St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-12-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

1t may not be generally known that
the disability law against Catholics still
exists in New Hampshire. No Cath
Ollie can hold Office in that State.-Lhi-
cage AemS.
An electric light has been intro
duced into lighthouse at the entrance
to the outer harbor OF Rio de .JaneirO.
1t is of 1900 candle power and is yisi-
BILE a distance of thirty five miles.
The Glasgow Herald thinks that if
Americans would substitute oatmeal
for pies and hot cakes they would be
calmer. less lively, less speculative,
less bombastic, and happier.
The latest ind dignity offered to the
memory of CARLYLE is to credit BIN
with having invented the word
..dude." In his journal on July ID,
1853, he wrote: Il seldom read any
dud of book, novel or the like,
where the writing seems to flow
along like talk. without certain
pain, certain envy"
Birds in Sweden and Norway are
better protected than in any other coun-
try. and the consequence is that they
are tame and familiar. A resident oil
Sweden SAYS that evrey morning tiocks
of sparrows come into the room while
he is eating breakfast and run about
the room picking up crumbs or wash
ing themselves in basins.
MANY tenement-house cigarmakers
receive from their employers 100 pounds
of tobacco, for which they have to re-
turn 1O2 pounds of cigars. The difference
j. supposed to represent the water used
in posteuing the dry leaf. Complaints
are made that when the tobacco falls
short cigar stumpS, willow, oak, and
elm leaves are used to make good the
deficiency. and that in some instances
100 pounds of tobacco have thus been
made to produce 200 pounds OF cigars.
N ]. Star.
MIR. W. j. Andres, of Sumter. SC,
killed hog few days ago affected
with every symptom of hydrophobia.
The hog had been bitten two weeks pre-
viously by dog whish was supposed to
be mad. The hog became so violent
as to necessitate its separation from the
other hog, and finally had TO be killed
A farmer living near Bishopville, in the
same county, shortly after killed 8
young COW, apparently affected with
hydrophobia, supposed to have origil
mated by the same dog passing through
that neighborhood.-S. Louis Post.
For some time the Capitol at Wash
ington has been lighted with electric
lights. 1t is now found that the build
ing presents most untidy appearance
owing to the fact that myriads of al
kinds of insects have been attracted by
the lights and have killed themselve'
by striking against the dome. Bushel:
of May-tiies, beetles, crickets, ear-wigs
dragon-fies, grasshoppers, caddis-tlies
bees, wasps. hornets. butterflies, moths
cicadas, froghoppers, plant lice. waite
beetles, whirligigs, shippers, horned
midgets, gnats. mosquitoes, and ever,
species of insect known to the sur
rounding swamps and woods OF tn
District have met their death in thi
way. Washington Star.
When the late Frank Chanfrau re
turned from California and was the pos
SCISSOR of snug fortune he bought han
some house a5 Yonkers and then wen
to the warehouse on Peck Slip, wher
his father was employed as porter
and said: Il d like You to step out wit
me for awhile" Il can't" reptile
the elder man; sit isn't dinner hou
vet. and my employers wouldn't lik
it." "Yes. they would; they are pei
fectly willing" said the actor. and the
took his father to Yonkers, showed hir
through the house and asked MIN wha
he thought of it. 1T is a very beaut
full place." was the reply. well, it
YOURS" said Chanfrau.-N. Y. 1ril
uae.