St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1893-09-16
or GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
-Edmund Law Rogers, of 1,alti
more recently exhibited before an rs
sembly of dentists a complete set o
false teeth that had been worn by
George Washington. The base plate.
were of lead and perfectly fat Some
of the teeth were of ivory and other.
had been extracted from living per
son.
The ways Of auctioneers in differ
ent parts of the world vary greatly.
In England and America the seller
bears the expense of the sale, but
In France the purchaser pays the
cost. five per cent being added to the
price he pays. In Holland it is still
worse, the buyer being required to pay
ten per cent. additional for the ex-
penscs of the sale. ~
The beautiful marble bust of Har-
yiet Beecher Stowe was recently nm
yelled in the library Of the wOmen's
building on the worlds fair grounds
by Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker. who
placed on the white marble q choice
cluster of pinks and ferns. Frederick
Douglas was present and read several
passages from "Unclc Toms CABIN, "
several copies of which. printed.in many
languages, were placed near the bust
All who were present were saddcncd by
the thought that the beloved authoress
no longer can enjoy the honors b.
slowed upon her.
-Azaleas of every hue possible to
azaleas make the wooded island in the
worlds fair grounds a grand bouquet,
and those accustomed to see this deli
cate mountain flower in the pink-yellow
or white dress which it assumes in New
England, Virginia or California are
amazed at the many shades of pink,
crimson and orange and the parti-col-
ored varieties produced by cultivation.
RhOdOdendrons of the tall and drawfed
varieties, brilliant japanese peonies
and masses of lOwly growing pansies,
cOntented To bloom wherever they are
placed, give the island festive and
summary appearance. attractive to all
pedestrians.
Old chests and trunks have . high
value as curios, and are largely taken
by the dealers in the like. As paper
was costly in the eighteenth century.
many such articles were lined with
then current, and if pleas
antries of the period are to be trusted,
even with rejected manuscripts. A
curious old trunk with pentagonal ends
recently turned mp in the shop of
dealer in old furniture. 1t still bore
card showing that its
last delivery had been to somebody in
Pearl street 1t was lined with q Phil
adelphia newspaper Of Ira. and the
pages exposed bore the tsx-list of that
year in pounds, shillings and pence.
1T is only within few years, ono
might almost say months, that the wide
effect of the warm, moist Pacific winds,
called chinooks, has been known in
British Columbia and Alaska These
winds. corresponding exactly to those
that make England fertile country in
the latitude of Labrador. keep the snow
melted from the plains at the eastern
base of the Rockies, and they encourage
\ magnificent growth Of root crops,
"a bbage, oats and grass q thousand
miles north of New York. Wheat does
not do well and berries are small,
though little attempt has been made to
fruit The winters are biting
,old. but dry, and the summer, though
short, is so hot that vegetation comes
'ut of the earth with rush.
Lone class Of people regard our fast
.ruisers and our white-walled, thun-
lering ironclads with hearty disap-
the artists A marine
,ainter, looking Mt the big feet that
ecently lay stretched along tho Hud-
on, exclaimed: ''Yes, quite interest
ng, and ugly. Those arc mere ma
hines, and machinery is always ugly.
III the time that ships have been gain
ng in strength and speed they have
'een losing in picturesqueness and
'eauty. There is nothing in that lot
4 tea kettles, as Napier called them,
o equal the old Constitution and the |
Id Vermont, with their three rows of |
'orts and their big towers Of canvas.
70 see one of the old frigates bowling
long with all sail set-why, sir, that
vas poem"
A material lately introduced in the
of American warships,
hough not yet effectually tested in
var or serious casualty, is called cellu-
ose. A naval man in Washington,
peaking of the sinking of the Victoria.
ays: Il hardly think that just such
n accident could have happened to
ne of our war vessels Above the pro
ective deck in our boats we place =
called ccllulOse. It il six feet
a thickness all along the inside of the
cssel's side, and is about seven feet In
eight When this material is wet il
wells up and closes an opening. In
asc shot from the enemy should
rive a hole through the ships side 10
'ould swell up and close the hole.
eeping the water out 1t would aGA
ne same way in case Of . collision in
'hich the ships side was shattered. II
'ould have a tendency to prevent .
ash If WATER :