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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-08-14
Effects Of Tobacco.

The use of tobacco has so much ex.
tended itself in the present generation
that we are all obliged to make decision
for ourselves on the ancient controversy
between its friends and enemies We
cannot form a reasonable opinion about
tobacco without bearing in mind that it
produces, according to circumstances. one
of two entirely and even opposite classes
Of effects. ln certain states of the body
it acts as a stimulant in other states as a
narcotic. People who have a dislike TO
smoking affirm that it stupefes but this
assertion, at least so far as the temporary
consequences arc concerned, is not sup,
ported by experience. Most of the really
brilliant conversations that [ have listen
ed to have been accompanied by clouds
of tobacco smoke; aud great deal of the
best literary composition that is produced
by contemporary authors is wrought by
men who are actually smoking while they
work. My own experience is that very
moderate smoking acts as pleasant
stimulus upon the brain, while it produces
temporary lassitude Of the muscular
system, not perceptibc in times of rest,
but an appreciabe hindrance in times of
muscular exertlon. 1t is better, there
fore, for men who feel these effects from
tobacco to avoid it when they are in
exercise, and to use it only when the
body rests and the mind labors. Pray
remember, however, that this is the ex-
perience of an exceedingly moderate
smoker who has not yet got himself into
the general condition of body which is
brought on by a larger indulgence 10
tobacco. On the other hand, it is evident
that men engaged in physical labor and
muscular stimulus in occasional smoking,
and not temporary lassitude. 1t is
probable that the effect varies with In
dividual cases, and is never precisely
what our own experience would lead US
to imagine. For excessive smakers, it
appears to be little more than the tran
QUILTING of a sort of uneasness, the con
tinued satisfaction of a continual craving
| have never been able to ascertain that
moderate smoking diminished Intellectual
force but [ have observed in excessive
smokers decided weakening of the will,
and preference for talking about work
to the effort of actual labor The opinions
of medical men on this subject are so
much at variance that their science only
adds TO our uncertainty. One doctor
tells me that the most moderate smoking
is unquestionably injurious while others
affirm that it is innocent. Speaking
simply from self observation, [ fnd that
in my own case tea and coffee are far
more perilous than tobacco.-Fron, the
Intellectual Life Of Philip Gilbert
Hamert0n
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Noah's Flood.

UeoIogis;s admit the powerful agency
OF rushing water in drilling, rasping, and
transporting materials which make up
h'iiS' mountains, and plains. Those
traveiinS iceoergs, of which so much is
SAID that secured the face of the earth
10 their progress from the North. un.
doubtcdly were employed by nature to
smooth the surface on a gigantic scale
But that great food referred to circnm
stantially in the Bible must have bacn
terrific event, to have impressed all man.
kind with traditional recognition of its
universally.
Sir Henry james, an English engineer
has attempted an explanation Of phenom
ena that are traccable to the deluge.
and especially treats of what must have
occurred by change of the axis of the
earth in its rotation. If this globe were
OF uniform density, the poles would
traverse the circle of nvagation in 800
days. If the density increases from the
surface toward its center, something else
would follow. lie argues that as the food
commenced on the seventeenth day of
the seventh month, in the six hundredth
year OF Noah life, and covered all the
land $50 days, and after having destroyed
every living thing, save those in the ark >,
was just $50 days draining off into ap
propriate channels aud basins of present
oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers, he has
mastered the problem.
The flood, then, was in consequence of
changing the polarity of the earth
Whether earthquakes opened vast rents
in the crust of the earth, into which
waters rushed from their old localities,
and thus altered the centre of gravity, or
whether enormous masses of ice broke
their fastenings, and sliding along an
inclined plane brought about the flood.
still remains an open question, which
may be freely discussed without exciting
the apprehcnsious of the police of any
country.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-08-14
Ingenuity of an Insane Man.

The Lancaster (Penn.) Express re-
lates the following in giving an account
of an attempted escape by an insane man
"In the insane department of the Ian
caster County Hospital there is confined
man named John Eichburne. He is
not dangerous, but is not safe to be let at
large A short time since he managed
to scale the yard wall, four teen feet in
height, but was shortly afterward cap
tured. Yesterday evening one of the as
sistants, in making tour of the yard,
discovered hid under pile of stoues in
a corner, singular looking ball, which
he took to Superintendent Cox. On ex-
animation it was found that this ball was
made up of rope, some thing thicker
than broom twine, and that the material
used in making it were the leaves of peach
trees, with which the yard is studded, the
bark of the small limbs and some grass
The rope when unwound is nearly 500
feet in length, when in ball it is as
large as twenty fouf pound shot. 1t is
so tough that the strongest hands cannot
tear it apart The man must have been
working upon it for several weeks, his
object being to escape from the iuStitu
ton by its aid.
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A Lingering Death.

Lancaster (Pa } papers report the death
OF young man, Is years old, named
Harry Colley, which is in many respects
remarkable. lie lay upon bed of pain
for one hundred and seventeen days, and
during that period of time never once
arose. He was first taken sick with an
attack of cerebro spinal meningitis, and
this disease finally terminated in con-
sumption of the bowels After the first
day Of his sickness he was unable to hear
or see, and greater part Of the time had
no power of speech. His attention, could
at certain times be attracted by holding
any article of bri sht material in front or
over him, and moving it from one posi-
ton to another The fact of the little
fellows remarkable sickness spread all
over the county, and numbers Of physi-
clans had visited him merely through
curiosity. At the time of his death he
was a skeleton, with only dry, parched
covering Of cuticle drawn over the bones,
and that without any perceptible vitality
in it. His muscles had actually melted
away During part of the time (parti-
cularly during his last days. he suffered
with lock jaw, and his mouth had to be
forced open in order to admit the only
sustenance he received-aud occasional
small quantity OF wine or brandy.
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About Water.

The extent to which water minsles
with bodies, apparently the most solid, is
very wonderful. The glittering opal, SO
beautiful as au ornament, is nothing more
but flint aud water. The air holds five
graius of water in every foot Of its bulk.
Potatoes contain seventy per cent, and
turnips ninety per cent, OF water. If a
man OF hundred aud forty pounds were
squeezed in a hydraulic press, seventy
pounds Of water would exude from his
body, aud only thirty five Of dry residuum
remain Man is, in fact only thirty hse
pounds Of carbon nitrogen, diluted 10 i've
and a half pals of water la plants,
water mlnsles no less wonderfully. The
sun flower evapOrates one and quarter
pints daily; the cabbage about the same
quantity and a single stalk of wheat cx
hales, in half year, about hundred
thousand grains of water. An acre OF
growing wheat draws in and gives out ten
tons OF water daily. The sap is the
medium through which the mass of fluid
is conveyed. 1t forms delicate pump, uP
which the watery PARTICLES run with the
rapidity Of a swift stream. BY the action
OF the sap, various properties may be &C
eumula;cd to the growing plaut. ln
France timber is dyed by various colors
mixed with water, and spriukled over the
roots of the growing tree aud lahias are
also often colored by similar process.
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PerplexitieS of a Postal Clerk.

Some OF the Ingenious puzzles submit
ted to The distributing clerk in the Chi
cago Post Office have been thus pleasantly
sketched: "Many of the superscriptions
which come through his hands are among
the most mysterious of cyphers-uniutel
ligible from the writer's not knowing
What he wanted TO write, rather than IL
legible through carelessness in writing
When countryrnan of Gustavus Vasa,
for instance, still alternating upon his
native hills, sends letter to his brother
in this country, aud writing from memory,
and a memory not much trained in let
ters at that, superscribes it 'Seederabst
lenco Ia he has succeeded in mystifying
the average human mind considerably re
gardiDg the intended destination of his
missive Not at all the Post Office clerk
who at once sees that Cedar Rapids,
Linn county, Iowa is meant SO, too,
when from the Bremen bag greasy
packet futters out, as addressed to Hafte
Lac Co, Ill > it is, no doubt, difficult to
discern, after the letters Of the legend
have been evolved from the chaos in
which a stiff fist and vllainous pen have
left them, that the packet is intended for
some one in Half Day, Lake Co., lll.n
and thithcr it therefore goes But when
the only address to be made out from an
other-and that by no means sure, so
vague are the forms Of the letters-is
'Chollyhutyille Co, II, then it is that
brain tells in the distributing business
Brains finally result in a solution of the
palimpsest, aud Joliet, VIII Co., Ii? is
the Interpretation thereof. La like man
ner 'Verseaux, incauque CO., America is
a superscription which could have emana
ted from no where else but Francois
decided to mean Warsaw, Hancock Co,
and it is found that Illinois has such "a
town, in county so the letter is for
warded thither, and has doubtless glad
dened or saddened the heart Of its object
before now"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-08-14
Arresting Decay in PotCtoes.

Various plans for arresting decay in
potatoes after digging have from time to
time been made public, such as dusting
with quick, lime, gypsum, charcoal dust,
etc Prof Church, of Cireneester, Eng
laud, the eminent agricultural chemist,
announces that sulphite of lime appears
to exercise a very remarkable influence
in arresting the spread or decay in pota-
toes affected by the potato disease. In
one experiment the salt was busted over
some tubers, partially decayed from this
cause, as they were being slowed away.
Some months afterward the potatoes were
found TO have suffered no further injury.
A similar trial with powdered lime prov
ed to be much less effective.
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NO. a..
An Embarrassing Position.

81 say, conquctor, do you know that
goodlooking lady there, with book 2"
~ es, have seen her few times"
'By Jove she's splendid !"
eyes, think she is.''
81 would like to occupy the seat with
her"
"Why don't you ask herr"
III don't know but it would be out of
order"
ct would not if she was willing to
have you occupy it. OF course you claim
to be a gentleman 2"
90, certainly. If you are acquainted
with her, give me an introduction that
is, if you have no objection
Certainly not
Fixing his hair, mustache and whis-
kers in becoming style, he followed the
conductor, who, on reaching the seat
where the lady sat, said, with peculiar
twinkle in his eye:
My wife, Mir, Of New York, who
assures me that he will die before reach
ing Detroit if he does not form your ac-
quaintance."
The gentleman stammered, suffered,
grew red in tie face, faltered out some
excuse, and returned to his seat, leaving
the lady, 10 company with her husband,
to enjoy the joke.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

II. G. Smith, Esq, editor of the Ian
caster IteHigencer, and one of the mem
bers of the Constitutional Convention. iu
late issue of his paper, writes as follows
concerning that body -
"a majority of the newspapers in this
CommOnw wealth seem not to have compre-
hended the difficult character of the work
set before the members of the Constitu
tional Convention The one hundred
and thirty three men chosen to revise the
fundamental law of the Commonwealth
came together for the most part as strang
ers to each other. Some OF them had re
putations wider than the State, while
some Of the ablest and most practical men
in the body were not known beyond the
precincts of the districts they were chos
en- to represent.
"Of the one hundred and thrty-three
mem bers, over one hundred are lawyers
by profession-me who make their liv-
ing by talking, aud who can not be ex-
pected to agree, unless they are retained
on the same side, and paid for looking at
given case from the same standpoint
We think the convention might possibly
have been the gamer if the people, in
stead Of sending so many lawyers, had
chosen more men of marked ability in
other walks of like. But the convention
was the creature Of the people, and Meth
er they nor the newspapers have any
right to complain of its composition. 1t
is what the people made it when acting
under the instruction aud guidance OF the
local newspaper press OF the Common
wealth.
"Nine months Of close observation has
convinced us that the convention Is
body distinguished for integrity. From the
day when it was organized, no question
has been decided except upon its merits
Every attempt to introduce partisan poll
ties (and we are glad to say they have
been few and far between) has been
promptly frowned down. There has not
been partisan vote cast upon any see
tion OF the Constitution. Members have
divided according to their individual
judgment and not under the discipline o.
party drill. The call of the ayes and
nays. has always shown that there was q
forgctfuness of partisauship which was
most commendable
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|, O. Of 0. T.

Past Grand Sire James j. Nicholson,
of Philadelphia, now Grand Secretary !;
NJ NJ. G. NJ, j. NJ. Campbell, together
with other officers of the Grand Lodge
Of the State, purpose to visit the follow
ing lodges of Odd Fellows on the follow
ing dates, when special meetings will be
held:
Monday, July 2S-Saxionia Lodge,
No. 496, Saxonsburg, Butler county.
Tuesday, July 29-Conoquenessing
Lodge, No 270, Butler county
Wednesday, July 30-West Sunbury
Lodge, No. 794, West Sudbury, Butler
county.
Thursday, July 3l-Apine Lodge,
No. 479, Brady's Bend, Armstrong coun
~.
Friday, August Iron City Lodge,
No. 4s5, Reimersburg, Clarion county
Saturday, August 2-Clarion Lodge,
No. 222, Clarion, Clarion county.
Monday. August + Brookvlle Lodge,
No 2l7, Brook vile, Jefferson county,
Tuesday, August 5-Reynoldsville
Lodge, No. S24, ReyuoIdsyilie, Jefferson
county.
Wednesday, August 6--Laurel Lodge
No 672, Punxatawuy, Jefferson county
Thursday, August T-Amicus house'
No. G65, Marion, Indiana county.
Friday, August s-Pailadium Lodge
No. $40, Indiana, Indiana county
Under a new Constitution, all officers
OF tue State, including county officers.
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A Cheap Bridge.

b. Choate, of Springfield, Vt, has
invented suspension bridge, which is
novelty as well as a convenience. 1t con-
sists of a single wire stretched across
Black River and car that will contain
two nersous that travels back and forth
on the wire. The East end OF the wire
is the highest, aud the momentum of the
car serves to carry it across, distance of
two hundred feet, in fifteen seconds Re-
turning, the ear travels to the centre OF
the wire, without help, aud from thence
is drawn up by cord attached to the
car, the entire trip occupying oaly thirty
seconds.
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DR. GEO. w. JACKSON
SURGEON & ACCoUCHER.
-DR. IL. ). PATTERSON,
OPERlTIYG IND MECHANICAL DENTIST,

] Having located in East Slroudsburg, Pa, an
nounccs that lie is now prepared to insert arti-
fcial teeth in the most beautiful and life-li;e
manner. Also, great attention given to filling
and preserving the natural teeth Teeth ex-
tracted without pain by use Of Nitrous Oxide
tias. All other work incident to the profession
Zone in the most skilIful and approved style.
al work attended to promptly and warranted.
Charses reasonable. Patronage of the pnblic
spcited
Office in A. W. Loder's new building, op-
poeite Analomink House, East Stroudsburg
p. July II, 1S73-1y.
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In a Dentists Chair.

If Spivens is to be believed, there wa.
recently an extraordinary case of dental
surgery in this city. He says that a
friend of his wife visited dentist on
--street, for the purpose of having a
tooth extracted. 1t was an eye tooth =
Spvens accompanied his friend for the
purpose Of favoring him with little
sympathy over the shoulder. 1t is SO
pleasant to witness the agony Of friend
and advise him to bear it like man.
The dentist sealed his patient in chair,
lanced his gums, applied his forceps, and
gave vigorous pull. The tooth was
wrenehed from it's socket, and came out
easily enough but the root hung fire =
Either it was a very long root or it stretch.
ed. In fact the dentist had exhausted
his reach, and the root was not yet en-
tirey out.
Spivcns ventured to enquire if the
root was not unusually long hut the den
tlst was not going to admit that anything
could happen that had not already oc-
Cured 10 his experience
"Not at ALL he replied 81 have of
ten pulled teeth whose roots reached down
to the hips"
He mounted the chair and took an
other pull lie thus succeeded in get
ting away with about yard of the tooth,
but the root continued to hang. At the
same time the patients leg, below the
knee, was violently jerked up.
Spivens ventured to say that surely
this was an unusual case.
alt is a little singular" replied the
dentist; "But once pulled tooth whose
roots reached down to the mans knees"
Having thus extinguished his ques
toner he tied his patient to the chair and
Strengthened out his leg by putting it in
spliDts. Then he took the forceps over
his shoulder and walked away like deck
hand going up bauk with bow line
When he reached the parlor door he
braced himself against the jamb, and laid
back for fual pull.
The tooth popped out this time but the
dentist made the most noise when he
reached he floor.
Spivens jumped forward and picked
up the latter end of that tooth. The
root had two prougs, and on the end of
each prong was toe nail.
That's what hurt you so, said Spi-
yens consoling his friend, whose screams
had been somewhat annoying "Never
mind it will be all the same hundred
years hence. Don't you think, doctor,
that this is rather the most unusual case
that happened in your practice %
u am inclined to believe that this is
the most singular case Of its class" re-
piled the imperturbable dentist ''but |
once extracted tooth for one of the
Siamese twins, the roots OF which extend
ed through the bodies of both, and at the
end ives corresponding tooth from the
mouth Of the other. twas good thing for
Chang, for whom | pulled the tooth, but
bad for Eng, whose tooth happened to be
sound"
Spivens' friend had such high respect
for the dentist that he told him that he
might keep the tooth for his pay
Some incredulous people may accuse
this story of being too thin but they are
mistaken-it is tooth out Titus uiHe
Press
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AS. \. g.. PECK.
. surgeon Dentist.

Announces that having just returned from
Dental Colegs, he is fully prepared to make
artificial teeth in the most beautiful and lIie-
hke manner, and TO fill decayed teeth ac-
cording to the most improved method.
8 Teeth extracted withont pain, when de-
bred, by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
rhich is entirely harmless. Repairing Of
NJ kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
charges reasonable.
4 Office in J. 6 KeIIer's new Brick build
hs, Main Street, Stroudsburg, Pa.
aug 3l-lf
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MEREGAE EEOTEL.

The subscriber woald inform the public that
le has leased the house formally kept by Jacob
knecit, in the Borough of Stroudsburg, Pa,
lnd having repaintcd and refurnished the same,
prepared to entertain all who may patronize
nm 1t is the aim of the proprietor, to furn-
m superior accommodations at moderate rates
pc will spare no pains to promote the COM
Pr OF the guests. \ liberal share of public
patronage solicited
april l., '72-tf d. l.. PISLE.
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DR.. ]. l. A n T z,
urrcon and Mechanical Dentist,

Sill has his Office on Main Street, i'll the second
STAR. nC Dr. ) Waton's brick building, nearly Uppo-
site the StroudsbuIg Iiou>e, aud tie halerS himself
th hv eighteen constant practlre and the most
earnest ana careful attention TO all matters pertaining
to ms profession, that he is fully able to perform ait
oaeratlous m the drnt. line IN the careful t.tsie
t4l dnI ShIilI manner.
Sge:lli attention given to saving the NItura Teeth
$50 10 the Insertion Of Artificial Teeth Rubber,
q I'D Silver q Continuous Gums and perfect fits IN
a II cases insured.
,>t perSouS know The great folly and danger nl en-
lag their the inexperienced, Ia those
lIvIn. al a distance. April -, 1s7I.-ly
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a horse hitchei to post in Belle
foDte kicked at one of Van Amburgh' S
elephants when passing oD the street,
and, quick as thought the elephant reach
ed out his trunk, caught the horse by the
ear and shook him like an earthquake
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A little girl in Norwich, Conn, was
poisoned recently by drinking the milk
in which a green milk ticket had soaked
about two hours The milkman had neg
lected to take it from the can. and the
coloriog matter dissolved and mixed with
the milk Violent vomiting ensued, by
which the poison was elected, thus saw
ing the little ones life.
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sMES sf. w ACTON.
Attorney az law.

Office in the building formerly occupied
y /. NJ Burson, and opposite the Strouds-
'urg Bank, Main street, SToudsburg, Pa.
Jan l5-tf
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The captain of an ocean steamer says
that on Sunday at sea be always selects
some clergyman to preach who looks as
if he wonld get sick very easily, thus
avoiding long sermons, and spariug the
feelings aud temper Of his hearers.
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The crop OF apples and pears iu Berks
county will be small.
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WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real Estate Agent.
Farms Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.

Office next door above s Rees' news Depot
and 2d door below the Corner Store.
March %, lS7:i-tf.
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Under new Constitution, all officers
OF tue State, including county officers,
will be paid by salaries instead of fees.