The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-10-10
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New Hampshire.
Paper plates for bread, butter,
cake, etc, have been introduced at the
Berlin hotels. They are in papier
mache, with gray-colored borders in
relief.
The cities of marvellous growth are
not all in the West. Baku, Russian
town on the Caspian, had twelve thou
sand inhabitants in 1873 and 'fifty-eight
thousand in 1888.
The Mexican stage coach always
has two drivers-one to hold the reins
and the other to do the whipping. The
latter carries bag of stones to throw
at the leaders. Louis Globe.
"A New Hampshire court has lately
decided that a physicians horse and
buggy are tools, and as such are ex-
empt from seizure for debt when they
are necessary to enable him to practice
his profession with reasonable success.
In the language of flowers moss
rosebud is confession of love; red
rosebud implies that the giver considers
the recipient young and beautiful; and
if she returns white rosebud she de-
clares that she is too young to love-
Chicago Herald,
Smallpox was accurately described
by Rhazes, an Arabian physician,
about 900 A. d. 1t is supposed to have
been introduced into Europe by the
Saracens, and it was spread widely
among the Indians by the early ex.
plorers of America.
"A man claiming to be scientist
wants some one to bore the earth to
prevent its bursting. We have friend
who we think would be able to do it.
Up TO this time he has devoted all his
boring energies to us, and we would be
glad to see him try it on the rest Of the
earth. Boston Post.
Mr.. +. w. Clark has exhibited in
London a new system of gas lighting
for private houses by means of recuper-
alive lamps, BY ventilating arrange
ment the lamps consume their own
smoke, and the burners are so formed
that the requisite air is heated to high
temperature and admitted into the
lamps at the point of ignition.
The University of Virginia has re-
Gently come into the possession of one
of the original printed copies of the
June 80, 1776. The paper is sup
plement to the Virginia Gazette, then
printed at Williamsburg. The pre-
amble is from the pen of Mr.. Jefferson,
while the Constitution is the work of
Mr.. George Mason.
Last years income Of the Girard
estate in Philadelphia was nine hum
dred aud fifty thousand dollars. Its
real estate alone is valued at seven
million three hundred and forty-siX
thousand dollars, besides the college
buildings and grounds. The collieries
of the estate produce one million four
hundred thousand tons of coal during
the year.-RbilGdeiphia Press.
The oldest house in Oregon is
four hundred and sixty-five years
old. About the time that John
Hancock and those other three or
four forefathers were signing the Dec
laration of Independence, says the
historian, the top of this house, which
was then tree, blew or broke off. Its
present occupant, few years ago, dug
around the stump, trimmed it out, cut
a door and window, and made q habit
able room about nine by ten feet THAT
beats nothing oil to pieces"
"A special committee on railroad
axles have by majority reported that
iron axles are safer than steel axles,
that all cranks should have the webs
hooped, that the iron cranks appear to
fail after running about two hundred
thousand miles and steel after hum
bred and seventy thousand miles; it is
highly desirable that they should be
taken off and never again used in pas
senger engines, and that crank axles
properly constructed are as strong as
straight axles.- Chicago Journal.
In the number of hands employed
in manufacturing establishments,
amount of wages paid and total value
of products, New York stands one,
Philadelphia two and Chicago three.
The remainder of the twenty great
manufacturing cities, according to the
1880 census, are in the order named
Brooklyn, Boston, St. Louis, Cincin-
natl, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, San Fran
cisco. Newark, Jersey City, Cleveland,
Buffalo, Providence, Milwaukee, Louis
Vile, Detroit, New Orleans and Wash
ington.-M. Y. Times.
in nearly all the Southern cities
the authorities are pulling down the
bill-boards, and soon paper on the
WALL" will be thing of the past. The
Charleston Ne,Os and Courier gives ex
preston on the question: 1.-THE aboli
ton of this mode of advertising, in
other places as well as Savannah
would not only prevent the exhibition
of the offensive pictures so frequently
to be seen in cities and towns, bu
would prevent the public from being
deceived by INSCRIPTIONS exhibitors.
Macon (GG.) Telegraph
Stove polish is made from plum
bago, some of the richest mines o
which are in Guaymas, Mexico. Tn
plumbago comes from the mines il
sacks weighing one hundred aud fit
pounds each. It is then crushed an,
separated by the use of huge pans, tn
coarse quality being sent through tn
crusher again, and only the very fin
going into the bins to be mixed wit
oils and made into stove polish.
factory with capacity of a ton {
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