St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-05-24
MISCELLANEOUS,

Henry Barnes, five-year-Old box
in Springfield, o., recently died a ter
iible death from the effects of eating
the peel of half an orange.
Women are becoming very popu.
lar in Valparaiso, Chill, as street-cas
conductors. Travel has increased fifty
per cent since their advent in their new
role.
Many of the Arabs captured in the
battle of reb said they knew nothing Of
the English forces. had never heard OF
their victory over Arab. had never
heard of Arab himself, and had never
heard of Tewfik.
Captain Austin, who calls himself
crack rifle shot, was cowardly enough
TO attempt recently in England the feat
of shooting potato of his wife's head.
He succeeded in his first shot, but at the
second his bullet struck the unfortunate
woman in the forehead where it glanced.
saving her from death, it is true, but
making a frightfnl scar three inches
long.-N \. SIM.
W. S. Cooper, employed in Brook
lyn newspaper office, has adopted a
novel plan for paving his landlady for
board. He took the lady to the theaters
very frequently on free tickets, and
when she presented her bill for five
weeks board, he met it with another
bill charging her full rates for the en-
tertainments she visited with him,
bringing her in debt.--Brooklun Eagle.
speaking Of Mexican women.
traveller says that 1.-The daughters of the
wealthy pass their lives in vacuity: those
of the poor are half fed and half dressed,
and nearly all look hungcr-bittcn and
badly developed. The health of the
higher class of women is wretchedly
poor. A plump, healthy woman is a
rarity. The picture SO often seen on
the cigar boxes of beautiful senorita,
swinging in voluptuous languor in
hammock, is a pictorial fraud.
A Comstocker, writing from Eagle
City to the Virginia New Enterprise,
says: The C9ur d Alene liar is the
boss liar of the Western world. Neither
the Arizona liar, the Colorado liar, the
New Mexican liar, nor the Nevada liar
can stand before the Ceur d Alene liar
half rouud. He has a cold. hard
cheek of a marble mule and the eve of
a basilisk. When he goes for the poor
pilgrim it is equal to stroke of
paralysis.
There is place in the Blue Ridge
Mountains, in West Virginia, where
snow melts as fast as it falls. and where
the temperature of the ground never
reaches the freezing point. Vegetation
is always month ahead of the sur
sections. There is about one
acre of this warm area. The State |
Geologist is of the opinion that there
may be a volcano slumbering a few
feet below the surface.--Mi-
ago Herald.
The .'letter presented to the His
+orical Society of Pennsylvania, BY X.
coulton Davis, at the inaugural cere-
monies of its new building on the 18th
nst., is the commission of BENJAMIN
franklin to be Minister Plenipotentiary
o the Court of France, directed to
louis XVI, and signed BY Henry
.aurens, President of the Continental
congress, 177S. 1t is in glazed
rame, accompanying which is rare
french engraving of Franklin, in which
'Diogenes' is represented with his
antern. as having found an honest
nan. -fhttddetphtd Press.
In boring for water near Snake
river. about forty-five miles from Day.
on, Ore, recently, stratum of frozen
arth was encountered at q depth of
fty-tive feet. Passing through this for
We feet numerous cavities were found,
rom which cold air came in gusts.
he escaping air at the bottom OF the
Tell can be heard roaring ut some dis
ance. 1t is not possible for anyone to
old his hand over the well for any
myth of time without freezing il, and
bucket of water let down into the well
as frozen over in a few minutes.
'ork on the well has been abandoned
q account of the cold.-Micago Times.
"A genuine snake hunt OF considera-
e proportions took place near Pleas
ut Plains. $. l., afew days ago. Near
'c village is the ''snake woods A
irty of young men from Pleasant
lains entered the woods provided with
towels, picks and crowbars. Rotten
jumps and large stones were over
rned and mounds with snake-holes
'out them were opened. In every ,
Sc hundreds Of reptiles were found {
lied up and matted together. They :
ere chopped to pieces by the shovels.
ne party worked hard several hours |,
i'd left in the woods an enormous =
Imber of dead reptiles. Several
ousand must have been slaughtered /
". Y. San. j