St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-01-31
: MISCELLANEOUS,

- gems in bridal jewclly arc
:; longer considered fashionable.
The past season on the Erie Canal
has been the dullest for twenty years.
Buffalo Express.
The foreign kilograms to the Lon.
ION Times, including a long letter from
hnartoum, cost on single day recently
$4,000.
The French transport Isere will sail
.or New York about May Is next with
bartholdi's statue of Liberty Enlighten-
ing the World"
At the burning of the Bricketi
House, in Haverhill, Mass, a baby was
thrown out of the window and feather
beds were carefully carried downstairs.
Boston Globe.
Gloves do not appear to have been
worn in England before the end of the
tenth century, and their manufacture
was at that time confined almost excl,l-
slvely to Germany.
"A most inopportune dislocation OF
the jaw is recorded at recent wedding.
1t seems that during the performance
OF the ceremony the bride sneezed so
violently as to dislocate her jaw ut the
critical moment when she should have
pronounced the solemn oui. As she was
unable to articulate the word it was
found necessary for the whole party to
repair to surgeon before the ceremony
could be completed.-Umon Musicale.
-Mulhall, in his Progress of the
World. writes that in effect the inven-
ton of machinery has given mankind
an accession of power beyond calcula-
ton. The United States, for example,
make million of sewing machines
yearly. which can do as much work as
formerly required 100000 women
working by hand. A single shoe factory
In Massachusetts turns out as MANY
pairs of boots as $4,000 bootmakers in
Paris.-Boston Journal
A writer in the Detroit Neus states
that the great Lake Mistassini, which a
Canadian explorer claims to have dis
covered, was visited by Charles Albauel,
Jesuit father, in 1872, and described
by him in his letters to his superior.
As the letters are quoted there does not
seem to be any doubt about the matter.
The Canadian explorer is too subsequent
by two centuries. Besides the lake is
not quarter as large as he says it is.
james Harnett. a lunatic much Civ
ing to sing Sweet Violets," escaped
from Ward Island, New York, the other
morning. He opened the outer door
with key he had manufactured out Of
comb. Reaching the shore he made a
raft out of few floating logs and en-
barked for a perilous ride over He'll
Gate. He landed on Long Island, near
Astoria, and rushed through the streets
yelling at the top of his voice. He was
recaptured.-N. Y. Herald.
One of the most startling features
in the Pennsylvania oil regions is the
number of deserted villages, which has
been caused by the exhaustion of oil
wells. Pithole is remarkable exam
pie of the oil excitement. Barely eigh-
teen years ago stood city of 10000 in
habitants, with churches, theaters, no
tells. daily newspapers. pipe lines, rail-
road and telegraph offices. all the april
ances of a busy city; '.now," says re-
cent traveller through that region, '.all
that remains is log cabin, the dis
mantled wing of an old hotel. some de.
caying timbers, and little clearing in
the forest, SO saturated with oil and sail
water that nothing will grow upon it.
A poor. demented old man is now the
only inhabitant.- Journal.