St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-02-14
MISCELLANEOUS.


Camphor trees are growing thrifty
At Quincy, Fla. The plants were OBJ
tanned from Washington.
The first case Of painting the town
red in this country was when the ea-li-
est Aztec settlers from Mexico celebrs-
ted the completion of their first village
this side of the Rio Grande with an orgie
OF red-berries, red-paint and red-eye.
This should end all argument Chicago
Herald.
"A maiden lady of Philadelphia was
awitness in court the other day. ah6
when sworn was requested to kiss the
Bible She refused, saying it was SO
long since she kissed anything that she
had forgotten how it was done. This is
strange and interesting case.-Phi.a-
delphia Call.
10 those are constantly expectinga
serious decline in the price of beef we
may say that the population of the
world Is increasing much more rapidly
than the number of cattle. This IS
specially true of our own country, where
the cattle trade is pursued under the
most favorable auspices.-N. ]. Herald.
Not long since durable monument
OF cement was raised on the site, in the
Island of Hawaii, on which the famous
Captain James Cook fell in 1879. 1t is
the custom among sailors to inscribe
their names upon small pieces of cop
perplate and nail them to the trees in
the vicinity of the monument.
When Colonel Chaille Long, who
accompanied General Gordon to the
Soudan in 1874, visited King M'Tesa,
his appearance upon a white horse,
something that had never been seen
there, threw the Kings subjects into the
widest panic, as they believed the horse
and its rider to have come from celestial
regions.
In the Agricultural Department at
Washington 16O women are employed
in putting up seed, and fifty-eight men
are also engaged in the same work.
The men get $50 and the women S125,
although the work done by the women
lis identical in quantity and quality with
that done by the men, Washington
Post.
The volcano Kiiawea, on the Island
of Hawaii, is $4,000 feet high and is said
to be again showing bad disposition.
Five years ago it gave the town of Hile
a free show, which it ended by running
down the curtain of oblivion on the
town itself The mass of lava was half
a mile in width, thirty to fifty feet in
thickness, and buried Hile much as
Vesuvius did Pompeii.
"A story came to me the other day
of an engineering party in Dakota that
had seated themselves at their dinner
table in tent, when a party of cow
boys rode up. One of them dismounted,
and thrusting his pistol in the middle of
. rice pudding that was placed in the
center of the table, called ont: "Who-
ever wants pudding must ask me-" No
one seemed to care for dessert that day.
Chicago Rambler.
The Getty of Churches is Brook
lyn, N. Y; the ''City of Masts" is Lon
don; the ..City of Monuments is Balti-
more, Md; the 'sCity of Refuge" is
Medina, Arabia, where Mohammed
took refuge when driven by conspira-
tors from Mecca; the .sCity of the Sun"
is Baalbec; the ''City of the Tribes" is
Galway, Ireland, the residence in 1885
of thirteen tribes who settled there; the
..cleanest city in the world is Brock, in
Holland, and the dirtiest city is So
Chicago Herald.
Il can always tell the nationality
of an engineer by the complaint he
Makes" said an engine builder and re-
pairer in one of our contemporaries.
1.-The Scotchman is always worried
about the book losh;' Englishmen and
Irishmen are always fighting the
thump,' which they firmly believe was
left there for them to remove; the Ger
man is very much concerned about dem
valves while the Yankee has q hard
time to keep her from chawin' too
much steam. IN Y Sun.
1t seems, from all that can be
learned from the fair sex. that Worth
and his compeers in Paris charge .
round hundred thousand francs, say
twenty thousand dollars, to outfit q
young lady for the matrimonial voyage.
For this she is equipped from top to toe;
everything is Of the best and in the
latest fashion. OF course this is not the
limit. Ladies in Paris occasionally
spend two hundred and fifty thousand
francs for their trousseau, and are heard
to complain, few weeks after marri-
age, that they have nothing to wear.
A few days since, as workmen were
removing old ice from Ober & Co.'S ice
house, in Dresden, Me-, says q cores
pondent of the Boston Journal, they
found large frog between two blocks
of ice that were frozen together solid
and had been in the house two years.
"A number Of heavy blows were required
to separate the blocks, when on being
released, his frogship stretched himself
few times to get limbered up and then
hoped away as lively as ever, appa-
rently none the worse for his frigid i'm
prisonment.
Every Point in Her Favor.