The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-08-22
GEO. i. WALKER.
MISCELL A N E O U S.

Women have assisted to gather the
grain in some counties of Illinois.
Brooklyn has fourteen five cent lodging
houses.
Mud is said to be a sovereign remedy
for rattlesnakes bites.
Fruit is so plentiful in Tennessee that
even the hogs are tired of it.
Spanish draft horses sell at fourteen
dollars per head in Austin, Texas.
Queen Victoria has ordered her winter
apples from the United States
You can buy ten cents worth of ice
cream at Niagara now for one dollar.
A railroad collision is described as .
dump of destructiveness."
A boy with two tongues is astonishing
the people of Newport, Ind. lie should
have been a girl.
1t is reported that the corn crop in Hi
nois this year will be the greatest ever
raised.
Flood and fre-Rain storms and light
ming, with heat beyond precedent, mark
the present season in England.
1t has been finally decided that the
Montana election was carried by the
Democrats.
Judge Barnard has been found guilty
by the impeachment court sitting at
Saratoga, removed and disqualified from
holding Office.
1t is estimated that the loss in the
Michigan aud Wisconsin fires last October
amounted to $2,346,413 insurance,
1928 ,633.
A lady in Elizabeth, N. j., los years
old, hearing an Irish piper play an air ol
her youth, came out upon the street and
danced the measure throught.
The farmers of Minnesota are securing
their crops in excellent shape, and will
have not less than 20,000,000 bushels of
wheat to put in the market.
A pocket book, containing 100000 in
old State bank bills, was found under a
log in one of the old camping grounds, at
Indianapolis, some days ago.
During the late hurricane in Ohio a
bolt of flannel, containing forty six yards,
was carried nine miles by the wind
Letters blown from post Office were
picked up nineteen miles away.
During a thunderstorm at Amesburg.
Mass, on Tuesday afternoon, FIVE places
were struck by lightning, among them
the house of the poet Whittier. Mr.
Whittier was prostrated by the lightning,
but not seriously injured.
The harvest reports from all parts Of
Maine indicate plentiful crops of all kinds
this year The hay crop will exceed that
of any other year for long time past.
Grain looks finely, and the same is true
of corn and potatoes. The apple crop
will be the largest for many years.
Weston, Conn, has man whose legs
are bent backward at the knees, who has
but one eye, and hardly any nose. The
only redeeming feature to this monstrosity
is the fact that he can scratch any part OF
his back with either foot.
Montana grssshoppers are more raw.
enous than usual this season. They eat
wagon tires, and have been known to tick
lie mule in the ribs until he kicked, and
devour his shoes while his feet were in
the air-St. Louis Globe
"Greeley Bitters'' is the pame Of the
latest health disturber. Only four drinks
are necessary to cause the cictim's pants
to climb into his boots, while six make
his neck tie slip around beneath his left
ear and his hat assume the real Greelian
shape.
A great sale of famous brood mares
and stations recently took place in Eng
land, the property of the late Mr.. Blenk
iron. Among the stations sold were
Blair Athol, which brought S65,S75;
Breadalbane $3l, 500, aud Gladiateur,
S38, 900. The proceeds of the entire sale
amounted to S653, $50.
The whereabouts of the famous Siamese
twins, Chang and Eng, may be interest.
ing, paticularty as they have been re
ported dead, dissvered, and almost every
thing else possible and apostolic, within
the past year. They are living in the
western part Of North Carolina, and one
is dang erously i'll.
The heat of the sun has been very
severe in middle Georgia recently, and
all vegetation has been more or less
blighted. Many of the trees have shed
their leaves, grass and shrubbery have
been blasted, and blade fodder in the field
scorched out of half its value. 1t has also
done great deal of damage to cotton.
The lightning played strange freaks at
Providence, r. l., on Monday night. 1t
stripped all the clapboards from one house,
threw down youth on Parrde street,
nara lived oentleman sitting in n