St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-02-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A New York baker makes it a prac-
pee to sell bread at half price to poor
people every Saturday night, and he has
p-elty OF customers.-N. T. Tribune.
The term cut-glass is incorrect.
Glass can not be cut, not even by the
diamond. The diamond cracks it and
enables one to break it. What is ordi-
harlly called cut-glass is really ground
glass.-Chicago Times.
"A Birmingham Conn boy, placed
in the State Reform School, at the re-
quest OF his father, who said he was in
The habit OF stealing. recently died of
consumption, Friends think the bow
really died of grief over injured inno-
cence.-Hartord Post.
The Washington treaty permitting
United States fishermen to take fish in
British waters terminates July 4, 1885.
and PASSPORT (Me.) people think they
will then be driven from their favorite
herring fishing-grounds unless some
new bargain be made.-Boston Journal.
In the old days when Senators took
snuff, two boxes filled with the article
were placed on the Presidents desk, one
on each side, by order of nervous Vice
PRESIDENT, who became very tired of
having Senators walk up and ask him
for pinch. They are there to this
day.-Haslsington Post.
Shakespeare killed two-thirds of all
his characters with cold steel. A dozen
died from old age, seven were beheaded,
five died from poison, two from suffoca-
ton, two by strangling, three by snake
bites, one from a fall, one is drowned,
and one is thumped to death with q
sandbag.
"A New York paper says: The fast
est time known to have been made by
locomotive was in 1849 on one of the
Norris & Sons engines called the ..Buf-
falo," heavy freight engine, leaving
Schenectady for Albany with two
freight cars, d. Greemar, engineer, the
distance run being twenty-nine and one
five minutes.
The property of Southern Maryland
is threatened by the scarcity of farm
laborers. The sons of farmers quit the
homestead and resort to the cities, while
the young colored men, averse to long
! contracts and hard work, go in pursuit
of some spot where a living can be
obtained with the least amount of labor.
This state of things compels the farmers
to leave much of their land unculti-
vated.-Chicaqo Times.
Rubber, or gutta-percha, may be
united firmly to metal by the following
method: Dissolve finely powdered shell
lac in ten times its weight in pure spirits
of ammonia. In three days the cement
will have the necessary consistency.
The ammonia penetrates the rubber and
enables the shellac to take firm hold.
When all the ammonia is evaporated
the joint withstands the penetration of
gas and water.-C Chicago Journal.
-s.Why man laughs at joke in
stead Of weeping. and why one weeps
at stroke of pathos instead of laugh
ing, are questions" says recent Ger
man writer in discussing the positive
results of science in the department of
psychology. (which are just as blind as
ever they were in Parmenides or Plato;
but the man who should reverse the
process would be voted mad by his
fellows. nevertheless.
In notice of the life of William
Allen, Quaker philanthropist, who
was partner in Robert Owens mills at
New Lanark, and executor to Queen
Victoria's father, the London Echo says:
stThe modern Quaker, who loves field
sports, adorns his wife and daughters
with diamonds, and dresses his servants
in liveries, is a somewhat degenerated
descendant of those who kept their hats
on in the presence of Kings, addressed
princes as respected friend and went
without sugar altogether rather than
sanction slave labor"