The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-06-06

OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Texas wishes to change her name
from the Lone Star" to the "New
Empire State.
New York S directory contains $780,
O29 names, which indicates a popula-
ton of 1.500,145.
Statistics show that both in Europe
and America scarlet fever is more de-
structive of life than cholera.
Frank Brown, young man who
boards Boston and Maine trains at
North Berwick, Me-, to sell popped
corn, has saved money enough earned
in that way to pay off a mortgage on
his mothers house and partially sup
port her besides. Boston Post.
Philadelphia Society for the Pro-
motion of Agriculture is justly proud
of its early history. 1t was founded
one hundred years ago, and among the
honorary members were George Wash
ington, Timothy Pickering, Elias Boud-
mot, Charles Carroll and Reuben
| Haines,
Her days have been numbered for
Queen Victoria by an alleged oracle,
who sets the date of her death Septem-
Der 10, 1889; she is, this seer says, to
die by or in consequence of fire. The
Russian Gar has till 1900 to settle his
earthly affairs; Bismarck till May 80,
$780, and the German Emperor the July
following.
Red tape ill becomes charity, fact
never more forcibly and sadly Illus
trated than in London not long ago.
A girl having poisoned herself, the doc
tors sent to the MiddleseX Hospital to
borrow stomach pump The author
tiles sent back word that the patient
should have been taken to the hospital,
as they did not lend out stomach pumps.
The girl died.
"A custom-house inspector, while
roaming over steamer at New York,
observed peculiar hump on the back
of one of the sailors. He made
diagnosis of the hump, and found that
it was formed by forty dozen pairs of
spectacles, worth about one dollar and
half pair. The duty on imported
spectacles is thirty-five per cent. The
goods were seized. m Y Sun.
The Palatka (Fla.) Nca0S says:
''We know little black girl whose
name sounds like this: Harriet Ann
Cassia Ann Betsy Baldwin Hanover
Ann Berkeley. Another is called Mary
Martha Magdalane Paulina Ann PAUL.
da Green. Still another is Arkansas
Tennessee Louisiana Red River Thomp-
son. And some years ago there was
an old Indian squaw in Dade County
who reioiced in the name of Lily-walk-
whitewater same-shape- all-the-way-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
1t is proposed to inform the
farmers of Vermont each morning
.. what the weather probabilities for the
next seventeen hours are by system
of whistles blown from stationary
steam whistles distributed in the rural
districts of the State. One blast, for
instance, will signify fair weather, and
so on. No such appliance is needed in
the West. Whenever a farmer hears
the first blast of blizzard he cuts for
home without waiting for further in
formation.-1T Times.
On the evening of the opening of
the Brooklyn Bridge Mr.. Erastus Wi
man, President of the Staten Island
: Ferry, took party of friends on. one
of the boats to witness the illumination
of the bridge. just as the boat started
Mr.. John Hussan went on board,
thinking the trip regular one for pas
: sengers The boat remained in the
stream till ten o'clock, and Mr.. Hussan
5 lost real estate sale in which he would
have secured one thousand dollars in
t commissions. He sued Mr.. Wiman's
g company for the amount, andes jury
= has awarded him five hundred dollars
Y IN. Y. Tribune,
= "A child with two tongues is said tt
be living at Yonkers, N. Y. The sec
: ond tongue has grown from the roo
n and on top of the first. The mother
r first noticed it when the child was three
n days old. 1t was then quite small, but
n it is now nearly as large as the rea
Q tongue The anterior part of the up
+ per tongue looks natural, but the pos
terror part is CONSTRUCTED and round
: giving the unnatural growth a pea
d shape. The child, now two years old
O has never experienced any difficulty il
@ swallowing its food or in breathing
# looks natural in every other way, ant
d has always been healthy.
V Prof. Simon Newcomb, in review
= ing the performances of the ''Georgi
IL Wonder Girl" Miss Lulu Hurst, il
h Science, says her success affords
7 striking example of the unreliability c
human testimony respecting the phe
h nomena of force and action. He point
: out that her manifestations were purel
- physical and the result of force bein
r exerted under favorable conditions
t. Though ordinary observers wer
: mystified, yet the character of tn
h performances, according to Prof. New
r comb, was absurdly simple, and illu
re trates the credulity of believers in til
At movements of chairs, tables, and piano
q without human agency.
in an historical sketch in the Bridg
> Wdter Independent it is stated Thu
- probably the first organ built in tn
If country was made by Mr.. Josiah Ricl
re ards, at West Bridgewater, about 1872
ut He removed the drawers from an o
!" book case and put pipes and bellows
x their places, using for stops the slide
!" which supported the writing-desk lie
rk when open. This novel instrume
: worked so well that some persC
n bought it. Mr.. Richards then bu
n another, the case being constructed
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