The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-04-18
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~ including expert
ents in balloon steering--will have
ace at the Worlds Fair in London in
50.
LA France" roses sell at four dol
RS a dozen buds in New York. The
Wv rose, 1.-The Sunset" sells at six
ollars dozen.
Minors and married women are
ow ALLOWED to open accounts in French
overnment savings banks without the
uthority of their parents or husbands.
Smokers are warned by celehra-
ID optician from reading and smoking
! the same time. The blue OF the
.pke imposes unequal work upon the
Neyes.
e.Quring the next two hundred and
Nears, it has been computed, there
can SSonly one total eclipse OF the sun
-tnaYf August ~, 1999-which can
w SEEN England.
-lne is cat in Philadelphia which
gess s up y lsback, claws. and spits every
ulme IL he,s S'Sweet Violets." In the
OPINION OF y Call there is good deal
OF human nNlre in cats.
while thermometer was down
at thirty-fve bow zero the other night
open safe andSarried away a cool
thousand dollarS in gold. Chicago
Current.
1t does not oAtitute a marriage
engagement, accordfv to the laws Of
Indiana, to call gil your darling
bluc-bell, even if you AZ Squeezing her
hand at the same time. It is simply
an emphatic complimeE. - Chicago
Herald.
"A man in Cedar Keys, Fla, went
to a physician the other day Q be cured
of number of diseases. Tie phvsi-
clan told him there was nothing the
matter with him, which male the
would-be patient so angry thathe as
saulted the physician.
"A man named Harvey has squ9ted
on the only land by which the Grad
Canon of the Colorado River may 10
reached, and charges visitors twelve
dollars each for beholding that most
wonderful specimen of natures handi-
work.-DenCer Tribune.
"A donkey, laden with salt, was
crossing brook. The water diluted
the salt and lightened the burden. He
communicated his discovery to a brother
donkey laden with wool. The latter
tried the same experiment, and found
his load double its weight.--M Y.
Graphic.
fare you consumptivep Stay al
home, make your will, be happy and
comfortable and try to live as long as
you can" Study up the climate OF
Florida and keep away If you have
been expectorating blood" This is
the advice given by DR.. Bushrod w.
Jones, in Saturday Gleanings.
In Piedmont, Ca, there is forty
cent man. II he hires any one he only
pays forty cents per day; If he hires him
self to anyone he only asks forty cents; II
he makes bill or an offer for anything,
1t is only forty cents; If he swaps
horses, COWS, or anything he either
asks or pays forty cents difference. :.
The principal markets for Ameri-
can apples are Liverpool, Glasgow,
London, Bristol, Edinburgh and Leeds,
and to lesser extent Paris and Havre.
The cost of sending the very choicest
fruit to England, Scotland, Wales and
France, including carriage, percentage,
and insurance, is less than two dollars
a barrel.
From recent researches 1t appears
that chlorophyl, tho remarkable sub
stance to which the vegetable world
owes the color of its foliage is made
up of two coloring matters, green and
a yellow, the relative proportions be-
ing one hundred of the former to one
of the latter. Both have been lately
obtained in the crystalline state. -Phtl-
adetphid Press.
The dispatches tell us of young
lady burning to death in a Mexican
street car, her clothing being set on fire
by the cigarette of woman sitting
next to her. There is nothing strange
about that, except the accident Every.
body smokes in Mexico-women al
well as men, and they smoke every
where, too. Without smoking life
would not be worth the living. CHI
cago Tribune.
The New York journal is respon
sible for the following tales OF tive
young ladies of two cities: A Boston
maiden has fitted pair of spectacle
on her pet pug. She says he looks jus
too intellectually lovely for anything
A Brooklyn girl has acquired the ar
of whistling. With one shrill too
from her tiny lips she can make tn
most rambunetious car horse stop as ]
he we're shot.
Recently the fortunate possesso
of stone of ninety-two karats
valued at three hundred thousand dol
lars, lent his diamond for scientific in
vestigation. The stone was expose,
for an hour to the direct action of tn
suns rays, and then removed to adarl
room. For more than twenty minute
it emitted light strong enough to maxi
a sheet of white paper held near it per
fectly visible. Chicago Journal.
Colonel Tom Ochiltree says Texa
is growing like a green-bay tree, an,
that it viii in couple of decades hav
ten million of people and be the larges
and wealthiest State in the Union. at
taxable property" says he, "has in
creased seventy-five million dollar
within the last year, and its populatio
has become as cosmopolite as that {
New York. 1t will never be divide
into four States as has been suggested
It's people are too proud to destroy il
1 autonomy,