St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-05-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

he has succeeded IN teaching TO recltu
nearly half the Twcnty-third Psalm. -
Rutland Herald.
A whale sixty teet long and thir
teen feet high has been killed of Beau
fort. S. c. Sixty barrels of Oil was eA.
pected.-S 81. Louis Pos.
Since the recent Southern cyclone,
the enterprising citizens of the section
through which the storm passed have
been industriously ut work digging
refuge caves.
A series of prehistoric mica mines
have recently been discoveredin Louis.
lana. The surrounding vegetation
shows that at least 500 years have
elapsed since they were Abandoned
n. o. Times.
In 1859 William H. May, of Troy
was divorced from one wife and married
to another He discovered somehow re.
Gently that the Judge of 1859 had moi
signed the decree. SO that he was still
undivorced, and the error of twenty-five
years was corrected by Judge Ingalls, ]
few days ago.-Troy Times.
One of the latest cheats is tobacco
paper. The stuff is such an exact imi.
ts.ssCh VI TIC toDstCGu lSG1l stlu Is
so well favored that it takes magni.
fying glass to detect the deception.
Cigars made of this tobacco paper have
good flavor. burn we'll and hold their
white ash firmly.-N. Y. Tribune.
The cd tramp who was a s.Michi.
gan fire sufferer" last summer, will 60
on the road this spring as an .'Ohio
food sufferer" He thought once that
he would hare to appear as Java
earthquake sufferer" but the floods
have fortunately rendered this rather
farfetched excuse unnecessary.-N0r-
rtStoDn Herald.
John Griffith, of Frederick, Md,
received $1,000 for a drove of cattle re.
Gently and in the evening started for
home. He had not arrived next morn
ing and was found by the roadside dead
by murder; but he had deposited the
money in the bank, SO the plumber for
which he was killed did not reward his
murderers. -Bdltimore american.
According to c. A. Broadwater, a
prominent capitalist of Helena. Mon
tara, that Territory is not anxious for
admission into the Union. as the people
think that the benefits derived from the
admission would hardly counterbalance
the heavy expense incidental to the
maintenance of State Government.
The world has probably never seen
Just such funeral procession as the
one of Lieutenant belongs, who
persisted in the north. 1t has traversed
S.051 miles by reindeer. horse sleds and
by railroads preparatory to nearly
5000 miles of ocean transit, which
makes distance of nearly half around
the world.
Yes" said the boy, II had a
beautiful dream last night. dreamed
that saw a big monkey plaguing a cat
He'd take her by the tail and swing her:
then he'd grab her by the scrulf Of the
neck and hold her over the fire, and
then he'd clinch her by the small of the
back and squeeze her The cat yelled
awfully. o, it was a bully dream. y
n. y. Nail.
Six little stowaways, ranging iI
age from seven to thirteen, were landed
in San Francisco recently, having been
brought over from Liverpool on a sail
ing vessel. They protested to be or.
phans, and wanted Ito come to the
States to earn fortune as bootblacks."
They have started in the busineSs.-.SaH
Francisco Call.
1t is stated that dark haired women
are preferred to blondes by marrying
men. To uphold this theory Chicago
physician has recently published Stats,
tics showing that in the area covered
by his researches blondes are generally
admired by poets and painters, but bru,
nettes more frequently capture the
wedding ring than do their light-haired
sisters. Chicago Herald.
A Western township correspondent
writes to his county paper concerning
n recent wedding, which may account
for the wonderful redness of the West
ern evening sky: .'The two were
thrown into one another's society, ana
their souls mated i'm the impenetrable
mystery of their nativity. and being in.
stinctively drawn together, blended and
beautitied in the assimilated alembic OF
eternal love. "-Butalo Express.
1t is said that the waste of valuable
timber in Eastern Tennessee is almost
uncomfortable. The finest specimens OF
walnut and cherry are used for fence
rails. fire wood. and similar purposes.
Since the government survey of the
country there has been a change in this
respect, and the people are beginning
TO appreciate the value of the timber re-
sources. Another result is that the
mineral resources are becoming known,
and investments both in timber and jim
mineral property ale now made where
but short time ago they would have
been considered Improbable.
The Utica On. W, Herald has fig
ured out the following: 1.-The statement
that James S. Sherman is the Youngest
man ever elected to the Utica MAYOR
atty is enough of an error to be an or
ror. Mr.. Sherman was born October
"a, 1855, and elected Mayor March 4,
1884. at the age of twenty-cight years.
four months and ten days. Roscoe
Conkling's record is better by eight
days. He was born October 50, 1929,
and was elected Mayor of Utica March
2. 1858. at the age OF twenty-eight years,
four months and two days. That was
twenty-six years ago."