St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-07-02
INTERESTING ITEMS.

i ShOEc M00C "a POEpO1SG AcdIuCE axe
absolutely impervious to water.
AMERICAN sardines taste just as well
as French and cost less.
On very dark nights q white light
can be seen farther than any other
color.
IT has been proved that to cycle Is
miles requires less exertion than to
walk three.
| THE tomb of Mohamned is covered
with diamonds, sapphires and rubies,
valued at 81. SOC, 900.
THIRTY MILLION oysters are annually
sent to England from the basin Of
Archachon, in the bay of Biscay.
AT Whatcom, WASH, a woman work.
ing for an evaporating company peeled
Is. 49l potatoes in 90 days and earned
$40.
AIR In its pure state is composed
thus: Nitrogen, ~ per cent; oxygen,
q per cent; other compounds, 2 per
cent.
The school children of Newark, N.
j., have voted in favor of the maple az
their favorite for state tree, giving it
6.927 votes
CAPT FRANCIS MARTIN, u. s. n, now
living in Detroit, at the age of 93
years, is without doubt the oldest Of
ficer in the United States navy
John Mcdonald, Of the Kansas State
Teachers association, states that of
the 1000 Kansas volunteers mustered
into service fully 600 are school teach
ers
Our of the last batch of conscripts
fer military service in France eight
we'll known cyclists, some of them of
European renown, were rejected rs
physically incapable.
The yard number of the new battle
ship Alabama is 900, which was. the
yard number of the famous confed-
crate cruiser built in an English ship
yard during the war.
A NEW use for aluminium is reported
from France, where attempts to con-
struct violins, bass fiddles and other
string instruments OF this metal have
been entirely successful.
The smallest flower known to the
botanist is said to be that of the yeast
plant 1t is microscopic in size, and lie
said to be only one hundredth part Of
q millimeter in diameter.
THE deer forest of Kinlock in Suth-
erlandshire, which comprises about
40, 600 acres, has just been let by the
duke Of Sutherland to Arthur j. Bal.
four, the rent being $1,000 for she
season.
NEARLY hundred years ago Thomas
jefferson said: ''Great Britain is the
nation which can do us the most harm
Of any one or all on earth. With her
on our side we need not fear the whole
world"
MEDICAL circles in Berlin are much |
agitated over q statement made by . i
prominent physician Of that city to |
the effect that the nurses in the pri- |
vate hospitals are in league with the
The largest proportion of single |
persons is found in Ireland and Scot |
land, and the smallest in the United |
States. In Ireland 81 per cent, in |
Scotland IS per cent. but in the United |
States only 50 per cent, are in that con-
dition.
CHESHIRE cheese owes its excellence |
partly to geological causes, the rel
sandstone and bowlder clay, with its
immense. salt deposits, of which the
is formed, producing an herb
age peculiarly suited for cheese pro-
duction.
TIE oldest woman chorister in the
world was Mrs. Benton, who died on
the Isle Of Wight = short time ago |
She was IS years old, and for - years
was in the choir of St Thomas, Ryde.
It is said she never missed service in
that time.
b. l. STEVENS, of Atlantic City, who
was = gunner under Commodore
Dewey when the latter was lieuten-
lnt on the Mississippi. 1t New Orleans.
10 1852, ssys that Dewey directed the
shot that put the Manassas ont of the l
light. and that he showed wonderful |
nerye In that hattlA