The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-03-07
MISGELLA

The ladies Should all set a good ex
ample, and the young men will follow.
The Union Pacific Railroad is still
blockaded between Cheyenne and Rawins
Wisconsin has just passed a law max
ing election days legal holidays -s.-
Detroit is the largest fur depot on the
American continent.
+ A locom olive consumes, on the average,
forty five gallons of water for every mile
it runs.
According to the Surveyor generals
Report, Pennsylvania contains 44,317
square miles or u 1862, $50 acres.
Twenty men were frozen to death 10
Dixon County, Nebraska. in the recent
very severe weather.
Upward of twenty young women are
studying theology in the United States
with the view of becoming preachers.
The wheat crop in California will be
90 per cent greater than in any previous
year.
On the Western side OF the Atlantic
Ocean there are said to be three times as
many storms as on the Eastern side
Cincinnati drank last year $4,000 ,699
worth of lager beer, or 100000 more
in value than the amount of the city debt.
1t requires $4,000 cochineal insects to
make one pound in weight. We import
ed last year l,749,S42 pounds. Great
Britain imported 1854 ,224 pounds.
Baltimore has strawberries from Cuba
They are real imported Havanas, and have
the true West Indian flavor, and also, it
is needless to remark, the true imported
price.
A man in Robertson county, Texas,
has forty one living children. Sixteen
served in the same company in a Confed-
crate regiment during the war. He is
now living with his eighth wife, aud is
sixty five years old.
A candy boy, passing through q car,
met cross old gentleman, aud said "Pop
corn, pop corn p "Hain't got any teeth, y
angrily replied the old man. Gum
drops gun Drops calls the smart bay.
The Apaches are making numerous at
tacks on trains in central Arizona, aud
have run large quantities of stock from the
Hassiyampi Valley. Several of the In
dians have been killed while on their
raids.
Mrs. Woods, of Mllcrsburg, Holmes
County, Ohio, is driving good business
with the aid Of the liquor law. She has
recovered $4,000 from dealers who have
sold liquor to her husband, and the old
man still sticks to the saloons.
a jury has been empanneled in the
Stokes case, to decide whether the Grand
Jury which indicted Stokes was a con
stltutional body. From present ap
pearance the Stokes case will be almost
as hard to settle as the Alabama claims.
In speech at New York on Thursday
week, Vice President Cofax, referring
to the Alabama claims, said that Eng
land was bound BY the Treaty of Wash
ington and the decision Of the Arbitra.
tors. and would have to pay the debt in
full"
The public debt Of Canada is increas.
ing, and now amounts to S45 a head that
of the United States is decreasing, and
amounts 10 500 head Our debt is
wholly owing to the shareholders re ebellon.
and will in all probability be paid off
within the present century.
The celebrated scout and hunter "Buf
falo BILL whose right name is Wm. T.
Cody, has been on visit to the East
On Saturday last, he visited relatives at
West Chester, this State, whom he had
never before met. He is said to be gen
tlemanly man, over six feet in height.
wiry aud muscular.
The election of postmastcrs BY the peo
pie is now agitatcd in Congress, and seems
to meet with favor not only among the
members but also among their coustitu
ents. This system would cut off vast
source of official corruption, and save the
Presidents devoted head from many an
unwarranted "cuss.'
.aia Another Prize Fight.
d Says the New York Neus of Saturday:
"Dan. Morris of Scranton and Jack
Dunphy of Mauch Chunk have signed
articles to fight on the 18th Of March,
within 90 miles or Scranton, Penn, at
catch weight, for $3.50 side"
Chicago has already gone into the
relic business. The enterprising artisans
OF the city are making the old
church bells into paper weights, orna
ments, etc, One of the most popular
trlnkets made from these old materials are
charming little bells, which are worn by
the charming big bellies of the city, not
exactly in the manner of the old woman