St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-05-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS
Tho Alta Calitornia's advice on the
Chinese question: go slow and drive
in the middle of tho road"
John Pierce. a Paterson black.
smith. and three helpers the other day
shod 135 horses s.all around" That
means that the four men handled $40
feet and shod them.-N Y. Sun.
The largest barn in the world is
probably that of the Union Cattle Com
pany, Of Cheyenne. near Omaha. 1t
covers five acres, cost 1925, 600 and &C.
commodities $3.50 head of cattle.
A California Chinaman recently
ran away with another Chinaman' S
wife, and, to throw the pursuers off the
trail. took her aboard steamboat rolled
up in lot of blankets, carrying her on
his shoulder.
The petrified skeleton of a whale
over thirty feet long has been discov-
cred by an officer of the Coast Survey
on a range of mountains in Monterey
County, Cal. over thirty-three hundred
feet above the sea level.
Artificial sponge made of cotton.
rendered absorbent and treated with
antiseptics. has been invented in En-
gland. A piece of the size of u walnut
has absorbed water until it reached the
size of cocoanut. 1t is so cheap that
it need be used but once.
French proof-readers in the Gov
eminent Office are paid $500 per week;
machine men, $1.75 to 1925 per day;
bookbinders and pressmen, $1.O0 to
Sl.25 per day. and type-founders, 80. p
per week; laborers, $685. per month
N Y. Mail.
A young man of Leadville. enam-
ored Of young married woman of the
same town, made arrangements to
elope with her. Each thought the other
rich. The inability or unwillingness
of each to buy the railroad tickets to
San Francisco caused a postponement
of their plans aud another home is not
broken up.-Deacer Tribune.
A learned Berlin professor has
given to the world the information of
what makes merry twinkle" 1t is
caused by peculiar abrillar-like move
ment of the lids, the orbicularis palpe-
brarum and the parts around the nose.
The new reading of Twinkle, little
star" would then be: "Abrillar-like
movement of the lids, the orbicularis
palpebrarum and the parts around the
nose. diminutivc satellite. ''-Rochester
Post-Erprcss.
Overheard in street car: First
lady-Why. YOU know, dear, my hus-
hand is too forgetful for anything.
Why. do you know, when he goes out
he really don't remember where he is
going. Second lady-Well, all men
are alike. They keep on talking and
half the time they forget where they
are going. First lady Ito conductor)
Stop at College street, please. Con-
ductor-Two blocks back, madam
NcU Hdren Nc,cs.
If the populous and fertile region
known as Wyoming County, N. Y, is
not shortly transferred into bowling
wilderness it will not be the fault of MIR.
Samuel Wolcott, an enterprislng citl-
zen of Arcade, who proposes to start a
skunk ranch. The animals will be
raised on an extensive scale for their
hides, which bring a high price in the
market. Mr.. Wolcott has already OBJ
tanned one hundred breeders, and the
business is expected to prove very re-
A skunkery has at least
this advantage over a chicken farm.
that no one will, in all probability. at
tempt to steal the skunks from their
perches at night.-Butalo Express
1t is not surprising that Mrs. Will
Brown, of Louisville, KY,
should have been disguised when she
learned that her daughter Ellen had
eloped with newspaper man; but she
Should not have permitted herself to be
so far overcome with grief as to light
a fire in the range and then lie down
upon it. Such proceeding could not
have renewed the stain from the honor
of the Brown family. even if Mrs. B.
had succeeded in roasting herself. But,
before she was quite done.
a neighbor came in and took her of
the stove. At latest accounts her pros
poets of recovery were fair to middling.
Louisville Courier-Journdl.
Mr.. Afford married during the
second year of the late war. He only
had $3.50 to start out with. and this is
the way he got it: His father was
mechanic and was gone all the week
ut his work. When he came home
every Saturday night he gave each Of
his children five-cent piece. James
had disposition to save. He got a
piece of timber and bored hole in it
to fit the half-dimes and every one his
father gave him he put in this unique
savings bank He kept this plan up
until he married. Upon investigation
he found he had saved $3.50. With
this capital the young farmer began
The battle of life To-day he is worth