St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-02-24
or GENERAL INTEREST.

The flavor u eggs depends very
much on the kind Of food given to the
poultry. When hens sre fed largely q
almost exclusively on milk the yolk Is
lighter in color, the white has milky
look. and the whole egg is watery and
less firm in texture than those laid By
the granted hens
Samuel Jcffries and wife, each aged
reside at Hustonville, Ky.
They had no children in the first seven
years of their married life, but In the
eleven months after that four wero
born, and in the next fourteen years
fifteen moro were born. There were
seven pairs Of twins among the nine.
teen children.
Young men who were exploring an
immense cavern in Harding county.
KY, few days ago. found in one room
FIVE human skeletons and in another
place a decayed box containing two
diamond rings, three pistols and q lot
Of earrings and bracelets With the
skeletons were two watches marked
respectively "R. C. A." and IS J.
Nick"
-Tekoa, Wash, has adopted the ball
and chain punishment for tramps and
its first application is interesting. The
tramp WAS made fast to ball and chain
and put to work ON the street While
his guard was taking rest the prison.
er picked mp the cannon ball and start
ed to walk out of town with it. He
was captured. however. and was penal
lied for his attempted escape by having
three balls and chains attached to him
-Ex-Treasurer Alfred IL Goodrich,
Of Connecticut, has made q collection
of portraits of the treasurers of that
state who have served since 1862 The
number is thirty-one, and the collec-
ton is complete, with two exceptions.
OF these, likcnesscs cannot be obtained,
nor can any be obtained of the eight
treasurers who officiated before that
year. The collection is to be hung in
the treasurcr's Office in the state cap
itol in Hartford.
Rabbi Solomon SCHNEIDER considers
the orphan asylum ideal and says it
would be well IL the world would 1T
itself to the asylum. He is inclined to
wish for the death of all poverty-strick-
en- parents in order that their children
might have the benefit of training In
such institutions It is stated by good
authority, however. that children turned
out by orphan asylums do not. as q
rule, succeed in holding their own in
the struggle for existence. The super
intendent of one asylum said: my
20 ND ~t..vr n 6n
value of money"
The posted list of most New York
clubs is a business barometer. Such
lists are unusually long and their items
unusually persistent in of dePrcs-
sion. But with the return of business
sunshine they melt like snow at tina
approach of spring. 1t is point OF
posted for debt, but doubtless there are
snobs who contemplate with satisfac-
ton the appearance of their names
once a month on the bulletin board
along with the names Of distinguished
men in whose company they would BE-
glad to be seen upon any terms.
Can anyone make black whitc?-
'twould seem so. A piebald colored
woman in a police court, turned white
in spots, gave the reporters clew by
which they discovered a young woman
who makes a business of decolorizing
colored folks by applying an ointment
which actually takes off the cuticls
and the pigment beneath, 50 that aftel
the subjects are cured of the scalding
process the tint is much lighter. 1t j!
very painful and costs five dollars, bu
the operator claims to have bleachct
one Thousand already. She alst
Strengthens out kinky hair SO it maj
be brushed and parted.
One of the latest uses of aluminium i!
for cooking utensils. An expert of the
metallurgical laboratory of Lehigl
university says, after two years o
actual experience, that in point Of
lightness. clcanness, durability and all
round adaptability, vessels of alumni
mum arc the perfection of cooking uten
sis. He instances two boilers which
have been in daily use for cooking al
sorts of food, for preserving, stewinl
fruits and the like and are to-day a!
bright as new and have not lost a frac
ton of weight. One weighs one pount
| twelve and half ounces and the othcl
one pound seven ounces.
"a number of my friends" said I
man of moderate means. appear 10 b
getting on bravely in life, and making
money. Among them is my friend tn
undertaken. lie used to drive singh
horse to plain black wagon. but now h
drives pair of horses to a wagon tina
| is as plain as ever in color, to be sure
but which is larger, more costly, ant
more elaborate in design. and SO per
| feet in construction that it move
smoothly and silently. I grudge N
man his prosperity: it never worrie
me that my friend the merchant make
a dollar from my purchase, but l an
grateful that have been called upOI
for no contribution to the prosperit..
| OF my friend the undertaken"
velvets That Are Part Wool
The handsome velvcts called velour
miroir owe their depth and richness O
texture to by no means insignifcan
amount of wooden worked up into thei
welt and warp 1t would be almost I'm
possible to obtain similar effect with
all'silk, and certainly noewithout doubl
the expenditure of raw material. Fol
merly It was necessary to give six do
lars and eight dollars a yard for . reall
effective velvet. and now three dollar
will purchase yard of velours miroi
altogether superior in appearance an
hardly whit more heavy. For trim
mings cotton-back velvets arc use
largely, but their weight preclude
their being chosen for dress material
when the buyer can afford to pay fo
something better. Most of the figure
velvets-the embossed and chiselcd We
yets-intended for the most part fo