St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-07-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

-Boccaccio made . collection Of the
chap-book tales and folklore OF his
time, and from these volumes collect
ed the material for his "Decameron."
Frederick the Great had . sharp,
Ratchet face, with = cold, blue eve.
that, as one of his contemporaries said,
CLEANED like q refection of light FROM
. bayonet."
The only monstrosity mentioned
in the Bible was the giant who had
six fingers on every hand. and on ev-
cry foot six toes, four and twenty in
ALL" See III. Samuel, Xxx, 20.
Among modern nations the great
est eaters are the English, the Ger
mans, the French and the Americans
The Americans are, on the average,
the greatest eaters in the world.
An authority states in a medical
journal that the height of = very tall
British woman was, fifty years ago,
five feet seven. while now the height
averages five feet six to five feet ten.
Observation-Disclosures vwomatakamwy
is a word which in the mouth
of the amorous Eskimo means every
thing that is sweet and nice. The
lovesick Grecnlandcr goes awooing
with this word.
-"Blood is thicker than water" is
an expression first made popular By
Commodore Tatnal, an American Of
ficer who assisted the English against
the Chinese, and in his report justified
himself by using this expression,
which is. however, an old proverbial
saying employed by Scott and other
English writer's of the present and last
century.
The 'bitter end" phrase fro
quently employed in connection with
a determination to persevere in an un-
dertaking until its conclusion, no mat
ter what the result. is phrase bor-
rowed from nautical life. Among sail
ors the bitter end" is the loose end OF
q rope with which the ships officers
were formerly accustomed to chastise
the seamen.
AT the great annual fur sale re-
Gently in London there was offered for
sale what is considered one of the
rarest skins obtainable-thato of black
fox-and after keen competition be-
tween the representatives Of the lead
ing furriers of New York, London,
Paris, St. Petersburg. etc. it was pur-
chased by P. NJ. Grunwaldt, the fur
rier of Paris, at the price of Fits, or
$3.50, which is by far the highest price
ever paid for a similar skin.
According to well-known statis-
tician John Bull seems to have lost
none of his old-time appetite. 1t is
stated that last Christmas LOSE tons of
beef for roasts. $780, 43 turkeys, esq.,
ls4 geese. 4i6 tons ofplum pudding and
412 English miles of sausage were con-
sumed in the city of London. This
morsel of food was washed down with
more than Zoo, 600 gallons of beer and
ale and some 10000 bottles of wine
1t is not stated how many cases of dys-
pepsia originated on that day.
Uncle Sam owns the biggest book
factory in the United States. One mil
lion books a year is the product As
the average circulation of the books
published by private concerns is less
than five thousand, and very few pub
fishing houses issue more than twenty
or thirty books in a year, the rate Of
publication at the government print
ing Office is high. In addition to the
book business, too, the public printing
Office turns out a daily newspaper for
about nine or ten months of the year
and three or more of the next regu-
larry. Fortunately it is q paper which
requires no editing beyond the super
vision of the makeup, and even that is
regulated by set of rules furnished to
the public printer by the joint print
ing company of the two houses of con-
gress.