St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-11-06
MISCELLANEOUS,

the fishing is good. but below the tow
the tlsh will not bite. ''having lost thei
teeth from salvation by the mill chemi
calls"
"A runaway horse in Pittsburgh
tried to cross the Pennsylvania railroa,
bridge and fell between the cross tie.
IN the middle of the track. He wa.
raised with derrick and carried off OF
a hand car.
Favorable reports are being re
ceived from the experimental tobacco
crops in South Carolina Tobacco O
good quality is being produced in som,
parts of the State, and the opinion is
entertained that it will pay handsomely
Louisville COu,Ter-Journal.
"A water-spOut burst over Otter
Dam Creek, near Richmond, sweeping
away long stretch of the railroad
tracks, stone abutments and the iron
bridge. An engine afterwards ran into
the washout, but no one was killed.
A captain of the Salvation Army
at Utica. n. Y, was placed in jail for
knocking down in meeting man who
had created a disturbance. He was
fined twenty dollars, but according to
the rule of Salvationists preferred two
months in Jail to paying the fine
Utica Herald.
1t seems that there are artists who
teach French drcssmakcrs certain little
tricks. and that it is not all Unborn
grace which teaches them how to knot
ribbon. One dressmakcr told an
American correspondent that she paid
an artist twelve dollars to learn how
to make certain bow.-N. Y Mail
"A disciple of Blackstone at ALBANY,
Ga. was met carrying home a 'possum.
He was asked: Hello, j., what is
that?' "Possum"' What are YOU
going to do with him." I'm going
to have a big 'possum supper" GLOW
many will be therc?" Two: me and
the 'possum."
After somewhat checkered Ca
rcer, the Great Eastern seems ut last
to have fair chance of a green and
useful old age. Her career at Liver
pool as floating temple of amuse-
ments has proven so successful that
she is to become peripatetic variety
show and will be taken about the Brit
ish coast, and finally to the Australian
colonies.-N Y. Herald.
A lot of tipsy fellows in St. Paul
painted the nose of one of their number
a bright red and he walked into the
hall of the Salvation Army there for a
joke. while the others took back seats
to see the fun. But the Salvationists
at once saw in him a fit subject for
their prayers, and they prayed and
sung over tho fellow until he became
very penitent, and apparently on the
high road to conversion, to the disgust
of his companiOns.-St. Paul Press.
John Whitfield, his wife and an
other woman lived in an old shanty-
boat near Pittsburgh. Pa. Some DAYS
ago Whitfield sent his wife down town
to collect an alleged debt, and in her
absence he and the female took the
train for Wheeling. Mrs. Whitfield
was brOken-hearted at first when she
found that her faithless lord had flown.
The neighbors comforted her. however,
and last evening she said: well, I've
John by sewing for ten
years. and guess I'll give the other
"o'n =" oho" how. II BtSOuIyH IOS.
The demands of fashion has brought
a new profession into prominence. 1t
is called ''truquage," and the professor
OF the art devoteS much skill and in
gcauity in making new things, es-
pecially furniture. look battered, worm
eaten and old enough to satisfy the pre-
1ailing taste for the antique. The new
articles are modelled after sixteenth
century patterns. and then beaten with
stained with acids and other.
wise maltreated until they assume the
proper tIme-worn and ancient appear.
lnce.-Boston Budget.
"A correspondent of the Mining ana
Scientific Press calls attention to the
high tineness or value of the
gold found in two of the mines of Tue
umne County. Cal.-higher than that
IF any other gold quartz mine i'm any
country. it is claimed. The fineness of
he gold from one of these mines is
stated to be 1888, or S20.32 per ounce,
md that from the other is 1854, or
1864 per ounce. When it is considered
hat the value of chemically pure gold,
me thousand fine, is S20.67lS per
'nnce. the close approach to absolute
purity of the gold found in these mines
: remarkable.
There is a cherry stone of ordi. |
larry size in the Salem Museum which
ontains one dozen silver spoons whose
hape and finish can only be well dis
inguished by the microscope. A cher
Y stone was bought in Russia for ST.
oO, on which were carved 124 heads
o distinctly that the naked eve could
distinguish those belonging to Popes
nj Kings by their mitreS and crowns.
IN old writer says that Homer's Had,
nth its 5000 verses, was written
4 so small space as to be contained
4 nutshell. A greater wonder was
rrformed by one Peter Bales, who
,rotc the Bible in so small a book
nat it could be enclosed within the
hell of an English walnut. Boston
'ufIctin.
An ingenious little instrumen,
allied the ''hyalolyphotvpe." or (more
'nsibly) hot pen, has been invented,
y means of which drawings can be
'ade on glass or CLASSY substances
it'll waxy composition, which is
did and somewha. hard at ordinary
The pen can be heated
: gas or electricity, and when heated
lie waxy material flows easily from it.
tting SO quickly on the glass that
'oss-patching can be done more rap.
~ than with ordinary pen and ink,
ithout risk of blocking up the angles.
can be made with a pen.
life. After the drawing has beer
adc the plate is etched by fuorit
id. and when complete it can be-