St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

Bulgaria is derived from Volga;
Bulgarians means the people that came
from their settlement along the Volgs
river.
"A large meteor fell on the streets
OF Portsmouth. Va, the other day and
broke into fragments. The pieces were
too hot to handle comfortably.-N T
Sun.
In days gone by it was customary
for the servants of the nobility, par
ticularly the gentleman-usher, to attend
bareheaded. On grand occasions coach
men also drove bareheaded.
Now, girls, stick pin here. Paris
ian ladies of the best families never
wear high-heeled shoes, nor any other
modern abomination. They are per-
fectly natural, piquant and charming.
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
"A bit of paper stuck to the wheel
of his buggy, and fluttering as it re-
volved, attracted the attention of James
Wood, of Portland, Me-. just as he
stopped to get out. He picked it off,
and found it to be one-dollar bill.
Engineer Ed Drohan, of the Gin
cinnati Southern railroad, will likely
have difficulty hereafter in procuring
substitutes. Four men who have at
different times made the run for him
have been accidentally killed on his
engine. Cincinnati Times.
A popularity Of the older orange
trees in Florida this season is that most
Of their fruit is borne in clusters in the
tops of the trees, where the branches
were most completely denuded of their
leaves last winter.
A French scientist, who says he
has Investigated five thousand. four
hundred shocks of earthquakes. attrib-
utes them, like the tides, to the int1u-
ence of the sun and moon. The inter
ior sea of fire, he argues, is subject to
the same laws as the surface sea OF
water.
Captain Clarence E. Dutton, of the
Geological Survey, has explored Crater
lake, in Oregon, heretofore unsurveyed.
The crest of the ridge surrounding the
lake is 900 feet above the water. Two
submerged cinder cones were found,
800 and /, 200 feet high. The greatest
depth found was zoos feet, and Cap
tain button believes this to be the deep
est body of fresh water on the continent.
An Auburn young man. banjo
struck, was the cause of SO much SUI
fering to the gentleman that lodged in
the adjoining room that the latter
bought . wise, saw and . file, and.
according to report. THAT night, when
White Wings sifted through the wall.
it was met by a sonata in E on the
saw" The duet was kept up until a
late hour. when the banjoist gave in.
Buffalo Express.
-Four years ago, says the PALMYRA
(Mol Spectator, q bucket of butter waa
accidentally dropped into cistern on
the farm of Edwin C. Spence, near
Philadelphia, Marion County. Recently
the cistern was cleaned out and the
bucket of butter was found. When the
cover was first removed from the bucket
the butter was found in a good state Of
preservation, and tasted as sweet as
when it fell into the cistern four years
ago, but in few moments after it was
exposed to the air it changed, and was
so rancid that no one could bear to
taste it.
Nobody outside of the profession
has any idea how difficult it is for an
editor to please some of his patrons.
For instance: A Western paper an
nounces as follows: .'Mr. Mcguire will
wash himself before he assumes the
Office of sheriff" This made Mcguire
mad, and he demanded a retraction.
which the paper made thus: 'Mr.
Mcguire requests us to deny that he
will wash himself before he assumes
the office of sheriff" Oddly enough,
this only enraged Mcguire the more.
Some people are SO hard to please
1eras Sifaings.
"A curious fact is mentioned by the
Boston Post in the career of the veneer
able Uriel Croker, whose ninetieth
birthday was celebrated recently at his
summer home on the Jerusalem road.
Cohasset. He was a moving spirit in
raising funds for the erection of the
Bunker Hill monument, and upon its
completion he was used az "test
weight" to test the strength of the ma
chine which was to hoist the capstone
into position, being hoisted from the
ground to the top of the derrick boom,
about twenty-five feet above the top oil
the monument. He was the only per
son who ever assembled the structure to
that height.