St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-01-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

NO ore can realize how mucl
money there is in the world until h,
read. the assets Of insurance companie,
printed on the backs of their folders
Exchange.
"A recent work on physical beauty
asserts that the tendency in women Oi
the present day is toward smallncss Of
stature. Big women. in fact are going
out IF fashion.
1t is said that Norwegian cheese is
beginning to be imported In quantity
into English markets in competition
with other foreign goods. and that the
offerings have met with ready sale.
The following is the assessed value
Of stock in Texas: Horses and mules.
1888. 522 head; value. &S2, 22l. III. Cat
tic. 6.7il. 96s; value. $48. 1854. The
decrease i'm value from cattle of last
year is &c. OOO. 900. Boston Budget.
"A man in Oil City with a small oil
we'll would not accept the terms that
the Standard Company offered him
for the produce OF his well. and to dis
pose of it started little refinery Of his
own and pesldled the oil about town.
Now his product has become famous
for superior excellence. and he supplies
the whole Oil City retail trade.
"A carrier pigeon sent from Cort-
landt street in New York alighted tho
other day on the window Of shop in
Spencer. Mass. Under the birds wing
was q paper with this written on it.:
Give me corn. and water to drink and
battle in. and let me 60" The owner
Of the shop did rs requested. and the
pigeon, much refreshed. few away.
The automatic weighing machine
in the Broad street station at Phil:Vlcl-
phia, during the past six months. reg
istercd a larger collection than had
ever been made by a similar machine
anywhere in the world. although they
are placed in the Grand Central in this
city. and at all the other big stations
in this country and in France and En-
gland.-N T. Sun.
The boys ON an English reform
ship i'm the Mersey mutinied recently,
and for several hours were in possess
sion of the ship. They smashed the
furniture and did great deal of dam
age. after which seventeen Of the worst
lowered q boat and escaped
tn the shore. Some of them were re-
captured.
Visitor at Sunday-school (making
a few remarks)-'Of course. children,
you all know why we come to Sunday
school. Will that bright little boy on
the front seat stand up and tell us? My
young friend. why do You come to
Bright Little Boy
(explosivc:y)-'Coz nom makes me
come"
-Europc's annual expenditures for
armies and flags is s.. S67. 500. 600. The
national debts incurred by war aggre-
gate ga. lis. O57. SIS. on which 81. OOO.-
OOO. 600 is annually paid out for interest,"
The war question is rapidly merging
into financial one, ifit is not there al
ready. Only three or four nations are
left who can afford even q short war.
AT . recent meeting of the Amer
ican Society of Civil Engineers curl
Dus statement was made concerning the
durability Of the sun-dried bricks used
Tor building purposes in Peru. It was
said that these bricks seemed to inn
prove in quality with age; SD that when
/ building three centuries old was torn
Town in Lima. the bricks from the
.ncient walls sold for . higher price
han new ones.-N r Ledger.
-''Is your boss scarey?" asked a
farmer of q pair of pretty
girls who had stopped in front of his
arm house to gather autumn leaves.
moo. guess not" was the an
'wcr. "Why?" 20. nothing. only
iidn't know, and As was jest goin' to
kill a pig -" Here he stopped. for
he girls hustled into the wagon with
agility. cxclaiming. rs they put whip to
heir steed: IF the horse isn't we
lre."-N =. SAN.
What's this gathering Of boys in
he shed this afternoon. James?" in
luired his mother. swell. you see,
na" replied Jimmy Tufboy. I'VE are
going to form walnut trust on the
plan Of the rubber trust you see" Il
ion't quite see" well. this is the
way: The boys all agree to get as
many walnuts as ever they can an pool
IN together. I'm interested cause I'm
going to store the pooL"-Harttord
Post.
In Silesia recently. . man was
before the magistrate for
the slumbers OF . citizen.
The noise which disturbed his slumbers
vas the growing Of . cockercl. The
rise magistrate decided that tho man
lad right to keep his cockerel. that a
,ockerel could not live without crow
ne. and the complainant was chal-
enged to produce cockerel which did
lot crow. The case was dismissed.
-. Howard Cromwell. speaking Of
'elts and pulleys in his recently issued
'ook on that subject says that the
'rigin. age. first application and use of
What 10 known to us as the ..endless
'elt and pulley" arc entirely unknown.
IL far back into the history of the
'ncients Is we can see BY means Of the
arlicst mechanical records. we find the
ndless belt running continuously
round the pulley. precisely IS it does
o-day.
"A Norwich. Conn.,. man who had
locked his pond with . rare and hand