St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-28
MISCELLANEOUS,

commencement season has now fairly
begun This is better than to say
that the begunment season has now
fairly commenced.-A!bany Journal.
The Hebrews, who form such a
publ .pir.ted and wealthy class in
every city, number less than $50, 900 in
the United States. Most people in
making guess would say million or
two.-N. Y. Tribune.
1T is said that in the extreme South
clothes-pins are not used. There the
clothing is doubled over the line and
allowed to hang until it is dry, which.
owing to the warmth of the climate,
is a matter of short time.-Good
Housekeeping.
Everything comes to him who
waits. The farmer who all through
the winter has been wondering wha,
he was going to do with them pesky
turnips. now finds ready sale fol
them to the dealer in pure grated horse.
radish. Chicago Nal.
How TO Send Boy to Sea" is tn.
name of new book. One good WAY
is to work him on the farm from day.
Ii .ht to dark 365 days in the year. anG
then thrash him with trunk strap
when he asks for half holiday in Leap
year--Cam iri,iJe Chronicle.
1t is reported on perfectly reliable
authority" that the latest conundrum
at the London clubs concerns Miss
Fortcscue. to whom Lord Garmoyle
paid 10000 for not marrying her.
Thus is it: What is the most expensive
kind of oilo Garmoyle. Because it
costs 10000 per gal.
Samuel b. Downev, Captain of tho
Lancaster Bicycle Club, recently rode
his wheel from Lancaster to Philadel-
phia and back, distance of 1856 miles.
between $50 in the morning and 11:45
in the evening. He stayed nearly four
hours in Philadelphia and stopped for
supper on his way back.-Phitadslphia
Press.
A curious sale of skeletons is about
to take place in Paris. These CHASTITY
treasures belonged to a French doctor.
who devoted his existence 10 studying
distorted human nature, and haunted
the hospitals to buy up the corpscs OF
dc!ormed persons. Accordingly he
for which his heirs now ask f1,200.
A correspondent OF San Francis.
CO society paper declares that in max
call he never knows what to do with
his hands and feet, and asks advice on
the subject. The shrewdly judgin g
editor thcreupon suggests that he take
his hat with the former and his depart
urc with the latter. If all writers on
etiquette were as practical as this one
they would not be the useless person.
they are now.-San Franciscan.
Mr.. John Rogers. of Mansfield.
Mass. had a throat gargle compounded
at druggists the other day. When
carrying it home the bottle exploded.
and everything that the compound
touched was burned. 1t turned out that
the clerk had used aquafortis instead OF
aqua pura. or pure water. and that the
aquafortis. in composition with gly-
cerine in the prescription, made some
thing about like nitro glyccrine.-
Boston Journal.
Several negroes recently captured
a large sturgeon in Big creek, Georgia.
1t had been seen swimming around in
the creek for more than a week. and
that day they went prepared with spikes
and axes to capture the monster. The
water was three or four feet deep, and
it took considerable work TO bring him
to shore. 1t was taken to Waynesboro.
and weighed eighty-tive pounds and
measured six and one-half feet in
length. 1t is the first sturgeon ever
captured in the creek.-N. q. Times.
John Carothcrs, while burning
brush near Akron, o., caught his foot
in brush heap and was in danger of
being burned to death. His yells
brought man, who said: '.Pay me
the five dollars you owe me and I'll
help you out" Carothcrs insisted that
he didn't owe any five dollars. '.All
right then, burn" said the man, and he
walked away. Carothcrs then by
frantic efforts released himself, but not
before he was badly scorched.-CteUe.
land Leader.
A new law in New Jersey is aimed
at the deceptive nursery agent. 1t
provides that ANY person selling fruit
trees or fruit briers, who shall misrep-
resent the name or nature of said fruit
trees or fruit briers. shall be guilty of a
m slemeanor. and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by fine no,
exceeding one hundred dollars, or i'm
prisoncd in the county Jail for term
not exceeding three months, or both,
at the discretion of the court"
A tourist in Alaska writes home:
There is not a horse, mule or BIZ
cycle in Alaska; each and all would be
useless as amcans of locomotion. The
whole country leads toward heaven at
an angle of forty-tive degrees. To
move on YOU must climb and keep on
climbing forever. The Indians, for
that reason. with level heads avoid the
land, except as a place to sleep on
they live and move in canoes. What
the gondola is to the Venetians the
canoe is to the people of Alaska.
One of the most important rules il
the science of manners is that you pre-
serve an almost absolute silence con
corning yourself Play the comedy,
some day, of speaking of your own in
tcrests to ordinary acluaintances. and
YOU will see feigned attention swift!
followed by Indifference and then by
WEAKNESS, until every one has found |
pretext for leaving you. But if 70,
wish to group about you the sympathic
of all and to be considered . charming
and agreeable fellow, talk to them 0
themselves. seek some way Of bringin!
each of them into action in turn; thel
they will smile at you, think well Of
you and praise you when you are gone
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