St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-04-26
MISCELLANEOUS.


A Goldsboro IN. c. man Is col.
Letting peck of nickels as penalty
for lost bet.
"A saltpeter cave in Burton County,
Georgia, is overrun with bats, and has
been so from time immemorial.-Chi
cdgo Times.
AT Evansville, Col, Gustave Rotz.
Ter, out hunting rabbits, stepped on
snow that completely covered the mouth
of a mine shaft, fell one hundred feet
and was killed. Tribune.
1t has been figured out that there
is enough railroad travel in this coun.
try to give every man, woman and child
in the United States ride of la miles
each year.-N. Y. Herald.
In Dakota married women retain
their own real and personal property,
and may make contracts, sue and be
sued, as if single. Neither husband
nor wife has any interest in the prop
erty of the other.-Ch,cdgo Herald.
Slip knitting needle into your
pocket, says a well-known dairyman,
and when you go to meal dipit in the
milk pitcher. If any of the milk adj
heres to the needle it is pure, but if it
does not, the fluid is adulterated with
water Detroit Post.
Elder Roberts, who has charge of
the headquarters of the Mormon
Church at Chattanooga, states that
there are over sixty-tivc Mormon elders
engaged in PROSECUTING in all sections of
the South, and the force will be doubled
in May.-N. \. san.
An Italian laborer, who was known
as mo. 49," was recently killed at
Ballston, n. Y, by caying bank. He
always feared that this number would
bring him ill luck, and often entreated
the contractor to change it, Nlt each
time was repulsed. Times.
A Mr. Baldwin. of Anderson County,
Kansas, a very old man, who remem-
bers events of fifty years ago much bet
ter than those of last year, saws that
during the visit Of the comet of 1912
the western sky was red every evening,
just rs it was during the last few
months.
While policeman was going his
rounds at London, Ont, the other night.
he was attracted by a riotous noise in
one of the buildings. and, on opening
the door he saw the corpse of an old
lady sitting upright in a chair, sur
rounded by drunken mob of dancing
idiots. The woman had died of drunken
ness, and when the officers entered one
of the men was trying to pour whisky
into the mouth of the corpse. Chicago
Times
One of our solid citizens. who an
swered an advertisement to the follow
ing effect says his curiosity is satisfied:
eff you would learn to make home
happy, send twenty-five cents to Box
No. - New York" He sent the cash
and soon received this answer: "If
you are as big fool as we think YOU
must be for giving us your money, Won
can make home happy by leaving ii
and going out west by yourself. -
Laurencectlle Herald.
81 have tried to kill that dog, but
my heart failed me. l am too poor to
pay dog-tax, but l promise that Just as
soon as | can make up my mind to
shoot dumb brute, my dog shall die"
pleaded Hugh Asa, an aged individual
who was before Louisville, {Ky.,)
Judge, recently, to show cause why he
should not be fined for failure to de-
post two dollars in the city treasury for
dog license. The court was touched
by his pathetic pleading, and granted
the old man further time in which to
shoot the canine or pay license
Louisville Courier-Journat.
Seventeen years ago A. A. Tozier,
of Haverhill, Mass, was married. Seven
years afterward he was divorced by the
same Justice who had married him.
and married his second wife in good
faith. and has lived within ten miles
from his first wife ever since. Three
years ago he received eight hundred
dollars back-pension money. His first
wife wanted six hundred dollars of the
but he refused ID give it to her.
She then instituted criminal proceed
ings against him for bigamy. and few
days ago he was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary for the crime.
Boston Herald
"A man, for having successfully
played this trick in Cincinnati, is now
in prison: Enter drug store or gro
Gerry and ask for cake of soap and
tender $40 bill in payment. The clerk
returns S. bill and $3.50 in change.
Then discover that You already have
ten cents in change, which you put with
The $3.50, asking the clerk at the same
lime to give you IS bill for the change.
After getting the bill pull out the first
IS bill and say to the clerk: Here is |
s. more-just give me back the 80"
simple as this plan is it frequently fools |
he confused clerk and leaves the Gus
omer $3.50 and cake of soap ahead.
Times.
Nelson Human. a farmer, has |
lived in two-story wooden house stu
,ted near the Housatonic River. The |
,euse had a distinguishing character
stic-a window in the upper story
made secure by iron bars like those of
prison. Behind these bars his wife
las lived for thirty years past During
Ill those years she has been partially in
ane. never violent, so the neighbors
md her family say. With the death of
Ter husband recently there came to
IRIS. Human her first release from her
'rison. Hinman was known by his
leighbors as very penurious man.
feW Haren Register.
A Horse Car Incident