St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-11-23
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The search for petroleum in India
has been sirgularly Improbable, most
OF the sources being too small in yield
to pay for working, while the richer
deposits arc for the present too far re-
moved from the means of transport to
be commercially valuable, except in
Burmah.
The Roman helmet Of the average
size weighed about two pounds, and
was thickly lined with felt, so that
severe blow could be borne without
eerious Inconvenience. These helmets
were intolerably hot. however, and
were never worn during the march or
at any time save on parade. sentry or
guard duty, or in the immediate pres
ence of the enemy.
The ''Hat and Cap Riots" were po-
litical difficulties in Sweden during the
reign OF Adolph Frederick. They be-
gan in ,7a0 and ended about 17.l. The
hats or chapeaus were the French
party, who wished to modernize the
country by adopting the ideas, man
ners, customs. political and military
usages Of southern Europe; the caps
were the Russian party, who desired a
closer affiliation with the Muscovit9f
OF all the murderous implements
of war that have been invented the
Odl<olck automatic machine gun gives
promise of being the deadliest 1t is
so constructed that after being set in
motion by pulling the trigger it con-
tinues to load and fire itself, at the
rate of GOO shots a minute, for an in.
definite length of time. The motive.
power is small part of the gas pro-
duced by the explosion of the car
fridge.
San Francisco has the tall building
fever. and is to have fiftecn-story a.
fair that will tower three hundred and
ten feet above the sidewalk. Claus
Spreckels is to build it 1t will be SO
much taller than anything now stand
ing that it will be plainly visible from
Fall parts of the city and from the bay.
1t will be but seventy-five by seventy
feet, and will be really big square
tower, capped by a big dome. On pa
per it looks by no means unhandsome.
"A few years ago many of the man
dolins. guitars, harps and other similar
instruments sold in this country were
Manufactured abroad by hand. One
factory in Chicago last year turned out
900 banjoes. as many or more guitars
and 1000 mandolins. The same con-
Germ also makes harps, and makes them
with many mechanical improvements
over the old style of imported instru-
ments. They are said to excel greatly
the foreign instruments in every re-
spect.
Steamships plying between Europe
and New York city. upon arriving on
this side of the ocean, are siynalled off
Fire island or Sandy Hook. Their ar.
rival is telegraphed to the quarantine
station and the ship news office. and in
short time the vessel arrives at quar-
antine. Here the health officer boards
her, and if no cases of contagious dis
| ease are found on board she is per-
mitted to proceed to her dock. II any
serious case of contagious nature ID
found, she is detained at quarantine
until the health officer gives an order
to disembark the passengers Inside
the Sandy Hook she is also boarded by
the customs officers, who go immedi-
ately to the saloon, where declarations
are made and signed by the saloon
passengers as to the contents of their
personal baggage. All baggage is
searched on the arrival of tho vessel ct
her dock, and dutiable articles are con-
fiscated if the duties are not paid by
those to whom they belong.