St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-04-23

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
= If al the locomotives in the United
States were coupled together tsey
would make . train of solid iron and
steel over 500 miles long. Add the pas.
senger cars and we would have 800
miles moro Of wood and iron; this
would give us . gigantic passenger
train 600 miles in length, counting both
engines and carA H
During the year 1891 there were
surveyed at the port of Bangor Is. 945.-
S6S feet Of dry pine, 7.l6S sos feet OF
green pine. lis. eos. TAI feet of spruce.
and Is. 66s, ,sa4 feet of bemlock, juniper.
cedar. etc.-a total of l6i. 08s $50 feet
This IL IA. 000. 900 less than in 1890, and
s. 0oo. 600 less than In 1882 The great
est falling of was in spruce anil pioe.
and the decline wss chiefly due to the
decentralization OF the New York mar
kct.
The first fore-ruuner OF the tyne
writer in the United States was . ma
chine invented in lslS. for those who
were unable TO use the pen and pencil
The name typewriter" was first given
to the machine invented by three men
Of Milwaukee. Wis. which embodied
the principles Of the present machine
In . crude manner. Since 1S43 there
have been issued In this country $50
patents for writing machines 750 OF
which have been granted since 1880.
Among birds that have the power
of imitation the parrot is supposed to
talk the best; but, as . matter OF fact,
its voice h decidedly inferior TO that OF
the mynah, . species Of startling. OF
which there are examples ut the Lon
don geological gardens Curiously
enough the male bird speaks in high,
clear tone, like that of . child. while
the female has . gruR voice. The
myushs are fond Of showing of their
vocal powers to visitors to the gardens
Stain and Cromwell. who were
sentenced to the Maine state prison for
life fer the murder Of Cashier Barron
of the Dexter bank, have not lost q
days work since they entered the
prison. Lowell, the Lewiston murder
er, receives q liberal pension. which he
spends for luxuries that are allowed.
He has q special brand OF cigars. manu-
factured In Rockland. Chandler. who
is serving q sentence for forgery, is the
prison organist. and he has composed q
stack of music. some of which he In
tends to publish after his release.
One Of the most persistent begears
in Portland, Me-. is . collie dog which
is very fond of doughnut& The collie,
in company with his mistress visited .
bakery one day last fall, AMI, perceiving
some dou2hnuts in q show case, he sat
down and pleaded, by means of short,
sharp barks, for . treat The clerk
generously fed the smart dog. but now
he wishes that he hadn't for every day
since the collie has appeared to beg for
more doughnuts II the shop. door is
closed he will wait outside until some
one opens il, and then dodge in and get
his reg liar free lunch.
1T was largely the fashion in the
sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries with Ia aties Of wealth TO have
their watches richly. incrusted with
precious stones. A lady's watch made
toward the end OF the reign Of Queen
Elizabeth had . gold case set with two
hundred turquoise stones arranged in
eight coucentric circles with q single
one in the middle. On the upper por-
ton Of the case WAS . Tud r rose Of
crimson and green in translucent en-
amel, and on the margin crimson and
blue leaves and fruit in enamel The
balance wheel was protected BY .
gilt cock.
About thirty years ago Moses Star.
ling and others put two small hocks OF
sheep on Monhegan, q bleak and rocky
island on the entrance to Penobscot
bay, believing that sheep could take
care of themselves almost anywhere.
Since then the flocks have increased to
an aggregate of two hundred and fifty
head, running wild and receiving NO
attention whatever. Once year men
have gone TO the island. driven the
sheep int, . pen and sheared them and
marked the lambs. The sheep are now
owned BY half dozen PERSONS some
of whom have not seen the stock for
twenty years
Some great hunting was done in
the closiug days q the late hunting
season in Naies. A party OF Boston
sportsmes. with A. p Douglass Of
Eustis, q guide, chased . ten-year-old
moose for eight.eu deyA when one Of
the party shot hiA Tho animal
weighed about 700 pounds and carried
splendid autlera Two ncAster bull
moose were b-ougt into Sebee station
. few days after Christmas. having
been killed near Nahmakanta lake BY
BENJAMIN Woodward and Horace DOre.
of Atkinson. One OF the heads, with
antlers. weighed s91S pounds, the other
s7l{ pounds, aud the larger antlers had