St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-05-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

v,,o,,, VI Tue w aSnlngtOl
monument says it will stand loo. OO,
years and children need be in no hmr,
10 climb lt.-Detroit Free Press.
In British India the large rive
outleJ, which has descent of 1oOM
teet In $50 miles, or nearly sixtv-seye,
ieet per mile, is said to be the tastes
howlng river in the world.
The love of draw-poker passetb al
understanding. If player is a constan
winner ne is gambler, and should
quit. II he is steady loser he is ,
TOOL. and should play no more. lit i
see-saw arrangement, the PLAYERS ca,
up and drink up the profits, and should
oe IN better business.-N. O. Picayune
The new paper bottles are said t,
"ithstand the action of water, win,
ana alcohol. 1t is thought that drug
gists will be able to furnish them fire,
OF charge, just as they provide wrapping
paper for dry drugs. The cementine
material of the bottles is a mixture o
blood, albumen, alum and lime,-N. Y
Sun.
There are about dozen, more O,
less, breweries in and around Boston
and the number of barrels of beer manu-
featured may be counted by the hun
dreds OF thousands. In 1885 there wert
drunk in Boston 756, 40 barrels. and in
1854. 7SS. SS2 barrels. an increase 81
1912 barrels. Besides this, there are
large importations of ale and porter
from Europe.-Boston Globe.
What children want, within the
bounds of right. they should, if possible,
have. Their wishes should be respected,
The small desires of child are, to him,
as important as the great desires of q
man, and should as carefully be con.
sidered. The wet blanket, You can't
have that" often causes keener pain to
boy than the loss of thousands OF
dollars in after life.-School journal.
Dan Rice, the circus clown, is run.
ming ten cont circus in the French
quarter OF New Orleans. He talks sadly OF
the good old days when his Floating Pal
ace was the sensation on the Father OF
Waters. and thousands upon thousands
OF people swarmed from far and near to
see him. He gave an entertainment a
few nights ago when not 500 persons
were present, and about one-third OF
those were professional and other dead.
heads
Those people who argue that Gram,
is great smoker, Grant is afflicted with
cancer, therefore all smokers are af-
fiicted with cancer, are very much like
the English tourist who rode upon the
box of an American omnibus. He no.
ticed that the driver carried his whip in
his left hand. Asking the reason, the
driver replied: 81 am left-handed.
Straightway into the notebook went
this astounding bit of information:
Stage drivers in America are left
handed.
"A safety paper manufactured by a
Massachusetts mill will make it difficult
for anyone to tamper with bank notes OF
checks printed upon it. The colorine
matter of the paper is so prepared that
the application of any chemical to re-
move the ink will permanently change
the color of the paper, and an ingenious
device is added which betrays at once
any attempt to make an erasure. Be-
tween the two the enterprising forge1
will be sure to come to grief.-Bosto,
Journal
Pete Osterhout is one of the mos,
rascally negroes in Galveston. He was
caught stealing poultry and brought be-
fore the Justice. 1.-The evidence" said
the Judge, .'shows that you stole the
chickens from Colonel Jones hen-coop,
and the fine should be five dollars; but
IlLlet you off this time" "Who wants to
be let off?" exclaimed the prisoner; Il
steals my chickens and pays my fine.
and don't ask muffin OBJ nobody. Dis
heah mixing up sentiment and bizness
am what's ruinin' de kentry." TEXAS
Stttings.
DIR. Heber Newton says: taking
the average human life, he would be
bold man who, rightly weighing the
manifold daily blessings which come
like the sunshine and the dew, would
venture to pronounce the lot of man
rather of pain than of pleasure. Much
Of the pain of man is, moreover, to be
subtracted from the charges against
Providence and to be credited to our
human responsibility. The thriftless-
ness of the poor, the greed of the rich, |
md the common ignorance of social |
avs cause most of our poverty"
Successful experiments have been
'ecently made at Cincinnati with the /
lew electric railway brake. The trial
vas made with a heavy coal train of ten
'ars, each car weighing empty about
eleven tons and having tonnage ca
,acity Of 10000 pounds. The loaded
rain, with full steam on, was put to q
peed of forty-eight miles per hour on
J down grade of sixty-eight feet to the
nile, and brought to dead stop in 373
econds after putting on the brake, the
distance run in that time being AS
ards, exact measurement.-Cinc
Times.
DIR. Dallinger, the eminent micro
copist, holds that the development of
wing organisms in a piece of fish
MUSCLE, previously subjected to a tenn
erature of boiling water. does not in
icate spontaneous generation. despite
ne belief that such a temperature is
bsolutely destructive of life. He hopes
le microscope may yet reveal more
bout the details of the life of minute
but, in the meantime, he
Tvs, philosophy must take it for
ranted that the principle of life is
wholly distinct from the
latter with which it is clothed.-Cur-