St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-08-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

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nuts.
A Frenehman has inventeda an auto.
maton which plays upon the piano with
expression and brilliancy.
A white laundry failed few days
ago in Liverpool, Cal. and the pro-
prietor of a Chinese concern celebrated
the event by hosting the American
flag.
The newsboys of San Francisco
have organized a protective union. Ten
cents is to be the uniform price for a
shine. and destitute members will be
taken care of.
A miner from the Grand Ronde
placer diggingS went to lie Grande, Ore.
with three hundred dollars worth OF
bright, clean gold dust-the result Of
twenty-five days work Of two men.
A movement is afoot in Philadel-
phia to erect a monument over the
grave Of Corporal William II. Rhial,
who was the first soldier of the Ma
tional army killed when the rebels in
vaded Pennsylvania.
At the removal of barber shop
i'm Geneva. \. Y. the other day, a
show bill was taken down which adver-
tisnd a circus which appeared in that
place in 1857. 1t was entirely different
from the show bills of the present day.
A young man hurriedly left the
Northern railway train at Craigvale.
Can. one day recently. emphatically
kissed Young lady who stood waiting
for him on the platform, then rushed
back to his seat in the car and tran
gully pursued his journey northward.
Bridal parties in New York observe
the fashion of being at least an hour
late At one fashionable wedding the
bride and groom arrived nearly two
hours behind time and the wedding
was considered the most successful Of
the season.-N. \. Sun.
-"Will your brother probably ever
come out here?' No. think not
he has never been west of the Ale
gheny mountains" lis that sh?
What is his business?" ..Writiag
descriptive articles of the West far
Eastern publications.. It'd Bits.
Among the new curiosities donate
the Wyoming Pioneer and Historical
Association. at Silver Lake. n. Y, is n
lar-e piece of the bridge which General
Sullivan constructed near Conesus, to
move his artillery over. more than one
hundred years ago. 1t was made OF
black walnut. from trees cut on the
banks of the stream.
Fred Sitton, of McMinnville, Ore.
had an adventure with bear recently
that was by no means pleasing. He came
across the bear and shot him four or
five times. when bruin turned on him,
run him up sapling, and kept him
there for several hours. when his cries
were heard. assistance came. and the
bear was killed.
A gentleman of Trumbull County,
O.. was awakened one night recently
from 4 sound s'eep with singing, Bit
ing sensation in his leg. A search was
instituted and a discovery made. In
the folds of his wife's robe de chambre
fish hook was securely caught, and SO
deeply had it imbedded itself that q
slice of flesh went out with it.-CleUe-
land Iedaer.
We can not too highly commend
the determination of Rev. Sam Jones
t. undertake to convert the Corncob
School of Philosophy. People who
boldly stand up and assert that the
Henceness OF the Wherefore is due to
the Thingness of the Sweet Afterward
can not be reformed too soon for our
common safety. Philadelphia Press.
A barbarous case of eviction lately
, happened at Linlithgow. Scotland.
Miss Eliza Milne. teacher of the Doug
las Cottage School, was elected from
her house, and her bedridden mother.
eighty-six years of age. was removed
from her bed and placed on an easy
chair on the wavs;de. She laid there
for two hours and then expired.
1t is suggestive fact that at Luck
, now. India. there is native press en-
ploving nine hundred workmen which
issues largely the sacred writings of the
! Hindoos and Mohammedans. A native
publishing firm at Lahore translates
European intidel publications as fast as
they appear, and disseminates them in
the various languages of India.
Alaska has been having touch OF
the labor-trouble fever. The carpenters
and mechanics of Sitka presented a
petition to Judge Dawson deprecating
the plan of one Heaton, a missionary
under salary from the Government,
who competed with contractors for the
construction of new buildings at a fig
ure too low for allowing living wages,
proposing to employ Indian boys from
his school.
Several years ago Louis Renneberg
was found dead in his bed at Mononga-
hela City. and buried. But he wasn't
dead after all, for he turned up the
other day at his old employers and
asked for work. He saws that he re-
vived after being buried and dug out OF
the grave; but it is thought that he wa.
resurrected by medical students. who,
finding him alive, paid him to quit town
and keep quiet.-Phitadelphia Press.
The stingray is the natural enemy
of San Francisco oysters. and his ap-
pearance on the Atlantic coast is al
most as much to be dreaded as the five
fingered startish that destroys the beds
of eastern waters. The fish has power
full pair of Jaws. with which he con-
siders it no trick whichever to smash the
shell of an oyster into powder, after
which he sucks the meat into his
stomach and discards the rocky debris.
N. Y Tribune.
Photography, it is claimed, is to be
still further advanced by the use of the
air brush In this device Il little holder
! is charged with India ink, and, by a
bellows operated with a foot-pedal after
the manner of a sewing machine the