St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-06-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr.. Magnin, Governor of the Bank
of France, gave grand reception
lately at his official residence on the an
niversary of the banks foundation
eighty-four years ago.
1t is estimated from statistical
point of view that loss of appetite
among young people on account Of
love annually saves to this country
800, O00,0 00.-N. Y. Graphic.
Henry Richardson, leading member
of the famous vigilance committee in
Brown County. Idaho, which hanged
fourteen horse-thieves in three months.
mas himself been lynched near his own
home -Denrer Tribune.
New York policemen moistened
their uniforms with salt water to make
them look bright and clean for inspec-
ton and avoid the order to buy new
ones, but an inspector noticed the damp
ness, marveled and had things dried
A. Y. Sun.
Formerly women could not legally
marry until they had spun a couple OF
sets of bed furniture; hence the term
spinster, which is still in use. If that
rule prevailed now, preachers wouldn't
get rich on their wedding fecs.-BOst0n
Globe.
Munro Adams, the New York law
yer detected a few weeks ago in giving
out forged divorces, had a business of
nearly three hundred cases year, the
Herald SAYS, which netted him about
$4,000 year, after all expenses had
been paid.
-''Some business men are constantly
in fret" observes the Cincinnati Ga
zette; .'they worry while awake; they
worry in their sleep, and when they
have worried themselves into three or
four chronic diseases they find they
have something to worry about.
The latest trick of the emigrant
sharp is to sell the foreigners who land
from the steamers railroad passes at q
great reduction, which are worthless.
One fellow got rid of ninety among a
party of Italians, selling alleged tickets
to Pittsburgh for three dollars each. He
escaped with the booty.-Chicdg0 Her.
aid.
A little boy was buried in Meridian,
Miss, the other day, and behind the
hearse in the funeral procession walked
his pony with its saddle draped with
Grape. Strangers even looked with
moistened eyes upon the little fellows
pet. upon which he had been often seen
to ride through the streets but q little
while ago.
The natives of the Chloe Islands
make use of curious natural bar
ometer, to which, from its having been
first noticed by the Captain Of an
Italian corvette, the name .'Barometre
Araucano" has been given. This novel
weather guide is the shell of a crab,
one of the anomura, probably OF the
genus LithOdes. 1t is peculiarly sensi
tive to atmospheric changes. 1t has a
color nearly white in dry weather, but
as soon as wet weather approaches
small red spots are exhibited, varying
in number and intensity with the
amount of moisture in the atmosphere.
In the rainy season it is completely red.
Some interesting and extraordinary
data have been compiled respecting the
Mississippi. 1t appears that it boasts
tributary streams with total length of
navigation of 1851 miles, or about
thirds of the distance round the
world. Even this, however, represents
but small amount of the navigation
which will follow when the Federal Gov
eminent has made the contemplated
improvement in the Upper Missis-
sippi. in the Minnesota, Wisconsin
and other rivers, in which it is
now engaged. But while the Missis-
sippi has 1851 miles navigable to
steamboats,, it has 20,221 miles navi-
gable to barges. This navigation is
divided between twenty-five States and
Territories.-Southern Manufacturer.