The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-08-15

There are 4S5 patients in the Pennsy-
lvania Lunate Hospital, near Harrisburg,
lS5 more that it is intended to accomo
date.
A correspondent of Maine paper wants
to know some remedy for striped bugs
We should suppose the remedy depend
ed very much on what ails the bugs
Whenever mortgage deed of trust or
any incumberance is made upon property,
notice should be given to the company;
otherwise the insurance is void
The net proceeds of all the concerts
given by the Prussian band in this coun-
try amount to S33, 1850, exclusive of Sl0,-
600 from the Boston jubilee
The largest barn in eastern Pennsy-
lvania is on the farm of Jacob Heffner,
in old Berks-measuring 145 feet in
length and $50 in width.
A nymph from the country writes that
the best way to get rid of bed bugs is to
set fire to the bed, and shoot the bugs
as they come out.
A young lady named Mills, at Liberty.
Clay County, Mo-, quarreled with her
brother Friday night, seized gun and
shot and killed him instantly.
Seventy, four Presbyterian ministers
died during the last year, according to
the report of the General Assembly the
average age of sixty three of them was
nearly sixty five years.
The Agricultural Department, in its
July number, estimates the corn crop at
an increase of three per cent. over an
average yield, and the wheat crop at five
and a-half per cent. below the average
a parallel to the apple shooting case
of the celebrated William Tell transpired
a few days since in Newport, KY, one
young man shooting with pistol at a
distance Of fifteen feet, circular card
two or three inches in diameter, from the
head of another young man. 1t was the
result of bet.
Lightning does remarkable things evey
summer but this year it is surprising it.
self. The latest reported achievements
was to drive a man in Handover county.
Tenn, into the ground, so that he was
entirely buried, without materially iujur.
ing his mortal frame. A trip hammer
could not do it.
Near Williamsport, last Thursday, an
elderly lady, named Mrs. Fry, was
caught by the arm between the jaws of a
vicious horse, aud dragged some distance,
her arm being broken and otherwise bad
ly mutilated. Her husband ran after the
horse, and knocked him down three times
before he released his victim.
A negro preacher at Georgia camp
meeting, told his hearers that they could
never enter heaven with whiskey bottles
in their pockets, and urged them to "bring
EN- right up to the pulpit and he would
offer sacrifice to de Lord" The con
sequence was that the good shepherd was
in the evening so overcome by the spirits
as to be unable to preach.
I On certain occasion, two good natur
ed Irishman occupied the same bed. In
the morning one said two the other ::
"Dennis, .did you hear it thunder last
night? mo, Pat-did it raaly thunder ?"
"Yes, it thundered as if heaven and earth
would come together" "Why thin, didn't
ye wake me, for ye know 1 can't sleep
when it thundcrs p
The Northern Pacific Railroad has lust
closed contract with the Baldwin Loco.
motive Works for fifty first class locomo.
tives, which will be added to forty eight
already purchased, principally from the
same works. This road has also purchas
ed fifty thousand tons Of railroad iron
from the Pennsylvania manufacturers, be
side an immense amount of spikes, frogs,
switches, cars, chains, &c, the outlay of
OF which, in Pennsylvania alone, during
the last eighteen months, has been up
ward of S5,000,o00.
Great Britain has magnificent empire
in her for eastern colonies La 1870 the
four colonies of Victoria, Queensland
New South Wales aud New Zealand
shipped nearly S53, 100000 in gold, and
all the colonies, during the same year.
shipped over $50, 600, 900 worth of wool.
They have over 70,000,000 sheep 900.
600 horned cattle, and 100000 horses
and nearly 100000 acres of land in
cultivation, of which 100000 are in
wheat. The debts of all the colonies ex
ceed S2O0,000,000. The export were
Sl5f, 10000 against Sl46, 425 900 i'm
ports. Victoria, with Melbourne for its
capital is the leading colony, containing
a total population of724,725. The popula,
tion of all the colonies is 1881 l0S-
equal TO that of the State of Indiana, and
three times as great as that of California