The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-04-25
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Tiny conversation" is the modern
phrase for ''Small talk" in fashionable |
circles in New York.
There are now twenty-three cities
in Massachusetts. The most recently |
is Waltham.
"A noted San Francisco thief was
sentenced to forty years Imprisonment
a few days ago for robbing man Of
six dollars at the point of a pistol.
"A Government pensioner of Edgar
town, Mass, is the fourth of his line in
direct descent who have drawn pensions
from the United States by reason of
military service. Boston Journal.
All branches of the worlds bust
ness that amount to anything are seek
ing for the best men that can be found
and employing them at whatever cost.
Robert WeidenSGLI, IN Y. NJ G. A.
Wdtchman.
Major Brooke says, in the Rural
Home, that more cherries, berries,
peaches and grapes and less pie, cake
and meat would lessen pain, prolong
life, and greatly increase the mental
and physical vigor of the race.
"A statistical work reports that
there are in Nova Scotia 265 lawyers,
29S doctors and 468 clergymen. Ac-
cordiug to this, every hundredth full
grown man in the province is engaged
in one of these professions, one in
little over two hundred being a clergy
man.
The Palatka (Fla.) Herald says:
"a man and family arrived here one
day recently; the next morning he
paid four hundred and fifty dollars for
lot, and that evening he had shanty
erected, stove put up, and he and his
family slept in it that night. This man
was from Maine"
English people seldom hurry.
Twenty years ago the Mayor of Taun-
ton, Mass, forwarded the Mayor of
Taunton, Eng, copy of the city char
ter and of the proceedings of the City
Councils. The gift has just been ac-
knowledged by a receipt of copy of
the history of Taunton, Eng.-BoSton
Globe.
Russia threatens to beat the United
States as an oil producer. AS yet it has
but lis wells in the Caucasian region,
against 10000 American wells, but the
average product of a Russian we'll is
sixteen times as great as of an Ameri-
can well. The oil beds of the Caucasus
are said to be absolutely inexhaustible,
and are disposed in horizontal layers.
In 1872 their production of oil was 80, 900
tons, and in 1882 100000 tons.
BY the recent Spanish earthquakes.
village in Granada has been moved
bodily some sixty feet in a northward
direction, deep semi-circular creyasse
appearing on its former site. The
course of the little river near which
the village stood has been blocked up,
and lake is being formed Many of
theSulphur springs with which the re-
gion abounds suddenly ceased flowing,
but reappeared day or two after in
state of unusual heat, indicative, no
doubt, of the character of the force at
work below.
"A gentleman who had corrted and
married his wife in full beard and
lived for ten years with her
endowed with the same hirsute adorn-
ment, quietly determined to have it cut
off. His wife found it difficult to recog.
nize him, and she sat staring at his
strange appearance for some time.
''Well,h he exclaimed, have you got
nothing else to do but sit stillP | sup
pose you expect me to do all the work
while you loaf, as usual, !" he snappishly
said. ''Why it is you after ALL knew
you the moment you spoke" she re
piled. Pittsburgh Telegraph.
In recent lecture on the germs o
disease, Dr. Sternberg said that thu
strips of flannel saturated with carbolit
acid hung up in the sick room, ant
the chlorine saucer placed under tn,
bed, are WIDELY valueless in arestins
the progress of pestilence. Sucl
methods do harm, he thinks, by lead
ing people to neglect the far more i'm
portant measure of admitting al
abundance of fresh air, which sweep
sway the germs. Many antiseptic
and deodoriZers are valueless for tn
destruction of germs. For this purpos
ne recommends the liquor of the chic
rinate of Soda Chicago Times.
"A Chinaman was caught in cut
trick at jewelry store in San Fran
cisco short time since. He bal
gained for one hundred dollar die
mond ring, and offered in paymer
what appeared to be five twenty-dolla
rolls of silver He took up the rim
and broke one of the rolls, which COZ
. tanned half-dollars. He pushed owe
the other four, but there being SOM
A thing suspicious in his movements ii
storekeeper sent for an officer, WI
c took charge of the ring, money an
unopened rolls. When the latt,
were undone it was discovered tn
u they were lead rolls, at each end
: which a half-dollar was placed.
Francisco Chronicle.
: "A physician gives suggestive int
dent upon the treatment of the insan
A patient who had been enveloped
mental darkness for more than thr
. years was cured by occupation. !
: first the insane man assisted on t
mangle. Then he set himself
4 picking up buttons, and in a fe
4 months had about two thousand on
4 string, with which he ornamented {
:. walls of his room. He was then offer
a small bounty for every rat. mole
n muskrat he would destroy, and W
h given the full liberty of the grounC
;, He soon gave evidence of ability to ia