St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-09-26
MISCELLANEOUS,

Ice cream and iced drinks have
made the American stomach what it is
"A cavity which produces cramps,
headaches and several sorts of fever, to
say nothing of bad temper.-Dctroa
Free Press.
Beef is now slaughtered in Omaha
Tor the eastern markets. The first car
load from that point reached Boston a
few days ago. making its 1900 miles
Journey in six days in excellent condi
uon.-Boston Journal
The last remaining toll .house on
the old Philadelphia turnpike was torn
down last week, and for the first time
IN fifty years the great thoroughfare be.
tween Philadelphia and Pittsburgh wac
open its entire length without charge to
the public. Philadelphia Times.
The Hawaiian Gazette tells how .
native of Hilo came to his death while
endeavoring to kill a fish he had Just
caught. He placed it in his mouth to
bite it. according to custom, when it
slipped down his throat, and. as it was
too big to be swallowed and the ex.
banded fins forbade its removal, the
fisherman was choked to death.
There are many novel ways OF
making a dime. but the last just inaug-
urated by the Mexican boys Of Yuma
caps the climax. 1t is the selling OF
smoke in old tin cans from the burnin g
of weed called "hediondia." They
go from house to house and offer to
furnish enough smoke to drive the
mosquitoes away for the small sum Of
ten cents.-San Francisco Alta.
-Profane words having been occa-
sionally spoken within the hallowed
precincts of the court house at Palatka,
Fla, the county officers agreed to in
f1lct tax of ten cents on each repeti.
ton. A fund for the poor is rapidly
growing. and there seems to be some
prospect of a lawsuit to decide what
shall be done with the proceeds. A
man from the country paid forty cents
for the pleasure of five minutes con.
versation.
The eight tons of cherries shipped
from California to Chicago recently sold
at an average of fifteen cents per pound.
The cost of placing them in Chicago is
put at nine or ten cents a pound. This
leaves the grower a profit of five or six
cents per pound, or 500 ton. The
San Francisco Bulletin remarks: 'While
this profit is not large one when the
cost of cultivation and the value of the
land is taken into account it is still
better profit than it ever derived from
wheat farming. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Hindoos say that chess was the
invention of an astronomer who flour
ished several thousand years ago, and
who was possessed of supernatural
knowledge and acuteness. The Creeks
claim that it was the invention of Pala-
modes to beguile the tedium of the siege
of Troy. The Arab legend is that ii
was devised for the instruction of q
young despot by his tutor, learned
Brahmin. to teach the youth how king
was dependent upon his subject for
safety.
Names of lakes and rivers as the,
appear in the writing of the early French
explorers: Lake Ontario was called
Frontenac. Lake Erie. Erike. Erige or
Erie. from the nation of Fries; also
Lake of Cont. Lake Huron was
Karegnondi and Lake of Orleans. Lake
Michigan was called Lake of Puans,
Lake of the Illinois. Lake Mischigonong
and Lake of the Dauphin. Lake Supe-
rior was Lake of Condo. Illinois River
was the Seignelay The Ohio was
called Ouabouskigon. Oyo, Ouye and
Belle REVERE. The Mississippi was the
River Colbert, River st. Louis. Mescha-
sipi and Meschasabe. Missouri River
was called Pekitanoni, REVERE des
.Osages and Massourites. - Louisville
Courier journal.
"A bachelor German immigrant who
went west three years ago, and who had
succeeded in getting a farm under
a good state of cultivation, recently sent
to Castle Garden, New York, to have
wife selected for him. HIS request was
published in the papers. and he now
prays that the manageable maidens be
informed that he is no longer in the
market He has been deluged with let.
tiers from all sorts of feminine creatures
slim, fat. tall. short. blonde. brunette,
fair, freckled and with black. brown,
red and gray hair. and coming from
every part of the country He says that
he would require the bank account of 3
Gould and egment of stenographers
to reply to the letters he has received,
which ask him about the size and value
of his property, the climate, soil, prod.
ucts, population. schools. churches,
and age and description of the minister
He is married now.-N Y. Tribune.