justice Cha,
y chose to unbend himself he could
y witty as we'll as wise. At social gatl
=. ~ ering at his house during the war, Il
J. . subject of taxation having been moote
% distinguished naval officer preset
g. said that he had paid all his taxes 9
- cept the income tax. 81 have a lit
iiss property" said he, (which brings 4
- in yearly rental, but the tax-gathere
- have not spotted it. l do not knC
:, whether ought to let it 60 that wi
3 or not. What would you do If "
q were In my case. Mr.. Chasee' The
' was merry twinkle in the eyes of Sc
rotary Chase, as he answered archl