St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-03-26
or GENERAL INTEREST.

See~eSO S~>ese
Ora In dressing the fowl . woman dis.
covered in the craw two small nuggets
of gold about the size Of . small nail
head How the chicken found the gold
d now the question.
The first sewing machine Of whose
patenting there Is any record was In
tended rather for embroiderih4 than
plain sewing. It was patented in 175A
and had . needle with two points and
an eye Ut midlength This form Of
needle was called for many years .
mbour-needlc.
1t is reckoned that 50. 00o, 900 worth
Of the old fractional currency has been
totally lost Kitchen stoves are favor.
lite p aces for hiding money. and It i
said that moro is destroyed In that way
than in any other. OF the paper money
issued, il Is estimated that one per
cent is lost or destroyed
What is believed to be the largest
steel planer in this country was shipped
the other day from Piain6eld. N. J., to
Pittsburgh. The bed OF the machine
weighs forty-three tons the table
twanty-six tons and the cross-rails
twenty-five tons Tho arch weighs
four and one-balf tons and driving gear
four toms
The bail bond Of Jefferson Davis,
bearing the signature of Horace Greeley.
Gerritt Smith and some other prom
inent men. has been missing from the
files Of the circuit court OF Richmond
since 1870. and how much longer it Il
dimcult to say. Tho present clerk OF
the court thinks that the person who
stole il is now dead.
A rich young woman in New jersey
has married . coachman. Whether or
mot this was advantageous to both par.
tics or 10 ono Of them or TO neither h
not reported II the woman Is good
for nothing. the Goodman h to Be pit.
led. provided he b good for anything.
they arc well matched
Chambers Journal has IN article
on tho commercial value Of small
thingA The weight Of the postage
stamps sold in New York city last year
was thirteen tons. In Russia l30. 000. 900
wooden spoons are made every year.
One factory in Paris makes 100. ooo, 600
tOothpicl<s . year. In the United
States liO, 000. 900 matches arc used an
nually; in France 900. ooo. 600.
Every lover of rare and curious in
formation knows that most Of the an.
clients were dead set" against beans.
but no modern unraveler Of old-time
mysteries knows why. Itmay b truly
said that there arc but few philoso-
pliers Of the present day that "know
beans" Pythagoras admonished his
pupils to abstain from beanA" but ON
what grounds no one knowA"
To make . spool Of thread the very
best Sea Island cotton b used. This is
taken in the raw state and torn to
pieces BY . machine called . breaker.
It Il then-freed from its impurities by
several other machines. after which It
Is taken mp by . slipper" and twisted
into soft yarn. Several strands Of this
arc twisted into one fine thread, three
Of thess are then twisted together,
making the six-cord thread, which, af-
ter being bleached. Is ready to sell.
A physician who spent some time
In the countries bordering ON the Gulf
OF Mexico found . curious body Of men
among the natives called Curados de
Calebra, or the safe from viperA Hav-
ing been inoculated with the poison Of
serpents they were proof against their
venomous bites The incubation was
made with the venom tooth Of . viper
and the bulb Of native plant called
mano del sapo (toads hsnd) Tho pre-
vcntive inoeulation has been IN old
custom among the natives Of that
York Sun.
The practice Of ''trotting" . child
on the knee Of the nurse or mother,
though It has the sanction of long prac-
tice, has not the sanction Of common
sense and should never be INDUCED.
with infants Treating the
adult body in the ratio Of correspond
Ing strength, the exercise would be
about equivalent to being ourselves
churned up and down on the walking
beam Of . good sized steam engine. II
has been very properly said that yen
tie movement Il - pleasant to the child
Is riding in IN easily running carriage
On smooth road to IN adult; knee
iolting - unpleasant and harmful q .
Journey over the worst corduroy
roads"
Few persons. says the San Francis
20 Chronicle, have ever troubled them
selves to think Of the derivation Of the
word dollar. It Il from the German
Ebal valley. and came into use in this
way some three hundred years ago:
There is . little silver mining city or
district in northern Bohemia called
Joachim.thal, or Joachim's valley. The
duke of the region authorized
this city in the sixteenth century TO
,oin . silver piece which was called
The word "Joach-
m" was soon dropped and the name
'thaler" only retained The piece went |
INTO general use In Germany and also
n Denmark, where the orthoGraphy |
Was changed to ''daler," whence It |
:ame into English, and was adopted by |
,ur forefathers with some changes in
he spelling.
As old china is becoming . well-de- |
,eloped fad, collectors will be interest |
d 70 know that MIRA Ollie Stevens, Of |
Ne, has one Of the finest
collections of old china in New En-
Hand. In her collection Is Washing |
on plate. one Of the thirteen manu-.
actured BY m eccentric manufacturer,
Who refused to pursue his calling any
onger, and thus It has been thought BY /
collectors that none OF the thirteen
we're in existence. Her Canton tea
ups were brought over in the vessels
whose tea was thrown overheard In
boston harbor early in the revolution
nv war. The sideboard Is prettily in
aid and was once owned BY Capt
deans, n officer Of the revolutionary
var. When Lafayette visited Port
and, after his reception. be visited his
Id friend Capt Means, and was served
nth teddy from this sideboard
a RACE OF OWARFS.
'anay Little Folks That Are HELD II sspss.
stltio0s Awe
IN the Atlas mountains. only . few
hundred miles from the Mediterranean,