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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-10-24
sHARK-CATcHINo.
The Way the Business is Manipulated by
the Arabs.

The Way the Business 10 Manipulated by
the Arabs.
The way the Arabs catch sharks is
very curious and interesting, and 10
somewhat similar to playing heavy
salmon, only no rod is used. A hook
of soft iron wire is made very sharp
and baited with lump of garbage
of some kind, usually piece of shark
too rancid even for slave, and the
line, which is small and very slackly
spun, is wound round for some little
distance from the hook with thin
sheet lead, both to protect it from the
teeth of the fish and to act as sinker,
and the other end is made fast to q
huge calabash which acts as a float.
When q shark takes the bait he tows
the calabash about. but can not sink
it for any length of time, and the fisher.
men set off after him in their canoe,
and when they get hold of the line they
play with their captive until he is actu'
ally drowned. The shark that was now
on the hook was proving tartar,
and before the two boats came near
! the canoe, which was playing him
was capsized, and the half dozen
men who formed her crew thrown
into the water. "Give way, my ladsG'
said the Lieutenant, and both boats
dashed away. the crews straining every
nerve to save the swimmers from
their dangerous position, the water
literally swarming with sharks, and in
few minutes the men wero picked UP
and their canoe righted. The English
men. like all their nation, fond Of
sport, next went after the float which
could be seen being towed hither AND
thither as the shark tried to free itseli
from the incumbrance, but the Arabs
when they saw their intention, shouted
and gesticulated to prevent them from
doing so, and a second canoe put OF
from the dhow to assist in playing thu
shark. With some little trouble thu
line was again secured, and after abou
two hours hard work, during which
Johnny Shark several times nearl,
mastered his captors, he was at length
killed and dragged upon the rocks
where the English, as he was such
huge monster. had the curiosity tt
measure him, when he proved to be tn
enormous length of thirty-three fee
ten inches. This was the largest sharl
they had ever seen, though both boat
had had oars dashed at by the raven
Gus brutes. and on one occasion tn
same whaler, when boarding dhow a
night from the ship, had her rudde
carried away by one. Gentleman
Magazine.
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HOW GREELEY WAS SOLD.
A story Told ny tho Alleged DlscoveTer
OF piIke'a Peak.

A story Told Ivy tho Alleged DIscoveTcr
OF pike's Peak
Green Russell, of Lumpkin County,
Georgia went to California in the early
days OF the gold excitement OF that
country, made handsome fortune, rc-
turned to Georgia, bought the big
Savannah plantation on the Etowah
River. in now Dawson County, aud
quietly retired 10 his farm. but when
Kansas was opened to settlers his rest
less mind carried him out thcre. Ha
entered large body of land on the
Big Blue River, from which point ne
explored the then Territory OF Kansas
and reached the Rocky Mountains, TAX
lug with him tools to prospect for
gold
In going TO the mountains he fol-
lowed up the Arkansas River to its
source at the foot OF Pixies Peak, then
turning north across the ridge dividing
the waters of the Arkansas and Platte
Rivers he struck Cherry Creek, about
fifty miles west of now Denver City.
Here. with his test pan. he found gold
from the drifted sand. He followed
the creek on to where 1t cmptied into
the South Platte River, and there es-
tablshed headquarters at what Is now
| Denver City, from which point he pros
pected the country. finding gold almost
! anywhere. He had with him two
brothers and one other man. This was
| in the summer Of 1853. In the fall he
loft his brothers and the other man
aud returned TO Georgia. He says:
Horace Greeley was then making
h'ssfamous trip across the continent.
and he took in Pixies Peak. remem-
Der seeing him. When the six-Aorse
stage coach drove up he got out with a
slouched hat and moccasin slippers on.
which he had gotten from the Indians.
I talked with him little as he LETT the
stage. That night he made a speech
to The miners, and advocated the form.
ing of a Territorial Government aud
sailing it Colorado. In day or two
Greeley went up into the Gregory dig
2ings, and some sharpers hads set traI
for b m; they had opened there mine
and had collected quantity Of gold
dust. had sailed the pit and all go
sick. When Greeley got there thel
told him what q fine mine they haC
opened, and how fortune had turned
/ against them and they were not able u
, work It. Greeley tested their mines
, found gold in abundance, and fnall,
, struck trade and paid the miner
5000 for the mine Tor alm). y
! sourse. before Greeley worked out tn
/ sailed gold they were gone --Attatt
Cor, LQsHsviHs lOnTisf-JoHrHG@
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a DREAM OF FIRE.
An odd and Fancifui story OF the Boyhood
of q Noted Man,

An Odd and Fanclfui story OF the Boyhood
of u Noted Man.
Probably many of our readers have
mover heard of the strange dream Col
onel L. j.. Drake, the discovery Of oil,
had when he was boy. OF course all
boys have dreams, and perhaps this
was no more remarkable than many
another, but in view of Sle dreainer's
subsequent discovery it seems strange.
When Mr.. Drake was mere boy he
was sitting one day upon the wide old
porch that shaded the entrance to his
fathers plain abode. Tired OF his
play he lay down, boy-llke, upon the
porch. and the autumn breeles, heavy
with the fragrance of the fields, lulled
him 10 sleep. and sleeping he dreamt.
With his brother-in fancy -he raked
the dry stubbes of tho wheat field
They tugged and toiled away until they
had accumulated great stack OF
straw, nearly hat mile from the
house. Then for bonfire. While his
brother watched with gleeful antici-
patton, Edwin touched match
to the pile. They watched II
few minutes in ecstacy, but their
mrth was turned to horror, when,
their stack consumed, the ground con.
tinued to blaze and burn. They exert
ed all their strength to quench it. bu
in vain. The devouring flames ros'
higher and higher. The fire burned
deeper aud wider. 1t followed thei
receding footsteps; and now, complete
" terrified. the boys turned and fled t
the r mother. When they reached tn
house, Edwin, breathless and guilty
buried his face in her lap and confesse
the deed. She took him by the hand
stepped to the door. and, after watch
ing the spreading blaze for a moment
she sad calmly and without reproach
My son. you have set the world o
fire."
Nearly thirty years later these word
Of his mother, as he heard them in b
dream, were recalled by the burning {
his oil tanks a few weeks after the fir
we'll began to produce. When tn
tanks burst, and the creeping famt
swept over The surface OF the creek.
may possibly have entertained a mi
nentary suspicion that bis mother
: words were about to be fulfilled. %
! City BLIZZARD,
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A GREAT OPENING.
Where the Statistical Enthu last Might
Strike IBonnnza.

Where the Statistical Enthu. last Might
Strike a Isonanza.
A Southern correspondent points
out that there is a great field for the
statistics man in the lac watermelon
crop.
Their aggregate weight IN tons
would show up we'll in row Of figures.
Placed end to end. they would make a
streak of green from here to Cape
Horn, or some other jumping of place.
Allowing a melon and half to each
darby, it would take large contingent
of the colored race to eat them at one
sitting. The total amount pad for them
by the wholesalers would bee1ual TO an
appreciable fraction OF the National
debt. and the. total pad by the con-
sumner would be represented by that
fraction with its denomination divided
by two. Allow ng that so many feet
and inches of rain fell during the
rainy season, and that ninety per cent
of a melon is water, it could be easIly
computed how much of the ia ny sea
son went into the melon crop Ther
there would be the collie, choleri
morbus, and Jamaica ginger figures L
wrestle with, and the mortuary stats
tics to be put in convenient shane 10
reference. -DeLTtot Free Press.
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plrA AND POINT.


1t is easier to trace moccaslned
Indian over q granite mountain than IL
is to trace a lost umbrella. -Kdnsas
CITY (Mo.) Journal.
Deafness can be cured by living ten
years in the dry part of New Zealand.
AS the small boys say: whats the
matter with staying deafp'
Few men have honest couvic.
tons" says some one. This does not
trouble us as much as the fact that SO
many men have dishonest acquittals.--
Puck.
"A baby's arms encircle the world"
says the provorb man OF the Merchant
Trdreier. We have noticed thata baby
usually gets the earth when its grand
mother i around. SosnerUille Journal.
A coincidence: IAN alone my dear
child. I'm afraid that husband of yours
neglects you terri bly,. He Is always at
his club when call" Eyes, mammal
but he's at home at all other times. -
Chicago Tribune.
"A writer on dress says: ''Short
and podgy women ought to wear
belts.a What's the use OF giving adj
vice In that wayp There isn't q woman
in the world who would admit, even
to herself, that she was short ana
podgy."
why, Johnnyr' exclaimed mann
ma, aren't you ashamed OF yourself:
going about with such q dirty faccP"
"No, amt" replied Johnny, with
conscious pride in tho integrity of his
lntentions; You'd like to have me
taken for dude. wouldn't youp"
A writer in The Pittsburgh 7clc-
oraph saws: ''But do not stop at beer
wagons 1t Is not surprising. The
beverage is not sold by tho glass from
beor-wagons. II no wants to astonish
his readers let him announce; ''But !
10 not stop at beer-saloons. But, OF
course, no can not tell lie. Norris.
!0iDn Herald.
IL hear you are going into the
manufacture OF white had, Mr.. Bas'
settp' YES, l am. think there i
money In it, Il should say so.
was In that business myself once.
Then there Is money In H." II am
sure OF It. invested $4,000 in the
scheme ten years ago, and It's there
yet. Philadelphia Cdll.
Plantation philosophy Dar'l
mighty few promises dat hols good
De poartost boy sometimes turns on
ter be do lazies' man. De quick MAJ
amt allus dc bes' han ter do er piec'
o. work. Oar amt no hope fur d
born fool; de bigger do chances We
gin him to show dat he hab got sens
de mo- he will prube dat ho Is or fool
- ArkanSaV Traceler
I'm one OF the borths, says face
tious railroad exchange, were o ma
and his wife She was one OF thos
nervous, cautious creatures. She KEEP
up her nagging after shc got In bed 70
long time. but finally she dozed of I
sleep and all was quiet in her berth
Everybody was glad But In less tina
ton minutes she started up, and every
: body Ia the car heard him groan Q
! she poked him in the ribs and shouted
! "William, git upl / know you've lei
the doors open and forgot 10 close til
kitchen windows. IN Y. San.
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likely to be frieetened in the one case

likely to be frightened in the one case
as in the other.
The eye of the horse naturally pro-
jects from the side of the head, for the
express purpose of enabling it to have
wide range of vision, and when we
deprive the animal of two-thirds Of its
natural sight-area. we proportonately
add to the chance of frightening it,
Now let us be consistent.
Horses. as we well know, are just as
liable to be frightened by sounds as by
sights. There ore. let us stop its ears.
/ really wonder that ear-stoppers have
never come into use. They could be made
exceedingly ornamental, and might be
adorned like the blinker, with the coat
of arms, or at least the crest of the
owner.
may mention that several of the
great English firms adopt a similar
mode of treating the horse to that
which is employed by the one that we
have described. But mention par
ticular firm because / have inspected
its noted London establishment, and
can therefore speak from personal
knowlc lge. u. G. Wood, in Youths
Companion.
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ungrammatical Academicians.

A Paris correspondent of a London
newspaper writes: "Cobbett in his
grammar loved to quote examples OF
bad English from Kings speeches, and
an analogous idea has been carried
out on large scale by French
testator at Potion, who has bequeathed
TO the Ma7arin Library a collection
which it took him years to accumulate.
OF 3, 500 specimens of bad French writ
ten by members of the Academy from
its foundation to the present day. Tn
number seems to besmall and / incline
to think large field is open for tu'
ture explorers in the same mine"
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ON A TEMPERANCE MAN.
A noted temperance man lies here,
The green turf DER his head;
No man e'er saw him on his bier
Till after he was dead.
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EPlTAPHs.


ON A TEMPERANCE MAN.
noted temperance man lies here,
The green turf DER his head;
No man eer saw him on his bier
Till after he was dead.
ON AN AMATEUR ANGLER.
He angled many purllng BROOK
But lacked the anglers skill;
He lied about the fish he took,
And here he's lying still.
ON AN ACTOR.
Ambitions parts lie oft essayed
But never won renowR;
And in the last great act he played,
Death rung the curtain uoWn;
For fame he longed; 1t kept afar,
And life was full of jars;
But If he failed to be star,
He's now above the stars.
ON A POLICEMAN.
Pause, stranger. pause, and drop tear,
To pass would be a poor way
To show respect-a cop sleeps here
Instead of in doorway
ON AN HONEST BAKER.
No bread he needs, he kneads no dough,
He sleeps the sleep that knows no walk
ing,
He did much baking here below,
But now he's gone where there's no bak-
ing.
ON A HoD CARRIER.
Here lies hod carrier under the sod.
He's happy, there's no doubt of that;
He carried in life many bricks in his hod,
But never a brick in his bat.
ON DUDE.
Go, stranger, go to yonder mound
And griefs sad tribute pay there;
"Ah there" he to the girls would say,
When living, in a giggling way;
90 when we placed him meath the ground
We murmured softly: stay there"
Boston Courier.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-05-14
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

Mr.. Thomas Hardeman, of Georgia.
has given much time and investigation
to one branch ofthe educational prob
lem, aud has succeeded in collecting
much interesting information. In his
view, the defect ia the public school sys.
tenn is the neglect of instruction and
training for useful occupation. Mr..
Hardeman is not an enemy of the public
school system, and his array of statistics
and opinions is INTENDED to display its
defects, and not as an impeachment OF
the system as whole. He advocates
industrial or mechanical tuition in the
public schools, SO that by practical hand.
iwork pupils Of every condition may be
taught the secrets of handicraft, and
obtain some knowledge Of engineering,
physics and the practical arts.
England has 800 trade schools with
thirty-five thousand pupils. In France
there are trade schools, in eighty cities,
with thirty thousand pupils, besides two
hundred smaller technical schools
Prussia has two hundred schools, and
Bavaria one hundred and fifty. In the
United States there were only seventy.
five trade schools in 1876 With about
seven thousand, Eve hundred pupils
There is evidently great room for de-
velopment, therefore, in the direction
pointed out by Mr.. Hardeman, but it is
always questionable how far it is proper
or necessary that the free schools should
give more than a strictly elementary
education. The industrial schools which
are advocated ought not to be made an
additional charge upon the public
Neacs and Courier.
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IMPROVED METHODS. .

Teachers mustimprove their methods
of teaching. The people are demanding
better results. They are beginning, to
look with more favor upon ssnew tangled
ways" The progressive teachers are
securing the best positions. Old fogies
may oppose the new education, and try
to make teachers slide along in the old
ruts, but their power is waning. The
teacher who is content to keep pupils
quiet and ask questions from the text
book, must wake up or,leave the profess.
ion. The teacher should be the living
soul of the school, to understand the
needs of the child. mind, to stimulate and
direct the energies of the child, and to
drawtoutits faculties in such a manneE
that it may be educated, developed, in
accordance with natures plans. Is the
child strengthened by to-day's lesson?
Have / followed educational principles !?
Am l supplying the child's needs?
These questions should be ever in the
teachers mind. If these questions can
be intelligently answered in the afirma-
tive, the teacher is success; if not, he
needs to continue the study Of education.
-lowa Teacher
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A Death Trap in Brooklyn.

New York, May 5.-Early this morn.
ing two houses, Nos. 55 and 81 Atlantic
street, Brooklyn, fellin with crash and
then caught on fire. A number of per-
sons arc reported killed and others
seriously injured. The Abbott buildings
on State street, which are let out with
steam power for various manufacturing
purposes, together with an extensive
building in the rear, were destroyed.
The rear building was undergoing repairs
and one of the props under the girders
gave away, when the entire structure
collapsed. The FIRE then communicated
with the front buildings and, despite the
efforts of the iremen, they were destroy
ed. Fifteen workmen are supposed to be
in the ruins.
The building destroyed was very large
and consisted of main building, 'front.'
ing on Columbia street, with two wings,
leaving court in the centre. The es-
tablishment covered two thirds OF q
block. 1t was occupied by about twenty
manufacturing concerns, who rented
steam power with their rooms and en-
ployed an aggregate Of 500 persons, the
majority girls and women, and the
greater part of them were at work. when
the accident occurred. The cause of the
fire was the overturning of the boilers of
a soap factory OH the second floor.
The west wall Of the middle wing on
Atlantic street had settled. Workmen
were screwiDg it up with jacks when it
fell with crash. The building was
twenty.seven years old and full of in.
fammable material, and it was a mass Of
flames in few minutes. The heat was
80 fierce that the water was turned to
steam and the fremen made no impress.
ion upon the fire. They occupied them
selves with life saving and rescued many
women from the upper stories with their
ladders. The loss of life was greatly in
creased by the panic which prevailed
among the inmates of the building.
Many women jumped from the upper
stories before the flames reached them
and without waiting for the fremen's
ladders, which were even then being
raised to them. Some were seen to jump
from the windows into the burning de-.
bris.
s, A number of men were at work upon
The wall which collapsed and none of
these has since been seen. Ten working
girls have not been accounted for. TIE
ianitor of the building was killed within
its walls after he had given the alarm
and returned to help save life. -Four
firemen were caught under one of the
falling walls, but were dug out alive and
will probably recover though badly in
iured. The fire chief expresses the opin-
ion that twenty FIVE or more persons are
under the wreck, NIL dead. Three bodies
were burned beyond recognition. The
building was owned by Nathan Cushing,
of Boston. The loss is estimated at
100000. Insurance unknown.
Later accounts from the Brooklyn dis
aster report only three bodies recovered
land dozen persons unaccouDted for.
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Good Farming.

ar" writing in the Pickens Sentinel of
his trip to the late Presbytery at John.
ston, has the following to say of Capt.
William Neal of Anderson County, at
whose house he spent the night:
"Before leaving this point we can not
refrain from giving expression to I'M
pressions made upon US by Capt. N. as a
farmer. Not by what he said, so much
as by what we saw. The very place has
the appearance and air of industry and
thrift. Capt. N. is certainly a wide
awake, progressive farmer. He is en-
richipg bis lands with me.made fertil-
izers, which we regard as a most com.
mendable practice. There were huge
piles of compost in his lot, which were
being pulled down and distributed in
the fields. We were told that the great
quantity we saw, undistributed, was q
small part of the amount composted, and
carried away from the same place this
season. By this process the arabic lands
of Capt. N. are increasing in value every
year, and the net proceeds of the farm
are also on the increase. Is it not pass
ing strange that the great majority of
farmers will subject themselves to a
ruinous tax in the purchase of CONNER
cial fertilizers, that exhaust themselves
and render the soil less productive in the
making of our 'crops-when, if they
would take more forethought aud avail
themselves of materials at home, they
would make both themselves and their
land richer. Capt. N. believes in a vari-
ETY. of production. On a small piece of
bottom land last year, which was planted
in rice, he made q net profit of between
fifteen hundred and two thousand dollars.
He believes in the thorough preparation
of the soil for all the varieties of crops,
whether for cotton, corn, wheat, rye, rice,
&c., and the consequences is that he is
rapid. by The richest yields possible. He
is also greatly improving his stock. In q
word, he is pushing forward all the farm
interests, and keeps up with the most
improved machinery and implements of
husbandry. 1t is great pleasure to
visit such farm, and to hear such q
farmer talk. He magnifies his works,
and by 80 doing he proves himself 10 be
an important factor in the progress of
agricultural interests. We regret that
our stay with him was so short"