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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-05-24
The Joke Of the Milwaukee Joker.

Coming into Milwaukee barber shop
few days ago q railroad man espied a
friend in one of the chairs. and sneak
ing quietly up behind he seized the
lather brush and daubed him in the
eyes and face till he looked like Hump
ty Dumptv without any mouth. The
victim struggled, but to no purpose,
and when he finally got on his feet his
head was ball of soap-suds. 1t was
then that the spectators first discovered
that he had mouth in spite of appear
ances to the contrary, and the way he
went for his assailant proved that he
knew how to use it, In the language
of the manager of the skating rink,
He deserved the Florida medal At
the sound of his voice he railroad man
turned as pale as a ghost. The victim
was total stranger to him, and but for
the intercession of the boss barber, gore
would probably have been spilled. The
railroad mans apologies were profuse,
but his laughter rang 20 more that day.
He didn't want to laugh: he had had
his laugh before he discovered his mis-
take, and he had got through. Now he
always looks man all over and waits
for him to speak first before he tries to
have any fun with him in 4 barber's
chair.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-05-24
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-"Ahr' sighed Brown, ..this life is
full of disappointment" Eyes" re-
piled Fogg. glancing significantly at
Mrs. F., "and some disappointments
are full of life. ."-BOston Post.
"A Virginia girl married a tramp,
who turned out to be a duke. We've
no pity for her. She should have
known what he was before she married
him.-B0st0n Post.
How a woman always does up 4
newspaper she sends to friend, SO
that it looks like well stuffed pillow,
is something that no man is woman
enough to understand.
A Williamsport youth sent fifty
to keep from swearing. and received in
reply: ''Don't open your mouth he
has sworn ever SINCE Hillianssp0rt
fPa.l Grit.
An Austin man, who has Just got
out book of poems, met Gilhooly and
the following proceedings were had:
Ibid you read my new bOok?" 20,
yes; / read it." '.How did you like it?"
"My dear sir, assure you that laid it
aside with a great deal of pleasure. =
Teras Siflin9s
w. H. Vanderbilt says he never
picks up a newspaper that he doesn't
see something isagreeable in it about
himself. Lend us half-dollar. old
fellow. There's nothing disagreeable
about that. We might have asked for
a dollar and half, but this paper is
dissimilar, 50 to speak.-Merchant
Irdrelier.
A clergyman's daughter, looking
over the MSS. left by her father in his
study, chanced upon the following
sentence: 'Ilove to look upon a young
man. There is hidden potency con-
cealed within his breast which charms
and pains me-" She sat down and
blushingly added: "Them's my senti-
ments exactly, papa-all but the palms."
Exchange.
Statistics show that there are at
least II 600 men who can neither play
football nor assist an Objectionable Wis
itor to alight from the front stoop."
said sad-eyed Brooklyn bachelor.
''What is the matter with them?'
asked his friend.
They are one-legged," was the
cheerful reply.-M Y Journal.
is your sister at homer" asked
st Louis Young gentleman of the little
brother who answered the bell.
Yes, she's home,n said the boy;
..we're goin' to have cocoanut pies for
dinner tomorrow, and she's out in the
kitchen helpin' mother make EN-"
Indeed replied the young man.
evidently very much pleased, land Nha,
part of the pie does your sister maker"
"She cracks the cocoanuts with her
teeth. ~ Rsiiadslph&s Call.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-05-24
The First Ice.Palace.

In the construction of this work, built
BY the Empress Anna lvanovna, on the
Neva, 1879. the simplest means were
used. First. the purest and most trans
parent ice was selected This was cut
into large blocks, squared with rule
and compass. and carved with all the
regular architectural embellishments.
No cement was used. Each block when
ready was raised to its destined place
by cranes and pulleys, and just before
it was let down upon the block which
was to support it. water was poured
between the two; the upper block was
Immediately lowered, and as the water
froze almost instantly, in that intensely
cold climate, the two blocks became
literally one. In fact, the whole build
ing appeared to be. and really was. n
single mass of ice. The effect it pro-
dueed must have been infinitely more
beautiful than if it had been of the most
costly marble its transparency and
BLUSH tint giving it rather the appear
ance of precious stone.
In dimensions. the structure was fifty
six feet long, eighteen feet wide. twenty
one feet high, and with walls three feet
in thickness. At each corner of the
palace was pyramid of the same
height as the roof. of course built of ice,
and around the whole was low pal
isade of the same material. The actual
length of the front view, including the
pyramids, was one hundred and four
teen feet.
The palace was built in the usual
style of Russian architecture. The
faea,ie was plain. being merely divided
into compartments by pilasters. There
was a window in each division. which
was painted in imitation of green mar
bic. The window-panes were formed
OF slabs OF ice, As transparent and
smooth as sheets of plate glass. At
night. when the palace was lighted. the
windows were curtained by canvas
screens, on which grotesque figures
were painted Owing to the trans
parency of the whole material. the
general effect of the illumination must
have been fine, the whole palace SEEM
inglv being filled with delicate pearly
light. The central division projected.
and appeared to be door. but was in
fact. large window. and was illumina-
ted like the others. Surmounting the
taeaie of the building was an orna-
mental balustrade, and at each end OF
the sloping roof was a huge chimney.
The entrance was at the rear. Al each
side of the door stood ice-imitations of
orange-trees, in leaf and flower, with
ice-birds perched on the branches
IL. .aGrta George, u. 81. Nicholas.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-05-24
VOL. X.-NO. Fl.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Nearly one-fifth OF all the children
in Providence, Il. l., of school age, did
not attend school single day during
the year 1888.
Alfred Smith. of Newport. has pre-.
santed to the Charming Church in that
city. as memorial to his wife. the cs-
tate No. % Key Street, to be used as n
parsonage. 1t is worth about S25, 900.
N. J. Times
In Denmark, Bishop Martensen re-
Gently examined and ordained two
young Esquimaux, who will engage in
missionary work in Greenland under
the auspices of the State Church of
Denmark.
10 the question: "Why did Satan
make his approach to Eve and not to
Adam?" religious paper answers: It
may have been because Satan knew that
the influence of Eve would be his best
help in conquering Adam. Wives are
apt to be the most potent pleaders with
their husbands.
1t is gratifying to know that the
Presbyterian hospital of Philadelphia
did not lose anything by its refusal to
accept $500 from the proceeds of u
charity ball. The manager of the in
stitution stood for principle. Their
church pronounced dancing. wrong,
and they would not accept money that
had any suspicion of illegitimacy about
it, and an admirer of this spirit has
sent the hospital check for 5000 to
make up the loss. Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
The public schools. let it be remen-
bered, send very few out of the larg.
number Of criminals in our penitenti-
aries Most of them have no education.
Very few have had thorough public
school education. The average statis-
tics of the United States show that out
of the small per cent of the people un
able to read and write come about one
third of the criminals, and of the re-
manning two thirds only one in q
hundred had been educated in the
higher branches Journal of Edsc7-
ton.
-s.ln the Cabinet circle all religions
meet" says the Washington CORES
pondent of the st. Louis Globe Demo-
crat. 1.-The President is a High.
Church Episcopalian. although his
father was n Baptist preacher, and his
sisters are all members of that church
Secretary Folger is Presbyterian, and
sits with the pastors family in the
New York Avenue Church, where Sec
retary Frelinghuysen and his family.
and Postmaster-General Gresham and
his family also attend. Secretary Lin
coin. like his father, is q Presbyterian,
but his wife is from strong Methodist
family, and they generally attend that
church. Secretary Chandler and his
family 60 to the Unitarian Church, and
are Of the advanced and liberal think
ers of that body. Attorney-General
Brewster and his wife always worship
at the Epiphany, the largest and most
fashionable of the Low-Church Episco-
pal congregations. Secretary Teller
and his wife are very devout Metho-
dists."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-05-24
Antlers for Ornaments.

..Where do you get such big deer
anilers as those said a Young man to
n black-eyed, curly-banged girl in .
taxidermist's s store in Williams Street.
He referred to pile on the walk. The
girl dropped crow blaekbird, which
she was flaying. and said:
Those deer horns grew on elks in
Montana. They are not very large il
compared with others
The young man was directed to an
adjoining room. A red-mouthed polar
bear, with paws wide apart, greeted him
on one side as he opened the door, and
leopard, with arched back and
knotted muscles. seemed TO SNAIL at him
on the other. Overhead, hanging from
a tangled mass of whitened horns, and
on every side of the room,
there was throng of monkeys, squir-
rels, birds and animals of a hundred
varieties, I'll in attitudes which looked
as if the old baboon in the corner, with
his fingers to his lips. had checked them
in the midst of wild cartusal on the
entry of a stranger.
"Horns are just now very fashion
able. Such things vary from year to
year. Last December we sold a hundred
pairs of antlers," said the girl.
"How much did you get a pair2''
"From three dollars for pair OF
small Virginia deer-antlers to thirty
dollars for five-foot spread of elk's,
and forty dollars for pair of magnifi-
cent moose shovel horns"
Ibid that include the stuffed head?"
"No. Mounted head and all. moose
or elk horns bring sixty dollars and
seventy-five dollars. Those animals are
dying out very rapidly
what is the very latest thing in the
line of wall ornaments?h
"A wild boar's head. We have just
received a barrel full of the skins.
When properly mounted they look de-
lishtfully vicious, and sell for thirty
dollars
..Keeps the proprietor pretty busy to
supply the trade, doesn't it," said the
young man. hearing work upstairs.
Yes. He employs eighteen hands
besides me-
'.And what can YOU do?"
81 can fay more than 100 birds q day
for use as hat ornaments
.'Are the wages high?''
'.As high as the skill of the operator.
The men who can show the muscles of
an animal and place it in striking and
natural positions get from fifty dollars
to sixty dollars month. ~. Y. Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-05-24
THE .iRCTIC WITCH.

Behold upon the frozen foam.
Alittic vessel far from home
The yacht .leaunctte
The polar star above her lies,
4 sward of light set in the skies:
Ine Arctic wave is on her deck.
And Hope has left the broken wreck.
Bercft of all things else but Fate
and sinking. sinking. sinking yet,
Behold her lying deSolate.
The lost Jeannette.
Dead heroes on a field of snow:
One lonely heart that. beating slow.
Yet dreams of home.
where golden fruits are on the bough.
ANA ali the woods are crimson now,
The last of that higt-heartei band
Keeps vigil in that bitter lani:
ANA, crowned with thorns of frost and pain.
Lives Ger his boyhood days again:
and in his drear deauh-watch uplifts
Ills gaze, and sees beyond the drifts,
The iceberg tall. u crystal gate.
by winch his risen comrades wait.
Not weak and worn like men who died,
But robed. and crowned, and glorified.
FAMILIAR voices greet his car:
The lips that love him call him dear:
Frost-fower and thorn that bound his head
Mel: on. and il is wrcathed instead
With iilics Of the rc-in-heart,
His icy garments fail apart:
The pain and toll and danger passed.
The long death-watch is done at last.
He stands form of living light,
Tie JOINS his comrades i'm their flight.
Iney pass the Sward set in the skies,
No waste white deserts now to roam,
ihey upward. upward. upward rise,
And win the gates of Paradise
., welcome home,
-IMianfc Irriay. in Tae Manhattan.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-05-24
1T is a significant fact. according

1T is significant fact, according to
New York criminal lawyer, that
among all the nations of the world
whose people have made the United
States their home. it may be exception
ally recorded Of the japanese that no
one has yet been convicted of a criminal
offsnse In an American court
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-05-24

At the Murphy library sale at New
York one of the first books sold was
Jay Gould's history of Delaware
County, written when Jay was a poor
schoolmaster, and embellished with the
authors portrait. AS Jay has bought
in every copy he could get hold of and
DESTROYED them the book is rare, and
this copy brought twenty-four dollars.
N. 7. Sun.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-05-24

During the late storm the Pinto
Lake. California. overlowed, and
schools of catfish escaped to the Salsi.
puedas creek, and from that stream ran
into the College Lake and Pajaro River
This is natures way of transplanting
fish, and accounts for the tinny inhab-
itants of many isolated ponds and
lakes.-iSan Francisco Chronicle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-05-24

The Modoc tribe of Indians now
number but twenty-sia families or 100
persons. Chicago Journal
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-12
Death Of Mrs. j. D. Morris.
Correspondence


WELLS, MINI, May This community is
shrouded i'll grief at the death of the wife of Mr.
j. D. Morris, hardware merchant. In the early
winter she was attacked with cold, and then a
cough, forerunners of the dire consumption. and
after three months confinement to her bed forti
fed by the rites of the Catholic church, she
calmly and in full resignation passed away. Mrs
Morris was the daughter of the Rev. s M
Childs, of the Babtist denomination and was
born in Ohio. She was won over to the old faith
by the preaching and teaching of the Rev. Father
7. Venn, who has made SO many converts. snd
placed so many crosses, symbols of the means of
salvation here and there in towns and nr.;-ia
in southern Minnesota. It was but Iate1v that
the church in which her remains were honored
and her blameless and exemplary life extoIled
was dedicated to the service of God. She bod
much to do in building that church. and ;ndaad
when the Rev. Father Venn spoke over her ra-
mains and commended the beauty OF her life ba
said that to the deceased, more than to anv ono
circumstance or person, the Catholics of Wells
were indebted for a church. In a most fee1in.
manner he portrayed the life and Christian eTarp5
pie Of her who passed in and out in the commn-
nifty with the innocence of child and who gave mn
life with the resignation of MARTYR. Tho f,nel
al consisted of the whole community. The rail.
way shops were closed for the occasion and
farmers came from far distances to attest Their
sorrow at the death. Each person seemed IN ev-
press In features as well as in words keen grief
at the rreparable loss to the five motherless
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-12
The Last Opportunity,

All those contemplating the purchase of the
capital stock of the Cone Placer Mining Com
2oany Of Ensigrant GULch, Montana, at $500 per
share, must do so within the next IS days or get
left. If you want to know all about the rich
ness of Emigrant Gulch, where the ''gold felds''
of the above company are located call at or ad-
dress as below or send for copy of the st. Paul
Globe of May 9Th.
For full information and capital stock shares
call on or address Geo. B. Hall, secretary and
treasurer, room 2 over First National Bank, or at
". G. Hush's bank, Minneapolis, Mimi, where
the gold can be seen just as taken from the
ground.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-12
BASE BALL.
Tabular Statement of Northwestern
Games Played to Date.
Exhibition Games Played Yesterday-Arrest
of DAYTON Club,

The table below shows the relative position
of the Northwestern Legue clubs at the end
of the second week. Rain has postponed a
number of games, so that it is difficult to say
what clubs are leading, but as Grand Rapids
has won six games and lost none, itwould be
but fair to award that club first place for the
present, with Bay City second. The Mimi
esota clubs are well down the list, Saltwater
aiding Terre Haute and Fort Wayne in
guarding the rear:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-12

children, and to the home which she made so
cheerful and happy. The Rev Father Venn
spoke of the Christian mother with the utmost
admiration, and when he pictured her pure life
and its value in the community as an example,
sWarthy mechanics and sun-burnt farmers as
well as tender women shed tears of sorrow and
sympathy, sympathy with all that is good and
eleyating. 1t was the saddest day that Wells has
seen. The beautiful custom of the Catholic
church will be observed far and near when per-
sons hear of the death of Mary Calixta, and they
will say, ''may the Lord have mercy on her
soul. A CATHOLIC.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-12
Killed in a Saloon Row.
Special Telegram to the Globe

WAsHBURN, Wis, May 11.-John Murray, a
desperate character. who kept a ranch at Hay-
ward, Wis, was shot and instantly killed bv
Preston Wade in saloon at this place this
afternoon. Murray struck Wade in the face with
beer glass and reached for his revolver, when
Wade pulled his gun and shot him in the eye.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-12
SUNDAY BASE BALL.
Sudden Death.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 11.-W. G. Case
of Santos Monico, California, en- route to
Saratoga as delegate to the Presbyterian
General Assembly, was seized with appro-
plexy on the train, which arrived here this
morning, and he died at the hotel this after
noon.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-12
THEN AND NOW.
Ninety-FOur Republican Delegates of
1880 Returning in 1884.
About Two-t thirds of Them For Grant Ther
And For Arthur Now.
a Little Gain For Blaine From The Sta1.
warts, But Not Enough to Nominate.
Especial Telegram to The Globe. I

T5PVUiaI
CHICAGO, May lin order to give the public
an opportunity to know what old friends or enc
mics will come here next June, the Times has
prepared the following tables, which show not
only the delegates of 1880, who will be back in
1884, but also what candidates these statesmen
voted for then and whom they are expected to
vote for next month. The names are clas-
sfed by states, and whatever conclusion can
be drawn, or speculation, therefrom the
readers are at liberty to indulge in:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-12
Not Known in Chicarn.

CHICAGO, May 11.-Inquiries here in regard to
the Catholic priest Casima, who was robbed of
5000 on board the Texas Pacific train near
Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday, develops the fact
that he was not of Chicago, as stated in the dis
patch announcing the robbery.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-12
Italy viii Support Franco.

LONDON, May 1.-THE Italian government will
support the demands of France in the Egyptian
conference, to the effect that the conference shall
have power TO discuss fully the question of inter-
national control
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-12

F. c. Winkler. ....-... do do
The one striking fact in the above tables is
| that of the "a delegates Of 1880 who return to
Chicago next June, the vast majority voted for
Grant in 1880. The figures are as follows:
Grant 63' Blaine 90; Edmunds B; Washburn 2 j;
Sherman 6; total 81. These votes are those
cast on the s4th ballot, or before the stampede
to Garfield began The complexion of the "a at
the pr esent time is Arthur S. Blaine "a: Ed
munds Z; Logan 2; Sherman 2; Hawley /;
toto =
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-12

the defeat of that measure they had not had a
meeting. lie did not know how the committee
the majority in the house would treat the pro-
posed Hewitt bill, but the committee could have
objection to the introduction of the measure
by MIR. Hewitt and its reference to them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-12
Fatal Railway Accident

DUBUQUE, Ia, May 11.-By the runaway of a
team last night, Mr.. and Mrs Matthias Fritz were
thrown out. The woman was killed, and the man
fatally hurt.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-12

You can save money by buyirg wall paper,
carpets and furniture at No. 221 East Seventh.
A H. IoHIKFR
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-12

| In the National league, New York has first
| place and Boston second, and in the Ameri-
can association, where the clubs seem to be
more evenly matched than in the other
organizations, the Louisvilles and Metro
| politans are tied, with several others so close
behind them that no one can predict the
leader al the end of another week.
MINNEAPOLIS VS.. PEORIA.
Especial Telegram to the Globe
PEoHA, ILL, May lin the exhibition
game played here to-day, Minneapolis made
in the first 2, third 8, fourth /, and sixth 2.
Total s.
Peoria-in the first 8, fifth ., sixth l.,
seventh 1, eighth /, and tenth 1. Total 9.
Base hits-Minneapolis II, Peoria 6.
Three base hits-Caruthers and Fulmer.
Two base hit-Foster.
Errors-Minneapolis s, Peoria 3.
Minneapolis battery Nichols and Miller.
The latter caught wretchedly, his nine passed
| balls losing the game. He is to be fined
twenty-five dollars. Reid had his left ear
badly cut by ball glancing from his bat.
SUNDAY LAWS AND BASE BALL.
| DAYTON, Ohio, May 1.-THE Grand Rapids
| club, champions of Northw estern league, de-
feated the Daytons to-day in the presence of
| three thousand people, by score of three to
! two in thirteen innings. In the tenth in
ming, two constables of Van Buren township
| (the ball park being located outside the city
| limits), stepped upon the grounds, stopped
| the game and arrested the managers and
| players of the Dayton club. Such action had
| been anticipated and bond was at once
| furnished by the management, and the con-
| stables taken from the ground amid storm
of Kisses and cries of ''hit them with a bat, ~
| ''driFe them out,'' etc. The management
| have determined to continue the Sunday
games at all hazards, and carry the case
| from one court to another until the season
| closes.
| SUNDAY BASE BALL.
| At Louisville, Ky.-Louisvillei s; Indian
| apolis, 1.
| At Fort Wayne, Ind.-st. Louis Reserves,
4; Fort Wayne Northwestern, 5.
| At Peoria, Ill-Peoria, g.; Minneapolis,
s.
| at Chicago Unions, 2; Keystones
of Philadelphia, 3.
| At Dayton, Ohio-Grand Rapids, 8; Day
| tons, 2. Thirteen innings.
| At st. Louis-St. Louis, 6; Columbus. 3.
| At st. Louis-St. Louis Unions, II: Ma
! tionals, 6. Rains stopped the game at the
| fifth inning.
At Cincinnati-Cincinnati 2; Toledo 8.
At Cincinnati-Cincinnat Unions Z: Bal
timore Unions 6.