The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1873-06-12
US.
Vermont has three female stage driver;

hail stones nine inches in circumference.
The New York Court of Appeals has
a new trial to Stokes.
Even benevolence must be run on bust
ness principles.
Rome recently celebrated the 2,62Gth
anniversary Of its foundation.
A Chicago temperance and philan
thropical society is named the Yoke
Fellows.
Seveuty-f five steamers now regularly
ply between British and South American
ports.
There is but one artificial eye manu-
10 the country, and only three
workmen are employed in that.
earn as much as So a week making pal
metto hats.
A woman named Vale shoes horses at
Fort Scott, Kansas, while her husband
plays billiards around the corner.
Judge Clifford acts as Chief Justice
until a successor of Chief j Justice Chase
is appointed.
Washington County, Pa, has a young
girl aged sixteen for a mail carrier, fur
which service she is paid $l2 per annum
In New York city the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has a
fund Of $500, 600 on hand.
The price of servant girls in Helena,
Montana is $50 a manth. They refuse
to work for any less.
Fourteen thousand postal cards we're
sold at the Scranton post. Office on Satur-
day, from three to eight o'clock p. NJ.
The value of eggs exported from Port
land. Oregon, during 1872 amounted to
sl55,25O.
A young lady who died recently at
Aurora. Ill was buried in a white cofbu u,
lined inside AMI out with white satin, and
beautifully decorated.
A youth at Berlin, Wis.,. lately married
his Dulcina under the very nose of her
unwilling mother and carried her away
while the old lady slept in her chair.
The Fall River, Mass, apothecaries
have been notified by the State police not
to sell cigars, confectionery or sodo water
on Sunday.
New jersey papers are telling some
fearful stories about the mosquitoes Of
that State. The insects have grand roosts,
like pigeons, and when they settle down
on a COW she is gone up.
A horse which died in Plymouth, Mass,
one day last week was found to have in
his stomach some four or five quarts OF
wooden splinters, which he had been
vainly endeavoring to digest.
A child with a frogs head was born in
Washington county a few days ago. The
phenomenon is accounted for by its
mother having "a frog in her throat all
through the spring.
The St, Louis Democrat publishes let
tiers from all parts of Missouri, Southern
Illinois, Kansas and Iowa, which predict
a large aud excellent wheat crop, but
short crops of oats and corn.
A despatch from Lost Angeles, Cal,
reports the discovery of a mammoth tin
ledge forty five miles from hat city, on
the San Antonio ledge. 1t is said to be
a mile long and sixty feet wide.
A Memphis jury having convicted a
man of murder now find that the suppos
ed murdered man is living. The ques-
ton is, whether the verdict shall be re-
or the man allowed to murder his
victim.
Postal cards cost the Government ST..
So per thousand. According to the Post
General 25, 000,0 900 have, so far.
been disposed Of for which S250,00O have
been received. There can be no doubt
but that 5000, 900 of this sum is profit.
"Mother," said a little urchin when he
home, 81 have heard such a smart
minister. He stamped and made such a
noise, and then he got mad he shock
his fists at the folks, and there wasn't
dared go up aud fight him.
A Kentucky WAGNER finds from his
account books that in thirty years Jour
over the turnpike between Mays
Vile aud Lexington he paid SIG, 900 toll,
which, be justly remarks, told heavily on
bis business profits.
The beard of dead man, who was
clean shaved at the time Of his burial, six
years ago, in San Francisco, was found
be eighteen inches long, says the
Chrcnicle, when his coffin was opened a
ew weeks ago.
A lady in Reading, who put out several
of lace on the grass, was mysti6ed
~ their strange disappearance They
inally were discovered in a tree, to which
robin had carried them to weave into
is nest.
The will of a resident of Middlesex
Delaware, recently deceased, contains the
clause: "And | bequeath to
ny beloved son John the sum of one dol