St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-04-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
"A colored boy weighing 1 - pounds
was recently received at Galveston,
Tex. from the interior by express. The
charges on him were 1915.
A Worcester. (Mass.) fiddler
named Riedl took his old instrument to
be repaired, when the repairer found it
| to be an AWAITS of 1910, worth 5000.
Boston Herald.
The life of Kentuckian has been
shortened by tobacco. A hogshead of
the weed fell on him and crushed him
out of symmetrical proportions. 1t can
| not be denied that tobacco in large
quantities is I'M urious.-4 drkanSaw
| Irdrcltcr.
In the English House of Commons
forty members are necessary to make
quorum: in the House of Lords only
three are required. and frequently in
some night measures affecting lives and
property are passed through twa read
ings by three old gentlemen in a gilded
room. IN J. Times.
The inventory of the estate of the
late Mr.. Coates, of Ferguslie, well
known Scotch millionaire, was lodged
with the authorities at Paisley on Fri
day. The personal estate amounts to
nearly 81, 400, 900, and the stamp duty
to 100000. There is not single
charitable bequest in his will.-Lonaon
HiOrld
The latest story told by New York's
great story teller, Bill Travers: He
was met at the club by friend who
said: "Poor old Blank has gone 10
silent majority. He must have been
very rich. Do you know how much he
left?" The reply came like shot:
'.Every cent he had. '-Erchamge.
There is noble old oak on the
line of Maryland and Virginia, near the
little village of New Church, which has
been famous from time immemorial rs
4 place where clipping couples have
been joined in wedIock. A runaway
Virginia couple were married under its
spreading branches the other day.
William Ellis disliked the play in q
New Haven theater. Failing to get
his money back on demand he stood
up in the midst of the audience and
said This is bum show" A Police
Justice decided that his criticism was
disorderly, but let him off without
further punishment than he had Al
ready suffered by a night in CELL
New Haren Register.
The respectable Chinese in New
York are trying to suppress gambling
among their fellow countrymen there
by inviting those with a weakness for
gambling to join them. keep watch on
one another, accept rewards for re-
porting delinquents, and pay fines when
detected in play. There is shown a
knowledge ofhuman nature in this plan
that is really superb.-N. Y. Post,
DR.. Koch, who is at the head of the
German Commission which visited
Egypt for the purpose of studying
cholera and its causes, found special
or peculiar species of bacterium in large
numbers in the intestines of cholera
subjects. He thinks there can be no
doubt as to the existence of some rela-
ton between these minute organisms
and the disease, and he wishes to pur-
sue his studies in India. where the plague
RACES almost unabated.-HealM Lonth-
ty.
almost every day." says London
Truth, Zone reads how this landlord
has kindly returned twenty per cent
of the half-yearly rents to his tenants.
and how another has RENTED ten per
cent. Practical people in the country
know very well that these attachments,
on which so much ignorant eulogy is
laviShed, are forced upon the landlords
for if they insisted on eXtorting the full
amounts due they would lose their ten
ants and find their farms thrown upon
their hands"
The death of Abraham Becker is
reported He lived on Watteased
bayou, Prairie County. Ark, and earned
a livelihood by trapping and fishing.
1t is claimed he was native of SYRIA
cuse. N. Y, where he has many
wealthy relatives. His abode was a
tumblc-down hut, his only companions
two big dogs. He led Il hermit-like
existence, stunning mankind. Singu-
lar stories concerning him were re-
lated. 1t was said he had been forced
into voluntary exile to escape punish
ment for awful crimes. and that he had
large sums of money hidden about his
lonely cabin.-7roy Times.
"A man who recently left the C9ur
d'Alene mines says the rush was great.
People were going in in every conceiy-
able way-'.some on foot, others on
horseback and in sleighs. As he came
out he passed one party going in on a
sleigh drawn by three dogs and another
on sleigh drawn by oxen. The oxen
will be Killed for meat as soon as they
get in" The men who went in with
the dogs may also be obliged to make
meat Of their team before spring. About
this time they probably have fifteen
feet of snow up there Virginia (NecA
Enterprise.