The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-02-14
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

A ranchman In Texas owns SIX
thousand horses. Chicago Herald.
Carrots, turnips and cabbages are
the only vegetables that can be raised
in Greenland.
The demand for napkin rings made
of wood grown at Walter Scott's home,
Abbottsford, is proving a great drain
on the forests of Maine.
A country road near Dublin is
slowly burning up. TWAS constructed
of peat, and fire is gradually eat
ing it up, burning trees out by the
roots.
At Charlotte, N. c., is fountain
which sends stream two hundred and
sixty-eight feet high, icy cold and clear
us crystal. 1t has its source in the
| adjacent mountains, and is said to be
the highest in the world.
Fifty thousand tons of SCOT are
taken from London chimneys every
year, and it is subsequently put to good
use as manure-about one thousand
pounds to the acre-the valre being
set at forty-one thousand pounds.
A lady of Wood River, Idaho. while
preparing potatoes for dinner the other
day, found flakes of gold in the water.
The gold was assayed, the value being
fifteen cents. The settlement is now
anxious to know where these potatoes
were raised, but no one seems to know.
Chicago Times.
"A deaf family in New Hampshire
has been traced back to the fourteenth
century in England, and in all chat time
| hot n,.lxy cl nj
deaf mutes. In Maine there is 4 family
in which there are ninety-fye deaf
mutes, all of them connected by blood
or marriage. Boston Globe.
1t is now held by some that the
Gulf Stream does not enter the Gulf OF
Mexico at all, but is an equatoSial cur
rent coming from the African coast
through the Caribbean Sea. Striking
the coast of Yucatan it is DETECTED to
the northeast and passes out into the
Atlantic through the Straits of Yucca
tan and Florida.
--"'Of all the watering places com
mend me to Prymont Frauleir
Schultze, from Berlin, came here suf
fering from severe attack of impecu
mostly, and in three weeks she was per
fectly cured" "By drinking thu
watersP" 'No; by a wealthy Ameri
can, whom she is going to marry.
Der J7b.
The people of England and Scot
land are, remarks the Spectator, multi
plying so fast that pessimists may wei
be excused for feeling some anxiety N
to the future. The population of til,
kingdom, which in 1915 was 5,000,0 900
is now SO, 900, 000-that is to say, ii has
grown more in the last seventy year
than in all the untold ages of the pre-
yious past.
Fat people have now their choice
between four systems. l. The origina
Banting, which consists of eating moth
ing containing starch, sugar or fat. 2
The German Banting, which allows fat
but forhids sugar or starch. B. A Mu
Mich system, which consists in beint
clothed i'll wool, and sleeping in flame
blankets instead of sheets. 4. Not eat
ing and drinking at the same time.
"A traveller in England writes from
the celebrated Mugby Junction (Rug
by), satirized by Dickens, that the rail
way refreshments are as bad as eve
they could have been. While firth,
with the barmaid at the station h
wrote his name with date on the lid o
a pork pie. Three months after, com
ing that way, he saw tho autograph
still there on the same refreshment.
Queen Margherita of Italy is max
ing an effort to revive the making O
Venetian point lace. She has estah
lished school, from which the gradu
ates go out to teach to others the mys
teries of the craft. Already there ar
four thousand pupils, all at work, am
thirty-four varieties of point are turne'
out. Only by the color, it is said, ma
the new product be distinguished ffor
the antique lace. -
Between Damascus and Jerusalem
is said to be q tribe of about tire
thousand Israeltes, who have probabl
been there since the beginning of tn
Christian era. They have neither cit
nor town, but live in tents, and spea
the Hebrew language among then
selves, but use the Arabian wit
strangers. They have remained, lilS
the primitive races, exclusively tillers {
the soil and warriors. They go arme
from head to foot.
In 1927 Charles Babbage superb
tended the printing of set of trigont
metrical tables for the ordnance surve
!, of England and Ireland. Only thirt
copies were printed. The tables COZ
. tanned six millions of figures. The
3 were prepared and corrected with IL
+ utmost care, and when completed wei
!. hung up in the hall at Cambridge Tn
+ versity and reward offered to an
1 one who could find an inaccurac
a Since their first issue in 1927 no err
has been discovered, and it may re
/, sonably be concluded that they are a
. solutely correct.
: "A young medical student nam,
Ii Kittrell, of Mississippi, has been re
It dered temporarily insane by the sigh
n in the dissecting-room of the Vande
t bilt Medical College at Nashville. /
' was found by the police Handerir
; about the streets, gesticulati1g Wild
q He said to an officer: ut weakent
r my stomach. ] can't stand it. | can
d be doctor Oh, horrors! to thin
: that they should know / could n
r live, and want me to sell them n
g body for dissection before l died Ne
!. err, | will 60 home to Mississippi IL
/ have to walk. Heaven help me.
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