The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-07-18
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


Charles Dudley Warner says that
eighty per cent of the inmates of tho
Elmira Reformatory are sent out re-
formed and become good citizens.-M
Y. Sun.
from two thousand to three thousand,
appeared at Coxsackie, N. Y, the other
dav, and horses as we'll as people were
frightened. Troy Times.
Prof. Mall says that there are to
be found associated with seams of coal.
and especially with the underlying
shale, the flattened expressions of
creatures which ol.ce had life, though
at first strenuously doubted.
A fountain is to be erected in Back
Bay Park, Boston, to commemorate the
early visit of the Norsemen tothis coun-
try. 1t will cost six thousand dollars,
and will be ornamented with Morse
men, galleys and basEreliefs,
Who has not felt his mouth water
as visions of his grandmother table
came before his eyes-the brown bread
and beans, the golden pumpkin pies,N
the big twisted doughnuts, and the
rich coffee favored with real creamp-
augusta me Journal.
The progress of China toward civ
ilization is extraordinary. The Chinese
Government has sent six hundred dol
lars toward the Gordon testimonial;
while Ii Hung Chang has sent one
thousand dollars. Had any Chi
nese Minister outdone his Government
in this way fifty years ago, his head
would have answered for 1t.
An old lady living near George
town, S. c., sowed recently, as she
supposed, some mustard seed. Days
and weeks passed, but no signs of the
seed having taken root were visible,
and she decided to make an investiga-
ton, which, much to her surprise, re-
vealed that she had planted some OF
her son-in-law's powder, and not mus
tard seed, as was supposed.
"A serious epidemic of whooping
cough has run through the islands OF
the Fiji group. The malady has carried
off all the very young native children;
and left a decrease IN the population OF
} three thousand. A few years ago
: thirty thousand persons in FIJI died
from an epidemic of measles. Since
then the local Government has done
much to instruct the people in the laws
: of health.
t Only thirteen out of ninety-one
samples of coffee analysed during one
, month in Paris were pronounced pure.
: One specimen package is reported to
a have contained the following ingre-
y dents Red earth, -four coffee grounds,
Q caremel, tale, plumbago, vermicelli,
! semolina powder, bean dust carrots,
q bread crusts, acorns, sawdust, red
q ochre, brick dust, ashes, mahogany
l shavings, vegetable earth and sand.
g There are at present large NUM-
n Der of Mormons moving southwark
r through Utah. They are composed
e mostly of polygamists, and tell that
they are bound for Arizona, which to
o an extent is the truth; but after they
8 arrive in Arizona they continue to
d move southwark and will not make a
10 permanent rest until they get on Mexi-
IS can territory, where they will make
y homes for themselves francisco
U Alta.
o. He was tame curate away in the
wild Black country of Australia, and
he was waiting in church to marry Q
- couple of aborigines. Enter one o.
is them, the male, in hurry and in his
IN working clothes, with his hands ant
face covered with antique dirt. "Aw'v'
-, cum to be wed.n "YouP" Responded
y the curate; Gin that garbp 1t is mos
~ improper. Why, you are downright
10 dirty" "Me dirtyp Wait till you Sc
her. London Truth.
There is no more curious sigh
~ than the Brooklyn terminus OF tn
ur great bridge at six o'clock in the after
ITS noon. The cars are then run at abou
TAI minute and half Roadway, as the
"a call it, by which they mean that tw
L. cars are emptied on the Brooklyn sid
about that hour in every minute and
half The passengers then descend
stairway to the street, but, notwitl
:. standing the interval OF time named
the procession of people is unbroke
- during the rush of business. A col
" slant stream of men and women, seVe
and eight abreast, is to be seen d
INV scending these stairs.-N I. sun.
'' "A New York firm applied to Abr
ham Lincoln, some years before he b
all. came President, as to the financi
md standing of some of his neighbors. M
md Lincoln replied as follows: yours
our the tenth instant received. i am WI
We acquainted with Mr.. -, and kno
4 / his circumstances. First of all, he h
ere wife and baby; together they Dug
any to be worth fifty thousand dollars
in any man. Secondly, he has an Off
can in which there is q table worth o
an. dollar and fifty cents, and three cha
has worth, say one dollar. Last of 9
nee there is in one corner large rat-h'
but which will bear looking into. Respe
it." fully yours, A. Lincoln. IN Y. Z
nng bune.
n "A gentleman scientifically inclir
Up" captured a spider, and by careful
81 innate made by means of actua
self, weighing it and then combining it !
ne / cage he found that 1t ate four times
-. weight for breakfast, nearly nine til
its weight for dinner, thirteen times
on weight for supper, finishing up with
day, ounce, and at eighth p. m, when he
re- released, ran off in search of food.
ing, this rate man weighing one hund
the and sixty pounds would require
The whole of fat steer for breakfast,
a