The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-24
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


burgh, can turn out in an emergency an
lngot of steel weighing 5000 pounds at
one heat ittSbar9h Post.
1t is a serious thing to wear cork
leg. If YOU ever fall into the water it
Is sure to drown you by holding the
wrong end up, as it did q Virginia man.
- Chicago Times.
A seat in the New York Stock Ex-
change recently sold for $2l, 200, which
is the lowest price in five years, the
highest price ever paid being $50, 500.-
New York Sun,
The city of st, Johns, Newfound-
land. has got livery stable, the first in
its history, with four horses and three
single wagons, and the people are
greatly elated over the novelty.
ST. Vitus' dance is said to have
yielded in every case recently treated by
Baltimore physician, who prescribes q
wine-glassful three times daily for
month of tea made of herb called
skullcap. Baltimore San.
"A Vermont man thought he was in
spired to kill Mrs, Adams, a school
leacher, but after she had knocked him
down with club and battered his body
for ten minutes, he concluded that It
was whisky instead of INSPIRATION
Rutland Herald.
Custer County, Montana, has
creek named Hanging Woman, which,
with two other creeks named Starved
to Death and Froze to Death, and
Graveyard Bottom, make a combination
Llrightful and desolate enough to drive
pilgrims away Chicago Inter Ocean.
The seeds of purslane arc but the
sixteth of an inch in diameter, and be-
Ing flat, no less than 100000 may oc-
cnpy single cubic inch. DIR. Sturte-
wants estimate of the seed upon single
exceptionally large plant, placed the
number at over 1000, 00.-Prairte
Former.
Tho new pilot-boat Hesper of Boss
.on, is the largest Of her class under the
American flag. She is one hundred
and four feet long over all, ninety-one
Teet six inches on the water line in sail
inc trim, has twenty-five feet extreme
breadth of beam, is twelve feet deep,
and will draw thirteen feet six inches
water aft. Boston Globe.
Two Cinnamon in Mercer County,
CAL, who had agreed to fight duel to
settle some difficulty, worked together
all one forenoon to build coffin. After
completing their work they met, armed
with revolvers, in field and one blew
the head of the other off. The neighbors
who had seen them make the coffin
then knew what it was for.
cit is a great financial blunder,"
ha l A al \
''for the people of Southern California
to neglect to open and work the tin
mines in our mountains. Thirty million
dollars worth of tin and tin products
were imported into the United States
last year, and still our mountains,
which have vast lodges of tin, are un.
worked and almost unknown.
The ''little black piper" "a colored
boy of fourteen years, was taken into
the New York Stock Exchange recently
while business was in progress and In
duced to play popular tuues on his fife.
He manipulated his shrill instrument
with the skill of an old professional, and
stirred up the 'bullse and "bears'' to q
high state of enthusiasm. He ratified of
lively Irish Jig, which set half dozen
brokers dancing across the floor. When
he left he had forty-five dollars in his
hat. N. Y. Mail.
If Mr.. Edward Jackman, of Pitts
burgh, has a daughter he perhaps res
grets that she did not elope with his
coaGhman. John Griffith is the drivers
name and he has just fallen heir to
one million, five hundred thousand dol4
lars in England. He gave up lucraI
tive situation in Pittsburgh to go to
England for that paltry sum. There
seems to be prizes in the Jehu lottery
after all, but blanked few Of them
Detroit Free Press.
Gertrude Donald, sixteen-year-
old schoolgirl OF Alliance, o., was
shot and instantly killed recently by q
peculiar accident. While wagon-load
IF household goods was passing through
the street, drawer in one of the
bureaus slid out and off the cart. 1t 50
happened that loaded pistol was in it,
and the force of the fall to the ground
discharged it. Singularly, the ball
struck Miss Donald in the back and
killed her almost instantly. She lived
only long enough to say, 20, I'm shot. "
Cleveland Leader.
All the people in Ceylon, from the
| babes just ''feeling their feet to old
men and women, their steps tottering
J on the brink of the grave, wear gold
} and silver ornaments. They even invent
new places for carrying them, and it is
no uncommon thing TO see a Cingalese
, belle with the top of her ears covered
with gold plate or wire, large pair OF
, rings pendant from the lobes of the ear,
u gold or silver circlet round her hair,
, her nose adorned with rings, bracelets
on her wrists, rings on her fingers and
silver plates on her toes.
I "A man named Pitney, long notori
, Gus in Mendocino County, Cal, as {
marauder, was recently arrested fol
, horse stealing. A visit to his haunt il
the mountains resulted in turning vi
one of the largest and most varied col
lections of plumber ever seen. 1t in
cluded everything, from ladies' under
! clothing 10 buggy harness. and iron
ten pairs of blankets to metal-boun
/ Bible. There were several suits c
! clothes, overcoats in all colors, sacks {
salt, shotguns, grindstones and hur
dred other equally incongruous articles