St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-11-24
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Henry Maxim drives his air ship By
two engines which, in proportion "a
their weight, are the most powerful
ever made. They develop one horse
power for every two pounds Of their
weight. The boiler Is of novel design.
It consists Of many tiny tubes through
which there Is forced circulation Of
water.
One Of the amusements of . sum-
mer resort in the mountains Of Yer
mont is gold mining. A little stream
carries down some gold, and visitors
patiently go through the hand washing
process Of the old California days, pro-
curing perhaps ten cents worth of the
light yellow metal as the result Of half
IN hours labor.
Prof Zakharin, the cars physician,
is extremely eccentric. When he Is
called to attend . patient special ar
raDgements must be made in the house;
all dogs must be kept out of the way.
all clocks must be stopped and all
doors must be thrown wide open. When
he asks questions regarding a patient
no permits but one word in answer
yea" or may"
Abraham Lincoln undoubtedly was
the tallest president; he was six feet
four inches in height The shortest
was probably BENJAMIN Harrison, al
though Van Buren, and John Adams
were very short men. The oldest pres
ident was William Henry Harrison,
who was sixty-eight years and one
month old when inaugurated; the
youngest was Grant, who was not
quite forty-seven years old.
The stamps issued by the confed-
crate states are among the most histor-
ical stamps that are now to be found.
The first of the series comprised two,
five and ten-cent stamps, which were
prepared at Richmond, Va. These
were current until 1853, when they
were replaced by five-cent stamp that
was printed in England, and subse-
quently by set of three stamps two.
ten and twenty cents) that were made
in Richmond.
ANTAGONISTS, when they wish to
separate the bones of a skull, sometimes
resort to a very peculiar procedure.
They fill the skull with small beans
and place it in q vessel of water. The
beans swell and rend the skull apart
at the sutures. The well-known Ger
man psychologist, Grehaut. measured
the force which the beans are capable
OF exerting under these conditions,
and found that indicated five atmos-
pheres, equal to the average pressure in
the boiler of steam engine.
European hOrsemen have to be
very careful in their rambles over
Chinese roads. This is especially the
case in scampering over the Pakhoi
plain on little native pony which is
about as surefooted as donkey. The
cause is easily accounted for The ma
tives dig holes for lizards, which are
dried and exported as tonic, or in the
form of Lizard wine" A sharp look
out, therefore, has to be made for
these holes even on the path, or else
the equestrian will come to grief, as
many do in consequence of the ruts in
Rotten Row.
Henry C. Work, the author of
Marching Through Georgia." vas .
printer, who brought his first song,
Kingdom Coming" to DR.. George +.
Root, then a member of q music pub
fishing firm in Chicago. It pleased the
latter so well that he induced the com.
poser to give up his trade and devote
all his time to writing songs. lie be-
came a prosperous business man in
Chicago, but lost all he had in the great
fire and never recovered his prosperity.
He lived the last years of his life in
and died there; and though he
was not a soldier. the Grand Army of the
Republic decorated his grave with
flowers, and an effort is now being