St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-07-18
MISCELLANEOUS,


-'No whispering allowed" is one oil
the rules conspicuously posted up in the
school-room at the deaf mute institu.
ton, Salem, Ore.
So high-priced have been peaches
Tor the past two seasons that five hun.
dred new peach orchards have been sci
cut in Delaware within a year.
An authority on the subject say.
that q dog show is called a ..benct
show" because the cage kennels il
which dogs are exhibited are located or
benches.
The oldest book in the Congress
sional Library is said to be s'The Olive
Leaf" by one Hauser. of Georgia, /.
tune book concocted '.for the glory o
God and the good of mankind.
"A recent report on the subjec
states that machinery intended for tn,
Indian market should be simple in con
struction and such that if any part b,
broken it can be mended in any black
smith shop.
The new kind of paper on which
the New Orleans Picdyune is printed j.
called bagasse, the crushed refuse o
the stalks of the sugar cane. Tn,
paper is fine and soft, with almost /,
silk-like surface.
Thirteen State Bureaus of Statistic.
of Labor are now in existence. Thu
Oldest, that of Massachusetts,, was es
tablished in 1869, Mr.. Wright, now al
the head of the National Bureau, being
still its chief. The Bureau of Pennsyl
vania, next in age, was established in
1872, Joel B. McCamant being its chief
Boston Journal.
The Secretary of the London Swim
ming Club makes the following sug
gestion: ITO battle before retiring t.
rest, after the heat and hustle of the
day, would be sure means of inducing
sleep-the happy. peaceful sleep of 8
child that would be an antidote to most
of the ills that flesh is heir to, not for.
getting lunacy. which is induced by
want Of sleep.
Compulsory education works well
when it can be enforced. In a Missouri
court some time ago an illiterate pris.
oner was sentenced to Jail until he
would learn to write; another was sen.
fenced until he could teach the former
the art. In less than month both men
were discharged. the one who could moi
write before being able to write fair
hand.-St Louis Post.
-Rowel is the only one Of the IA.
nous pedestrians who is rich. He i,
worth $50. 900 and never speculates. Oh
himself O'Leary said recently: s.Sil
years ago I had $4,000. I began te
dabble in stocks, and as a result dropped
my bundle, but l never played a care
for money in my life or bucked the
tiger. I have walked since July IA,
1874, $4,000 miles in matches and ex
hibitions in this country, England, Ire
land and Australia. IN Y. Sun.
The light of the sun is estimated tc
equal in quantity 1875, 900, 900, OOO,.
600. 600, 0O0. 600. 900 candles, the lights
intensity at the suns surface being $780,.
600 times that of candle fame, $500
times that of metal in a Bessemer con.
verter, 141 times that of a calcium light,
or 314 that of an electric arc The
according Rosetti. is about
$4,000 Fair. The mechanical equiva-
lent of the solar rotation. continuously
acting, is nearly 10000 horsepower pei
square foot of solar surface.
Living creatures in water seem te
have vegetable origin. Examine pure
lake-water or spring-water with a mi.
croscope and no life is visible; but put
flowers or any vegetable substance il
the water and in forty eight hours the
water will swarm with life. Water
thus is revealed as the Matching medi-
um for many forms of life. Many beau.
tiful grassplots in cities are ruined BY
watering. The water matches
out millions of eggs which the dry SUN
would have killed. Chicago Current.
A tramp who called at farm house
to ask for cold bite was almost paral.
yzed at being welcomed with smiles and
kind words and having a fine repasi
laid out for him. In explanation the
woman said that he reminded her of hel
long lost cousin. At the next house the
tramp at once announced that he was
the woman's long-lost brother, but in
place of smiles and mince pie the woman
seized the broomstick and went for him,
saying: ''Slide out, you villain! They
we're all girls in our familyr'-Tera,