St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-02-23
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ton of houses in Japan. They are put
together by method of mortising.
Henry Story. of Fayetteville, Tenn,
always carried a whisky flask in his
game-bag. He became so elated while
hunting at his unusual good luck that
he drained the flask, lost his way, fell
into a river and was drowned.-N. y
Sun
The Detroit Free Press wants the
Michigan Legislature to enact a law
'.making train robbery something more
serious than horse stealing" As they
hang people out West for horse steal
ing. we don't believe it can be DONE
Philadelphia Gail.
-Frederika Thommermann, who
came from Germany recently to marry
her lover Frederick Spilker, in St.
Louis, and on arrival found him in Jail
for murder, went into his prison with
the necessary officials and married him
there.-!St Louis Post.
1t was dull day in a barber-shop
in Bangor, Me-, and one of the loungers
offered him seventy-tive cents for the
receipts of the day. The offer having
been accepted. the lOunger went out and
drummed up his friends and the receipts
reached about ten dollars.-BOston Post.
The railroad bridge over the st.
Lawrence from Morrisburg to Wadding-
ton is to be two and half miles long,
and will cross the ST. Lawrence canal
with a swing bridge 33S feet long. The
city of Ottawa agrees to pay S350.0O0
of the cost if the railroad company will
make wagon road on the bridge
Toronto Globe.
Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner thinks
he has discovered why the German Gov
ernment is so kindly sending young carp
out of that country. He has tasted the
fish and says of them that .though in
some respect the carp and stories about
carp differ, nevertheless in one impor-
tant particular they are both alike-it is
very difficult to swallow either.''
The oldest tree on the earth as far
as any one knows is the .'Bo" tree in
the sacred city of Amarapoora, in Bur-
NAH. According to the Timber journal
it was planted 2SS B. c., and must
therefore be LII years old. Some au-
thorities believe it to be the identical
tree under which Buddha reclined at
Urumelyo when he underwent his
apotheosis.
Judge Stecker, of New York sent
to the ministers of his district for lists of
the worthy poor in order that he might
give them a Christmas dinner, and when
the list showed him that five thousand
and odd dinners would be required he
didn't finch, but went to Washington
market and bought the biggest lot of
poultry ever sold to private Citizen
N. y. Times.
A medical man in California gives
4 curious prescription as safeguard
against smallpox when he says: ..Place
one ounce of cream of tartar in sixteen
ounces of water and take tablespoon
full three times day, and you may
sleep with a smallpox patient with per-
feet impunity. If every citizen would
do this for fifteen days there would be
an end of smallpox in any city.-San
Francisco Call.
The Grand Jury of White Pine
County, New, recently expressed its ap-
prevail of a public official in forcible if
unpublished manner. as follows: .On
invitation We visited the Treasurer's Of
lice and feel warranted in the assertion
that nothing short of mountain how
itzer or Gantling gun would be of any
avail to secure entrance to the premises,
and Treasurer Liddle deserves to be
for the pains taken and
money expended to secure the safety of
the county funds. ."-Denrer TibuHe.
At Schenectady, N. Y. juvenile
rushed into the presence of his parents
and gleefully exclaimed: 1--WE are 60
ng to have the firemen come up to our
mousse right away" An explanation was
asked, and the startling answer made
hat he and playmate had started fire
Inder bed in an,,upstairs room. And sure
enough, rapidly spreading flames were
discovered. The flames were subdued,
much to the grief of the youngster
When the child was chided he innocently
'emarked: What difference does it
make. pa? Amt you going to build a
lew house, anyway?"-4lbdny journal.
-Birney. NJ. T., of which j. w. Too
ley was made postmaster, is eighty
niles from any place in which there is
notary, and when it became necessary
or Mr.. Toohey to take the oath of of
ice he swore himself in. In due time
lis papers were returned with letter
him to swear before a no
AIRY, as there is no precedent for man
before himself. He replied
hat he knew of no precedent that would
,ntitle him to mileage and expenses to go
,ne hundred miles and be sworn, and
hat if his papers were not satisfactory
he department might get another man
or Chicago Herald.
In digging for the Cape Cod Canal.
here has been found, about eighteen
eet below the surface, marsh mud. The
act is strong comment on the drifting
ape sands, which have reared the shoals
f Plymouth harbor. the bars of Chatham
r Nantucket. The same diggings have
'rought to light, from beneath the sand,
t about the same depth. the still recog-
liable frame of an oak flune or race
way. BY tradition and town record
he same fiume could only belong to the
ncient tide-mill, which Acadiens built
q 1850, in their exile by the sea- Fur
her inland borings have brought to the
urface the smooth, wave-worn stoses,
vhich show that through the gap be-
,yoov, tba SanIwioh hills tho 60.