St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

couver, B. C.
"A baby was seized as security fo
rent by an irate landlady in littl
: pennsylvania town the other day.
"A clearinghouse in the Catski]
mountain region of Ulster County, New
/ Iork, Is kept exclusively for colore,
city boarders.-Iroy Times.
-Coulonge, Can, claims to have
marksman who recently, at five hun
drsd yards, struck squarely the head O
a pin stuck in the .center of an enyel
ope.
Travelling caps worn by English
women with tailor-made costumes
have earflaps which como into use il
"the evening dews and dsmps' and il
strong autumn wind
A group Of persons consisting of .
man and wife. their infant child, anc
two grandfathers and three great.
grandfathers of the child was recently
photographed at Williamsport Md.
There was a street illumination in
= Western city recently, and the re-
porter called it "a revelation from some
planet where the sordid things of sense
had never seen the light, but where the
superbly aesthetic had ever held full
sway. chicago Times.
The word seismic Just now so
prominent in the description of earth
quake phenomena, is from a Greek
word meaning Ito shake" Without
stretching things, an attack Of malarial
fever might be called the seismics. -
Springfield Mass Union.
Louisville has 10000 colored peo-
pie. many of whom are prosperous and
some OF whom are rich. Some of the
best real estate in the city is owned by
colored men; there are three or four
large furniture dealers and many coal
yards, groceries and saloons owned by
negroes.-LouisUilie Courier-yournal.
in his annual address before the
New England Agricultural Society re-
Gently George b. Loring stated that the
number of farms in New England had
increased from 1S4, O64 in 1860 to 49,
252 in 1880, and that the value of these
farms had increased in the same period
from S476, 204.447 to $3.50, 72l, 49,
Boston journal.
1t is said that in Maine town the
postmaster was Republican aud ap-
pointed his wife. who is Democrat.
as his deputy. With the change of ad-
ministration the husband lost his place.
rs an offensive partisan, and the Dem
ocratic wife was appointed, and she
has reciprocated the favor by selecting
her husband as deputy, thus keeping
the office comfortably in the family, in
spite of the revolution of PARTIES
Boston Traveller.
"A Boston whisky dealer bought a
cheap coffin, put a 4 gallon keg Of rye
whisky inside. screwed a plate on the
lid OF the coffin, on which were en-
graved the name, age and birthplace
OF the alleged corpse. boxed the coffin,
- is usual. and shipped it to a town in
Maine. There an undertaken took
charge of the box and drove ten miles |
into the country before the coffin was !
opened and the liquor removed.-.N. T. /
Sun. |
A lady had a peculiar experience
few days ago in Portland, Ore, while
riding horse. The animal was high. /
spirited and. becoming unmanagcablc, I
threw the woman entirely out of her
riding habit, and ran off with it hang
ing to the saddle. Ayoungman caught
the horse and led it back, and the
young woman took the habit from the
saddle, put it on, mounted the horse
and rode away.
The irigate bird is considered to be
the tieetest animal that flies. Indeed,
is speed is such that seamen have a
belief that it can start with the peep of
lawn from the coast of Africa, and.
lollowlng the trade winds. land on the
American coast before sunset. 1t can
undoubtedly fly more than two hundred
niles an hour, but there is no trust
worthy record of the speed of which it
S capable.-Chicago Times. /,
"A physician said lately in paper
It Saratoga that it should not be sup-
rested to children that they are nervous.
here IS any amount of wisdom in the
entence. Children with either physical
n mental infirmities should not he
reminded of them. The
mind brooding over such troubles fixes
hem upon the system as chronic and
ncurable-when the trouble by wise
reatment would be outgrown and for
'otten.-Troy Times.
The following is related of an East ,
bridgeport man: He went home few ,
lights ago. and, not feeling well. took r
hat he supposed to be four pills and ,
hen slept the sleep of the just. When
is wife awoke in the morning she be-
an to search for four shoe buttons
'hich she intended to sew on baby's
hoes before tho liftlo ,ro.-oL 81
ould not find them. and the husband
'ined in the search, Finally he re-
rendered where he had found the pills o
nd said: Good heavens! swallowed 81
lem buttons. "-Bridgeport Comm o
0St.
In Oregon the catching and can <
ng OF salmon employ two thousand
hite men in various capacities. 1t .
nploys two thousand five hundred Y
hinese. 1t employs fifteen tugs and hi
eamboats, and makes business for a h
III dozen more employed regularly v:
the traffic OF the river. 1t employs IL
sides hundreds of boat-makers, sail d
akers and net-weavers. 1t is the basis ii
the prosperity of the city of Astoria.
ID attracts much of the foreign COM W
cree. Indirectly, its benefits reach &C
cry business and nearly every person hi
the State of Oregon.-San Francisco a,
lronicle. te
In Washington Territory there are ",
present only eighteen counties, and M
out all of these were taken from NJ
egon when it was made a State. n
Re soil is good enough in the best of st
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