St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-06-02
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Auburn, . Kentucky town OF 1000
inhabitants. discourages the Kentucky
interest Of whisky making. The vii
lage has not had IN open saloon for fif-
teen years Four elections in that time
have turned upon the question OF licens-
ing the sale Of strong drink. but at no
election has the affirmative vote reached
forty-five Meanwhile the churches
flourish and Auburn is we'll pleased to
be singular among its sister villages
The power of song is illustrated In
a custom on the railroads in northern
Florida. Whenever = train crosses tho
Suwanec river, the conductor an
nounces the fact In each car. IT any
passenger has never heard way Down
Upon the Suwanee River this particu-
larization of the stream must seem Pc
culiar, and the Suwanee is like n dozen
other rivers in the same region, and
these are passed without comment from
the conductor.
The dead and gone New York hotel
used to have an almost continuous suc'
cession of meals on the American
plan There were breakfasts early and
late; there was q MONDAY dinner for
guests accustomed to such q meal;
there was a late luncheon: there was
the usual evening dinner, and, finally,
there was a late supper between 10 p
m. and midnight There were guests
at all these meals. but an = Ia carte
restaurant instituted late in the life Of
the hotel was never very successful.
The United States geological sur.
vey, says the report of Director Powell.
has carried on typographical surveys in
twenty-eight states and territories in
1898, covering an area Of about $4,000
square miles, at . cost of &423, O22 or
less than $50 per square mile. Since
its organization this department has
surveyed an area of 573,O square
miles, in forty-seven states and terrific
ries The photographic force has been
tabulating statistics as to the value Of
running streams. and roughly foots up
this value at $500, 600. 600.
Some of the odd personal names
met with in this country originated in
English warehouses, where it used to
be a common thing, as Dickens init
mates in ''Oliver Twist" to name
foundlings for some utensil about the
asylum, or for any thing else that might
strike the stupid fancy of the authori-
ties. Thus many persons were launched
upon the world bearing the names Of
the days of the week, or some church
CT street near the asylum. and Of II hun
bred and one other things furnishing
equally absurd cognomena
The germ theory is largely respon-
sible for some of the marvels of modern
surgery. Out of the germ theory grew
the scrupulous care Of surgeons as to
the aseptic and antiseptic treatment of
wounds so that the fevers and inflam-
nations that used to be che iuevitab BILE
consequence of surgical operations are
now unknown in well-mauaged hos
pitalS Surgeons will now chip off the
top OF a mans head, exhibit his brain
to curious class Of students. send him
to bed with his wound antiseptically
dressed. and bring him back week
later with nothing to show of the OPP
Grafton but slight and well-healcd
scar.-N Y. Sun.
Model tenement houses have paid
well in London. Sir Sydney Water
low made the first experiment of the
kind in 1860 when he built at his own
expense four blocks in Work street,
Fipsbury. The buildings accommo-
dated eighty families, or four hundred
persons, and such was their success
that in three years. in conjunction
with several friends, he started the Ira.
proved Industrial Dwellings Co. Of
which he is chairman. That company
has spent over one million pounds
in the erection of dwellings on forty
FIVE estates in London. The dividend
paid is five per cent. and the average
rent OF each room is fifty cents.
One Of the largest, il not the larg-
est monoliths ever cut in this country,
n granite column, forty-one and a half
feet long, six and half feet in dame
ter and weighing ninety-two tons. has
been successfully transported from
Stony Creek, Conn.,, to West Point, N.
y. 1t is intended for the battle monu-
ment at the latter place The shaft
was loaded on two platform cars on two
heavy pedestal blocks and crossed the
Hudson river at Fishkill after the
transfer bridge at the ferry had been
strengthened. The original block from
which tho shaft was cut weighed one
hundred and thirty-lve tons 1t will
be surmounted by granite ball four
feet in diameter. supporting bronze
figure of Victory.