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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-02-06
: STEEL PENS.
Why They Were Once Regarded n . Too
Costly Luxury.

why AuCy WcEC onCe AScS1xuCu - = AOU
Costly Luxury.
Only few years ago Bulwer put into
the mouth of his dramatic creation,
"Richelieu." these pregnant words:
''The pen is mightier than the swordr'
In the short time that has since elapsed
these words have acquired new ap-
plication: the pen has conquered the
sword in the field of commerce as COM
pletely as it had formerly triumphed in
the fields of high policy and world gov
ernment. The little ciyilizer Gas it may
well be called) is now in every hand,
but within the memory Of many men
still living the steel pen was simply
curious and costly toy, noticeable as an
ingenius mechanical fad, but not at all
as an invention likely to come into
practical use. The earliest form of the
article was certainly not promising. A
piece of sheet steel was bent into q
tubular form, and cut or filed away to
initiate the shape of q quill-pen, the
junction of the two edges forming the
nib, which, of course, extended all up
the back of the pen. These We're
kUOWu aS carry siS ACAS, UuI "CIC 1C-
garded as articles de luxe, to be given
away as presents, and not for use.
They were highly polished, perhaps
gilt or silvered, and sold for as much
as five shillings each. In 1924 Mr..
James Perry, the founder of system
of education once famous as the "Per-
ryan, system, took up the steel pen as
q practical invention, and by indomit-
able energy overcame the difficulties
in its construction and the objections
to its use. He patented several varie-
ties and spared no expense to attain
perfection. His brother informed Mr..
Samuel Timmins. of Birmingham, that
he paid seven shillings per pound for
his steel and five shillings per pen to
the first workmen he employed. and
that for years afterward the price given
to his workmen was thirty-six shill-
ings per gross.-Isdustries Of Greai
Britain
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-02-06
DINNER PHILOSOPHY.
The Human Race Divided into Four Dis
tinct Glasses.

The Human Race Divided into Four Dis
tinct Glasses.
Prof. Sumner, of Yale College, di-
vides the human race into three class
es; people who work to-day to pay for
Yesterdays dinner, people who work to-
day to pay for to-day's dinner and those
who work to-day to provide a dinner
for tomorrow. But there is fourth
class quite numerous, those who do not
work at all and eat the dinners earned
by others.
There is a story of a colored barber
who reformed from hard drinking be-
cause he observed that while he, the
drinking man, bought two pounds Of
liver for his familys dinner, the man
who sold him the rum bought seven
pounds of porter-house steak. He took
the pledge forthwith, and ate the por-
ter-house ever after, instead of drinking
up the price of it.
This incident illustrates another prin-
ciple of Prof. Summers, which is, that
the only fair way for a man to get out
of the class who work to-day to pay
for yesterday into the class who work
to-day to provide for tomorrow is to
practice self-denial. '.Self-denial, y
says the learned professor, must be
our gospel if we would gain capital.
and almost any one can gain capital ii
he practices prudence" So thought
the barber, and acted accordingly.-N
z. Ledger.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-02-06
A Candid Cook.

A few evenings ago, on finishing his
supper, Colonel Yerger said to the cook.
as she cleared off the table:
THAT was splendidly cooked steak,
Matilda. Why don't you give me some
thing of this kind every EVENING"
"Bekase de culled gemman what am
PAWN me tenshun don't stay away
ebery ebenin'. Dat steak was cooked
for Jim Webster, but de low down.
wufiess, yaller-complected moke saun'
me word he warn't comm, so you got
away wild his steak, and Use glad oh it .
$50 am l." responded Colonel Yer.
ger.-Tezas SiftisQs.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-02-06
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Theodore Roosevelt says that the
bite of skunks in Kansas and Nebraska
produces hydrophobia.
-Pompous physician Ito patients
wife) )-"Why do you delay sending for
me until he was out of his mind?"
Wife-.O, doctor, while he was in his
right mind he wouldn't t let me send Tor
yon "-CAieago Tribune.
-sWhy does marriage make men
thoughtful" asked young lady of an
old bachelor. ..Well. I suppose it is
because they are continually wonder
ing what's going to happen next
Boston Post.
-'.Do you think you could carve the
turkey, Mr.. O'Dynamite?" said the
landlady to her new boarder. "Well.
/ should blush to hesitate. Why, / was
one of the men who helped to blow up
He'll Gate ''-Ne,C York Journal.
If the nations of Eastern Europe had
particle of sympathy for telegraph
operators and telegraph editors, they
would never fight. The heathenish
names from that country are enough to
make needle cross-eyed.-Denver Tri6-
une-Republican.
Il am very sorry for You" said a
gentleman to little street gamin who
applied for penny. Wont you put
your hand in your pocket and tell me
how sorry you are?" replied the boy
National Heekty.
When boy is very young they
tell him not to eat candy, for fear of
worms; when he gets older they advise
him to get up early in the morning, be-
cause the early birds catch the worms.
Parents are models of inconsistency
ST. Adams Messenger.
Client Ito lawyer)-I am afraid
the physicians testimony will convict
me. Lawyer (reassuringly)-Don't be
alarmed about that. I'll read up lit
tie about poison in the stomach, and in
ten minutes I'll have that doctor in
cold sweat and make the Judge and
Jury think he is q hired perjurer.-N
r Sun.
Washington Irving once said to
lady friend: Don't teach your daugh-
ters SO many things; teach them one
thing; teach them to be easily pleased. "
Judging from the specimens of hus-
bands acquired by numerous young Ia
dies, too many mothers have followed
Irving's advice.-Norristoson Herald.
"A little Eighth Street girl in study
ing her Sunday-school lesson came to
the words: "And the King of Ninevah
covered himself with sackcloth and sat
in ashes" This was puzzler. FL
nally she said: Papa, what kind of
ashes is satin ashes, that the King COW
cred himself ?"-Troy Times.
A determination to succeed in life,
accompanied by the necessary judg-
ment and well-directed effort, must win
sooner or later A young man in
Bridgeborough, who had the reputa-
ton of having never earned cent in
his life, resolved to turn over new leaf
and no longer be dependent upon
others. He engaged in the poultry
business. and raised fifty choice fowls
in one night. There were more on the
roost, but some got away.-N r.
Weekly.
-"Well," said Mr.. Snaggs, looking
up from his paper, "a seat in the New
York stock exchange has just been sold
for $4,000" ..Mercyr' commented
Mrs. Snaggs, "who is going to sing?"
''Singr howled Snaggs. .'What would
they sing for at a stock exchange?
Have you got an idea it is kind of
concert?" .'Well, don't get cross, dear.
I thought some foreign singer would be
there, or seats wouldn't be so dear. -
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-02-06
THE SlSTER.IN-lAW,
A Disagreeable and Expensive Addition to
aHappy Family.

sfFy
The mother-in-law has had her day.
She has had many days. She will have
many more. All joking and senseless
puns aside, the mother-in-law is very
handy creature to have around when
the baby is taken suddenly sick, when
your wife has chill or when you want
to borrow funds to settle for last
winters coal before filling the bill this
season. used to make wretched jokes
about the mother-in-law. I thought a
funny scribe could not get along with
out having his occasional fling at her.
l don't say hard things about the
mother-in-law now. have got one
now. l have got something else. The
mother-in-law is an angel compared to
what I've got. When married l didn't
agree to marry my wife's sister. That's
the case in nutshell. I've got sister,
in-law. Did you ever have one? Be
very careful. Don't! My mother-in-
law never cost me single cent. My
sister-in-law, if she continues, will
bankrupt me. One year ago l bought
parlor set. My sister-in-law and her
friends have created disaster among
my parlor furniture. She sparks by
my coal fire. She reads gush to her
beau under my gas. She wears out my
gate hinges. She has the best room in
the house. She must have sealskin
like my wife's. She says Chawly don't
like to hear the baby cry. She goes to
the seaside with my wife. She bosses
my servant. She-she-well; if any
mother-in-law could be more expensive
and disagreeable than my sister-in-law
I'd like to meet her. I'd trade my
sister-in-law off for yellow dog; then
I'd shoot the dog.-H S. Keller, in 81
Louis Whip.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-02-06
Not Anxious to be a Guest.

'.What do you mean by this sort Of
treatment, waiter? Here you've kept
me waiting a full half hour for my dim
ner, and You haven't brought me sin.
gle thing ordered after ALL -
Il done de bes' / could, suh.'
Perhaps You did, but you ought to
be more considerate. Remember that
this is country where the most unex-
pected things frequently happen, and
you may not always be a waiter"
"How SO. suh?''
Because some of these days you
may have the bad luc.s to bc a guest
yourself"
20 dean life. ] hope not. suhr'-
Chicago Ledger.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-02-06
-Du Pho Pico, the last Mexican Gov

-Du Pho Pico, the last Mexican Gov
ernOr-General Of Alta, Cal, re-
turned to his old quarters at Los
Angeles soon after the country was ac-
quired by the United States, and has
lived there from that day to this. He
has never been able to master single
sentence in the English language, how
ever. and, aside from adopting the
American style of dress, remains just
where the conquest found him forty
wears ago. He is stolid-looking man.
Short of nature. thick-set and sturdy
CHICAGO Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-02-06

AT the wedding breakfast in En-
gland recently, one of the bridesmaids
expressed a wish to see that mystic
document. a wedding license. which
she had never beheld. The request
occasioned fearful discovery, The
clergyman had quite forgotten to ask
for the license. the bridegroom had left
il to his best man to look after, and
this the best man had forgotten to do.
Of course, the marriage was not legal
The wedding party was broken up in
d;smay. and the ceremony was per.
formed the next day
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-02-06

Tho women journalists of this
country have National Press Associa-
tion. and New England branch has
been formed in Boston. of which Mrs.
Sally Joy, of the Herald. is Presidents.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-30
Great Loss in Branding.


The almost universal custom of indi,
eating the ownership of cattle that feed
together on the large Western pasture
grounds, is to brand them upon the
sides or TANKS with hot iron, each
owner having some peculiar marking
that is recorded and recognized the
same as title deed to any other prop
erty. But these fire marks produce
sores that callous on healing, and great
ly reduce the value of the hides fol
leather, especially as the defects are
usually right on the broad and most
valuable portions of the sides. In a
paper read before the Convention of
Cattle Growers Association on Thurs
day last, DIR. Ames put the annual loss
to the leather making value of the
branded hides at full twelve million
dollars! He recommended that all
branding be confined to the head and
legs, as these are of comparatively in
ferior value, the extreme portions be-
ing cut off in tanning. Numerous SUBJ
stitutes have been offered in the way of
tags, ETC., but none have yet been pre-
sented which seem to meet with gen.
eral favor among cattlemen. The de-
vising of any simple and effective meth
cd of infallibly distinguishing the own
ership of animals, without fre-brand-
ing, would be a fortune to the inventor.
Humanity and self interest alike de-
mand some method of marking live
stock, which will not entail so much
suffering on the animals and such enor-
nous pecuniary loss.-Pyairie Farmer.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-30
The Non-Overcoat Crank.


As cold weather settles itself in win
ter quarters, the man who never owns
an overcoat comes into prominence.
He is generally man little advanced
in years, of whom you might expect
better things. His dress doesn't indi-
cate that he is destitute of an overcoat
because he cannot afford the expense.
Far from it. He is more likely to be a
person well-to-do in the world than
otherwise. With him it is an eccentric
ity more than anything else. He likes
to attract attention by this popularity,
and he never misses an opportunity to
brag about it. He is constantly on the
alert for some one to ask, Don't you
find it uncomfortable without an over
coat?" so that he can reply. proudly,
''Sir, I never wear an overcoat even in
in the coolest weather!'
He promenades the streets when the
mercury is suffering from the ague,
with frozen smile on his features,
originally intended to show, to his way
of thinking. ''December's as pleasant
as May" It makes one SILVER to look
at him, and that seems to be what he
is after.
If you study the man who never
wears an overcoat, you will generally
find that that popularity is the only
th,nr ahout him that entities him to
any attention. Sifti2gs.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-30

Mr.. Turtledove. why don't you kick
him outp''
Miss Calliope only tossed her head.
A little further OH l met a light
wagon; in it sat Mr. Mulligan and
Miss Mittens.
''Good-by, old fellow" cried Multi
gan. II say, you've got in with nice
lot. It's only respect for your wife
that has kept me from trouncing them
some of 'em."
Miss Mittens was in tears.
Further on still l met Bangs OIL foot,
who. as l learned on getting home, had
left because Mrs. Turtledove had pro-
tested against the heavy wrappings on
the kitchen ceiling.
II have been impressed to leave you,
my friend" he said. solemnly. Fare
well. Verify, scoffers shall have their
reward"
So our friends were gone. They
didn't 60 in peace, and that we regret.
ed; but still they were gone. and life
has its consolation.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-30
MARKETS.

Wheat, 77x to 78c. Corn, 81
to 37Hc. Oats, No. 2, 26Ac. Rye, No. @
53Ac. Barley, No. 2. 52hc. Flax seed, No
/. "a to 94Ac. Clover seed, $3.50
J Observation-Disclosures, No. hard, 76c
No. / Northern, 74c No. 2 Northern, 72c
Bran, $3.50. Shorts. $11. Corn. 40 to
41c. Oats, No. white, 20 to 28Ac Hay,
$500 to $3.50. Rye, SIC for No. 2.
Barley No. 2, 46 to 48c; No. 8, Acc. Flax
seed, No. 1, So to SEC.
DuLUTH-Wheat. No. hard, 77Xc; No
! Northern, 75Hc.
MHwAUKEE.-Wheat, TIE. Corn, No.
2, 36ac. Oats, No. 2, 26Ac. Rye. No. /
SEC. Barley, No. 2, 52Ac. Pork, $11. so
Lard, 1920. Butter. 1902. Eggs, 21c.
Cheese, 11@12c.
ST. PAUL.-Wheat, No. hard, 76c; No,
! Northern, IA; No. 2, Northern, 72c
Corn, No. 2, 39Hc. Oats, No. mixed,
26Kc.; No. 2. white, 2sAc. Barley, No. q
47c Rye, No. 2. 45c. Ground feed, No. l,
$3.50; No. 2, $500. Corn meal, $15.5O
Bran. $3.50. Baled hay, No. /. IS; timo.
thy, $1O.2o. Dressed hogs, $4.2O. Flax
seed, SIC. Timothy seed, $1.6O. Clover
seed, $500. Eggs, &c. Turkeys, to 7c.
Chickens, to SC.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-30

The Times says Lord Randolph Churchill
has resigned his seat in the cabinet owing
to disagreement with the admiralty and
war office, with reference to increasing the
expenses OF the country in view OF the ex-
he disapproves the home legislative
measures of the cabinet.
Dexter E. Fay was arrested in Cincinnati,
and will be brought to Milwaukee to an
swer to charge Of robbing the jewelry
store OF Charles H. Upmeyer, some weeks
ago, after binding the proprietor by throw
ing pepper in his eyes.
Ernest Schilling, the husband OF Victoria
Morosini, who recently enlisted in the ma
rines at the Brooklyn navy yard, has been
transferred to the barracks at Norfolk, Va.
Schilling enlisted under the name OF Gallog.
Law
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-30
A Valuable Medical Treatise.

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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-30
UNEXPECTED.
A Mother Saved From an I'm
timely Death.
ears Of Sorrow Turned to Smiles of Rejoicing.

Tears Of Sorrow Turned to Smiles Of Rejoicing.
ROCHESTER,. Aug 81. 1886
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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-30
A New Thing to Anarchists.

First anarchist Gust shown to his
room in the. hoteD - Gottlieb, fol
heavens sake come here! What is
that strange substance on the dressing
casee
Second anarchist (trembling) - IL
must be new kind of bomb. The
capitalists are plotting to destroy us.
Let us fly!
First anarchist-Stay! Let us ques.
ton the rascally landlord. (Rings
bell.)
Landlord lin response to excited in
quiries)-That, gentlemen, is ball
of soap. -Philddelphia call.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-30

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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-30

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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-30

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lack of energy? What will prevent chills
and fever and other effects of malarial
poison? Browns Iron Bitters. 1t is well
to know this.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-30

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