St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-01-25

I'm ancient Egypt guests at great
house were anointed with perfumed oi!
by the servants of the establishment!
~ q mark of respect
The Egyptians were the first hu-
man paper makers Some of the papy'
ri are said to date from nearly sOOt
b. c., exceeding in antiquity the earli.
est Chinese paper Oy about 1900 years.
A farmer of Albany, Ore, is ex-
hibiting bunch of forty-two stalks OF
wheat with 924 meshes and about 500
grains, which grew from q single
kernel Another farmer in Cedar Rap
ids. Neb., has q cucumber five feet long
and still growing.
1t is announced that the historic
Fairbanks house in Dedham, Mass
has been offered for sale and is in dan
ger of being destroyed. This is one OF
the oldest houses in the country. It
was built shortly after the settlement
Of Dedham in 1886.
German papers assert that gas pipe
made of paper are q success Manila
paper strips are passed through melted
asphaltum and then nodded under
heavy pressure. After cooling the
pipes, which may be Of any desired
length. they receive . water proof
coating.
Pine and Ar have long fibers, exceed
ingly well adapted to the use OF the
paper-maker, but the rcsinous sub
stances contained in these woods form
SO large . percentage OF the compost
ton and are SO difficult of removal that
the paper-makers are compelled to use
other varieties.
The first water-mark used, so far
as known, was that of Tates in 1893. 1t
was an eight-pointed star in q double
circle. Fancy prices are now paid for
specimens of Tstes' paper, and it is sus-
pected that the demand has created q
supply and that specimens have been
manufactured closely resembling the
original.
Two Jewish merchants of Vienna
were recently insulted and beaten in
the street by four Austrian officer1 and
complained, through q lawyer, to the
war minister. The officers brought
suit against them for having offended
their honor; the merchants were &C
quilted, but the lawyer who had spok-
en- of the officers conduct as cowardly.
though he proved that they had half
drawn their swords on unarmed men
while calling them dogs of Jews" and
'spigs of jews" was held not to have
proved his case, and was fined one hum
dred forms
-Discouraging reports about the
gold fields in Alaska have been
brought down from that region re.
Gently by unsuccessful miners, but
every once in a while some one turns
up with the other side Of the situation.
Recently Peter Wyberg arrived in San
Francisco from the Yukon river, bring
ing with him forty-five thousand dol
lars in gold dust the result of two
years work in the diggings at Forty.
Mile river. He says the unsuccessful
miners are mostly from Cooks inlet,
and he doesn't think much of the re.
ported big gold finds in that region.
One odd result of the close of the
war between China and Japan is war
Of rates between the steamship lines
plying between the Pacific ports of
this country and the Orient There
are three lines now competing for the
business After the cessation of hos
tilities several ships which were char
tered as transports were released and
began seeking freights. But the main
trouble is that the japanese govern
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ships, using several vessels that were
bought for transports or for make
shift cruisers and are now available
for peaceful purposes. Freight rates
already are being cut in all lines, and
there is every prospect Of cut in pas
senQcr rates