St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-12-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

claims to have the highest bridge in the
world. 1t is 24S feet above the ground,
A new through sleeping car from
New York to San Francisco is to be
called Kindness" because kindnes.
goes a long Washington Critic.
The bravest are not always the ten
derest. as the poet sings. There is the
red game rooster. for instance; he will
fight bird double his size, but he cuts
up tough in pot-pie. Gazette.
"A clerk in a mems furnishing store
says that the man who buttons the left
side OF his collar first makes mistake.
tor he uses his right hand for that and
then uses his left for the more difficult
task of buttoning the other side. He
should reverse the process.-N. Y.
Sun.
Captain Jack, of Mount Airy, NJ j.,
rests his claim to everlasting fame up
on the fact that he has frequently eaten
one hundred oysters at single sitting.
There is room for suspicion that in
Transmission of this important fact a
syllable has been dropped from the
gallant Captains name.-N Y Mail.
A colored boy at Newbern, N. c.,
was bitten by rattlesnake the other
day. and there being no doctor accessi-
BILE his companions dug hole in the
ground and placed both legs in it up
to the hips. packing the mud securely
around him. The poison was extracted
and the boy is now we'll.
News travels slowly in France.
The French Consul at Philadelphia re-
celves something like half dozen let
tiers week from French people who
claim to be relatives of old Stephen
Girard, asking whether it is true or not
that he is dead and has left large
fortune.-SprIaqfe'd Mass Union.
In Holland ladies are gradually as.
Stunning the occupations of the pharma-
ceutical assistants. The periodical State
examinations have Just been held. and
the result is highly favorable to the sex.
Out of a total of fitty-tive candidates,
nineteen out of thirty-one female can
didates and only eight of twenty-four
male candidates were successful.
A middle-aged German farmer Wis
tied Rondout. n. Y, the other dav in
search of a wife. A young man offered
to conduct him to the right woman for
thirteen dollars. The offer was ac-
cepted, the woman proved acceptable
and willing, and a marriage cere-
mony" was performed by the two
jumping over a broomstick. The
farmer took his easily-won bride to his
home in Duchess County.-Troy Times.
Charlotte Thompson was recently
playing Jane Eyre to very slender
houses in Buffalo, and could not under
stand the reason until told that the
people of that city were so Jealous of
the city of Rochester that they could
not stand the fact that the principal
male character was called Lord
Rochester. A placard was immedi-
ately prepared announcing that the
character would be named Lord Buff
falo. The story goes that there was
standing room only at the next per-
tormance.-Erchdnge.
In the recent changes made in our
horse railroads, Hibernian conductor
was given route considerably longer
than the one he was accustomed to
and extending into territory with
which he was not familiar. Unfor-
tunately his first trip under the new
was made at dusk, and
when he arrived at the terminus of the
old route he thrust his head into the
car and exclaimed: fanny av yez as
wants to get out beyant will kape yer
eyes paled. Divil another sthrate do /
know barrin' the one we've Just
passed. Boston Commercial Bulletin.
"A California newspaper says that
the iolliest sport among Juvenile Re-
NOTES is fighting ants. They scrape up
. shovelfuI Of these busy insects from
one colony and carry them to the
next nearest colony. dumping them to-
gether. The result is Immediately a
pitched battle. which is fought most
the little warriors literally
tearing each other to pieces. until the
last of the interlopers is dead. They
fight in pairs, or in threes. tours and |
as it happens to come handiest,
but it is always slight to finish" and
no quarter asked or shown.
Mrs. Wiggers-...Dear me! What
do you mean? This stuff you have
bought for my new dress is not bit |
like the sample gave you. Why. it's
poor--don't believe it cost |
a cent over ten cents yard. and that
selected was So" Mr.. Wiggers-
well, that was the best l could do.
You see. Mr.. Blank, the only man clerk
in that store. hadn't any thing like your
sample in his department" ..Of course
not; but what has that to do with it,"
''Well, all the girls in the other depart
nents looked SO pretty and sweet that
thought as a married man ought to
Keep away from them" 80, well,
never mind, dear, I'll wear it. ''-Omaha
World.
An item having appeared in sew.
sral Western papers to the effect that
wheat is the only crop which can be
produced in Southern California with
'ut irrigation" the DAILY San Diegan
enters an indignant protest, and asks
hat this piece of unintentional misin-
formation be corrected. That paper
|tates that "wheat is only one of
he many cereals raised in Southern
California. Corn, oats. rye and barley
ire among the products of our rich soil. |
aised in large quantities without any
irrigation other that which the ground
eceives during the fall and spring rains.
Vegetables of all kinds and many varie-
les OF fruits, including grapes, are pro-
luced in the same manner"
Among the funny feminine fash
ons OF the season is that of the little
'onnet which one so often sees
contrasted against an enor-
nous editice of hat" says the Boston
Seacon. ''This peculiar creation, with
IS two cOncaYe SepmenfS descendinn