The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-02-21
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ant habit to get into.
knitting black stockings is the
latest craze among fashionable young
ladies.--M 7. Grdphic..
European bankers Estimate that
the, loss to the Continent during the
past summer by the cholera scare eY-
ceeds $25, 000,900s Switzerland suf-
fered most severely.
An old lady, whose grandson was
about to proceed to the Black Sea,
among other parting admonitions,
gave him strict injunctions not to
battle in that sea, for she did not want
him to Come back q negro. Boston
GlSbel &C. e. 2
' IA man in Susquehanna County,
Pennsylvania, who has wide local
repute for his ability to distort his
countenance and make fun for others,
recently threw his jaw out of joint, his
mouth being firmly set wide open. 1t
was no laughing matter, and he was in
agony till doctor was procured and
his jaw replaced. The shock caused
him a serious illness.
Modern business modes are un-
wholesome. They take on the forms Of
gambling. They have dazzled the eyes
of our young men to their ruin. BY
them they have been drawn into ext
gencies where the laws of God and man
seem to offer no barrier to temptation.
Our business life has been heaped up of
late with the wrecks of these bewildered
and misguided men.-Zton'S Herald.
wooden wool" is now used as a
cheap and useful dressing for wounds.
and is being prepared extensively as
commercial staple for surgical dress
ings. 1t is finely ground wood, such as
is extensively used in the manufacture
of paper. 1t is clean-lool1ing, deli
cate fibered, soft, yellowish-white sub
stance, having an odor of fresh wood,
and absorbs an immense quantity OF
liquid.
There are 10000 fishermen in
France. The coast fisheries provide
employment for only $4,000 of this
great force, so that SO, 900 French fish
ermen make their livelihood out of for
eign waters. The value of fish caught
in 1883 was f4,2S9,076, of which
more than E3,000,000 worth were
drawn from outside their own waters.
About four fishermen out of every
thousand are drowned during the year.
Once kite-hyer attached to the
tail of large kite q kitten, sewed in a
canvas bag with a netting over the
mouth to give it air. When the kite
was at its greatest height-some two
hundred feet or more-the mewing of
the kitten could be distinctly heard by
those holding the string. To the clear
ness of the air was attributed the hear
ing of the Kittens voice, and no tele-
phone patent was applied. Chicago
Herald.
"A returned traveller says: II I'm
joyed genuine pumpkin pies at one or
two missionary tables in Japan and
China, and other American delicacies
(served without an ocean of crockery),
at the hospitable boards of some of our
Representatives in Syria. Oatmeal,
griddle-cakes, hot biscuits, genuine pies
and custards are unknown out of
America, save in few London and
Paris restaurants, where they are some
times counterfeited, without the sue
cess that might be desired. =
The highest velocity that has been
impaired to shot is given as one thous-
and six hundred and ,twenty-siX feet
per second, being equal to mile in
three and two-tenths seconds. The
velocity of the earth at the equator,
due to rotation on its axis, is one
thousand miles per hour, or a. mile iii
three and six-tenths seconds; and thus,
if cannon ball was fired due west,'
and could maintain its initial velocity,
it would beat the sun in its appareht
journey round the earth.-N, Y. Set1e
There is a convict in the. California
State Prison who has made i, three
attempts to kill his wife, and she-is still
alive and hearty. For the first time he
was sentenced to only a year, ass the
evidence was not clear that he meant
to hurt her seriously, but as. he, let less
than a day, pass after being liberated
before stabbing her the second assault
was deemed rather murderorfs, and foE
1t he served five years Hetused 4 pts.
toll in the third onslatght, and went to
prison for ten years, which have nearly
expired. San FraneisGo Cat, .LliN .,
The. Medical ACCORD makes the
startling, statementthatl oking- glasses
are responsible Tor. mercufial poison.
ing. In two, cases given, ,1ian and Hi
I wife, the eaass of the trouble was lin !
I'idoKinglglass haifg7Ag, To thesbedr0om
lishe wGbtieh back of (which was d6tteC
I with thousands Of atninuteiglobulas O
mercury, Thu. apartment. was heated
dITiHg thenight, In another instance
| the. source Of poisoning was a mirror
forty years old, whose back had be
come weak, and from whose face tn,
| quicksilvery freshness was fading. Thu
, aged culprits having been summaril,
removed, their victims speedily re
covered a1a .sAi- ! vi. a
The streets of Winnipeg presen
a great. variety Opera glass ,exqris
ties are iostIed by half-breeds shoe
! with processing; daintily dresses
y lnlits1of fasff0nSafes Side by side witt
\ fAe 4ndldil inbtBdfcw whose infant rest
.l4n Nfs90sdfA pocrdt'Dr cradle With
tdecisgs 80 d. ,EbiShsiF fastesetlrSbdfs
che nsAAF I've asseEe.et gqqdei
yoke. The mounted police, who's
duties lie outside the city limits, look
ing after the Introduction of liquor int