The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-05-01
MISCELLANE O S.
The winter wheat In Illinois is reported
to be exceedingly promising

Beet Is MY TWO Genus a pocDu III 1eAas
and the kidneys are gratis.
Great numbers of buffalo are being kill
ed in Kansas for their hides.
but he must die as a man.
A promising young man is all very
well ; better have a paying one.
The South Carolina Legislature con-
tains l0l colored members.
Can a son be said to take after his
father, when the father leaves nothing to
take?
A man has been arrested out West for
knocking his wife down with a cheese
1t must have been a strong one.
1t is reported that extensive borax de.
posts have been found in Kern County,
California.
A St. Louis paper recommends an am.
bilious debating society in that State to
decide (which is the butt end Of a goat 2"
A European writer says the Americans
are the most extravagant people in the
world.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
have just put their eight hundred and
eleventh locomotive on the road.
Two men in Mufreesboro, Tenn, were
recently fined $50 each for whispering in
church.
Is there any sentiment in the human
heart more tender than the bosom of a
dollar shirt !? We paws for a reply.
Only fifteen per cent. of the land Of
Cuba is under the pillow. yet her annual
exports reach ninety million dollars.
The latest pun in local option counties
is, that the scdGo,rs homeward fly, Ii.
cense or no license.
The prisoners in Northumberland
county call the presiding officer of their
court Judge Sock a teller.
lfBrigham Young wore an additional
weed on his hat every time he lost a wife
or a mother in law, IL is estimated that he
would have a hat twenty-seven feet high.
There are $4,000 sewing machines
made annually in the United States
Three companies make more thar $780,
600 each. A very large profit is realized
on them.
Que inch of rainfall distributes 100
tons of water over an acre Of laud-a sug.
g%estlve fact in a mechanical as we'll as an
agricultural point of view.
George NJ. Sanderson, a cigar manu-
f~acturer of Jersy City, is insane from
arrangement of the digestive organs BY
smoking and chewing to excess.
Lawrence county has one hundred and
eighty one manufacturing establishments,
which IN the year 1872, produced goods
to the amount of S3,429,700.
So they say-that in local option coun.
ties landlords have invented a sandwich
composed of a layer Of water between two
layers of whiskey.
1t is about as wise to get mad at the
editor and stop your paper, as it is to re-
fuse to get your mail because you don't
like the post master.
A gentleman on Tuesday drove from
Honesdale to Carbondale in a wagon, be
ing the first vehicle on wheels that ha.
passed over the mountain since last No
vember.
Eli Brown, reported one of the most
dangerous counterfeiters 10 the North
west, was arrested. in New York on Wed
ncsday.
Joseph Miller, the oldest, and one of
the most respected citizens of Coatesville,
Chester county died on Thursday night,
in the Tooth year of his age.
A Herald correspondent, writing from
Rio J%aneiro, reports the recent death at
ltabaiana, of a man $50 years old, who
had been married three times and was
the father of 70 children.
A New Hampshire woman had shot
six crows with her husbands rife at last
accounts, and he was patiently waiting
till she missed one, SO that he might try
his hand, according to agreement.
A veay werlthy farmer of Titusville
has this %"notis" posted up in this field ::
"If any mans or woman's cows or oxen
gifts in these here oats, his or her tail will
be cut of, as the case may be-"
The opinion prevails now, according to
the latest accounts, that the Modocs will
spread themselves in small parties, thus
giving the cavalry work all summer to
hunt them.
Old Ezekiel West, of New London
township, Chester county. who is said to
be LIZ years MD L. reru sicL md Il 4.