St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-06-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

line women OF MEXICO nave eucn
beautifully long and thick hair that an
American switch is looked upon as .
wonderful curiosity A bald-headed
girl was never known in Mexico
Chicago Sun.
The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald.
possibly little jealous Of street-car
strikes in New York. gives notice that
they had a strike in Philadelphia. A
mule kicked in the dashboard on the
Hestonville line.-N. Y. San.
DR.. Richardson finds scientific
basis for saying that a cat has nine
lives. If a cat and a dog are shut up
together in Il lethal chamber, the cat
survives on an average three times as
long, and sometimes nine times as long
as the dog.
A Chicago girl struck pater fami-
dry. The old man drove up that even
ing with side of leather and told her
that his salary had been cut down this
year and he guessed she'd have to get
the OLD ones patched.-S. Pau Herald.
The amount of coal in the Pitts
burgh region is estimated by Prof. Les
lev, of the Pennsylvania Geological
Survey, at $4,000. 100000 tons. About
II, 00O, 00o tens are now taken annually
from the bed. of which two-thirds are
bituminous coal and one-third anthra-
cite.-PGtsbnrgh Chronicle.
A Bangor newspaper says that SC
many fortunes were made by Bar Har-
Dor (Mt. Desert) real estate spectators
that many of the adjoining islands and
parts of the sea coast are being bought
up by capitalists in the hope that some
day the spots will be in demand as
summer resorts.
The report of the United States
Indian Commissioner for last year
shows decrease in the Indian popula-
ton of nearly five thousand. If an
actual count could be mad they would
be much less than estimated. The In
dams are supcrstitious about being
counted Chicago journal.
j. T. Copcland's "Old Bill'' is not
as famous as Stonewall Jackson's "Old
Sorrel.' just died. but he is older. He
carried Mr.. Copeland through the war.
received some flesh wounds, and now
passes pleasant old age near Corinth.
Ga. He is forty-two years old and
quite bald as to neck and tail.-S
Louis Post
-Theosophe. - minister of the
Holics.' and Ellora, "a seeress of the
Sanctuary" have been looking into the
future and have seen some wonderful
things. The time is rapidly coming,
they say. when man will be enabled to
live with great comfort at the bottom
of the sea, and the cultivation of the
ocean bed will be matter of ease and
profit.
The great rainfall in New England
in February is declared by meteorolo-
gists who have studied it to have
been unprecedented since records
began to be kept. The total amount
of water which fell from the clouds,
chiefly during twenty-four hours, is
computed to have amounted to $780,
00.O00.0l0 gallons. The fall was
greatest between New London and
Providence.-Bos,0n Herald.
AT dinner given by Rogers. Pcet
& Company to their employees in the
Metropolitan Hotel, Frank X. Cham
bers. one of the partners, announced
that the firm had determined to set
aside a certain proportion of the profits
annually to be paid in dividends to the
persons in the employ of the house. in
addition to their present salaries.-N.
Y Post.
An electrical tree has been found
in New Guinea by two German ex-
plorers. When the explorers reached
a spot twelve days distant from the coast
they found their compass useless, owing
to the presence of tree which so COM
pletely possessed the properties of a
high charged electric battery that one
of the travellers was knocked down
when he touched it. Analysis showed
the tree to consist of almost pure
amorphous carbon, and it has beer
named Gidssia electrical.
Minneapolis is to have a new
twelve-story hotel, The Palisades. The
main dining room and private banquet
ing rooms will be in the tenth story,
and will excel in finish any rooms used
for similar purposes this side of New
York The eleventh floor will be de-
voted entirely to the kitchen and its
accessory departments and the twelfth
story contains the laundry and serv-
ants quarters. 1t will have accommo-
dations for 500 guests and will cost
$3.50, 900. Chicago Inter ocean.
A correspondent of the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican says that in Wales,
a suburb of that city. there are eleven
persons whose united ages amount to
$50 years; the youngest is eighty and
the eldest ninrty-iivr. One couple had
been married sxty-four years last
Christmas. Their: pr twenty-nine
that are over seventy and under eighty,
whose united ages are 2,175, making
an average of seventy-tive years.
Among these are three couples that
have celebrated their golden weddings
the past year.