St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-10-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A huge lemon was recently picked
at Pansoifkee, Fla. 1t measured twenty
four inches in circumference one way,
twenty-five inches the other, and
weighed four pounds and thirteen
| ounces.
During a trial in London it was de
veloped that the plaintiff, woman,
had been divorced from her former hus.
band because of her misconduct with
her present husband, who had been di
vorced from her sister.
Milton Miester. formerly of Lancas-
ter County. Pennsylvania. and now of
Utah Penitentiary, remarks in letter
to friend: Il am serving out six
months sentence for loving. cherishing
and caring for my dear families, con-
sisting of three of the best, noblest and
loveliest wives in the Union and twenty
three just as good and pretty children
as ever came from Heaven to so;ourn
for a season on this mundane sphere. y
Chicago Tribune.
The yield of grain in Texas for the
present year has been the greatest ever
known in the history of the State. The
Galveston NeUs. commenting upon the
fact. says: with no uutoward disaster
to the cotton crop the State is on the
eve OF the grandest period of agricultural
prosperity she has ever enjoyed. The
commercial and general business s:tua-
ton may naturally be expected to SYM
path;ze with this prosperity"
As an EVIDENCE of the ignorance
which prevails through Wales, the vicar
OF large district writes that he gave
to poor woman, whose daughter was
ill. little jar of extract of meat, telling
her to boil it with certain. seasoning.
The woman complained there was some
thing wrong with the thing. She had
boiled it for hours. and could get nc
charm out of it. The fact was she had
left the jar unopened.
How can ever pay you?' Don't
try." Don't try?" NO, ifyou really
wish to do me favor" II don't UNI
derstand- so long as 1 know you
never can pay up you will be valuable
to me in another way. Whenever bill
is presented that can not conveniently
meet l will simply say that l have mon.
ey due me that must be collected before
L can pay my creditors. Do you see??"
'Yes; and as special favor / give YOU
my word and honor l will never paw
you. -Harper's Bazar.
Here is hot weather conundrum.
A gentleman remarked the other day
that if he were in an elevator and il
dropped from the fifth story he would
break the force Of the fall by jumping
four or five feet in the air just before
the elevator hit the bottom. And now
people are arguing as to whether he
could or not jump tour or five feet in
the air with nothing under him but
falling elevator Could heo And
would he break the fall or not?-Chica
70 Times.
The great majority of people paw
no attention to their health or their
mental sanity. Their whole time and
energy are devoted to securing wealth
and distinction. They leave Their health
% the doctor, their quarrels to the
awyers, and their souls to the ministers.
4 little education in the right direction
would change this. But it may be
asked why pipe to those who will not
lance. 1t may be that people will
some time learn that health and mental |
are worth more than wealth |
and Observation-Disclosures Press.
A tadpole, the larva of frog, ha.
tail and no legs. gills instead of lungs,
heart precisely like that of a fish, a |
horny beak for eating vegetable food |
md spiral intestine to digest it. With |
he approach of maturity the hind legs
appear. then the front pair: the beak |
alls of. the tail and gills waste away;
he lungs are created; the digestive APP
,aratus is changed 10 suit the animal |
i'et; the heart becomes reptilian in
ype by the addition of another aur.cle;
n fact, skin, muscles, nerves and blood
'essels vanish, being absorbed atom BY
tom: and new set is substituted.-Bos.
on Budget.
The principal crops of Japan and
her annual products are as follows:
Rice, 1876, 000.O)O bushels; wheat, H.
10000 bushels; barley. 9.421, 900
maize. 1882. 900 bushels; SOY
cans. 1l,556. 900 bushels; buckwheat,
.367,0 bushels; raw cotton. 10.251,-
% cwt.; hemp fibre. 1873. 100 cwt.; tea,
94,0iS cwt-: tobacco. 3S2.441 cwt.;
ugar cane. 7, l49. 0oo cwt. potatoes. H.
80. 600 cwt.: bark of paper mulberry,
81, 900 cwt-: indigo leaves, dried $780,
90 cwt. The exports are annually
36. 100000, or nearly one dollar for
ach person on the island The i'm
orts are S2s.OO0,0O0 annually.
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