St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-01-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

: texas the COWBOYS utilize steers
LOT steeds. One man recently rod. In
iaiies astride one of these animals.
"A little Austin boy saw his motbe,
.. sses on her switch one day, and called
I mamma! Let us take YOUR
scaip ont in the yard. so that we can
play Indians. "-Teras Sytinqs.
Scotland is to have national nor
.rait gallery and museum of antiuuities
snlouSn the generosity of some one nm
Nlowh, who last year established fund
o. $4,000, and now offers. 500 O00
more Tor the building. The British Gov.
eminent has accepted the trnst and
added 5000 to the fund. N''1
"a few days since a Sacramento
SSA- merchant received letter from
q gentleman in the State of Nevada in
gm ~, the price of certain articles
me correspondent wrote that he did
not Know whether the merchant was
SUI In business, as he could NOT find
nls advertisement in the papers. and no
one over there could inform him. Ha
concluded: IF You do not get this LET
Ter please write and let me know"
The inquiries of United States Con.
suis IN the various countries of the
world seem to establish beyond cues
non the fact that business is pretty gem
orally done on the credit system. In
some countries the system seems to be
carried further than in Others. but ali
resort to 1t, whether their government Is
stable or unstable, and whether the
country is rich or poor.
1t often happens that a CLERGYMAN
VIII Jorge the name Of a child at bap-
tism. but the case of minister in South
Carolina who purposely miscalleI .
child Is peculiar. The child's godpar-
EMS had bestowed the name ::Letitia
Adelina Angelin." The parson calmly
SAID Mary, and SO baptized her. II
nope you will not mind the alteration l
have made. / hope it will prove useful
10 the childs afterlife: so many names
are mistake, exclaimed the clergy
man, cooily.-Chicago Times.
The Salt Lake Tribune saws: Not
every one knows the fact. but Utah lust
now has three mines which are Welding
more, with less noise, than any other
three mines IN any other State or Terri
tory of the Republic. One of them,
too, has the best record of any mine in
the world except the Eureka Consoli-
dated. 1t has never levied an assess
ment and has paid some S5,OOO,O 900 in
dividends.
% woman! thou knowest the hour
when the good man of the house will
return, when the heat and burden of
he 10 OF. 4 L.
time. when he is weary with toll and
laded with discouragment, find upon
his coming to his habitation that the
foot which should hasten to meet him
is wandering at distance: that the soft
hand which should wipe the sweat from
his brow is knocking at the door of
OF other houses Washington Irring.
Professor STEELE, agricultural editor
of the Mobile Register, thinks the South
ern States admirably adapted to raising
hogs, and that by the new refrigerating
inventions pork may be saved at the
South as well as anywhere else The
lOng-continued warm weather is favor
able to rapid fattening and cheap pork,
since hogs can not be kept up and
by stoves and wood fires in
cold weather, and it is expensive to
warm them by heat-producing food like
corn and peas. He thinks pork can be
made at less cost in the South than in.
the North.
An American travelling in England
once asked the meaning of some quaint
customs, and with great difficulty OBJ
tanned information even of university
..And the humor of the
whole thing" he says, twas the fashion
in which the college dons took his in
luiries. Apparently they had accepted
those meaningless customs for an in
definite term of years without thought
If challenging them, as part of the
scheme of things, and woke up to the
question of their origin and meaning
With as much. bewilderment as though |
t had been suddenly demanded of them
Why two and two make four"