St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-01-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

MlSlELlIANLvlSs
Florida newspapers have their joke
about the swamp lands. Some of them
saw that the lands are TO be sold ''by the
gallon
A Brooklyn policeman was fined
two days pay for saying to q citizen:
pot"-N y. Mail.
The Iron Mountain Railroad COM
pany sent nine tons of documents to
England. giving facts and figures in
viting immigration, but sent no money
to pay the freight or distribute them.
and they are going as waste to the
paper mills.-!St. Louis Post.
Michael Crosby arrived in New
York recently from Hamburg, bound
for Mauch Chunk. He said he in
tended to walk there. He had plenty
of money, but declared that he enjoyed
walking. having often tramped one
hundred miles in twenty-four hours in
his native land.-N. y. Sun.
Somebody told President Arthur
that George Bliss had said that young
Allan Arthur was a little wild and
should be looked after. MIR. Arthur
said, with some impatience: ''George
Bliss had better mind his own business.
He and YOU and | were all boys our
selves, and you cannot make an old
man out of boy. Washington Post.
John Huntington, of Cleveland,
cannot be blamed if he favors monopo-
| lies. Some years ago he put S2o,ooo
| into the Standard Oil Company, and
has drawn large dividends ever since.
The other day in New York he was Of
| fered Sl,OOo.000 for his interest anu
| sold it. He came home with a deed for
a Sl90. 900 house in one pocket and
drafts for $500, 900 in the other.-Csere-
| land Herald.
| The Government of France offers a
prize of 30. 900 francs for the discovery
that shall enable electricity to be APP
| piled ecomically in any one OF the fol-
| lowing directions: As source of heat,
| of light. of chemical action, of mechan-
zeal power. as a means of the transmits
| sion of intelligence or the treatment OF
disease. the prize being open to all
nationalities, and to be awarded in De-
cember, 1887.
AT Wilkesbarre. Pa, recently, Den
mis- Killer, drunken young loafer,
overlook Mr. John Clair. a well known
citizen, who had but one leg. and told
him to walk faster. Mr.. Clair replied
that he was walking as fast as an arti-
fetal leg would let him, and without
more ado, the loafer shot him fatally.
firing four bullets into him after the
first one had dropped him.-Pinsburgh
Post.
Mrs. Mackay's country residence is
the Chateau de Villcbon, a quaint old
pile of the fourteenth century, situated
near Palasien, about twenty miles from
Paris. and surrounded with immense
park estates The California million
aires wife is devout Catholic and
keeps her purse string open for the
church. When they they got up a
benefit for the sufferers by the Ischia
disaster she was asked to buy some
tickets. Her reply was quiet check
for 5000 francs.
Just after the Sunday School exer.
cises in Trinity Church, Mobile, recent,
ly. the sexton began to ring for the
morning service. As the bell did moi
sound right, he requested the boys te
go out of the tower room, and a second
later down came the bell through floor
after floor, cutting its way as neatly a:
a cannon ball might have done, ant
landing in the cellar, fifty-iive feet be-
low. The sexton lodged aside Just il
time 10 save his head. The bell lie:
mouth up in the cellar, and is unin
iured; but it has lost its clapper.-N
, o. Picagwne.
, DIR. J. II. Sidall, successful dent
list. recently became insane and wa
sent to Jail. Six years ago he shot ant
t killed Matt Mcclure, brother of Exon
gresham Mcclure, of Wooster, in ;
quarrel about woman. He acted yer,
, strange lately. One freak was the pur
: chase of half dozen market baskets
which he carried through the streets al
together. Another was trying to bu,,
} all the real estate he could find TO
) sale. The other day he created a sen
; sation in Methodist Church by walk
: ing up the aisle with cigar in hi
T mouth He made five attempts to shoe
: DIR. Dougherty. rival dentist, but wa
| prevented. His insanity is the result o
5 brooding over the killing of Mcclure. O
. which he was acquitted on the groun'
t of self-defense. He claims the dea
7 man form rises before him threaten
| ing vengeance Cleretand Herald.