St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-09-25
MISCELLANEOUS,

1t Is seventeen years since the mist
railroad across the continent was com
pleted.
Cats are the most difficult of all
animals to train to perform tricks A
Snowman who could obtain q trained
cat would consider his fortune made.
Citizens of an Illinois town made
kite seven feet long. and sent it two
thousand feet into the air. A windlass
was rugged. and it required the power
of three men to drag the kite back to
the earth again.-Chicdqo Nail
A lady living in Fulton, n. Y, was
frightened into Mysteries by seeing her
own shadow and thinking it was bur-
glar. She was confined to her bed for
several days from the fright.
One local justice decides that shaw.
ing is not work of necessity and an
other local justice decides that it is.
Justice, instead of being blind. seems
to see two ways at once.-LoweA
Courier.
A poor woman went about Walla
Walla, W. T., trying to sell her hair
for a switch. She hal it already cut
off. but was unable to effect a sale.
She claimed to be on the verge of starvs-
ton.
The Polish Alliance of the United
States asserts that there are l,O00,0JC
Poles i'm this country, and recently q
prominent Wisconsin Bohemian de-
clared that there were 5,OO0,OOO Bo.
hemians here.
Two ladies who have taught in a
certain room in the Ithaca Central
School have been married within two
wears past, and the Journd! narrates
the fact that there is somewhat of a
strife" to get in the way of third
stroke of the hymeneal lightning.
-Dobson-"Hello.J obson, old man.
how are you9 o. by the way. can you
change twenty-dollar bill for me?>
Johsan pleased to be thought cap
italisD -"Certa; my by. certain
w." Dobson Good, I'm glad to hear
it, Then You'll certainly be able t.
pay that five dollars you borrowed last
year?' And Jobson had to pay
Someruitte journal.
The old buckskin horse "Phil, :"
which carried General Butler through
the war of the rebellion, and which the
General has ever since kept in his pos
session. died Saturday night, aget.
ihirty-one years. Since the creature
became useless from old age. he has
been taking life easy in the pasture
LoweN Courier.
1t is impossible to count billion.
Had Adam coulted continuously from
his creation 10 the present day he would
not have reached that number. for it
would take him over 9,5l2 years. At
the rate of POO minute there could be
counted 1900 an hour, 28S.OOO day
and los. 10000 year.-AAentown
pa. Register.
There is man near Griffin who
has been married three different times
and boasts of having under his roof six
ffcrent families of children. His last
two wives were widows with children,
which makes his home like young
colony of many grades of relationship.
The old man keeps Il register of the
names. date Of birth. and the family to
which they bclong.-Attanta Constitu-
ton.
There is one unhappy feature about
''braving the whirlpool rapids of Mag
ara in 4 barrel where the experimenter
has no possible control over his vessel.
If he fails he loses his life and d.mon-
strates his folly; if he succeeds he
demonstrates that anybody could do
the same thing. If the operator in the
barrel hal had anything whatever to
do or had required to use strength.
skill, GOODNESS or any other quality to
save himself from destruction, then he
would be man set apart. worthy,
perhaps. of some degree of admiration.
philadelphia Ledger.