The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-02-07
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ing telescopes In tne Worlu' d
"A thief who visited the house OF
Mr.. Replogles, of Indiana, "took q
bath, shaved, discarded his old suit, and |
put on Mr.. Replogle's best.
Prof. Tyndall condemns the London
wood pavement rs extremely injurious
to the eyes and lungs. They are to be
replaced by the macadam pavements
Handmade envelopes cost origin
ally five cents each. The envelope
making machine now turns them out
so that thousand are sold for thirty
cents.
Pretty little baskets for sending
flowers by post are the latest English
novelty. They are fastened with q
paddock of which the sender and re-
cipient each have keys.
-Four hundred and forty of the
English Peers are landlords deriving
the whole or the greater part of their
revenues from land. Fifteen million
acres of land, with an aggregate rent
of nearly $75, 900, represent their
property and income.
Forty years ago there was not a
telegraph office in existence, and tho
telephone as q medium of communica-
| ton was undreamed of. To-day there
are $3.50 telegraph offices in va
rious portions of the world, and
they are constantly increasing.-M 7.
| Sun.
A negro laborer, under contract to
work for a Haywood County (Tenn.)
farmer, deserted him and took service
with a neighbor. A negro magistrate,
who was applied to, issued writ of
replevin, attached the boiling laborer,
and returned him to his first employer
ST Louis Posts
Two brothers had consumption.
They were advised to live in horse
stable One of them sold out his bust
ness and went to keeping livery stable.
The other did not change his mode OF
life. The one who got into the livery
business lived; the other died. So says
the Louisville CoUrier-JourRaI
There is one thing about American
locomotives that has defed innovation,
and that is the cow-catcher. Some
times cow-catching engines, handi-
capped with heavy trains on up-grades,
don't catch the cows at all, especially
if the animals are frisky and under
pretty good Observation-Disclosures Car
Builder.
The new precious gem discovered
a couple of years ago in mine near
Bridgewater, N. G., and known as the
"Hiddenite, y is said to be almost equal
to the diamond. 1t is of clear, beau
tiful grass-green tint sparkles like a
diamond, and is very hard. The gem
has aroused much more interest in Eng
land than in this country.
The London Saturday ReUieO once
saw a citizen of Philadelphia, and from
that fact generalizes thus: 1.-The
Philadelphian is never in hurry. He
meanders up Chestnut street as If he
had the paleozoic ages before him. He
has yearning for horse cars rather
than elevated railways, in which New
York delights, and he is nothing il not
meditativo. There is an abundance OF
blue blood in his veins, and he walks
! with a consciousness of innate royalty
: In the summer he loves to linger"
! The most candid young man in
town is Ncodemus Murphy. He called
at the Office of wealthy citizen and
, said: 81 want to marry your daughter
| can't live without her" ''Are yot
> acquainted with my daughterP' mo
: in the least" "How, then, do you
know that you can't live without herP'
"Well, heard you were going to givt
] her lots of money when she married
: and my personal expenses are so heay1
. / can't live without her-or some othe
= woman who has got money to supper
y husband. - Chicago Tribune.
q The wild animals of the West whicl
a have viyifed the small boys visions o
v the Rockies are slowly disappearing
1 In California bears are not so abundan
Il and are less hunted than formerly
I perhaps because only the veteran bea
: hunter finds it safe business. The Gin
namon bear is found only occasionally
and the grizzly is slowly disappearing
The California lion, or puma, does no
appear to decrease in number, becaus
n he is rarely hunted for game, but it
l. probable that his days are also mum
"a bered. Chicago Herald
The lengths of some of the longes
bridges in the world are as follows
Montreal, 1871 feet; Brooklyn, 5,9S
IN feet; Dnieper, 4,213 feet; the new HayT
IT de Grace bridge is 5000 feet long; tn
he new bridge at Homestead, near Pitt
a burgh, is $500 feet long. This is d.
= cadc of extensive railroad bridge built
i ing, and more of this kind of work
tn in progress at present than at any tin
no for several years With all the dullne
I'd in the iron trade, the bridge works al
a the mills making bridge iron are bus
he and great many railroad compani
We are preparing to erect iron structur
70 int he place of wooden ones.
er She was a remarkably sensib
Sc young lady who made the request
as her friends that after her decease s.
is, should not be buried by the side of
es brook, where babbling lovers won
re wake her from her dreams; nor in al
k, grand cemetery, where sight-seel
MS coming over epitaphs, might distra
he her, but be laid away to take her Ia
re sleep under the counter of some me-
ia, chant who did not advertise in {
in newspapers. There, she said, was
er. be found peace surprising all undo
standings depth of quiet slpmb'
on which neither the sound of
TT bouyant foot of youth nor the wea
AZ. shuttle of old age would ever intruc
albany fGa.J Ne10s.