The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-17
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

AN Alabama farmer obtained eight
gallons of molasses from one hundred
watermelons.
1T is estimated that S5O, 900, 600 has
been squandered in trying to solve the
problem of perpetual motion.
7Swiss four-cent pieces, intrinsic
value about one cent. are found In New
York masquerading as iive-cent pieces.
IN Y. Sun.
Eleven Cinnamon were killed in q
collision in California, and the railroad
company settled by paying $500 apiece
for them to their relatives.
"A "Spiessburgerlche" is nothing
but ''Kafeegesell-schaf " which In
plain English is delightful form OF
afternoon-coffee. popular with our Ger
man friends abroad.
"A pet bear broke his chain at
Gainesville. Fla, and attacked num-
Der Of bathers in the water. so seriously
squeezing one that he drowned before
he could be rescued.
I'm q 81 gle game Of lacrosse at
Toronto one man was knocked sense
less, second had thumb broken. q
third injured his collar bone and
fourth his arm. TO say nothing OF sew
eral out and out fights.
1T is said that In one block Ia New
York, that is bounded by Fourth and
Fifth streets and First avenue and
Avenue A, there are housed over seven
thousand human beings, as many rs
would form n small-sized city.
John Cough says The way to euro
sieeplcssness Is to work IL OF. Lyman
Beecher, Henry Ward father. used to
shovel a ton Of coal from one side 81
the cellar TO the other after leaving his
pulpit in order TO draw the blood from
his brain after the excitement Of preach
ing. Detroit Free Press.
lone rainy day recently an old lady
hailed New Haven horse car on one
OF the muddy streets In that city, when
the gentlemanly conductor stopped his
car whore there is usually dry crosse
walk, and the old lady stepped up ON
the platform, walked across, and then
stepped down the other, remarking as
she did so, that she s'didn't know what
she should have done Il It had not been
for that car ~ Good Cheer
The Indian girl, as rule, Is not
pretty, say those who have seen her at
bhO NNOfVluluGAb eCilOOiH. 6uC IL GOuIHte
featured, large-boned and Informed,
though her hair Is glossy and abundant,
her eyes bright and her color no darker
than that Of an Italian, She Is also
likely to be predisposed to consumption
or scrofula, her people are so ignorant
of hygienic laws. In manner she is
digniiied and graceful, but shy.
The great Arizona Canal in the Salt
River country TO Phoenix, Arizona, is
about completed. In about twenty-five
months the company have cut channel
twenty-six feet wide at the bottom, with
banks seven aud one-half feet deep,
forty miles long, at cost of nearly five
hundred thousand dollars. The water Z
OF Salt River Is being carried around (
the side Of this valley, and emptied In
the Aqua Fria. DessVer Tribune.
"A new kind Of entertainment has
sprung up in New York society which
promises to afford considerable amuse-
ment and pleasure to those who take
part in It. It is phrenology. Some
people know of, says writer, intend
the coming winter to give ''phrenologic-
AZ parties; that Is, TO have phrenol-
ogist come to their houses and amnse
their frienes by feeling the protuber-
ances on the craniums Of those who
will submit toit.--N Y. Star.
George @. Mason's recently pub
lished "reminiscences of Newport con-
tain note about curious feature Of
fashionable life there hundred years
ago. AS reserved seats at the theaters
were never sold the following notice was
madepart Of the advertisements and play
bills: ''Ladies will send their servants TO
keep their places at four o'clock" Ac-
cordingly the servants occupied the
seats and laughed and talked until six
o'clock, which was the hour when the
performance began, when they made
way for their masters and mistresses.
From dawn till dusk in Mexican
market one hearA The cake vender shout
ing in Spanish, "'Fat little cakes! Fat
little cakesl Here are good fat little
cakes!'' while the fruit peddler, the
candy boy, the seller OF beverages and
"a hundred others carol In concert their
various strains. ''Who wants mats for
Pueblo-mats of twenty yardsP'' cries
the seller Of woven straw. ''Salt beef
Salt beefp' interrupts the butcher; and
the vender of poultry, sitting among her
fowls in the sun, sings lazily by the
hour, Ducks and chickensl Oh, my
soul; good ducks and chickensl''