St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-11-24

| or GENERAL lltTEResT:
Excavations made n TxintxuntsaA,
Yacatas. Mexico. inisearch Of treasure.
arc said to have revealed magniAoent
palace which u IN archaeological woa-
der.
French economy 70 very evident
In the marketing Of fowls. Not only
half birds can be purchased. but legs.
wings and breasts are offered separate
ly. Tho carcass is used for soup, and
even the blood IL sold.
Mother Hubbard. IL has been d.
cided. had a sanity origin. She u
identified with St. Hubert, the patron
Of dogs and the chase, who IL repre-
sented in a long robe. . veritsble
Mother Hubbard gown. and who had
successfully appealed to the imagina-
tion OF the story teller.
The Oldest woman's club In the
United States is the Women's Physio-
logical Institute of Boston. Forty-one
years ago II was organized with the
purpose Of promoting the moro perfect
health Of women. There is one Sur.
wiring charter member. Mrs. Hobbs,
and she is eighty years old.
illustrations OF the longest exist
ence of American families seem to be
In order. Among others who boast of
long pedigree. the owner OF the
Farnsworth house in Dedham. Mass,
should not be forgotten. Seven gen.
erations of the same family have been
born and bred in the old mansion-a
record not often equaled in this ooun-
try
According to Notes and Queries
the longest word in the English lam
guage in actual u>e is ''disproportion-
ableness." with twenty-one letters,
closely followed by ''incomprehensi-
bleness." One of the longest of med
ical terms is ''methylbenzoinethoxy-
Observation-Disclosures
which is the chemical term for Coco
inc.
American women will be interested
TO know that in Burmah etiquette i'm
peratively forbids both men and women
to betray in any way the fact that they
possess feet and that il has thus be-
come the invariable rule for all gilded
Burmese to SC dovetail and fold up
their lower extremities as to present a
singularly fore-shortened appearance
when they sit down to converse.
-Four hundred men are required to
take the great City Of New York across
the Atlantic and attend to the wants
of her passengers. The engine de-
partment claims the attention of 185
of these workers, including twenty
six assistant engineers. thirty firemen
and fifty-four coal passers. In the
sailing department there are sixty
men and in the passenger department
$50 men.
A man recently died in Washing
ton Territory and left a will, in which
his father is made heir to q watch and
chain, his mother to a house and lot,
and his dog. Fitznoodle Fitzpatrick.
came in for a bequest Of t2.OCO
Trustees were named to hold this sum
for the beneficiary, and to furnish him
with provisions. to consist Of all the
delicacies of the season. besides chew.
ing gum. liquors and cigars.
An Albany boy having been bitten
by dog. the neighbOrs wanted to put
court plaster over the wound and satu-
rate it with vinegar. An aged colOred
woman recommended as Il sure pre-
ventive of hydrOphObia that the boy
should back three times around an
electric light pole with his eyes closed
and then bite piece out of the left
ear of the first dog that he spied on
opening his eyes. The injured boy
went home with light heart and NO
fear Of hydrophobia.
An anecdOte In the WUman's World
shows the attitude in Germany toward
woman's part in public interests. At
q call made by an English couple upon
q German of eminence and his wife.
talk arose upon the public question Of
the hour. The Engl!shman, perceiv-
ing that the German laiy was being
left out of the discussion. asked: "And
what is your opinion. MADAME" Be
fore she could reply her German lord
made short work of it: Leave the
room, meine Leibe; these matters can
be Of no interest to yOu,"
DIR. Hay, an English chemist with
leaning toward ghastliness, has in
vented a substitute for cremation. He
would pound and pulverise the corpse
in a mortar. breaking the bones to lit
tie bits. The resulting lnsss he would
put through prodigiOus sausage ma
chine and make il into mincemeat.
Dried by means Of steam heat ut tenn
perature Of $50 degrees. the mass
would attain commercial value - .
fertilizer. Should this method fail to
suit. he suggests either the boiling Of
the body and the conversion Of the re-
sulting oil into lubricant or for soap.
or else the placing Of the body into .
gas retort and converting II into illu-
gas, water. ammonia. tar.
animal charcoal, sulphate Of ammonia,
aniline colors and carbolic acid.
A Dialogue With . Climax.
SCene. noWlv.married paiP On bonch