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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-03-01
A. PECHON,
Old BAKERY,
HnvS~ oeto~

THIS ''old reliable" ltakery hA Les'
in s~accessfnl operation for . number o
years. The proprietor has secured tn.
services Of firxt-class professions
BAKER. and ID ready - furnish Bread
Cakes. etc.. equally ~ g0osl ~ can b,
had anywhere. and At prices that def
com s,etition. None but the pure.
spring Water used in the bakery.
Reeai from this Bakery can be foun.
fresh every morning at the stores VI Mn.
IAsborsle aud Ju'es PechOn.
Bread Delivered Daily 70 ali Part.
# Town and Surrounding Country
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-03-01
DIR. J. J. MEYLOR,
LA.

ILArk OF NEw ORLRANs,
Tenders his professional services 70
Tue people If Covington and the sur
rounding country. Office m Colnmbin
street. adjoining Euyene's Barber shop.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-03-01

ADrFos CLuB RAres. or M furth~
Information desired. write l.vibly 1.
the undersigned. clearly stating You,
residence. with State, County, xtrsst AM,
nn'aber. More rapid rot irn mail .:>liv-
cry vail be assarsd by your enclosin,
IN snvslope bearing your full address.
IMPORTANT.
All ordinary Letters containing Posts.
Notes. Money Orders ixsnel by all Ex.
press Companies or New York Exchange.
Addressed,
n. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans. La.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-03-01

JOSEPH A. REID.
ArrORNEy Avn ts.sUx.sI.LOx-Ar.LAW
'"iff>':rDN. IA
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-03-01
LOUIS B. ABADIE,
tAgent.)
NEW BAKERY.
%COvINGTON. LA.
e BREAD E DA7

Bread and Cakes can bs had at the
stand near the meat market, or ct the
bakery.
Will deliver fresh Bread every morn.
ing ut your residence. il desired.
Choice and Fancy Cakes .
Speciality.
Orders for Cakes for picnics. parties
.0d suPpers particularly solicited. All
.I:h ordsn should be sent in ono day
IN advance. and will lie executed in =
nanrer that will guarantee satisfaction
In connection With store aud bakery .
BAR ROOM
has bsen established. we'll stocked with
he choicest Wines. Liqnors. Cigars.
i..ycY Beer, ctu.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-03-01
The Times-D Democrat, Of New
Orleans, leads all the newspapers
published in the South-Daily and
Weekly. 1t has the LARGEST CIR-
cULArIOx.

The New Orleans Picayuns has n.
duoed tho yearly subscription price Of
it, Weekly from d 50 to d . year. II 10
sspleodid le-psse paper 6Ilsd with the
bsst reading matter. Sample COPY cant
free "a any sddreea
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-03-01
Eugens Candy Va ]. H. Conners aud
Ed. ]. GuerrinRer

Slate Of Louiaiana. Parish Of Sc. Tam.
many. Eighteenth Judicial District
court
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-03-01
Henry Lochte 4 Co. vs.. w. b,
Porter.

State of Louisiana. PAriah Of 81. Tam.
Hs"y-Eishtssath Judicial District
CoueA
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-03-01

S~emi-Annnal Drawing,
WILL TAKE PLACE
At tho Academy Of Music. New
Orleans.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-03-01
Japan Clover
SEED.

G~ua1antsed 70 be Fresh and Pure and
Of the Best Quality. for sale 1t city
pricer. il quantities to suit. by
J. CAHyER,
Al Pecan Grove Place.
Or ct Cahier L Wehsli'a store. in Gov.
ington.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-24
PULOUE AND MESCAL.

ono is Comparatively Harmless, But the
Other Stronger Than Whisky.
Pulque is usually described in this
country as an intoxicating beverage,
sometimes qualified by putting mildly"
before Intoxicating" Upon analysis it
will be found to contain very small
quantity of alcohol as compared with its
other components, gluten and water.
Drunkenness is by no means common in
Mexico, but / have seen among the
lower classes, men who were said to be
inebriated upon pulque. How much
they drank, or what they took with it.,
or how good was the pulque they drank.
would be important inquiries before the
fact was fully established as to the cause
of their inebriation. How one person
could possibly hold enough to intoxicate
him, / could never understand. I have
heard of people being dazed by too copi-
GUS draughts of vichy. Possibly the
same result might be obtained from
pulque. Yet one would hardly call vichy
even mildly intoxicating beverage.
The maguey produces two very fiery
intoxicants. Mescal is distilled from the
leaf juices, is cOlorless, and in taste is
not unlike Holland gin. From the Total
maguey, growing in the district of
Tequila, in the State of Jalisco, a liquor
called tequila is distilled. 1t possesses
some of the properties of Scotch whisky.
Either mescal or tequila would admira-
bly, meet the requirements of the Indian
of our Northern plains who wanted a
LIQUOR that would ssmake drunk come
quick" and the intoxication produced
BY these two liquids is of the character
suited to the Northern Indian tempera-
ment. But there is no reason why pulque
should be made to share the reputation
of these other productions of the maguey
brakes Magazine
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-24
THEY MADE A HIT.
How q Company of Mosquitoes Changed
Tragedy Into q Farce.

How q Company of Mosquitoes changed
q Tragedy Into q Farce.
'.You would not think" said an old
actor, that little, festive mosquito
would break up performance, would
youp Well, such is the fact. You re-
member Ned Buckley. don't you?
Used to be leading man in Boston thea
ter; also with Booth and Barrett
One rather warm night, before some
sort of a holiday, Ned took a snap
company out to a town in Western
Massachusetts to do Julius Caesar.
1t was not a sumptuous performance
by any means. but still it pleased the
audience. Buckley played Caesar, and
did it we'll. If l am not mistaken
Fred Bryton was the Marc Antony. 1t
became so hot before the performance
had fairly begun that the windows in
the rear of the stage were wide open.
1t was not long before the stage was
swarming with mosquitoes, they being
attracted, no doubt, by the strong
light on the stage. Buckley had on a
pair of white tights, and he discovered
at the last moment that there were
several small holes in the legs. So
he got a piece of billiard chalk and
whitened over the tights where they
were burnt.
well, the play ran along smoothly
enough until the time came for Marc
Antony to bury Caesar and not praise
him. Poor Julius was lying on the
bier, and just as Marc began the ora
ton he felt the Internal little animals
getting in their work. Buckley said
forever afterward that they were edu-
Gated. They just picked out the spots
where he had used the chalk He
stood the agony just as long as he
could; then he began numbering his
tormentors. Several times did Julius
slap his limbs. and every time he slap
ped he grunted with relief He kept
slapping his limbs and granting all
through the Grafton, the audience
shouting with laughter all the while.
The audience just about knew the
cause OF the trouble, because they were
doing some slaughtering on their own
hook. Buckley stood the agony just
as long as he could, then he gave An
thony a tip, and the Grafton was cut
remarkably short. The audience was
tickled immensely, and insisted upon
the actors going before the curtain
several times. The mosquitoes who
made the hit went with them. The
performance was farce for the bal
ance of the evening. Every time that
some body began to act one of the
auditors would begin to laugh and
every body would join in the chorus.
Boston Herald.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-24
The Bottom All Right

Yes, it is pretty dull in our town
just now in real estate matters" said
the Kansas man, ''but l am not dis
couraged."
The boom has passed. l hear?"
We'll. yes"
And the bottom dropped out?"
mo. sir; deny that While there
are no sales to record. and while prices
have fallen sixty per cent, the bottom
is all right sir-all right"
What do you call the bottomp"
IA sandstone ledge twenty-seven
feet thick, sir We may suffer a re-
lapse now and then, but the bottom has
come to stay" IN. Y. Sun.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-24
EFFECTS OF SMOKING.
How the Use of Tobacco Breaks Down
the Health of Boys.

the Health of Boys.
If one is going to smoke at all, it is
not boys, but tough men, that can
withstand the effects of tobacco
burned in paper. The adult smoker,
who makes his own cigarettes, out OF
tobacco that he knows all about, may
or may not injure himself according to
his constitution and to the amount OF
his smoking. The boy who buys cigar
cites is sure to injure himself.
Now, l will take the most favorable
case of all, and the rarest. Suppose a
boy has lot of good cigarettes, and
smokes few of them every day. Is
there any injury to that?
l can tell you, for have had such
boys for patients. Such smoking. even
in so called moderation-as if there
were any such thing as moderation in
stimulants for the young-will do three
things for him: First, it will run his
pulse up to one hundred or more per
minute; second. it will reduce his
weight below the healthy standard,
and third, it will reduce his strength
and general vitality, as will appear in
his pale complexion and his diminished
appetite.
If this is true of boys smoking under
the least injurious conditions, how
much truer is it in the more frequent
cases where bad and adulterated to-
bacco and excessive smoking combine
in their attack upon the delicate It's
sues of the growing lad? The physi-
ologist will tell you That the effect of
stimulants in general is to check the
changes in tissue, this means to check
the growth. The simple fact is that
young people need no stimulants of
any kind unless as medicines. Tea
and coffee are not god for children,
and it is a mistake to give them to
children. Much more are cigarettes
injurious, because tobacco is a much
stronger stimulant than tea or coffee.
In conclusion. cigarette smoking is
one of the worst of habits, physically,
that boy can form. 1t Injuries the
heart and the digestion. and it tends
to check the growth. 1t gives a lad
false and silly notions and it does not
bring him into good company. The
parents duty is simple one. Let him
point out the righteousness of the habit;
let him laugh at it, and if this is not
enough, as it should be for any right
feeling boy, then let him forbid it with
penalties, and do reasonably what is
to be done. am not one of those who
think that severe measures are often
necessary in the management of chill
dren that receive a careful and affec-
tionate training. But if. in some cases
nothing else will do, it is well to con-
slider that switch in time saves nine.
DIR. Titus Munson Coan, in Harper's
Young People.
Sharp Parent - s--s head of stairs)-
Clara! It's time for 70 to go to bed.
Clara Gin the parlor)-Why, pa, Mr..
Greene is here!
.Oh! l beg pardon. l thought it
was Mr.. Brown, and / haven't any
patience with Mr.. Brown. He always
kisses you with such loud smacks that
it wakes me up. Stay as long as you
please. Mr.. Greene. You are always
welcome"
Mr.. Greene -Um!-thank you, but ]
was ]ust getting ready to go, and IL
promised my chum I'd be back early.
Good night!-N. Y. Weekly
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-24
some QUEER NAMES.
How Innocent Children Are Som 1me
Abused by Their Parents.

ADuseU Dy Their Parents.
A son is named arthur Wellesley
Wellington Waterloo Cox another
Napoleon the Great" A laborer calls
his daughter LADY Elizabeth. There
is an instance of hereditary knight
hood or baronetcy formed in this man.
ner where father. ''Sir Francis"
Howard, registers his son anew as
''Sir Francis" Charles Hassall. de-
scribed on the register as medical
herbalist, and presumably as any thing
we please in real life, comes to his
sons assistance with the front names,
doctor Jervis ST. Vincent Beresford.
The son of "Horatio Nelson" Baker is
named ''Ewart Gladstone" Jewett, a
parent of sporting proclivities. regis
tiers his child Edward Byng Tally Ho
Forward" An innkeeper's son is
Robert Alma Balaclava Inkerman
Sebastopool Delhi Dugdale" A long
name bestowed by Chartist on his
daughter is Fanny Amelia Lucy Ann
Rebecca Frost OConnor Douall Luck
Holberry Duffy Oastler Hill" Zone
Too Many" and ''Not Wanted James"
are the titles of unfortunate children.
"Is it Maria" discloses parental mysti-
fcation answered, in the case of the
other sex. by That's 1t. Who'd
Have Thought It," George Henry" is
subsequently prefxed to this absurd
string of derivations. The wife of
Thomas registers her son as young
Thomas" and James Stewart calls his
son Young James Gorston." The
daughter of John Buckingham Smith
is christened Laughing Waters" (sic)
which later gives way in the ''certifi-
cate of namin" to ''Minnehaha"
Richard Occur de Lion Tyler Walter
Hill' is further instance of pompous
names. Many parents, usually of the
lower middle class, find pleasure in
giving their children plurality of
names. Brown, a clerk in the Income
Tax Department, calls his daughter
Sarah Jane Mary Ann Emma Elizabeth
Caroline Isabella Eliza Martha Cath
crime Matilda Evelyn Margaret Rosa
mond. This string is sufficiently
lengthy, but Sarah Brown
is outpaced by the twenty-six titles
borne by the daughter of Arthur Pep
per, laundryman, whose girls name
is one of the longest, if not the very
longest, in existence. Spread out it's
entire length it runs-Ann Bertha
Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude
Hypatia Inez Jane Kate Louise Maud
Nora Ophelia Ounce Rebecca Starkey
Tereza Ulysis (sic) Venus Winifred
Xenophon Yetty Zeus. She has name
for each letter of the alphabet. and her
names, with the exception of the sur
name, which, of course, is last, are in
alphabetical order. She was born in
1888, and if she has not subsidized under
the weight of her christening she may
yet be with us. Frankly, let us not
grudge Ann Pepper her good fortune;
we can not attain to it ourselves; we
admit as much and yield, for our for
bears have neglected us.-Saturday
RaVieW
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

Amongst the mackerel caught on
the coast of Ireland lately was one
which contained large live toad.
which, on being taken out, hoped
about on deck, and seemed quite at
home.
AT the Philadelphia zoo the other
day a monkey tore the blue tulle OIL a
lady's bonnet. wrapped it around his
its stomach as sash and then posed
in the most dudesque manner imaglna-
BILE fer the admiration of the visitors.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-24

There has lately been perfected a
process, by German chemist, whereby
any soft or porous wood can be made as
hard as lignum vitae, and serve the same
purposes. 1t is done by forcing oil into
the pores OF the soft wood, and then sub
jecting it to intense pressure.
An English navigator at Santander,
on the north coast of Spain, has found
she sea waves in prolonged and heavy
gale OF wind to be 40 feet high and Sse
feet long. Other estimates of storm
waves in the South Atlantic give height
OF 80 feet and length of 400 feet. In
the North Sea the height of crest seldom
exceeds 10 feet and the length $50 feet
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-24
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

-Ramie is an excellent fiber, better,
stronger and finer than cotton or wool,
and almost equal to silk in luster.
-"Anti-squeak," is the stuff they
now put in shoes. 1t looks like shoddy,
but is more costly than leather.
The stone Iuarries of Europe en-
ploy at least SOC, 900 workmen. and pro-
duce an annual value of not less than
$50, 0O0, 900.
Massachusetts, factory laws are be-
ing enforced; children are not allowed
to clean the machines, and girls must DO
up their hair to avoid being scalped-
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-24

some interesting notes on human
skulls, found in an old monastery in the
Keadron Valley, near Jerusalem, have
been given by DIR. Dwight in medical
journal. He concludes that the Cau-
casian skull has, during the past thir-
teen centuries, increased two inches in
average circumference, and gained
brain-holding capacity of three and
half cubic inches. The growth has been
wholly in the frontal and upper region,
and none at all in the lower portions
associated with purely animal functions.
This is the most important discovery in
ethnology of recent date.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat
During his recent residence in Ton
Quin, M. A. Yvert successfully employed
bichloride of mercury for the cure OF
cholera, in doses varying from 0.02 to
0.04 grain in twenty-four hours. OF
forty-ive patients so treated, nine only
succumbed, or about twenty per hun
dred, the normal rate in that region, as
in Europe, being sixty-six per hundred.
1t was also administered to GONZALES
cents in districts where the epidemic
had again broken out and had already
made one victim. None Of those who
took this preventive medicine were at
tackled.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-24
DIAMONDS THE RAGE.
How and When to Wear the Glittering

How and When to Wear the Glittering
and Precious Gems.
The tendency of fashion seems setting
more strongly than ever toward the
classical revival, and as one result
jewels are beginning to be worn in
masses, as in the days of the splendors
of the empire, when, to please the gro
tesque taste of Josephine, women wore
gold chains twining six and seven times
round the neck, ear rings with three
pendants, three or four bracelets on
each arm, rings on every finger, long
gold pins and lockets covered with dia-
monds. Jewellers are entering, as might
be expected, heartily into the revival,
and coronets, shoulder clasps and CIR
dies, canoes, medallions and brooches
are introduced with eclat to the fashion
ionable world. Pearls and diamonds
are the favorite gems, and gold chains
hold the draperies of the gown in grace
full folds. Just at present the fancy in
diamonds is to have them used as a set
ting for the exquisite porcelain and
enamel faces now so popular in designs
copied after the court jewels of the
al V. duu N v. pOlIOo3 VI w Oiil-
ploy them as setting for other stones.
In other countries and other periods
diamonds have been confined to women
of some age and position, but in free and
independent America, in this year of
grace, diam onds button the baby's lay
cite, shine on the dimpled fingers of the
toddling child and pin the bonnet,
buckle the shoe, clasp the garter and
fasten the girdle of the debutante in her
teens. A few rules to govern the wear
ing may not, therefore, be out of order.
With street costumes no diamonds are
allowable except for obviously useful
purposes. They may button the collar,
fasten the cuff, pin the hat in place, but
may not shine from the ears or flash
from the corsage in any purely orna-
mental design. For evening dress, Sin.
bad the Sailor never dreamed of such
glory in his valley of diamonds as the
stars, pendants and quantity fashioned
pins which make what seems like
complete corsage of gems on the gown
of fashionable woman.-Philadelph
Times
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-24

"A mountaineer preacher down i
Maryland astonished part Of his aud
ence by exclaiming in the midst of :
burst of rhetoric in one Of his sermons
ssMy friends, all the world shouted f.
Joy when the good r sof Christ's bir'
7leshed over the wires!'
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-24

Brussels Steak: Take half dozen
good sized onions, cut them into thin
rings and soak one hour in sailed water.
drain them and fry quickly in hot fat
broil good beefsteak carefully and
pour the onions over it; put on plenty Of
butter. dredge with pepper and serve al
once.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-24
A WIZARDS JOKE.
How Hermann Once Upon a Time Fooled
Greedy Chinaman.

AAO" OnC0 upon u lime FOOl60
a Greedy Chinaman.
Talking of the Chinese play here"
said well-known lawyer, II never
had more fun than / did at Chinese
performance in San Francisco several
years ago. went there with Herr
mann. the magician. and several San
Francisco journalists. It was in the
Chinese quarter and the performance
was the adjourned act of play that
had been started a month before. In
the lobby were lot of Chinese ped
dlers selling sweetmeats, oranges and
other fruits. Hermann made dead
set at the orange man, thin-faced,
Notwithstanding fellow, who wore
queue about five feet long. Hermann
bought an orange and cut it open.
With an exclamation of delighted sur
prise. his eyes sparkling and his face
lit up with smiles, he drew five-dol-
lar gold piece out of the pulp and
held it up so that the China
man could see it. The latter's
eyes bulged from their SOCK
cts and panied look of dis
appointment crossed his expressionless
face. Herman bought three more
oranges, and from each he drew a
shining flyer. By this time the per-
SEPARATION rolled in beads down the
Chinaman's face, and he looked so sick
1 felt sorry for him. He gathered up
his stock, muttering to himself, and
when Hermann wanted to buy another
half-Gozen the Chinaman refused to
sell them.
"'rll give you one dollar for them,'
said Hermann.
''The price was only ten cents, but
the Chinaman was tired of giving
away gold pieces.
"'Me no wantee sellee,' he said
shrilly.
"a few minutes later he retired in
to corner and with the air of a con-
spirator began to cut up his oranges.
One after another they went, and his
look OF disappointment became darker
and darker as the magic gold pieces
failed to appear. 1t was actually tragic
when the last one was gone, and Herr
mann gave him one dollar to prevent
his committing suicide IN. Y. Sun,
Haunted houses in China must be
desirable places of residence. The
Tien-Tsin Shihpao reports that not long
ego man named Yang moved into a
haunted house which nobody dared
live in. he being ignorant of its char
acter. During the first two weeks a
ghost terrible in appearance. made
himself visible in the night Yang, be-
ing young man of bravery and hav-
ing learned the professional ways of
tanning devils, did not care for it. One
night, when he saw the spirit unusual
ly rampant. and he undertook to drive
it out. the devil suddenly became ray
OF red light and entered into the ground.
Yang was greatly surprised at this,
and. digging into the ground, found
more than ten thousand taels of silver
in the place where the spirit had en-
tered
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-24
A Predatory Dog Outwitted.

The other day spaniel that had a
bad habit of stealing poultry, was seen
approaching the house at moderate
trot with large rooster in his mouth.
The fowl seemed to be defunct, and so
the spaniel evidently thought, for being
somewhat weakened by the excursion,
and The weather being warm, he laid
down his prey for moment in order
to rest. But the rooster was alive and
in full possession of all his faculties,
for no sooner did he feel himself re-
leased from the jaws of the fell beast
that had captured him than he auttered
his wings and struggled up among the
branches of a convenient tree. The
dog was so astounded at this miracle.
as it must have seemed to him. that he
lost his presence Of mind for second
or two, and in that interval his booty
escaped. This tale is perfectly true
(and remember a very similar occur
ence years ago), although must con-
fess it sounds good deal like the be-
ginning of one Esops Fab,es.-Bos-
ton Post.
The boy with a fishpole plays a
close second to the woman with baby
wagon as a disturbing element in a
crowd Milwaukee Journal.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-24

When you are advised to stake
the bull by the horns" don't. That's
no way to seize the animal safely.
Get a nose hold or none. Oil CITY
Derrick.