St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-03-29
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Tn constables marched in . body
against . tramp rendezvous at West
Bethlehem, Pa, and all they bagged
was . o~ne-legged tramp.
-ALondon paper tells Of a dog which,
having u away from its new master,
travelled fifty miles yer an unknown
country to its old home, arrived there
the day after starting.
Referring to the return from their
honeymoon Of . couple living in the
vicinity, . West Grove. Pa, paper says
tAey were given . serenade that was
hilarious il not ~u,becoming. Much
cider was drunk and damage DONE"
queen Victoria eats heartily Of
American smoked ham and well-baked
bread, and drinks English brews with
great relish, while the Queen Of Sweden
INDUCES in big beefsteaks. smoked
salmon, meat balls, beans and eggs.
An officer who bought for a trife an
old desk in Montreal was led by marks
on the cover to make an investigation,
that proved the article one of such
historic interest that the English gov.
eminent has given him one thousand
dollars for it.
"A big poplar tree wa felled At
Utica, Ind, recently, and as it struck
the ground a large limb broke of, in the
heart of which was found the antlers Of
. deer, . cows horn and a number Of
curious shells. The mystery is how
they got there.
"A prominent ranchero of the Upper
Platte valley, Wy. T., lately issued an
odd challenge to the betting fraternity
of tho universe. He will wager his
place and stock against $40, 600 that in
any stated hunting season within three
years he will, unaided, kill fifty grizzly
bears in the Elk Mountain and Medicine
Bow ranges.
"A family in Henry County, Ga. con.
sists Of three mothers, three sons, two
grandmOthers, three grandsons, one
great-grandmother, one daughter-in-
law. n husband. m granddaughter
in-law, two brothers. one daughter,
two great-grandsOns, n wife, two
widows, n grandmother-in-law, and
there are only six in the family.
"A Murfreesboro (Tenn.) woman went
into the post-ofce and demanded q
letter. When told that there was none
she said she knew there was, and made
the clerk look our or five times. When
she became finally convinced she left
the ONCE in a great rage, saying hat
she was going to make that old coloncd
~fortune-teller refund the money she had
paid her.
-Parisians have lately been enter.
tanned by a remarkable artist who dis.
plays wonderful skill in her peculiar
form Of painting. With plates of va
rious colored sand before her, she takes
the sand in her right hand and causes
it to fall in beautiful designs upon a
table. A bunch of grapes is pictured
with violet sand, . leaf with green
sand. the stalks with brown sand, and
relief and shadows by other sands; when
the work is brushed away q bouquet Of
roses and other objects are represented
with tho same dexterity and delicacy.
The most polits nation in diplomat
10 intercourse is Belgium. When the
Belgian authorities addressed a letter
to this Government asking il the United
States still claimed as citizens all chill |
dren Of alien parents born here. the COM
m~unication closed with: II should be
grateful il your Excellency would have
the great kindness to furnish me with
this document and give me the ihtor-
nation desired. Thanking your Excel
lency in advance, I embrace" etc.
Wishing to know what were the regula-
tions Of the United States in regard to
poddling, tho Belgian Minister con-
with: 81 have the honor to have
recourse to your Excellency's good Of
fees, begging you to be pleased to &C
quaint me with the laws md regula-
tons which are in force d the United
States regarding peddling. avail my.
sells etc.