St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-08-04
PARISH, SATURDAY,
or GENERAL INTEREST.

or GENERAL INTEREST.
"A Tuscola County. Mich. man hal
during tho past eleven years been
tapped 1S4 times for dropsy and $500
pounds of water taken from his body.
MIR. Gladstone is what would b<
called in this country . frcsh-air crank.
He has . great horror Of badly.ven-
tilated room and is pretty apt to be
made sick II he speaks in ono.
An East Wareham fisherman re-
Gently caught at the Agawam river
weir. between sunrise and sunset, with
. dip net. $4,000 herrings. or 22O bar.
\ sells. worth @4.OO barrel In the Bos-
ton market rs bait for deep sea fishing.
Two ragged Italian children. who
were arrested at Chicago while gather
ing cigar stumps on the streets. ex-
planned that they sold the discarded
weeds to fellow-countryman for fif-
teen cents . ponnd. and that they wero
made into cigarettes.
American enterprise Is felt at
Hernosand. Sweden. which has just
been provided with the most northern
electric light station in the world.
The lamps there ut extreme times are
lighted at 2:30 o'clock in the after
noon and put out at 1915 o'clock at
night.--Electrical Rcricw.
The scope of the messenger boys
work appears to be broadening very
materially. In New York. the other
day. one Of them was called upon to
escort an intoxicated man from .
saloon in Forty-secOnd street to his
home. in Harlem. He appears to have
performed his duty faithfully-not-
withstanding its unpleasant nature
even putting his helpless charge to bed
Queen Victoria has now rcfgncd
over England longer than any mon
arch but two--Hcnry I'LL and George
Ill. She overlook Queen Elizabeth
six years ago and has Outdonc Edward
ILL.,. who only reigned one hundred
and forty-eight days over half a Gen.
tury. II she lives few years longer
Victoria will have reigned longer than
any royal parsonage of history.-Phi!a.
deiphia Times.
Some one has got up nm alphabet
Of precious stones rs fellows: .amc-
thyst bcryl. chryso-bcril. diamond.
emerald. feldspar. garnet. hyari.ih.
idiocrase. kyanitc (morc commonly
cyaniie. a blue mincraD. lynx-sal-
phire. milk-opal. nairolite. opal. Py-
rope. quartz. ruby. sapphire. topaz.
aranitc. vesuvianite Il species of gar
ncD. watcr-sapphirc. xant!iitc. z:rcon
(a Cingalese s:oncl.
The Boston Transcript tells of two
shocmakcrs who formerly did business
in Boston. One of them place'l this
sign over the door: '.p. Elahrrtv.
Bootmakcr. from Paris" His rival
ssw that this was strong card. and
determined to play one equally strong
If not stronger. So he had sign put
over his door which reads as follows:
u. Mahoncy. Bo<tmakcr. Never in
Paris, But rs Good"
In November. 1887. a woman. aged
seventy years, a resident Of Leeds.
England. was charged with the larceny
of shoemaker's last, valued at four
pence. The judge. in passing sem
tence. said that offcnse was a serious
one. inasmuch as it might deprive
patron of the cobblcr Of his shoes
when he most needed them. The de-
fendant was then sentenced to nine
months imprisonment and fined two
pounds. Her only daughter was
buried the day she went to prison.
"A Florida newspaper says that tho
killing off Of alligators is having
marked effect on the supply Of water
in the cattle country. When alliga-
tors took possession of n water hole
they always kept the mud pushed up
on the banks, and even when hundreds
Of cattle went to the pool. and by
crowding and pushing filled It with
mud. the alligators soon repaired the
damage by digging and pushing back
the mud. Now the cattle stand around
these holes, which are filled with mud
and almost entirely dried up. and
wait for rain; the only water they get
meantime being from the dew-covered
grass which they eat at night
AN interesting investigation as to
the comparative length Of the index or
6rst finger and the ring finger (the one
next the little fingcr) has been going
on for many years 1t seems that ac-
cording to ancient Greek art. an index
finger q trine longer than the ring
inger is a characteristic of the higher
forms Of human beauty. In the Apollo
Belvidere there is said to be no ap-
preciable difference in the length Of
the two fingers. Among Gorillas.
Orang Outangs. Bushmen and cognatc
creatures. the ring finger is the longer.
they do not wear rings.
Among Europeans and Americans there
is no uniformity in the matter. many
having the ring fingers the longer.
many others having longer index
fingers, and still many others having
them Of equal length. like the Apollo
Belvidere.
Zeb vanee's Great Argument.
Senator Wade Hampton tells this