St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-02-16
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

barley Is the most widely diffused
of any of the grains. II grows equally
well in Lapland and in the valley of
the Nile, the only difference being that
in the latter country it is capable Of
producing two crops year.
Air can be frozen at a temperature
of 200 degrees below zero, and the
product, which can be handled and
felt, burns, so to speak, with its excess
in any quantity, but its cost, five hum
dred dollars a gallon, is likely to pre-
vent large business.
The marines in the Brooklyn navy
yard have a sober and elderly dog that
now and then turns out for sentry
duty. He is occasionally seen before
the officers quarters on Flushing ave-
nue. close at the heels of the man on
guard. turning promptly at the end of
the post and never making excursions
into adjacent territory.
"A singular feature Of the decora-
tions Of the city of Leeds, on the re-
cent visit of the duke and duchess Of
York. was q triple srchway formed en-
tirely Of loaves of bread and inclOsed
in a light frame Of wood and iron.
Nearly six tons of bread were used in
it's construction, and the next day it
was all distributed among the poor.
-Slouch hats are numerous in almost
all communities south of Mason and
Dixon's line, and conservative old
southerncrs still demand the best felt
in such hats. A really good broad
brim felt hat such as fastidious
southerner wears will cost almost as
much as a respectable high silk hat.
but will last longer, because it never
goes out of fashion.
Here is a specimen of the sort of
pleasantries of which the Parisians ap-
pear never to tire. 1t is from the
Gaulois. At subscription ball a man
happens to step on the train of a lady's
dress. THE lady turns in a wrathful
manner. but suddenly changing her ex-
preston. says with a smile: ''Ah, par
don, monsieur. ! was merely angry.
thought it was my husband"
I'm the heart of a large pine tree,
three and one-half feet in diameter,
James Miller, of Marinette, Wis, found
a knife that was about foot long and
one and one-half inches wide. The
age of the tree is estimated by good
judges to be over two hundred years,
and the knife was buried in it when
the tree was in its infancy, for it IS
right near the heart and only about
six feet from the base.
Just before the Zulu war there was
in Mauritius stamp collector who was
q friend of the local postmaster. One
day he learned that there was to he a
clearance of old stock. and obtained
permission to buy it all as waste. II
occurred to him that he might do the
same at other small colonial post Offices
and acquire stamps without difficulty.
One of his Mauritius stamps he sold not
long ago for 1880. and. according to
the Manchester Courier, he has already
made between 500, 900 and $l50,00 by
his investment
There are y great many hunters
armed with magazine cameras instead
of guns out in the Maine woods. watch.
ing and working for q snap shot at
deer, moose. or any other wild game.
The photographers return with some
wonderfully interesting results to show
in pictures of wild animals in their
natural surroundings. And they claim
there is as much glory in taking a
dcer's picture as in taking its life. 1,
requires just as much skill to get with
in photographing distance as within
shooting range, and often more. Any
way, it is an interesting new field fol-
the irrepressible amateur photog'
rapher.