St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-11-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

The past has been The grecnes,
summer within the memory OF the old
est inhabitant- Budget.
The total number of self-support.
ing women and girls over ten years oil
age, in New York is 2,647, 157.-N T.
Post.
England has 123. 995 women teach.
ers. many of whom occupy positions as
professors and instructors in the higher
branches of learning.
When Philadelphia society girls
want to indicate that. one of their mum.
Der is rather rapid they say: 20, She.
regular bird. "-New York Journal
A Massachusetts, COW got hung il
the woods by her tail and was held fas
thirty-six hours before she was found
All this time she had nothing to say
she could not tale unfold.
Five gypsies were lately fumigatei
in Spanish town SO thoroughly as tt
forever prevent the cholera from at
lacking them. They were all killed il
the process.
A man at Lewiston. Me-, drives ,
spirited horse without breeding. tn,
animal having been educated to "holc
back by his launches in contact with
the crossbar. "-Boston journal.
The Waterbury Comm Watcf
Factory makes about three thousand
watches in one year. Most of the wort
which requires the finest touch and the
most delicate manipulation is done By
women. Their wages average abou,
$3.50 a day.-HarJord Courant
A shocking case of cruelty to ami
mails has come to light in an up-country
village. An able-bodied man appeared
at the village store and told the doleful
tale that MARY had went off to work
in the mill this mornin' an hadn't lef'
me bite to eat or any money either. :"
Boston Post.
1t is estimated that every yeal
about $4,000. 0OO. 900 letters are posted
in the world. America leads, with
about $500. 100000 and England fol.
lows. with 7O0.0O0,OOO. Japan, which
established postal service only ter
years ago, now mails annually 95, OOO,.
600 letters.-Ghicago Tribune.
The JeUish Messenger appeals Il
the young men and women of the ole
faith to abstain from publishing in the
newspapers their matrimonial engage
ments. No one is interested in such
announcements, it says. except a few
near relations, and they can be reached
by mail.
Beet sugar has overtaken ant
passed its only rival-cane sugar. The
estimated supply for the coming crot
year is 2,505. 900 tons. while of cane the
yield is estimated at 2, 1OO.0 600 tons. Oh
the total amount, Cos. 900 tons-the
United States will probably consume
about one-fourth. E. Farmer.
Ii every soul, saint and sinner in
the Union were to 60 to the ports of the
Great Lak1okeach could get to carry.
home half bushel Of grain. To put il
In cold figures. there are $4,000. OOcs
people in America. and stored for ship
ment 'twixt Duluth and Toledo are
25. 100000 bushels of wheat, corn and
oats. philadelphia Press.
Rather fine bean-poles, those
said a tourist to suburban trucker who
was engaged setting out his winter
crop. "Bean-poles. thunder! Why.
stranger. them's handles-hoe-handles
Our crop of hoes will be ten bushels
more to the acre this fall than last"
And the stranger went on Illuminating
On the remarkable fertility of land in
Colorado.-Denrer Opinion.
The chemical reactions daily tax.
Ing place in the laboratory of nature
Are immensely interesting. both from
their magnitude and their direct in.
fuence upon human affairs. The
waters of the Schuylkill undergo a |
number of chemical changes. Above
Reading they are so impregnated with
'ulphuric acid from the drainage OF
mines as to be unfit for use in boilers,
and have but few fish living in them.
At Reading. however, the acid is neu.
by being brought in contact
With lime water flowing in from rulpo-
,ocken Creek. and the resulting insolu-
Die sulphate of lime is precipitated,
orming bed of gypsum. -PhilatlelDhin |