St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-06-20
MISCELLANEOUS,

Few towns in England under 90
ODD inhabitants can boast of a daily
newspaper.
A Connecticut cow swallowed 200
hair-pins the other day without injury.
What became of the young lady is not
stated.-Ehiladelphia Call
MIR. Bonner, of the New York
Ledger, who has studied advertising and
effect, never uses posters or circulars,
but confines himself to advertising in
the leading papers. Boston Journal.
Volumes have been written giving
diagrams and specifications as to how
children should be trained up, and vet
as SON as a man becomes daddy he
throws his judgment overheard, shuts
his eyes to reason, and lets the squaller
rule the roost-- Chicago Ledger.
While Americans have little rever-
ence for their great men. while in the
tumult and excitement of politics they
attack them with SANDER and abuse.
they really love them, and the greatness
of Their love shines forth refulgent in
the blackneSs of death.-Seattte nv.
IT, Post-Inteifgencer.
One of the leading articles which
the Polynes!an Islands send to this
country is copra, which is simply the
dried meat of cocoanuts. The natives
break the nuts into small pleaes, which,
after exposure to the tropical sun, turn
to dark brown color. Copra is used
in the manufacture of candles to large
extent. Besides pomades and cocoanut
oil, copra furnishes volatile oil, which
i, tb,,, g.,
The importation of copra into the United
States is yearly increasing.-Phitade
phtd Press.
"A writer in a juvenile magazine
recently gathered a number of diction-
ary words as defined by certain small
people, of which the following seems to
be genuine: Dust-Mud with juice
squeezed out. Fan-A thing to brush
warm off with. Ice-Water that
stayed out in the cold and went
to sleep. Monkey-A small boy
with tail. Pig-A hogs little boy.
Salt-What makes your potatoes taste
bad when you do not put it on. Snoring
Letting off sleep. Wakefulness-
Eyes all the time coming unbuttoned.-
n T. Star
"A writer in the Nineteenth Century
nrges inventors to develop the practical
bilities of the photograph. He desires
to be able to 60 about his ordinary
bus; ness with an apparatus in his hat
which shall. according to his inclina-
ton. recite the latest novel or other
book in which he may be interested.
He wishes the phonograph to do for the
spoken word what the printing press
has done for the written word. Time
was when such proposition would be
laughed at, but the world is now slow
to r.dicule inventors; and as Mr.. Edison
has already invented the photograph
and its development is only urged, no
one will say the proposition is wholly
absurd Chicago Current.
The following persons can not
marry in Georgia: First, white person
to person of color; second, males
under seventeen, females under four
teen; third, persons more nearly related
than first cousin. Females under
eighteen must get consent of parents or
guardians. A man can marry his
deceased wife's sister. The ordinary
licenses all marriages. The grounds of
divorce are consanguinity, force OF
fraud in obtaining marriage. mental or
physical impediments, adultery, three
years desertion, of conviction of a
crime for which the punishment is two
years or more in prison. Cruel treat
mcnt and habitual intoxication furnish
discretionary grounds. The verdict OF
two concurrent juries is necessary to
divorce.