St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-02-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

-Seooba, Miss, boasts of an OK seen
on her streets with two perfectly formed
tails.
The northern parts of Minnesota
ana Dakota are filling upwith Canadians
VINO started out to settle in Manitoba,
but after arriving there repented.-a.
Paul Press.
The State Government paws 5000
apiece for Apache scalps in Arizona.
and sharp Yankee was arrested the
other day for selling counterfeit scalps
to hunters. The spurious articles were
made in Massachusetts and were read
lily calculated to deceive. All was per-
feet even to the blood stains.-CAicago
Inter Ocean.
Lieutenant Wissmann, the African
traveller, who, like Stanley, walked
across the Dark Continent, has left
Hamburg again on another three-years'
tour of exploration in the Congo region.
He has undertaken to furnish the ROYAL
Museum in Berlin with all the natural
specimens which he may collect during
his travels.
An anxious father in Fort Gaines,
Ca, who was DESTROYS of hearing the
SphsSASdtiou bGlNCcu Ills uduDHotE anu
her dudelot, posted himself in hearing
distance, recently, and listened for two
solid hours. The following are the only
words he heard during that time: He:
elf LOWE die, what'll dovie do?" She:
''Dovie die, too. Philadelphia Press.
Cinnamon IN this country, and es-
pecially in the West, have been quick
to see the increased value of their serv-
ices caused by the enforcement of the
restriction act. Soon after its passage
the Chinese farm laborers in California
demanded and received at least a third
more in weekly wages, and now many
of them are agitating for another in
crease.-Denuer Tribune.
Mr.. Paul Delanger, Inspector of
Cars on the 1ntercolonial Railway of
children. He has been thrice married.
His first wife was the mother of nine
teen children, his second had six, and
the third has presented him with eight.
The last two are twins. Mr.. Delanger
is sixty years of age.-Montreat Nit
ness.
The observatory on the top of Ben
Nevis. Scotland, is now in good work
ing order. and NJ. Omand and staff are
domiciled there. The last ascent was
made with difficulty, as the snow was
fourteen feet deep. and a passage had
to be cut through. The party sank
often to the shoulder. The journey oc-
cupied nine hours The observatory
will be cut off for months from the
world.
The fellow who went on wedding
tour, got broke, and had to leave his
wife behind is solemn lesson. Nine
cases in ten the money expended on
wedding tours could be better used for
future comforts and Injuries in the
home. A young couple of moderate
means are sensible who marry and set
about arranging the dishes and putting
up the kitchen stove. The expense of
single day at fashionable hotel will
buy a good many juicy beefsteaks.-
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The officers of the Cincinnati steam
boat Golden Rule have pet cat that
travels the Ohio and the Mississippi to
New Orleans, and sometimes goes
ashore and stays until the time for haul
ing in the gang plank. She went ashore
at Evansville once and wandered about
town until the boat had gone; but she
took the next boat up, and was again
in the Golden Rule few days later
At another time she was lost at Port
Hickey, and then she took the next boat
for home--Cincinnati Times.
William Sexton recently removed
from Short Beach to Babylon, taking
with him fifty tame ducks, ten of which
were old birds. The ducks were
brought off in close box. They re-
NAMED about their new quarters for
one day, and then disappeared. The
following morning the ducks were
found at their old home on the beach
waiting to be fed. As their wings were
clipped they must have swan the en-
tire distance, nearly nine miles, in
heavy sea and on a dark night.
York Herald.