The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1889-09-13
LAKE CHARLES CALCASEU PARISH LOUISIANA FRIDAY SEPTBER 1885,

The government has totally sup
pressed the Lutheran church in Rus
sia,
It is said that Gen. Boulanger is now
charged with the embezzlement Of
252, 900 francs.
l remember that a wise friend Of
mine did usually say, '3That which is
everybody's business is nobody's busi-
ness. s."--Izaak Walton.
There are $4,000 benefit and burial
clubs registered in England and
Wales, with funds which amount to
Ell, 900, 600.
A New York physician is reported
as saying that during an epidemic Of
diphtheria in that city there were
live times as man y cases ON the shady
as on the sunny side Of the street.
The Austrian minister of Justice has
ordered the establishment OF a special
department in the penitentiaries for
Juvenile FIRST offenders, " who hence
Forth are to be kept separate from
other criminals,
A claim for pension recently filed
in the pension bureau by John Quincy
Adams, on account of services with
the United States eolored troops, is
witnessed by Patrick Henry and
Thomas Jefferson.
The Maine seals have grown familiar
with the summer tourist, and can spot
one as far as they can see him. They
are not afraid of this species, but let a
Maine fisherman come along and how
they will diveI
do not know what may appear to
the world, but to myself l seem to
have been only like "a boy playing on
the sea shore, and diVerting myself in
now and then finding a smoother peb-
BILE or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all
undiscovered before me.-Isaac New
ton
1t is to be presumed that London
Justice has made its computation with
accuracy when it says that all the
peope now living in the world, or
about /, 400, 900, 600, could find stand
ing room within the limits of field
ten miles square, and, by the aid Of a
telephone, could be addressed by a
single speaker.
An English journal says that short
sightedness descends from parent to
child in diagonal succession-that is,
sons inherit it most frequently from
their mothers and daughters from
their fathers, "
The latest development of the slot
machine is brass frame inelosing
the city directory, which permits the
volume to be opened only when a
cent has been inserted in the slot. 1t
is hailed as a blessing by druggists
and. others whose directories are in
constant demand by the public.
There are now 101 geographical
societies in the world. OF these
France and her colonies have more
than any other countries-29, with
10, 800 members; next comes Ger
many, with ~ societies and $500
members; followed by Great Britain
and her colonies, with societies and
5000 members
1t is we'll known that practice in
looking at distant objects improves the
oyesight. In the test for color blind
ness among the engineers of the New
Jersey bSnIEbl Eoatl IL was lOuuu tIlaL
the oldest man in the service had the
best sight for long distance purposes,
and was better able to distinguish the
various shades and colors.
The province of Ontario, Canada, Is
possessed Of the most extensive deposit
Of rock salt which has yet been found
on the American continent The salt
was first discovered at Goderich, about
twenty years ago, at depth Of 1,010
feet, by boring which was made for
petroleum. The salt measures extend
over an area of /, 200 square miles
The horses on some Of the stage
routes in Nevada are trained to wear
snow shoes. After an animal becomes
used to them he can travel four or Ave
miles an hour, where it would be i'm
possible to go that distance in week
without them. The shoes are made
OF thin steel plate, and measure about
0 by II inches. The horses are shod
with long heel calks, which go through
the snow shoes and prevent their slip
ping going up and down hill.