The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-12-16
NO. 40.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Niht would you do II you were In my
le place. Mrs. Nuwife--"Do? Why tell
le them about the sbaby's new tooth, of
T. course. Inter Ocean.
We comprehend nothing In the
d world we are in, but by the light of the
d world in which we are not; wo are
10 much nearer TO what we call the other
d world than we are to this. Martin.
- say" said Fuddles, who. some-
p times thinks he is smart what sort of
X fruit can you raise on an electric
It plant?' But Paddles, who also thinks
n he is smart occasionally, promptly re-
piled Currents. Washington Star.
n How did 1t happen that Johnnvgot
o TO be head of the ciassP He Isl not. IL.
O bright boy" 'vrhe teacher asked
= where the north pole was, and nobody
o could tell At last Johnny put up his
hand.' "And where did Johnny say IL
a wasp ''In the north"
A July was the fifth month in tho Ro-
r man calendar and was called Quintilas
the fifth. Originally it contained
| thirty-six days, but was reduced by
komulus to thirty-one, by Numa to
I thirty, but was restored TO thirty-one
I ny julius Caesar, in honor of whom ii
, was named July on account OF his hav-
ing been born during this month. IL
was also SO called from the goddess
Juno
-fou may see in small, shops about
town horseshoes inconspicuously hung
up, not for luck, but as souvenirs of a
somewhat famous horseshoe-malsinp
contest in Madison Square Garden.
ne shoes were turned out at the rate
OF one every half minute, and were
hciIcd at once as mementoes of the oc-
caSlon. Some have been giided and
used as ornaments, while others are
preserved in all their original crudity.
in villages near Chicago NAV still
be seen few log cabins of the pio-
neers--cabins that are us rude as anv
on the frontier, II we have anyfrontier
now. Another architectural curiosity
| IN the neighborhood of the city is seen
IN thc houses raised above the ground
on piles to lift them out of the wet.
but wind mills and the eucalyptus
tree have sucked a good deal of fever
and ague out of the soil within recent
years.
wolves and coyotes are increasing
IN numbers on the stock ranges i'm
southern Alberta, as In the Dakotas
ana other northwestern states, and are
causing serious trouble and loss 20 the
ranchcrs At year old they begin
'helr deprcdations on sheep and younr
cattle, and occasional hunts and round
ups afford only temporary relief. The
question how to deal effectively with
thesc pests is becoming serious all over
i'1 e.i,;t ;n n@a at cnnntrr- " the ,pprthwest.
interests of the place, the prospect of
demand for the products of both land
and sea reconciles most of the people
to what at first seemed an unmitigated
evil
Two hotel cars, to be run from the
east to Chicago, have just been finished
at Wilmington, Del, at a cost of $50. 900
each. They are new In design and un-
usually large. Each car has sixteen
passenger compartments, fitted up after
| the fashion OF the most luxurious hotel
rooms. space twenty-five feet long
| in the cenier oI each car is occupied by
n complete kitchen, and beneath each
kitchen is large space for storage.
Gas tanks supply both fuel and light.
Oregon newspapers tell of n double
headed lizard alleged TO have been
found recently near The Dalles. The
heads are said TO be at opposite ends of
the body and the feet 80 arranged
that the reptile could propel itself in
either direction" The tail is not ac-
counted for. The story comes suspi-
ciously close after one printed recently
about the 'double-ender snakes" OF
California, which are described as being
A,,t1 u.rnr6iurr fS.c cfaani Ia lone cfr,.tiar
10 The Dalles lizard
In former days it was usual for
couple seated together to eat from one
trencher, more particularly IL the rela-
tions between them were of an intimate
nature or again If il were the master
and mistress OF the establishment.
Walpole relates that so late as the
middle of the last century the old Duke
and Duchess of Hamilton occupied the
dais at the head of the room and pre-
served the traditional manner by shar-
ing the same plate. 1t was token Of
attachment and tender recollection Of
, unreturnable youth.
= "A citizen of the world being asked
8 what his russell shoes cost replied that
a he did not know. This was not because
: he had not paid the shoemaker for
n them, but, as he explained, because
. cost of maintenance must be taken
/ into account in estimating the price of
n russet shoes. II happens that no man
/. polshcs his own russet shoes, and that
is the usual price for polishing them is
:, ten cents, or double that of polishing
J. black shoes 1t thus comes about that
y cost of maintenance in the case Of rus
4 set shoes amounts, on the average. to
a two dollars per month, and no man
10 knows the cost of his russet shoes until
ir they are worn out
lie The foggers on an English farm
"a are the laborers who fodder the cattie
n and carry out the hay morning mud
ir evening. Their work begins with the
1. very earliest touch of dawn, and al
that hour. when the dew still liel
heavy, the wild things of the forest ars
N still out Of their coverts. The logger
,h discovered that they could approach
90 very near to the deer and other gam,
h, without being detected, because th
e- load of sweet smelling hay on thei
he heads overcame the scent Of thei
az bodies, so that the game was no
X aware Of the approach Of q human bs
ing. Poachers utilized this discover,
finding it q great assistance In thei
raids on deer preserves The fogQei
re however, is o kindly, gentle fgur.
w searching out the secrets of the wood