St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

I'm a fierce gale of Cape Hatteras q
schooner was saved by towing bags Of
oil astern for two days.
The people of Atlanta. Ga. sunk
S26, 900 in an artesian well 1000 feet
deep, only to learn from professor Of
the State University that the city stood
on granite rock-the bedrock of the
Chicago Times.
The London Lancet hopes against
hope that boys who smoke will draw
lesson from the case of a twelve.year-
old lad in London, who died in conse-
quence of smoking pennyworth OF
double twist. I'VE may at least" says
the venerable editor, 'advise every sen.
sible boy to regard tobacco as
poison.
Tidal observations on the eastern
coasts of America have acquired I'M
portance since the Coast Survey has
confirmed by recent observations the
older suggestion that there are tidal
fluxes in the Gulf Stream, and variations
of its velocity due to ha!f-monthly
changes in the relative sea levels of the
Atlantic and Gulf of MeXico.-N. T.
Sun.
In New York last year there were
S.. 696 deaths, 10000 births and IL. ZIG
marriages, rs against, in the preceding
wear. 35.05i deaths, 30,527 births and
IL 800 marriages. Thus the death list
increased co.. and the number of births
fell of 1917. due possibly TO the sudden
cessation of foreign immigration.-N
Y. Tribune.
Mr.. Bran Stoker, who accom-
panied Henry Irving on his American
tour. is now lecturing in England,
giving his impressions of the Ameri-
cans. He says it seemed to him rs il
the gentlemen in America, rs their text
of social law and attention to the ladies',
had taken the best page of an old work
of chivalry.-Ch Chicago Journal.
The document-room clerks at the
House receive some queer requests.
says Washington letter. A consiitu-
chi of Western member. asks for the
Congressional Record FROM the date Of
its first publication. Another would
like to have revolver, while third
desires that call be made at the GEN.
sus office to obtain the residence of a
certain party.
An old autograph album in Wash
inoton contains the following letter
from Geeeral Winfield Scott, dated
Wasiling ton. June Is, 1860, to the pro-
prietors of the Girard House, Philadcl
phia: Gentlemen: Expect ME at the
Girard House tomorrow night at eleven
O'Clock, and please give me q bed at
least six feet six inches in length, or
one without foot-board. ~. I. Post.
An English sportsman, shooting on
the north shore of Long Island. was
| invited to dinner at farmhouse, and
was SO astoniShed that he writes to a
London newspaper about it. wonder
how often in nerrie England" he says,
"a farmer. with his family and two
| men servants. sits down to roast turkey,
chicken pie. with four or five vegetables
| and cranberry saucee"-N Y Herald
Tho Hawaiian Gazette says the ma
tives of the Sandwich Islands have
"only just reached higher civilization
| than poi, the national dish, and if the
Cinnamon come into the islands all that
has been gained win be lost" Then
by all means let Chinese immigration
into the Sandwich Islands be prohib-
tied. When people have reached a
higher civilization than 'poi' they
should he assisted and encouraged in
their great and glorious advancement.
But what ridiculous way to spell pie.
-NorriSio,ca Herald.
Writing from Mexico correspond.
! cnt says: mo Mexican kennel is conf
| plcte without two or three pelons or
! hairless dogs. They arc of dirty blue
color. have sharp pointed ears. and do
nothing but loll in the. sun or crouch
before fire shivering with cold. Pelon
is Mechanism meaning gift. and they
probably called these hairless creatures
pelon dogs because You have to give a
man something to take one as a pres
-ent. They are ill-naturcd. mean, ar
rant thieves, and with not q single
good trait in their character. '-Chtca-
90 Herald