St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-08-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

The experiment of ostrich farming
IN Florida has proved a failure.
cago Times.
-Yaller Dog and Raw Dog are the
names oftwo little towns south Of Hepp-
ner, Oregon.
Telegraph wires were recently
worked from Chicago to London
1900 miles. Chicago Journal.
A Baptist lady in Texas devotes to
the Lords cause all the eggs laid by
her hens on Sunday.-Caicago Tribune.
81 am so much in sympathy with
nature" remarked Young Gusher to
lady friend, as he plucked bunch of
grass in the Seventh ward park.
YES" she replied; ''all shades of
green do harmonic" Gusher SAYS he
can't imagine what she was driving at.
Picks Sun.
Maggie Lee, 3 magnetic girl"
gave performance in Frankfort, KY,
the other night, in presence of Proctor
Knott and large audience. A man
weighing 225 pounds sat in q chair. and
she easily lifted him and the chair by
touching the chair with the tip of her
finger. Courier journal.
A painful episode of disappointed
love has just occurred in Paris. Some
watermen found the bodies of young
man and woman, tied together, floating
in the Seine 1t was evidently a case
of double suicide, and. from infOrma-
ton afterward acquired, it appears that
the hapless couple. who belonged to a
respectable class Of society. had been
thwarted in their desires of union by
the father of the girl, who had other
views for his daughter.
"A regularly organized band OF
young thieves, calling themselves the
ozark Spirits has been unearthed in
Sumter. Ga. They have captain.
signs and passwords. Ten boys of re-
spectacle parentage were identified as
members Of the band. They have been
very successful in thieving, the pro-
ceeds of which consisted of watches,
knives, cuff buttons, silk handkerchiefs.
money, etc. Some ten-cent novels were
found in their possession Chicago
Times.
"A man from the country stepped
into gun shop on Austin Avenue to
buy a gun. Several muzzle loading
guns were shown him. but he said he
preferred breech-loader. II suppose
YOU prefer a breech-loade on account
Of it being easier and quicker to load'''
mo. it isn't that particularly. l had
An old musket that loaded at the muz.
zle, but one day it went off at the
breech and nearly blew my head of.
Instead of gun that loads at the
muzzle and goes off at the breech,
want one that can load at the breect
and fire off at the other end. Texas
Sittings.
At the shingle yard Of Mrs. Matild,
Seymour, on Raft River, about thirty
miles from Mobile, Ala, may be seer
An unusual and interesting sight in the
shape of a pet alligator. Thepetis ove1
nine feet long, and as gentle and docil'
| rs kitten. At the sound of his name
called by anv one of the Seymour
family, he will Immediately crawl on
of the water and perform whatever il
required of him in the way of carryin!
baskets, picking up sticks, etc. On
popularity of the saurian is his intense
fear Of dogs. He cannot be induced t.
come ashore if there is a dog in thu
vicinity. and if on shore when one ap
pears will at once take to the water
ST. Louis Cost.
The Treasurer of one of the coun
ties of Maryland says it is even won
der to him that defalcations are no
more numerous than they are, tempta
tions are so strong. when l frs
took hold of the Treasurcship of OH
county," saws he, Il was literally be
sieged with letters, circulars and con
fidential communications from New
York banking firms of doubtful noto
riety They came in every mail. The
were marked private personal an
all that sort of thing. They proved t
neon paper, of course-how Icoul
easily double all investments. The
showed that by putting my money u
l was absolutely certain to win, an
that it was an impossibility for me t
lose"
1t is proposed to enact law pr
hibiting fishing with nets in the Pot<
mac for five years, in the hope of n
storing the ancient piscatorial glory {
the river. Three hundred thousan
shad were often caught at one goo
landing on the Potomac during th
spring fishing, beginning about th
middle of March and terminating earl
in May, and half million herrin
were taken during the season. Stu
geon, rock, and other fish were CORE
pondingly numerous. Shad brougf
from S. to $l2 per hundred, herring I
per thousand. sturgeon three cents pc
pound. and rock from S3 to 81 pt
thousand. The sturgeon weighed fro
forty to one hundred and fifty pound
. three to six pounds. Washington Pos
COlorad0's Climate.