St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-09-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

wears, died at McMinnville, Oregon, a
few DAYS ago, from the effects OF in
flammation, produced by swallowing
cracked cherry pits.-DenUer Tribune.
An enterprising citizen of Vallejo,
Cal, has been detected smuggling
TASKS of whisky on board the United
States steamship Hartgord by sewing
them up in salmon.-San francisco
Call
No girl is plain, says Mr.. Ruskin,
who is we'll bred, kind, or modest. All
real deformity means want of manners
or of heart. All real ugliness means
some kind of hardness of heart or vul-
garity of education.
The New York Times says the To-
connective works at Paterson. N. j., now
furnish for SC, 200 and less locomotives
that they demanded and received $751;
600 two years ago, and business is very
dull at that.
A Kansas shoemaker stopped work
and began to spend money freely. He
was on that account arrested on sus.
picion of having robbed a stage coach.
Then he had to confess and prove that
he was an heir to an English quarter OF
million Chicago Inter Ocean.
A Quebec mechanic the other day
stepped upon a nail which pierced the
sole of his boot and ran into his foot
The nail was a new one and clean, and
he thought nothing of the injury, but
in two days he became lame and was
laid up, and on the eighth day he died
of lock jaw.
Some photographs recently placed
on sale in Berlin show that the favorite
residence of Prince Bismarck at Fred
cricksruhe is far from being the castle
which popular fancy has supposed it to
be. 1t is, in fact, so unpretentious a
little house as hardly to deserve the
name of villa.
The keeper of the only saloon a,
funck Gulch, Col, got early informa-
ton that two horse thieves were going
to be hanged in the place. and he
hastily advertised the entertainment by
means of placards throughout the re-
gion, thus drawing highly remunora-
tive multitude. Chicago Herald.
Between the ages of fifteen and
forty-five a woman can grow about
seven crops of hair. 1t averages about
four ounces to the crop, and when the
prevailing popular color. brings hand
some price The total annual crop is
estimated at 100 tons. gathered from
100000 heads.-N. Y. Tribune.
Rattan and cane bedroom furniture
is growing in popularity. The beds
and dressing cases come in extremely
pretty artistic designs. They are cool,
and if properly attended to and cleaned
oncee very six months will last . lifetime.
They are sometimes ornamented with
broad satin ribbon, but they look just as
well without this addition.-N. Y
Herald.
louisville has gone back on the
standard time recently adopted through.
out the country. Out of one hundred
of the largest cities in the United States
seventy-eight still use the standard
time OF the twenty-five cities that re-
fuse to adopt it Cleveland and Cincin-
natl are the most important. Chicago
Journal.
1--WE need right here in the South, ="
SAYS the New Orleans Picayune, ''more
than anything else, skilled labor. We
want, more and more, trained archi-
tects, engineers and machinists. Tech
nical education should be constantly
applauded and assisted. and our young
men should be taught that the learned
professions are not the only avenues
to distinction and wealth. y"
Those were very old cigars which
were given the other day to the Spanish
consul at Portland. Me. They were .
lot of two thousand sent to his prede.
cessor thirty eight years ago, but which
r.,l ut hsc hands haf ho
was transferred from his post. After
being stored for so long period. they
are still pronounced to be of excellent
tiavor.-Boston Herald.
Always keep the love letters your
husband wrote you before marriage in
a well locked iron box in the darkest
corner of the attic. Nothing puts a
man in such temper as to stumble
across his former illusions and read q
few pages of them. Some men under
such circumstances have been known
to kick themselves down stairs and be
seriously injured. -Erchange.
The "heathen Chinee" may be q
poor. deluded son of an effete civiliza.
ton, but he is too '.tiy" to allow trusted
cashiers to get away with the ''boodle. "
Go Slo runs Boston .'washee" house
Sun Gun. Hop Yu, Chu Gum, One
Lung, All There and Stay There wrestle
with the wash tub. One Lung was
footing up the crow tracks on the day
book the other night to see if it Tailed
with the cash, and when asked if he
was the regular cashier replied: 20, no:
me keepee to day, next boy to-mollow.
Evly day anothel boy. one boy all time
too muchee cheat. All same Mclean
man. "-Boston Globe.
The Medical Record makes the
startling statement that looking glasses
are responsible for mercurial poisoning.
In two cases given, of man and his
wife. the cause Of the trouble was in .
looking glass hanging in the bedroom,
the wooden back of which was dotted
with thousands of minute globules Of
mercury. The apartment was heated
during the night In another instance
the source of the poisoning was mir.
ror, forty yearsold, whose back had b.
come weak and from whose face the
quicksilver freshness was fading. The
aged culprits having been summarily
removed, their victims speedily re-